Sell your MacBook Pro (and actually get a fair number)
If you're trying to sell your MacBook Pro and you've already checked Apple Trade-In, you probably know the offer is rough. We pay more, and we'll buy basically any MacBook Pro you've got — a beat-up 2015 Retina, a 2019 16-inch with the keyboard issue, all the way to a brand new M5. 13-inch, 14-inch, 15-inch, 16-inch — it doesn't matter. Top payouts on current Pros run up to about $3,850 right now, but pricing moves with new releases, so the quote you see is the quote we'll honor for 30 days.
Cracked screen? Dead battery? Won't turn on at all? Still worth something. We get a lot of MacBook Pros that customers thought were trash, and we use the parts. So if you're thinking of selling a MacBook Pro for parts, get a quote first — you'll probably be surprised.
Get a MacBook Pro quote
How much can you sell a MacBook Air for?
It depends. A 2017 MacBook Air in rough shape is going to be on the low end (think $80-ish). A clean M3 Air with 16GB and 512GB of storage? You're closer to $570 right now. The chip and the storage matter more than people realize — sometimes more than the year.
If you want to know what yours is worth, just start a quote. Takes about a minute. We buy every Air going back to 2017, including the M2. No fees, free shipping, and you don't have to deal with anyone on Facebook Marketplace asking if it comes with a charger.
Selling a used MacBook, iMac, or older Mac
A lot of what we buy is older stuff — used MacBooks, used iMacs, iPads people forgot in a drawer. That's a big part of what we do. We'll quote a 2012 MacBook Pro the same day we'll quote an M5 Mac mini, and we ship a label for both.
If you've got an old iMac taking up desk space, or an iPad that the kids stopped using, run it through the quote tool. We often pay more than Apple Trade-In for the same machine, and there's no fee structure eating into your number like there is on eBay.
Where can I sell my MacBook? An honest comparison
People ask me this constantly, so here's the breakdown:
Apple Trade-In: Easy, but you're typically getting 30–50% under market value, and it's store credit. Fine if you're buying a new Mac next week. Bad if you want cash.
eBay, Swappa, Craigslist: You can get the highest number this way, sometimes. But you're listing it, taking photos, dealing with lowball offers, packing it yourself, eating fees (eBay takes 10–13%), and accepting some risk if the buyer claims it arrived broken. If your time is worth anything, the math gets ugly fast.
A buyback service like us: You answer a few questions, we send a label, you ship it, we pay you. The trade-off is you're not going to squeeze the absolute top dollar out of it the way a patient eBay seller might. But it's done in a week with zero hassle. That's what we built SellMac for.
What's my Mac actually worth right now?
Trade-in values shift a lot. A new Apple release can drop resale prices on the previous gen by 15–20% almost overnight, so a number you saw six months ago is probably wrong now.
Two ways to get a current number:
- Use the "How Much Is My MacBook Worth?" calculator
- Or just start a real quote — it locks in for 30 days
If our number isn't competitive vs. Gazelle or recent eBay sold listings, you're not obligated to ship it. We'd rather you check than just take our word for it.
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How fast you actually get paid
Most people are paid within days of us receiving the device. Inspection usually takes under 48 hours once it hits our facility in Illinois. Then you pick a payout method: PayPal, Zelle, ACH, USPS check, Amazon gift card, or Techable store credit (which gets a 10% bump if you're going to spend it on something else anyway).
If something looks different from what you described in the quote, we'll reach out before changing anything. No surprise lowballs once we have your stuff. That part matters to me.
Jon, SellMac
Broken MacBook? Yeah, we still want it.
Most buyback sites quietly skip broken machines, or they offer you twenty bucks and call it a favor. We don't. A broken MacBook is still worth money to us, whether the screen is cracked, the logic board is fried, or it just won't power on anymore. We'll quote a MacBook Pro for parts the same way we'd quote a clean one, and the same goes for any older Mac you'd otherwise sell for parts. That's the whole reason Techable runs our No Parts to Waste™ program: the working components get reused, the rest gets responsibly recycled, and you get paid instead of letting a $2,000 machine die in a junk drawer.
Stuff we buy that other places turn down:
- Cracked screens, busted hinges, sticky or missing keys
- Liquid damage (yes, even the ones that smell like coffee)
- Won't power on, won't charge, dead battery
- Logic board failures, GPU issues, the dreaded flexgate cable
- Genuinely "for parts only" — missing trackpad, missing ports, whatever
You don't need a repair quote, and you don't need to explain what's wrong with photos and a paragraph. Just answer a few questions and we'll give you a number.
