How much for my laptop?

By Georgio9 on 27/04/2009

So I'm thinking of selling my laptop. I've actually placed an ad for it on a classified's site and I was wondering how much you guys think I should sell it for.

This is what I wrote:

I have a Dell Vostro 1500 it's about a year and a half old. Dell released it as their small business laptop line. Originally bought it as a laptop I could game with but now my needs for such a PC have changed. It's in great condition, screen is flawless. There's just the normal wear and tear from me typing on the keyboard.

Here are the specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4M L2 Cache
256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
3GB DDR2, 667 MHz
9-Cell Lithium Ion Battery (4 hours of power with average use. I've had up to 6.)
120GB SATA 5400rpm Hard Drive
Windows Vista Business (32-bit)
Integrated High Definition Audio 2.0
8x Double-layer DVD+W and DVD+/-RW
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA + LCDTruelife
2 Mega Pixel Webcam with stereo array microphones.
10/100 Broadcom 440 Lan Card
IntelPRO 3945(a/g) WLan Card
Bluetooth 2.0 with enhanced data rate (EDR)
The remainded of a 3 year extended on-site warranty, with next day parts and labour.

Ports and I/O:
4 USB 2.0
1 SD/MMC MS/PRO Card reader
1394 Port
VGA
Headphones
Microphone
PCIMA slot

By David on 27/04/2009

For a start, think of half of what you paid for it (this goes for pretty much everything you sell used).

Since it's a year old PC, and used you're probably looking at 1/4 to 1/5 of the original price, just because you could easily get a laptop with better specs at half the price you paid originally.

Selling used computers, regardless of brand is always tough because you can't really get much.

I'd say $400-500 maybe? That's just a guess.

By Groedius on 27/04/2009

I would say for those specs and as its around a year old it will still be worth quite a fair bit im guessing you paid in the region of $1200 for that thing and could probably get what colonel said for it around $400 - 500 as its not that bad an laptop and is not that old at all. I also looked on sites for 2nd hand laptops and refurbished laptops and those around the specs of yours was around $400 - $500 so you could quite easily get 400 for it or so id said if you wanted an quick easy sale.

ALSO

Make sure you clean the hard drive properly with software if you need help with this then PM me.

By Quikdrawjoe on 27/04/2009

$250

By Georgio9 on 28/04/2009

FYI, the ad I posted was for $1200. Before taxes and shit, this laptop was $1800 but I got a discount which put it down to $1600.

I have 1 email regarding the laptop right now, I don't know if it'll actually amount to anything.

It still has at least a year of full parts and labour warranty.

By Groedius on 28/04/2009

QUOTE (Georgio9 @ April 28, 2009 05:40 pm)

Well georgio mate go for it if you can get 1200 for it but i wouldnt know if you would get that much my new laptop has slightly better specs then that and it would have cost around 1200 USD so i would have thought that yours was worth somewhat less then that maybe around the 800 mark. See if you can get some1 to buy it at that price if not then try around 1k then 800 i think for around 1k you could get a buyer.

By Georgio9 on 28/04/2009

Ya I think 1k would get me a buyer. I made the asking price at $1200 in case someone wanted to negotiate with me over the price.

I'm not really seriously thinking of selling my laptop, just more curious to see if I can get a buyer at this price. If I do end up selling it, I'm trying to squeeze as much out of it as I can. I'd probably replace this thing with a macbook.

Groe, I know there's tons of low level hard drive erasers but is there one that you recommend?

By Kecooler on 28/04/2009

With an 8600M GT that's pretty sweet for something that's been out for a year or two already... I'd say you'd between $700-$1000 for that easily

Heck if I had that sort of cash I'd buy it off ya

I could do with sommat that can handle RSHD

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