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- crayz
a Mac Pro?
Anyone had experience with selling hardware on gumtree and ebay? Are there any other options?
Also if anyones interested here though. let me know. based in the uk.
Thanks,
all good things.
Craig
- set0
Selling something like that on ebay or gumtree is fine, much safer than buying. Soon as you get the money into your account you send the machine, don't get the money don't send it.
- orrinward0
eBay will fetch more than Gumtree, but it is a bit more work.
Spend time getting a thorough listing, and pick the start time so that it ends at a time when lots of people will be dossing about. I've just started selling small items on eBay to gauge when successful times are for higher bids, before I start selling more valuable items.
At the start of the month, with an item ending on Sunday evening I got 3 times as much money as I did for a middle of the week end time, for the same product. The difference won't be as big with a Mac Pro, but it could well be a good 30% or so difference just depending on time-of day and month you list it.
The reason the time of day makes so much of a difference is that a lot of people don't use Watch Lists and will only see an item when it is about to end - People desperate for an item will watch them and have high max bids, and the more opportunist bidders around, the higher that max bid will get pushed.
Recently I bought a laptop (that had reasonable detail in the listing) worth about 350 quid and got it for 60, simply because someone had listed it to end at 4:30am.
- crayz0
nice info Orrinward, thanks for the advice. I'll hold off till the end of April / start of May.
- maikel0
crayz what's your mac, and how much you want for it?
- Its a Mac Pro 2008, 2,8ghz quad Xeon's . 2g ram, 500gb HDD. Looking for 1500.crayz
- I think my advice was worth 1500. I'll send you delivery instructions shortly.orrinward
- your kit is not worth that money mate. sorry for the bad news.maikel
- seen a couple for that with my ram. Should i stick it down to say 1300?crayz
- you will have better chances. you can get the 2009, refurb from apple for 1.8k methinksmaikel
- benfal990
sold two Mac Pro on Kijiji
Kijiji is big in Montreal.
- orrinward0
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Apple-Mac-…
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Apple-Mac-…
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mac-Pro-20…
That last one is much higher spec and will go for about 1200 I'd guess.
- Cheers! i did research seen like 4 at my spec on buy it now for 1500. guess they are just been greedy like me.crayz
- Get your search right on eBay, then click advanced - search through recently ended listings for a good idea of what they sell for.orrinward
- sell for. Buy It Now's mean nothing as they just sit there and don't necessarily sell.orrinward
- Do you think i just put it on ebay for bid. so it ends at the first sunday of the month and see how it goes?crayz