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Advice on selling a broken laptop on ebay (for parts)
« on: July 05, 2012, 04:50:30 PM »
I have a broken netbook and a broken laptop that I would like to sell on ebay for parts.

Both of these items don't turn on (there's a problem with the charging ports) and I have no clue if there is any personal information on the hard drive
I really don't think there is, but I cant be sure since I have not used either of these in about a year so i really don't remember

Any advice on what to do?
Has anyone sold a broken laptop/netbook for parts on ebay?
TIA

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Re: Advice on selling a broken laptop on ebay (for parts)
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2012, 05:20:39 PM »
I've sold the cd drive and battery of a broken laptop. Didnt want to play games with the hard drive with all my personal info

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Re: Advice on selling a broken laptop on ebay (for parts)
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2012, 10:24:52 PM »
I've sold the cd drive and battery of a broken laptop. Didnt want to play games with the hard drive with all my personal info
OK
gotcha. Maybe I'll do the same.

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Re: Advice on selling a broken laptop on ebay (for parts)
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2012, 11:37:43 AM »
I have a broken netbook and a broken laptop that I would like to sell on ebay for parts.

Both of these items don't turn on (there's a problem with the charging ports) and I have no clue if there is any personal information on the hard drive
I really don't think there is, but I cant be sure since I have not used either of these in about a year so i really don't remember

Any advice on what to do?
Has anyone sold a broken laptop/netbook for parts on ebay?
TIA

I have sold 2 broken laptops a couple of years ago on ebay... I m pretty sure if you search the website u ll find a model that is pretty close to yours and that is also broken in order to find out an approximate value...

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Re: Advice on selling a broken laptop on ebay (for parts)
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 08:54:26 PM »
I've sold the cd drive and battery of a broken laptop. Didnt want to play games with the hard drive with all my personal info

You can just buy a hard drive enclosure for $10 and then format the hard drive to wipe it clean and sell- or use it as an external HD