Sell Your MacBook in Aberdeen - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
Sellers in Aberdeen post their MacBook to us free with a fully insured label and are paid within 24 hours of it passing inspection - and that applies whether the machine is immaculate or has not switched on since winter. Quotes are fixed, emailed within two working hours, and issued seven days a week.
Distance changes nothing. Royal Mail moves parcels from north-east Scotland south by rail and air overnight, so a Mac handed over in Aberdeen reaches our bench just as quickly as one posted in Manchester. Broken models are priced instantly online with no photographs requested, though Activation-Locked devices are the one category we can never buy.
Counters are easy to find too, from the main city-centre Post Office through the branches serving Rosemount, Torry and Bridge of Don, and the assistant will scan our label and print your proof of postage in under a minute.
- Free insured shipping
- Paid within 24h of inspection
- Data wiped to NIST standards
- Free returns if you decline
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Get your Aberdeen quote
See an indicative price before you give us any contact details. Apple Silicon only (M1 and newer). Your fixed quote is emailed within 2 working hours and locked for 14 days.
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Step 1 of 5: Your Mac
We buy Apple Silicon Macs only - M1-generation and newer (2020 onward), working or broken. We do not buy Intel Macs.
Today's money
What we pay - indicative prices
Indicative - your emailed quote is the price we pay. Quotes are locked for 14 days.
Prices reviewed
| Model | Good condition | Faulty / broken |
|---|---|---|
| MacBook Pro | Sell yours | |
| MacBook Pro 14" M5 | up to £1,300 | up to £600 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M5 Pro | up to £1,700 | up to £770 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max | up to £1,900 | up to £860 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max (128GB) | up to £3,000 | up to £1,350 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max (128GB) | up to £2,600 | up to £1,170 |
| MacBook Pro 14" M4 | up to £1,100 | up to £500 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M4 Pro | up to £1,450 | up to £650 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max | up to £1,600 | up to £720 |
| MacBook Pro 14" M3 | up to £900 | up to £400 |
| MacBook Pro 16" M3 Pro | up to £1,150 | up to £520 |
| MacBook Pro 13" M2 | up to £550 | up to £250 |
| MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro | up to £600 | up to £280 |
| MacBook Air | Sell yours | |
| MacBook Air 13" M5 | up to £850 | up to £390 |
| MacBook Air 15" M5 | up to £950 | up to £430 |
| MacBook Air 13" M4 | up to £720 | up to £330 |
| MacBook Air 15" M4 | up to £820 | up to £380 |
| MacBook Air 15" M3 | up to £650 | up to £300 |
| MacBook Air 13" M2 | up to £480 | up to £220 |
| MacBook Air 13" M1 | up to £320 | up to £140 |
| iMac | Sell yours | |
| iMac 24" M4 | up to £850 | up to £380 |
| iMac 24" M3 | up to £680 | up to £300 |
| iMac 24" M1 | up to £450 | up to £200 |
| Mac mini | Sell yours | |
| Mac mini M6 | up to £450 | up to £200 |
| Mac mini M5 Pro | up to £650 | up to £290 |
| Mac mini M4 Pro | up to £550 | up to £250 |
| Mac mini M4 | up to £380 | up to £170 |
| Mac mini M2 | up to £280 | up to £120 |
| Mac mini M1 | up to £180 | up to £80 |
| Mac Studio | Sell yours | |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra (512GB) | up to £5,000 | up to £2,250 |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256GB) | up to £4,200 | up to £1,900 |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB) | up to £2,800 | up to £1,260 |
| Mac Studio M5 Max | up to £1,800 | up to £810 |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB) | up to £4,500 | up to £2,050 |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra (256GB) | up to £3,800 | up to £1,700 |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) | up to £2,500 | up to £1,150 |
| Mac Studio M4 Max | up to £1,500 | up to £680 |
| Mac Studio M2 Max | up to £1,000 | up to £450 |
| Mac Studio M1 Max | up to £700 | up to £320 |
| Mac Pro | Sell yours | |
| Mac Pro M2 Ultra (2023) | up to £2,400 | up to £1,100 |
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How it works
Three steps from quote to cash: free insured post, no fees at any point.
Get your quote
Tell us your Mac's model, spec and condition in the two-minute form. We email a fixed quote within 2 working hours, 7 days a week, locked for 14 days.
Post it free
We email a prepaid, fully insured shipping label. Box your Mac, drop it at any Post Office, and we carry the transit risk, not you. Desktops are collected by courier.
Paid within 24 hours
We inspect your Mac on the day it arrives and pay by bank transfer within 24 hours of it passing inspection. Decline a revised quote? We return your Mac free.
Granite City sellers: students, researchers and the energy sector
Aberdeen's two universities generate a reliable flow of secondhand Apple kit. University of Aberdeen postgraduates sell MacBook Pros once research projects wrap up, and Robert Gordon University students on design, computing and health courses trade upwards almost every year - with a noticeable spike each June as tenancies end across the city. Departmental clear-outs add a further trickle when labs and faculties refresh equipment over the summer break.
The bigger driver, though, is energy. Companies across the oil, gas and renewables supply chain refresh their laptop fleets on fixed cycles, and engineers who bought personal Macs for offshore rotations frequently sell them on when contracts change or kit standards shift. We regularly receive several machines at once from Aberdeen households and contractors for exactly this reason.
Posting south from the north-east - same speed, same price
Being at the top of the country changes neither the cost nor the timing. Aberdeen sits on the main rail route south through Dundee and Edinburgh, and Royal Mail also moves parcels by air, so a box handed over in the Granite City reaches our bench the next working day just as a Glasgow or Leeds parcel would. Drop it at the main Union Street-area counter, a Rosemount or Bridge of Don branch, or a DPD point off the A90 - the label is the same either way.
Nothing is paid at the counter: postage and full-value insurance are already on the emailed label. The counter assistant scans it, prints your proof of postage, and tracking updates from the north-east right down to us, so distance never leaves you guessing.
When should an Aberdonian sell?
Before the next keynote, ideally. Each new Apple silicon generation drags down the resale price of everything that came before it, and a laptop stored in a flat in Rosemount loses value at precisely the same rate as one used daily in an office on Union Street. Hesitation has a price; the hardware never gets dearer. Contract gaps between rotations also make a fast, certain sale far more appealing than a speculative online listing.
You still get a comfortable window: every quote we issue is held for 14 days, long enough to finish a backup, sign out of iCloud and find a sturdy box. And if we adjust an offer after inspection and it no longer suits you, we ship the Mac back to Aberdeen at our own expense, insured door to door.
Broken or corroded Apple Silicon Macs from Aberdeen
A MacBook that no longer starts is still worth selling rather than storing. Faulty machines hold roughly 40 to 50 percent of their working value, as the screen, casing and internals remain sought-after even when the Mac as a whole will not boot, and our tool quotes every fault instantly without a single photograph. That matters for offshore workers whose kit has taken a battering - salt, damp and knocks are all just faults to select.
Pre-silicon Intel machines are the one exception: our window is Apple Silicon only, M1-generation and newer, so an Intel Mac gets our value guide rather than a fixed quote. Damage aside, the only other thing that stops a sale is Activation Lock still being on, so sign out of iCloud before the box is sealed.
Good to know
Selling from Aberdeen - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
Does posting from Aberdeen take longer or cost more?
No on both counts. Our label is free and fully insured regardless of where in the UK you post it, and Royal Mail moves Aberdeen parcels south by rail and air overnight, so delivery to us is normally next working day - the same service a seller in Birmingham receives.
Can I sell several Macs at once after a fleet refresh?
Yes, and Aberdeen energy firms and contractors do this regularly. Request a quote per machine so each gets its own locked figure, then post them together or separately. Every device is inspected individually and erased to NIST 800-88 standards after purchase, which matters for corporate compliance.
Do you buy broken MacBooks from Aberdeen?
We do - the quote for a faulty Mac is generated instantly online, whether the trouble is a worn battery, a cracked lid or a machine that has died entirely. Just remove Activation Lock first, because an iCloud-locked device is the one thing no legitimate buyer can purchase.
I work offshore on rotation - will my quote still be good when I get back?
Every quote is locked for 14 days, so a short rotation is no problem. If you are away longer, request a fresh quote the week you come ashore - it costs nothing and takes two working hours. Post from any Aberdeen counter once you are home, and payment follows inspection within 24 hours.
About the buyer
What is SellMacBooks?
SellMacBooks is a UK buy-back service for Apple computers only. We have no shops and no drop-in counter: every sale runs by post, anywhere in the country. You describe your Mac, we email a fixed quote within 2 working hours, you post it free on a fully insured label, and payment leaves by bank transfer within 24 hours of the machine passing inspection.
We buy Apple Silicon Macs only - M1-generation and newer (2020 onward), working or broken. We do not buy Intel Macs. Macs are the only thing we handle, so the person pricing yours knows what the model is worth this month rather than reading it off a generic gadget table. See how it works or read about us.
The inspection
Everything we check before quoting a Mac in Aberdeen
Your quote is built from what you tell us, and the bench check on arrival exists to confirm that description rather than renegotiate it. Here is exactly what we look at:
- Power-on and a clean boot to the desktop
- Screen: cracks, dead pixels, backlight and marks
- Chassis and cosmetics: dents, deep scratches, worn palm rests
- Battery health percentage and cycle count
- Keyboard, trackpad, speakers and every port
- Storage size, memory and chip against the spec you quoted
- Find My / Activation Lock signed out (we cannot buy a locked Mac)
- Accessories included, such as the original charger
The quoted price is fixed and locked for 14 days. If the machine differs from your description, you get photos and a plain explanation with a revised offer - accept it, or decline and we return the Mac free and insured. Full detail on the three grades is on our grading page.
Versus the alternatives
How we compare
Selling a Mac in the UK usually comes down to a big trade-in site, a marketplace listing, or a specialist buyer like us. The differences that cost sellers money are these:
- Big trade-in sites can keep you waiting days after delivery. We pay within 24 hours of your Mac passing inspection.
- eBay takes roughly 14% in fees, plus postage, plus return and scam risk. Our quote is the amount that lands in your bank.
- Some buyers put the courier damage risk on you in their small print. Our label is insured at our expense, both ways.
- Return fees for declining a revised offer are common in this market. Ours are always free, both ways, whatever inspection finds.
- Most quotes quietly expire or float with the market. Yours is locked for 14 days.
The longer version, option by option, is in our guide to the best place to sell a MacBook in the UK and our MacBook trade-in comparison.
Selling something specific?
See our dedicated pages to sell a MacBook Pro or sell a broken MacBook, or start from the main quote page.
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