There's been a big rise in companies offering to recycle your old mobile phones for cash. This is a great idea for people who've got a few mobile phones knocking around in their drawer somewhere.
However a corresponding scheme has turned up for old PCs. The grounds remains the same: you put in the model number into the internet site, and they give you a price, subject to survey. You post it, they approve it, job done. It's that simple.
However it's not all peachy. Those web sites seem to give you a much lower price for them then if you had sold it yourself. Possibly this is because there may be for more things that could potentially go wrong with a PC then with a cell-phone. This still doesn't justify paying out up to 5 times less than if you were to sell it yourself.
The prices also vary greatly between sites. Sometimes, you might find the price that being offer for your laptop might be double the offer presented to you at the last site. Then there's also the issue of your personal info. None of the current cluster of laptop trade-in sites has given any specifics about what they do to your information when they receive your laptop computer.
So are there alternatives? Well, if you want to get the most for your cash, then you are far better off selling it yourself on auction sites like eBay or maybe advertising it on Gumtree. This strategy also allows for you to price your device correctly, especially if you have upgraded it or purchased the non-base model.
So if you have an old portable computer that you think could be hard to sell, or your IT support team has a pile of old ones in their office, maybe now is an excellent time to try out those internet sites and see whether you are satisfied with the offer price. If not, it is always possible to get a more acceptable price by auctioning it on the internet.
However a corresponding scheme has turned up for old PCs. The grounds remains the same: you put in the model number into the internet site, and they give you a price, subject to survey. You post it, they approve it, job done. It's that simple.
However it's not all peachy. Those web sites seem to give you a much lower price for them then if you had sold it yourself. Possibly this is because there may be for more things that could potentially go wrong with a PC then with a cell-phone. This still doesn't justify paying out up to 5 times less than if you were to sell it yourself.
The prices also vary greatly between sites. Sometimes, you might find the price that being offer for your laptop might be double the offer presented to you at the last site. Then there's also the issue of your personal info. None of the current cluster of laptop trade-in sites has given any specifics about what they do to your information when they receive your laptop computer.
So are there alternatives? Well, if you want to get the most for your cash, then you are far better off selling it yourself on auction sites like eBay or maybe advertising it on Gumtree. This strategy also allows for you to price your device correctly, especially if you have upgraded it or purchased the non-base model.
So if you have an old portable computer that you think could be hard to sell, or your IT support team has a pile of old ones in their office, maybe now is an excellent time to try out those internet sites and see whether you are satisfied with the offer price. If not, it is always possible to get a more acceptable price by auctioning it on the internet.
About the Author:
Michael Kiruba-Raja has been implementing IT soultions for almost 15 years for private and business clients, both in Great Britain and internationally. He now works for Prosyn, a firm that specializes in small business IT support. Prosyn brings enterprise level solutions of IT support in London and surrounding counties across a large variety of industries.
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