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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by ramraj07 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:19AM (#23801605)
The last thing I sold on ebay was a 11 year old netbook - the asus eee pc 1000he. I had replaced it's hdd with an SSD 9 years back and when I booted it after a EIGHT year hiatus it booted just fine, running xp and chrome and for the most part working okay. I listed it on ebay and sold it for 55 bucks. I'm definitely hoping that it found someone who actually uses it for something.

In general, if it's still working and I believe it has use left, I find ebay to be an amazing place to sell it. Some times, it sells for far greater value than it should, but from the names it apppears as if it's bought by people who can't otherwise afford any gadget. Definitely feels better than tossing it.

If it doesn't work, or is fully broken, I just toss it in the best buy recycle bin most of the times. Still have my broken Vaio Z (the original RAID0 beauty), if there's any takers I'll ship it for free!

Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by sys_64738 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:45AM (#23802554)
My last sale of ebay didn't end well so I gave up. They quibbled over the year of manufacture V year of release for a seven year old computer. Get a life. I negotiated a 20% refund to get the case closed.