Sell Your MacBook in London - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
Selling a MacBook in London takes one Post Office visit. Request a quote online, receive a fixed offer by email within two working hours, print the free insured shipping label we send, and drop your boxed Mac at any of London's Post Office branches. Once it passes inspection, the money lands in your bank within 24 hours - working or broken.
Because we insure every parcel from the moment it leaves your hands, a knock in transit becomes our problem rather than yours - the single most important thing to check before trusting any postal buyer. There is no trek across town to a buyback shop on Tottenham Court Road and no haggling with a reseller who never shows up.
Every quote is locked for 14 days, so you can price the machine on a Monday and post it the following weekend without losing a penny. Sign out of iCloud before you seal the box - Activation Lock is the one thing that stops a sale - and the rest is a fifteen-minute errand.
- Free insured shipping
- Paid within 24h of inspection
- Data wiped to NIST standards
- Free returns if you decline
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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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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.
Where can I drop off my MacBook in London?
London has more Post Office counters than any other UK city, from the large William IV Street branch off Trafalgar Square to the counters inside Stratford's Westfield and Ealing Broadway shopping centres. Most inner-London postcodes sit within a ten-minute walk of one, and many stay open into the evening or on Sundays, which suits anyone posting after work.
Hand the parcel over, keep the proof-of-postage slip, and Royal Mail's tracked next-day network handles the rest. Parcels posted from Zone 1 through Zone 6 almost always reach our inspection bench the following morning, so a Mac dropped off on a Tuesday is frequently paid for by Thursday.
Who is selling MacBooks across London?
London's student population is vast, and the upgrade rhythm at UCL, Imperial, King's College and the LSE pushes a surge of Macs onto the market every June and September. Final-year students clearing halls before summer, and freshers swapping a tired Air for something quicker at the start of Michaelmas term, both do far better with a fixed emailed price than a lowball from a high-street counter.
The capital's tech and creative belt turns over Apple hardware faster than anywhere in Britain. Shoreditch's start-up cluster around Old Street, the design studios of Clerkenwell and Camden's music and media firms constantly refresh MacBook Pros - and a whole fleet can be sold under one quote. Broken kit from a busy studio is welcome too: a Pro with a flickering panel or a swollen battery earns an instant online price, with no photographs to email.
Packing and posting your MacBook from London
Use the laptop's original Apple box if you kept it; if not, any rigid double-walled carton slightly larger than the machine works well. Wrap the MacBook in bubble wrap or a padded sleeve, then fill every gap with scrunched paper or foam so nothing shifts when the box is shaken. Tape all seams firmly and stick the free insured label squarely on the largest face.
No printer at home? Print shops around Holborn, London Bridge and most high streets will run off the PDF label for pennies, or many Post Offices can print it at the counter. Selling an iMac or Mac Studio from Croydon, Barnet or anywhere in Greater London? Skip the packing entirely and book free insured courier collection from your front door.
Why now is a good time to sell in London
London's selling calendar has two clear peaks. The summer student clear-out floods the market with used Airs and Pros, so listing on Gumtree in July means competing with hundreds of others - our postal quote sidesteps that glut entirely and holds firm for 14 days. The second window opens each autumn when agencies and studios roll out new hardware and retire last year's machines in bulk.
Apple's own release cadence matters as well: values on the outgoing model tend to ease once a fresh generation ships, so locking a quote sooner rather than later usually pays. International students leaving after graduation get the best of both worlds - post the Mac before the flight and the bank transfer arrives while you are still packing.
Selling a Mac Studio or AI Mac in London
London runs more local-AI workloads than anywhere in Britain. Around the King's Cross quarter where Google DeepMind sits, the fintech machine-learning teams in the City and the start-ups off Old Street, engineers load large language models onto maxed-out Apple silicon - and when they upgrade we pay top cash. A Mac Studio M3 Ultra desktop, or a MacBook Pro Max carrying 64GB to 512GB of unified memory, is exactly the high-spec kit we want to buy.
Memory is the single biggest driver of what one of these Macs is worth, because it decides how large a model the machine can hold in one piece, so a 128GB or 256GB configuration fetches far more than the base spec. If you want to sell your AI Mac from a research bench at UCL or Imperial, or a desk in Shoreditch, the desktops go by free insured collection from your door and the bank transfer clears within 24 hours of inspection.
Good to know
Selling from London - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
How fast will my MacBook reach you from London?
Almost always the next working day. Post before your branch's final collection - late afternoon at most central London counters - and Royal Mail's tracked next-day service delivers it to us the following morning. Add our 24-hour payment after inspection and many London sellers have the cash within two days of posting.
Can I sell a broken MacBook from London without visiting a repair shop?
Yes. Skip the repair-quote circuit around Tottenham Court Road entirely. Describe the fault in our online form - cracked screen, dead logic board, liquid damage - and you get an instant fixed price. Post it with the free insured label and we handle everything, including a free insured return if you decline.
Do you collect desktop Macs from London homes?
We do. iMacs, Mac minis and Mac Studios are collected free by insured courier from any Greater London address, from Ealing to Stratford, so there is no wrestling a 24-inch iMac onto the Underground. MacBooks travel by Post Office drop-off instead, which most Londoners find quicker.
Can a London office sell a batch of Macs in one go?
Yes - that is what our bulk Mac buy-back is for. Each machine is quoted separately, working or faulty, so a mixed batch after a refresh is straightforward. Laptops travel on free insured labels, desktops are collected by courier, and every drive is erased to NIST 800-88 standards.
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 London
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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