About SellMacBooks

SellMacBooks is a UK Mac-buying specialist: we buy MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs, Mac minis and Mac Studios for cash, by post, from anywhere in the country, working or broken. One specialism, done properly: fixed quotes in 2 working hours, free insured shipping, and payment within 24 hours of inspection.

Our story

We started buying and refurbishing Macs because we kept watching people get less than their machines were worth. Sellers were choosing between marketplace listings that ate 14% in fees and attracted scammers, trade-in sites that quoted one number and paid another five days later, and recyclers who treated a £900 MacBook Pro like scrap metal.

So we built the service we'd want to use ourselves. That meant three non-negotiables: payment within 24 hours of inspection, because nobody should chase money for a week; shipping insured at our expense, because transit risk belongs with the business, not the seller; and free returns if a revised quote is declined, because charging £30 to give someone their own laptop back never sat right with us.

Why Macs only?

Because specialism is where fair prices come from. A generalist gadget recycler prices a MacBook from a lookup table; we price it from experience refurbishing hundreds of them. We know an M1 Air with 91% battery health is a different machine from one at 76%. We know an M1 Pro five years on still has a strong second life with the right buyer. And we know a cracked screen hides a machine that's worth half its working value - which is why we quote broken MacBooks instantly instead of demanding photo essays.

That knowledge flows the other way too. Every Mac we buy is erased to NIST 800-88 data-sanitisation standards, refurbished by people who work on Macs all day, and given a second life instead of a landfill ending.

Our promises, in plain English

Everything we do comes back to four commitments we hold ourselves to on every purchase: a fixed quote within 2 working hours, 7 days a week; free, fully-insured shipping where the transit risk sits with us, not you; payment by bank transfer within 24 hours of your Mac passing inspection; and a free, insured return if we ever revise a quote and you decline - no fee, no fuss. We buy working and broken Macs alike, keep every quote locked for 14 days, and price faulty machines instantly instead of asking for a photo essay. If a buyer can't say the same in writing, that tells you something.

Who you're dealing with

You can reach SellMacBooks at info@sellmacbooks.co.uk - a human replies within 2 working hours, 7 days a week.

If you're weighing us up, don't take our word for anything: read exactly how the process works, check our terms (they're short and in plain English), and compare our prices against any alternative in our trade-in comparison.