Sell Your MacBook in Brighton - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
Brighton makes this easy for us, and we return the favour: request a quote and a fixed figure is in your inbox within two working hours, seven days a week. Accept it, post the Mac with the free insured label we send, and the bank transfer follows within 24 hours of a passed inspection.
Broken machines are handled just as smoothly, and that is the part worth flagging. A MacBook with a smashed screen, water damage from a seafront spill or a logic board that refuses to wake still gets an instant online quote - no emailing photos, no diagnostic fee, no back-and-forth. You get fourteen days before the quote expires, which is ample time to migrate to a new machine and sign out of Find My.
We shoulder the courier risk while your parcel travels, return devices free and insured if you ever decline a revised offer, and erase every purchased Mac to NIST 800-88 standards. The whole exercise takes less time than photographing the laptop for a marketplace listing would.
- Free insured shipping
- Paid within 24h of inspection
- Data wiped to NIST standards
- Free returns if you decline
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Get your Brighton 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.
Step 1 of 5 - Your Mac
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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.
Silicon Beach sells a lot of MacBooks
Brighton's digital and creative agencies - the Silicon Beach cluster spread through the North Laine, around Brighton station and along the seafront - are probably the most Apple-dense workplaces on the south coast. Designers, developers and freelancers here treat MacBooks as consumable tools, refreshing every couple of years, which leaves a constant supply of well-specced machines needing a buyer who pays quickly and does not quibble.
The universities add their own rhythm. The University of Sussex up at Falmer and the University of Brighton's Moulsecoomb and city-centre sites push thousands of student MacBooks through Lewes Road houseshares, and each June a chunk of them are sold to fund travel, deposits or the next model. Commuters splitting their week between Brighton and London sell to us for the same reason everyone else does: one email, one label, done.
Posting from BN1 and beyond
Any Post Office in the city will take your parcel - branches sit around Churchill Square and St James's Street, in Hove, Kemptown and out towards Portslade - and Brighton's Royal Mail links up the Brighton Main Line mean next-working-day arrival at our workshop is standard. Lunchtime is the sweet spot: hand it over before the afternoon collection and it is usually on our bench the following morning.
The label is prepaid and fully insured before you leave the house, so there is nothing to pay at the counter and nothing at stake if the courier fumbles it. Desktops go the other way round: for an iMac, Mac mini or Mac Studio we book a free courier to collect from your Brighton or Hove address, saving you a bus ride with a very awkward box.
Why post to us instead of a Brighton shop or Facebook meet
The nearby routes all have a downside. A trade-in counter in Churchill Square or a used-tech shop in the North Laine will quote cautiously and shave more once they inspect the machine, keeping a resale margin for themselves. Selling through Facebook Marketplace or a Brighton buy-and-sell group means weeks of lowballers, arranging to meet a stranger somewhere off Western Road, and trusting a payment you cannot verify on the spot.
Our version is calmer and safer. The price is agreed in writing with no commission and no doorstep haggling, the money is a traceable transfer within 24 hours of inspection, and your Mac is insured the whole way rather than tucked under your arm. Since a declined revision is returned free, there is no cost to simply seeing our figure before you commit elsewhere.
When Brighton sellers should make the move
The city hands you two obvious windows. The student one arrives with the summer, as Sussex and Brighton undergraduates clear Lewes Road houseshares and used MacBooks briefly saturate every channel - selling a little ahead keeps yours in demand and its price firm. The agency one follows project delivery and financial year-ends, when Silicon Beach studios rotate their laptops in batches rather than steadily.
Above both runs Apple's launch schedule, which quietly trims each older model's value whenever a new one appears. A MacBook sitting idle through another release only loses ground, so pinning a fourteen-day fixed quote now is usually wiser than gambling on a better week - whether your machine came from a lecture hall or a design studio.
Good to know
Selling from Brighton - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
I freelance in Brighton's digital scene - how fast can I turn my old MacBook into cash?
Realistically two to three working days. The quote arrives within two working hours, a parcel posted from Brighton typically reaches us the next working day up the Brighton Main Line, and passing inspection starts the 24-hour payment countdown. That is faster than most trade-in services, which commonly take two to five days to pay out.
Can Sussex or Brighton students post from campus-side Post Offices?
Yes - the free insured label works at any branch, so counters near Falmer, along Lewes Road, in Moulsecoomb or in the city centre are all fine. Post between lectures, keep the receipt, and track progress by email. Payment lands within 24 hours of inspection, handy timing around term-end budgets and moving-out costs.
Does sea-air corrosion or heavy wear affect what my Brighton MacBook is worth?
Honest wear is priced in, not punished. Describe the condition accurately when requesting your quote and the figure you receive is the figure we aim to pay. If inspection finds something undeclared we may revise, but you can decline and get the MacBook back free, insured, with no return charge whatsoever.
Can I sell an iMac or Mac Studio from Brighton without a Post Office trip?
Yes. Desktops skip the counter entirely: we book a free insured courier collection from your Brighton address on a day that suits you, so an all-in-one never has to be carried down a Hanover staircase. Pad it well in any sturdy box, and payment follows within 24 hours of inspection.
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 Brighton
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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