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Hydrolis
The Hydroman
join:2003-02-22
ONT, Canada
| Looking to sell my laptop, have some questions
Last summer I bought a MSI MegaBook M662 in preparation for my first year at university. I bought it because it was one of the only laptops that was still sold loaded with Windows XP instead of Vista.
I realize now, this laptop is a little too bulky to use at school and it's not really that practical. I want to sell it. I bought it at a local Summit Direct computer store (if anyone has heard of it). The laptop is in perfect condition, barely used, has maybe had 1-2 programs installed onto it.
The specs are:
Intel Core Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00 GHz
2040 MB Ram
120 GB HD
Intel GMA 9950 Graphics
»global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func···no=#menu
Is a link to the product on the MSI website. It's the exact same BUT:
- It has an extra GB of ram
- It doesn't have Vista
- It has no webcam
I bought the laptop for ~ $1000.00 last summer.
My questions are:
Would it be best to clean it up completely (uninstall the few programs I put on it) and bring it back into the store with the box, instructions, and all the necessary cables that came with it and try and sell it back to them?
(Will they do that? I am not even sure.)
If the prior idea isn't good, should I try and sell it to another computer store in town? How much LESS should I sell it for (if I bought it for $1000.00 last year), with it now being a year old, although un-used.
Thanks for any replies! | |
AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH | You aren't going to be able to sell it back to a computer store. You need to look to sell it to other people whether through eBay, Craigslist, the Sale forum here, etc. | |
PeteC2
Ballad Of A Thin Man
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join:2002-01-20
Bristol, CT
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| AdamB is right...no store is going to "buy back" your notebook now. Your only real option is to sell it to an individual buyer.
With what is on the computer, the older non-Santa Rosa class CPU, smallish (120gb) hard drive, which would now be on the lowest priced notebook, and Intel 950 (very poor) integrated graphics, and that it is at the end of any warranty, used...no such thing as "like new", almost new, etc....it is after all a one year old laptop, so used it is... in terms of U.S. dollars (sorry, I am not familiar with going rates in your area)? Maybe $500 tops. I would not even go that far, personally.
I know that sounds bad, but for $600 USD, I can buy a notebook better in every category, brand new, with a warranty. Mark-down on electonics even a year old is simply brutal... 
That is NOT to say that this is in any way a bad/poor notebook, just the realities of the marketplace. Stateside, I could nab a current Santa rosa class Core Duo, with GMA 3100 graphics (still slow, but better than the 950!), 3 gb ram, 160 - 250gb hard drive, 15.4" screen, for around $600. Maybe the market is better where you are however! I bought my current laptop in november '07, and already I could buy a model with better features, and a lower price...bummer, but that's the way it is with tech stuff...
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