Advise on selling old MSI gaming laptop

[XenonSupreme]

Hi,

I have a 4 year old MSI GE60 0ND-257US "gaming" laptop that I'm finally looking to get rid of.
It's fairly snappy and can still handle light gaming and photo/video editing.

Fairly old hardware:

• 
  Intel Quad-Core Core i7-3630QM 2.4 GHz
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M with 2GB VRAM
  15.6 inch 1920x1080 pixel matte display
  8GB of DDR3 1600MHz
  750GB HDD @7200RPM
  UPGRADED with an additional Crucial MX200 250GB SSD through the mSATA interface (less than 6 TB write usage / total rated 80TB, so fairly new)

Condition:

• 
  The extremely glossy plastic chassis is full of visible scratches, but it's in solid condition.
  A couple keyboard keys have some visible wear, nothing serious.
  Battery's sorta dead.
  Fan was replaced two years ago with original part from manufacturer.
  Everything else is functional.

Do I have a hope of selling this thing? If so, how much should I hope for?
And how should I go about selling it? eBay?
Also, would it get me anything at trade-in programs like Microsoft Store's for example?
EDIT: I got it for around $1250 at the time

Thanks,
AO

 

[constantine_99]

Hi,

I have a 4 year old MSI GE60 0ND-257US "gaming" laptop that I'm finally looking to get rid of.
It's fairly snappy and can still handle light gaming and photo/video editing.

Fairly old hardware:

• 
  Intel Quad-Core Core i7-3630QM 2.4 GHz
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M with 2GB VRAM
  15.6 inch 1920x1080 pixel matte display
  8GB of DDR3 1600MHz
  750GB HDD @7200RPM
  UPGRADED with an additional Crucial MX200 250GB SSD through the mSATA interface (less than 6 TB write usage / total rated 80TB, so fairly new)

Condition:

• 
  The extremely glossy plastic chassis is full of visible scratches, but it's in solid condition.
  A couple keyboard keys have some visible wear, nothing serious.
  Battery's sorta dead.
  Fan was replaced two years ago with original part from manufacturer.
  Everything else is functional.

Do I have a hope of selling this thing? If so, how much should I hope for?
And how should I go about selling it? eBay?
Also, would it get me anything at trade-in programs like Microsoft Store's for example?

Thanks,
AO

i think selling it on 60-75% of the original price is pretty good coz:
1. it's secondary
2. the surface is not smooth (had some scratches right?)
3. the battery is dead, so the buyer need to either change them, or play near a power source all the time (beats the portability purpose i think)
4. the keyboard was pretty used
5. it's 4 years old

then again, you can always find some price reference from online shops and calculate the price difference between their laptop condition and your laptop condition

 

[XenonSupreme]

i think selling it on 60-75% of the original price is pretty good coz:
1. it's secondary
2. the surface is not smooth (had some scratches right?)
3. the battery is dead, so the buyer need to either change them, or play near a power source all the time (beats the portability purpose i think)
4. the keyboard was pretty used
5. it's 4 years old

then again, you can always find some price reference from online shops and calculate the price difference between their laptop condition and your laptop condition

WHOA, are you sure about those numbers? I thought I'd be extremely lucky to get like %35 of the original price back.

And how do you suggest I go about selling it? eBay? Or are there other options?

 

[USAFRet]

60-75%? No, not even close.

25%, maybe, if it were in pristine condition.
That is $300.
With lots of scratches, dead battery, etc....$200.

 

[constantine_99]

i think selling it on 60-75% of the original price is pretty good coz:
1. it's secondary
2. the surface is not smooth (had some scratches right?)
3. the battery is dead, so the buyer need to either change them, or play near a power source all the time (beats the portability purpose i think)
4. the keyboard was pretty used
5. it's 4 years old

then again, you can always find some price reference from online shops and calculate the price difference between their laptop condition and your laptop condition

WHOA, are you sure about those numbers? I thought I'd be extremely lucky to get like %35 of the original price back.

And how do you suggest I go about selling it? eBay? Or are there other options?

Well that's why I say u should find some reference from websites like Amazon, eBay, etc
While my thought are like that, others may have different opinion. I rated your laptop highly coz what I appreciate is the performance, not the physical state, I personally don't really care if it had few scratches so long as the performance is fine, although I remind u once again that people had different thought, that's why u should consider on finding some reference

But if really think that the laptop doesn't worth that much, 25-30% of the main price is good enough
Selling it on amazon or eBay is the best course I think
While it isn't pristine, remember that this laptop is powerful enough to be used as a substitute PC with some external GPU, people could safe a lot of money (i7+1080p res+ external GPU) even without external GPU gtx 660m are pretty good (I really struggled at saving money for a PC so if there's someone who would actually sell a laptop with these specs on a good price at my country, I would've buy it)