How Can I Sell Refurbished Dell Latitude 5400 and 7490 without SSDs and Chargers

Lunoff on 28/12/2023 - 17:44
Last edited 28/12/2023 - 19:25 by 1 other user

So I recently got four Dell Latitude series laptops from a Pickles auction. The 2 laptops are 7430 and 7420, both having intel 12th Gen i7 with 16 GB RAM. I'm gonna use 1 for personal use and give 1 to my brother.

The remaining two laptops (Dell latitude 5400 8th gen Intel i7-6650U, 1.90 GHz, 16 GB RAM + Latitude 7490 8th Gen i5-8350U 1.7GHz, 8GB RAM) are a bit of concern. I want to sell them but can't figure out how to sell them since they came without SSDs and chargers. While charging is not a problem for 12th gen laptops since they're having type c input port, the older gens have the traditional Dell charger.

I want to know what should be the right process if I'm intending to sell the other 2 older laptops.

Thanks
Regards

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Comments

  • scrimshaw on 28/12/2023 - 18:08
    +1

    You would just sell them on the Facebook or eBay marketplace sans charger. You obviously can't charge your customers as much (no pun intended) as your competition if you are not bundling in the charger or including an SSD.

  • randomusername2017 on 28/12/2023 - 19:04
    +3

    It's not that hard to replace the charger and SSD… then you can sell them for insane prices

    • unoff on 28/12/2023 - 20:49

      That's about just right, I had similar prices in my mind, thanks for the link!

  • freefall101 on 28/12/2023 - 19:04
    +1

    You can sell them without a SSD and charger. Personally I have plenty of SSDs and a few spare Dell chargers (work seems to hand them out like candy but never wants them back because they just recycle them), if I saw one cheap I'd jump on it.

    • unoff on 28/12/2023 - 20:50

      Very savvy behavior, you never know when u need these parts. I used to do this with USB flash drives and cables, need to level up with SSDs now.

      • freefall101 on 28/12/2023 - 21:27
        +1

        I don't like selling used harddrives (due to data retrieval efforts) so I just cycle them through machines and less important tasks until they drop dead then I take a drill to them. I'm paranoid, but if a machine ends up at a recycling place you can bet someone will attempt to retrieve data off it and old drives are worth so little. I might get $10-20 selling a 256-512GB nvme drive, might as well keep it in case I score a bargain laptop that needs upgrading or find a cheap external enclosure to use it with.

  • GordonD on 28/12/2023 - 19:57
    +2

    Chargers for those Dells are $20 on ebay. Buy a couple, and put the price up $20. Be warned though, once you try to charge them up you find out whether their batteries are any good.

    256GB SSDs are on ebay for $21. Buy a couple, fit them, install Windows, and charge more. The issue here is Windows licensing. You've either got to sell them stating Windows is installed but not activated, making that the buyers problem, or pay for cheap licences and charge that much more. The problem here is that there are different buyers. Some want activated/licenced Windows and wont buy it unless it is. And they'll want Office too. Some don't care if its not activated, and won't want to pay the extra for the licences you've paid for. And some won't even want you to put Windows on it. They either don't want to run Windows, or they've got their own. You've got to decide which sort of customers you want to sell to. you can't please them all.

    The advantage of putting a $21 SSD in, and installing an unlicenced/unactivated Windows, is that you can see its working, and show its working.

    • unoff on 28/12/2023 - 20:51

      Thank you for the detailed response, I'll definitely stick to a similar approach, keeping the options open for buyers (even though it'll be less buyers) while giving them A report on the hardware.

      • randomusername2017 on 28/12/2023 - 21:54
        +1

        Good chance there's a licence attached to the hardware and windows will install and activate.

  • Brucet on 28/12/2023 - 20:36

    sell on Gumtree.

    • unoff on 28/12/2023 - 20:52

      had some bad expereinces on Gumtree selling other materials, so I'll be avoiding it most probably.

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