Used Laptop Pricing

i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness · March 30, 2018

I used to work for Dell. That came with quite a lot of free hardware. After I left (my decision) I took quite a lot home. I've got a bunch of desktops, servers, and a literal truckload of laptops.

About 15% of the laptops are the immediately recognizable Latitude D620s and D630s.

They have varying specs, but all of them are in pristine condition. No dust, no scratches, nothing. They are also fully loaded with their aftermarket features, like Bluetooth, fingerprint readers, the D630s all have 8GB of RAM and the D620s all have 4GB RAM. All of them also have their respective maximum GPUs too - the D620s have the Quadro NVS 110m, the D630s have the 120m. All of them have new(ish) full capacity extended batteries, and 250GB hard disks.

Chromebooks have considerably worse specs - the Intel Atoms can't keep up with the 2.16GHz Core 2 Duos most of them have. The chromebooks sell for around $200 new and have either 2 or 4GB of RAM with terrible integrated graphics that the Dells eat right up in benchmarks, especially for stuff like Blender where the Quadros kill every other consumer chip.

So, considering their superior specs, perfect condition, and overall just better machines, what should I start selling them for? I was thinking $200 as Wal-Mart sells the base model without any addons for around $125.

lieder1987 · March 30, 2018

If the base starts new at $125 that is where I would start. Or put a couple up at different prices see what sells and then adjust.

i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness · March 30, 2018

52 minutes ago, lieder1987 said:

If the base starts new at $125 that is where I would start. Or put a couple up at different prices see what sells and then adjust.

The base model comes with 1GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Centrino Duo, no extended battery, an 80GB hard drive, integrated Intel graphics, and no fingerprint sensor.

All of mine, as previously stated, are fully upgraded to the extent of the hardware. I would expect (considering the price of 4gb DDR2 SO-DIMMs) that these upgrades would add some value to them.