Trade in your old computer

That old computer in the cupboard is probably worth something, and at the very least it shouldn’t end up in a bin. We’re happy to buy working equipment, and we’ll gladly take non-working equipment off your hands too.

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 do 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

That 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 happily give you a figure. Get in touch whenever suits you.

Two things worth knowing:

Business machines hold value far better than consumer ones. A three-year-old business laptop is usually worth real money, whereas 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 whole fleet is a different conversation to selling one machine. We handle bulk equipment for small and medium businesses regularly, and we’re set up to 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, and they’re right to.

Get your files off first. Transferring your files will walk you through it.

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. There’s more detail in Data wiping and destruction.

If the drive is the one thing you’d rather not hand over, that’s completely understandable. Just say so, and we’ll 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.

So even if your old machine is worth nothing to you and nothing to us, please bring it in rather than throwing it away. We’ll make sure it goes somewhere sensible.