Sell Your MacBook in Plymouth - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
If you are in Plymouth and want cash for a MacBook, the route is short: a fixed quote by email within two working hours, a box taken to any Post Office with our free insured label, and a bank transfer within 24 hours of the Mac passing inspection. Working and broken Apple Silicon Macs both qualify.
There is no Plymouth branch, van or collection round behind this page, only the postal service that already reaches every PL postcode. The main city-centre counter is on New George Street, a short walk from Royal Parade, and suburban branches such as Estover on Leypark Drive accept the same parcel without any extra steps.
We buy M1-generation and newer MacBooks, iMacs, Mac minis and Mac Studios, plus the MacBook Neo. Intel machines and anything still tied to someone's Apple ID are the two things we have to turn down.
- Free insured shipping
- Paid within 24h of inspection
- Data wiped to NIST standards
- Free returns if you decline
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Get your Plymouth quote
See an indicative price before you give us any contact details. Apple Silicon only: M1 and newer, including MacBook Neo. 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), including MacBook Neo, 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, ships late Oct 2026) | 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, 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.
Posting a MacBook from Plymouth: what actually happens
Plymouth feels a long way from most places, and by road it is. The A38 Devon Expressway is the way out towards Exeter and the M5, and the Great Western line to London Paddington takes roughly three hours. Very little of that slows a parcel. Royal Mail sorts outgoing Plymouth post through its mail centre on Breakwater Road and moves it overnight, so a MacBook handed in before the last collection usually reaches our bench the next working day, occasionally the one after.
You pay nothing at the counter. The label already carries prepaid postage and cover for the full quoted value, the clerk's scan starts the tracking, and from that point any loss or transit damage is our problem to deal with. Keep the proof of postage receipt until the money arrives; it is the only paperwork involved.
Naval families, dockyard staff and students
HMNB Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe, shapes how a lot of Plymouth lives. Personnel drafted to a ship, posted to another base or leaving the service often want to clear surplus kit before the move rather than store it or ship it. A postal sale suits that timetable: ask for the quote once the date is set, post from the nearest counter, and the payment goes to your UK bank account wherever you happen to be when inspection finishes.
The universities supply the other steady stream. The University of Plymouth's city-centre campus runs large computing, marine science and health courses, Arts University Plymouth trains designers and film-makers who largely work on Macs, and Plymouth Marjon University sits out at Derriford on the northern edge of the city. When the summer term ends and house-shares around Mutley and North Hill empty, plenty of laptops change hands at once, so selling a little before that glut of listings is the smarter move.
Covering Plymouth, south-east Cornwall and the South Hams
Plenty of people who say they live in Plymouth actually post from just outside it. Sellers in Plympton, Ivybridge and Tavistock use exactly the same label as the city centre, as do those over the Tamar Bridge in Saltash, across on the Torpoint Ferry, or further into Cornwall at Liskeard. South Hams villages around Kingsbridge are covered on identical terms, with the same free insured postage and the same price.
Desktop owners never need to find a counter at all. An iMac, Mac mini or Mac Studio is collected free by insured courier from your door, which spares anyone living on the edge of Dartmoor a long drive with a 24-inch screen strapped into the passenger seat.
Should I sell now or wait?
Waiting rarely pays with a Mac. Each Apple launch knocks something off the models that came before it, and a MacBook left in a cupboard through a deployment or a gap year will be worth less on your return than it is today. For anyone about to leave Plymouth for months, selling before departure is usually the better sum.
Once you have a figure it holds for 14 days, which covers most packing schedules and the last days of a tenancy. Should our inspection find something the quote missed, it is your call whether to take the revised offer; say no and the Mac comes home to Plymouth insured, with no fee deducted from anything.
Good to know
Selling from Plymouth - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
Is there anywhere in Plymouth I can hand my MacBook over in person?
Only at a Post Office counter. We do not run a shop, office or van in Plymouth or anywhere in Devon and Cornwall. The New George Street branch in the city centre is the obvious drop-off, but any counter accepts our prepaid, insured label. iMacs and other desktops are collected free from your address by courier instead.
I am in the Navy and about to be drafted - can I still sell?
Yes. Request a quote once your move date is known, because it stays locked for 14 days. Post the Mac from any Plymouth counter before you go, and payment is made to your UK bank account within 24 hours of it passing inspection, so being at sea does not hold anything up. Wipe it and sign out of iCloud first.
How long does a parcel from Plymouth take to reach you?
Usually one working day, sometimes two. Royal Mail moves Plymouth post out overnight, and tracking updates from the moment the counter scans the label. We inspect on arrival wherever possible and the transfer follows within 24 hours of a pass, so a Plymouth seller can typically expect to be paid within a few working days of posting.
Does selling from Cornwall rather than Plymouth change anything?
No. Saltash, Torpoint, Liskeard and the rest of south-east Cornwall use the same free insured label, and a parcel handed over there travels on the same tracked, insured service as one from the city. The price, the 14-day quote lock and payment within 24 hours of inspection are all identical, and desktops are still collected free.
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), including MacBook Neo, 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 Plymouth
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.
- Selling privately means listings, postage, returns 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.
- A quote that expires or floats with the market is hard to plan around. 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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