How to sell old laptop for money?

lancer

Hi, could I get some thoughts from more experience people here? I have a 2.5 year old G73W Asus that I'm considering selling to get some money for buying a new N-series from the same company. The G73 has been having serious crashing problems for the past couple months, and has to be formatted two times already. It doesn't have that hidden compartment thing, I can't hit F9 to format it myself. So every time it goes tits up it's 4 days gone going to a repair shop. Is selling it for an N-series a good idea? I even upgraded this G73 with a small SSD and 12G ram, so if it would stop crashing I'd rather keep it... . But if selling it now is a better idea, what percentage of original price should I sell it for?

Neox

http://www.gadgetvalue.com/

otherwise, just look how much they make on ebay. however all the crashing doesn't sound like anyone would really want to buy it

lancer

Neox wrote: »

http://www.gadgetvalue.com/

otherwise, just look how much they make on ebay. however all the crashing doesn't sound like anyone would really want to buy it

That's what I'm worried about. Although at this point I've narrowed the problem down to software incompatability, because formatting it tend to solve the problem the longest, until I started installing smaller, third party, pipeline assisting programs. I just can't pin point which software. Thanks for the link!

D4V1DC

Restart It and use that program every time you install a new one?

Might work but in reality with tablets on the rise people are not too interested in laptops at least thats what I am thinking, well not used ones anyway.

lancer

Hopefully someone will want it if it's cheap enough...

kat

lancer wrote: »

Hopefully someone will want it if it's cheap enough...

If you're upfront about the problems you're reporting don't expect anything other than a sale for parts.. if it's constantly crashing like you're saying that's UNlikely to be just a software issue and most likely something hardware related.

ambershee

It's probably a BIOS issue. Asus have been releasing some really shitty BIOS recently, then immediately dumping them - I was unfortunate enough to get an Asus mobo about two years ago that had these problems - I had to get rid of it in the end because they never released a working BIOS, and the best I could get was written by some random hobbyist on the web.

I don't buy Asus any more. Doubly so, as their customer support was useless.

dissonance

TBH the crashing shouldn't be a problem because you really should do a low-level format on any harddrives before they leave your possession.

lancer

The hard drive that is supposed to be problematic was replaced with a new SSD 2 months ago, and this time when ASUS took it back to format it, the technician told me after formatting he couldn't get Windows 7 to install on it anymore. I've no idea why because it was running Win7 just fine before until he format it. At this rate I can't sell this for anything but make it a fancy door stopper.

ivanzu

Sell the parts or use them in your PC(ones you can).

sprunghunt

lancer wrote: »

The hard drive that is supposed to be problematic was replaced with a new SSD 2 months ago, and this time when ASUS took it back to format it, the technician told me after formatting he couldn't get Windows 7 to install on it anymore. I've no idea why because it was running Win7 just fine before until he format it. At this rate I can't sell this for anything but make it a fancy door stopper.

did you try installing windows? or reformatting it yourself? what happened when you did?

lancer

sprunghunt wrote: »

did you try installing windows? or reformatting it yourself? what happened when you did?

I can't format it myself because that hidden compartment thing that restores the laptop to original state was deleted. So I gave it to technician, and hasn't gotten it back yet.

BradMyers82

I would try and sell it for half price on craigslist and explain the problems and see if there are any takers. I know there are some very tech savvy guys that lurk on craigs list trying to make a buck fixing hardware.
Its also nice to not have to deal with shipping or another party taking a cut. You could meet in a coffee shop or something so its safe for both of you. Personally, I sold a laptop on craigslist this way and it worked out great. I sold a laptop on ebay once too, and got screwed cause I listed auction style and sold it for way less than I wanted to.
Good luck man, but if it were me I would sell it cause I don't know enough about hardware to fix it myself, and its not worth loosing work over.

lancer

BradMyers82 wrote: »

I would try and sell it for half price on craigslist and explain the problems and see if there are any takers. I know there are some very tech savvy guys that lurk on craigs list trying to make a buck fixing hardware.
Its also nice to not have to deal with shipping or another party taking a cut. You could meet in a coffee shop or something so its safe for both of you. Personally, I sold a laptop on craigslist this way and it worked out great. I sold a laptop on ebay once too, and got screwed cause I listed auction style and sold it for way less than I wanted to.
Good luck man, but if it were me I would sell it cause I don't know enough about hardware to fix it myself, and its not worth loosing work over.

I forgot about craigslist, thanks for telling me! I will put it up soon and hope for the best!