Sell Your MacBook in Portsmouth - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
In Portsmouth we buy MacBooks in whatever condition life on the coast has left them - flawless, faulty or completely dead. Send the model details, get a fixed quote by email within two working hours, post the machine free with our fully insured label, and receive a bank transfer within 24 hours of it passing inspection.
Damaged Macs are quoted instantly on the website rather than through back-and-forth photo emails, so you know the figure before you lift a finger. One firm rule applies to everyone: Activation Lock must be switched off before you sell, because an iCloud-locked device cannot lawfully be resold by anyone.
Getting the parcel to us is a short walk for most of the city - counters at Palmerston Road in Southsea, in Cosham, Fratton and North End all take our prepaid label, and mainland Portsmouth's rail links put the box on our bench the next working day.
- Free insured shipping
- Paid within 24h of inspection
- Data wiped to NIST standards
- Free returns if you decline
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Get your Portsmouth 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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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 |
Different spec or model? It takes two minutes:
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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.
Sailors, students and the defence-tech crowd
The University of Portsmouth fills Southsea and the city centre with students for most of the year, and every June a wave of them sells laptops before moving out of halls and house-shares. Creative-technology and computing courses in particular run on Apple hardware, so the machines coming to us from PO postcodes are often barely two years old. House-shares in Fratton and North End turn over just as quickly, which keeps sellers coming all year round.
Portsmouth's naval and defence-technology employers shape the other half of our sellers here. Engineers and analysts working around the dockyard and the marine-tech firms along the harbour keep their personal machines current as a matter of habit, and the retired MacBook comes to us rather than languishing in a drawer - usually with the drive already wiped to a standard we rarely see elsewhere.
Why not wait until after summer?
Because waiting is the only guaranteed way to get less. Apple resale values step down with each new release, and a MacBook idling in a Fratton flat all summer will simply be quoted lower in October than it is in July. The depreciation clock does not pause because you are busy. Naval postings sharpen the point further: a deployment is much easier to pack for without a spare laptop in the bag.
Every offer we make is held for 14 days, which is plenty of time to organise a backup and a box. And if an inspection ever leads to a revised figure you decide against, your Mac sails home to Portsmouth free of charge and fully insured - we never bill sellers for returns.
Broken or corroded Apple Silicon Macs are still worth money
On the coast a MacBook takes a beating, but a damaged one is still worth selling. Faulty machines still fetch roughly 40 to 50 percent of their working value, because a single failed component seldom drags down the worth of everything around it, and the broken-Mac tool prices salt corrosion, liquid ingress and dead boards the moment you flag them - no photographs, no waiting.
Intel-based MacBooks are the one exception - our window is Apple Silicon, M1-generation and newer - so an Intel machine gets our value guide instead of a quote. Every quote assumes one thing - that Activation Lock is off - because an iCloud-locked Mac is unsellable whatever its condition.
Drop-off points and delivery times from Portsmouth
Portsmouth may sit at the end of its line, but posting to us is still quick. The South Western main line runs up to Waterloo and the A3 and M27 link the island to the motorway network, so a parcel handed in by mid-afternoon generally reaches our bench the next working day. The Southsea, Cosham, Fratton and North End counters all take the label, and DPD points along the seafront and out at the retail parks are an alternative if the queue is long.
There is nothing to pay when you post and nothing to fill in - the label already carries prepaid, fully insured postage. The counter scan starts the tracking, which then updates on its own until your Mac is safely with us.
Good to know
Selling from Portsmouth - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
I'm moving out of Portsmouth halls - can this be done before I leave?
Comfortably. A quote lands within two working hours, the Post Office visit takes minutes, and payment arrives within 24 hours of your Mac passing inspection. Even started in your final week in Southsea, the whole sale typically wraps up before your tenancy does, and quotes hold for 14 days.
The coastal air has corroded my MacBook - will you still buy it?
Yes. Corrosion, liquid ingress and salt-air damage are all quoted instantly through our broken-Mac tool, with no photographs requested. Be honest about the condition when selecting faults and the figure you see is the figure we aim to honour. Activation-Locked machines remain the sole exclusion.
I work in defence - how thoroughly is my data destroyed?
Every Mac we buy is sanitised to NIST 800-88 media-erasure standards, the framework referenced by government security policies. For sensitive roles we suggest also performing your own full erase and iCloud sign-out in Portsmouth before posting, which doubles the protection and disables Activation Lock in one step.
I am away with the Navy for months - can I lock in a price now?
Quotes hold for 14 days, so request yours when you are ready to post rather than months ahead. Re-quoting is free and takes two working hours, so ask again the week you are back in Portsmouth. Apple hardware loses value steadily, so sooner is generally worth more than later.
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 Portsmouth
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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