Trade in your old computer

That old computer in the cupboard is worth something, or at the very least shouldn’t go in a bin. We buy working equipment, and we’ll take non-working equipment off your hands.

What we take

Generally worth money:

• Business-grade laptops and desktops from roughly the last [X] years
• Machines with an SSD and 8GB or more of memory
• Monitors, particularly larger and newer ones
• Servers and networking equipment

Generally not worth money, but bring it in anyway:

• Anything more than about [X] years old
• Machines with mechanical hard drives and little memory
• Broken or non-working equipment

What it’s worth

Depends on the model, its specifications, its condition, and what we can do with it. Tell us what you’ve got, model and rough age, and we’ll give you a figure. Get in touch.

Two things worth knowing:

Business machines hold value far better than consumer ones. A three-year-old business laptop is usually worth real money; a three-year-old budget consumer laptop often isn’t worth the cost of processing.

[Confirm: is a trade-in against a purchase worth more than a straight buy-back?]

Doing it in bulk

Replacing a fleet is a different conversation to selling one machine. We handle bulk equipment for small and medium businesses regularly, and we can take care of collection, itemised reporting, and certified data destruction across the lot.

Talk to us with rough numbers and models and we’ll come back to you.

What about my data?

This is the part people worry about, correctly.

Get your files off first. See Transferring your files.

Then let us wipe it properly. Every device that comes to us is professionally wiped using industry-standard software that meets Australian privacy standards, and business customers can request a certificate of data destruction. See Data wiping and destruction.

If the drive is the one thing you’re not comfortable handing over, say so. Ask us to remove it and give it back to you.

Don’t just bin it

Australia generates a great deal of e-waste and recovers very little of it properly. Computers contain both genuinely valuable materials and genuinely toxic ones, and landfill is the worst possible outcome for each.

Even if your old machine is worth nothing to you and nothing to us, bring it in rather than throwing it away.