Sell Your MacBook in York - Free Insured Post, Paid in 24 Hours
York sellers can turn any MacBook into cash, including ones that no longer start. We email a fixed quote within two working hours, seven days a week, supply a free fully insured postage label, and transfer payment within 24 hours of the Mac passing inspection - the answer is the same whether it works or not.
Broken machines skip the usual hassle entirely: our online tool prices them the moment you tick the faults, with no requests for photographs and no waiting on a human assessor. The only Macs we have to turn away are those still locked to an iCloud account, so disable Activation Lock before boxing up.
Handing the parcel over takes minutes wherever you live - the Lendal counter inside the walls, or the branches in Acomb, Clifton and Fulford - and York's place on the East Coast Main Line means the box is usually with us 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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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.
Posting from York: counters, the main line and timing
York is a fast place to post from. It sits on the East Coast Main Line with LNER services running south all day, the A64 and A1(M) are minutes away, and Royal Mail moves parcels overnight, so a Mac handed in by mid-afternoon is normally on our bench the next working day. If the Lendal counter inside the walls is busy, DPD points at the retail parks off the ring road take the same label.
Nothing changes hands at the till because postage and full-value insurance are already on the label we email. The assistant scans it, hands back your proof of postage, and the tracking runs from that scan straight through to our inspection room, walls to bench.
Who is selling Macs in York?
The University of York's science and creative departments out at Heslington run on Apple hardware, and students and staff sell to us in numbers at the end of every academic year. York St John adds media, design and teaching students who upgrade between courses, and both campuses empty in a rush each summer - laptops in tow, or ideally, already sold. PhD completions and staff moves keep a quieter flow going through the rest of the year.
Outside the universities, York's modern economy does the rest. Biotech teams on the science park replace field and lab laptops on short cycles, the rail industry offices that carry on the city's engineering tradition retire kit in batches, and the tourism and hospitality businesses inside the walls sell off MacBooks whenever tills, bookings and menus move to newer systems.
Broken and older Macs still hold their value in York
A MacBook that has stopped starting is still worth cashing in rather than shelving. Faulty machines usually keep in the order of 40 to 50 percent of the figure a working unit earns, thanks to steady refurbisher demand for panels, keyboards and logic boards, and our tool quotes every fault the moment you select it - no photographs, no manual assessment, no delay.
Pre-silicon Intel Macs are the one exception: our window is Apple Silicon only, M1-generation and newer, so an Intel machine gets our value guide rather than a quote. As ever, the only other outright block is an active iCloud lock, so confirm Find My is switched off before the Mac travels.
The case for selling this month
A MacBook is a melting asset. Its value drops with every Apple launch cycle and never climbs back, so the difference between selling now and selling at Christmas is money you are simply handing back. That holds for a pristine Air and a cracked Pro alike. Tourism seasonality adds a York-specific reason: many freelancers here sell quiet-season kit in summer, while demand for used Macs is at its strongest.
There is no rush once you have your figure, though: quotes stand firm for 14 days, long enough to copy your files across and sign out of everything properly. And in the rare case that inspection leads to a revised offer you would rather refuse, we return the Mac to York fully insured and entirely free.
Good to know
Selling from York - FAQs
Everything sellers ask us before posting their Mac - answered straight.
Where in York can I hand over my MacBook?
Any Post Office counter takes the parcel - Lendal inside the city walls, or the branches in Acomb, Clifton and Fulford if those are closer. Our emailed label covers insured postage in full, so you pay nothing at the counter and receive tracking straight away with your receipt.
Do you buy older Intel MacBooks from York?
No - we buy Apple Silicon Macs only, M1-generation and newer, so the oldest machines we quote are the 2020 M1 models. Intel MacBook Pros and Airs still hold some market value, and our Intel MacBook value guide sets out realistic figures and where York sellers can list one.
How fast is payment for York sellers?
Parcels posted in York normally arrive with us the next working day thanks to the East Coast Main Line. We inspect on the day of arrival wherever possible, and the transfer is sent within 24 hours of a passed inspection - around two to three working days in total, door to bank.
Can I sell an iMac from a York address without carrying it anywhere?
Yes. Desktops are collected free by insured courier from your door instead of going to a counter, which saves hauling an all-in-one through the city walls and the footstreets. Pad it well in any sturdy box, and payment follows within 24 hours of it passing 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 York
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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