Quick SupportSell Us Your Old Tech — or Let Us Recycle It Free
We buy second-hand gaming PCs, laptops, phones, tablets, consoles and most things with a circuit board in them — including broken ones, which most places won't touch. If it's worth something, we'll pay you for it in cash or store credit. If it isn't, we'll take it off your hands and recycle it properly for nothing, with a free data wipe on anything that ever stored your life on it.
What We Buy
Working, half-working or completely dead — a machine that won't turn on is still a pile of parts, and we're the people who know which ones are worth having.
Gaming PCs
Whole machines or the good bits out of them — graphics cards, CPUs, memory, drives, power supplies, cases.
Laptops & Computers
Windows and Mac, working or not. Even a dead one usually has parts worth something.
Phones & Tablets
iPhone, Samsung, Google, iPad and the rest. Locked to a network is fine — tell us and we'll factor it in.
Game Consoles
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo — plus controllers, docks and the games themselves.
Monitors & Screens
Especially the bigger, faster and curved ones. Old office 1080p panels less so, but bring them anyway.
And the Odd Stuff
Drones, retro consoles and computers, networking gear, test equipment, oddities. Ask — we're curious people.
Not on the list? Ask anyway. Between two stores and a workshop that repairs things most shops send away, there's very little tech we can't find a use, a part or a buyer for.
The bit most places say no to
Broken? Bring It In Anyway. It's Probably Still Worth Something.
Almost every other buyer of second-hand tech wants it working. We don't, and the reason is simple: we're a repair workshop first. A smashed screen or a dead battery isn't a dead end here, it's a job we do every day. So the device you've written off completely is very often still worth real money.
How we work the number out
We value it at the condition it's in as though it were working, then take off what the repair costs. That's the whole method, and it's worth knowing the second half of it: we don't always deduct the full repair price. Sometimes a repair costs more than the whole thing is worth second-hand, and we're the ones doing the work, so what comes off is what it genuinely costs us — not what we'd charge you over the counter to fix it.
So don't pay to fix it just to sell it
This is the one that costs people money. Paying retail for a screen replacement so a phone will sell for more almost never gets you ahead — the repair usually costs more than it adds to the sale price, and you've taken on the risk and the wait for nothing.
Sell it to us as it sits, broken, and we'll work out the difference ourselves. Same outcome, none of the outlay. If it genuinely is worth repairing first, we'll tell you that instead — it's the same conversation either way.
Water damage, won't turn on, cracked, no charge, bootloops, a laptop somebody sat on — bring it. One person's tech trash is another person's Tuesday afternoon on the bench, and we're the other person.
What's It Actually Worth?
Here's the honest version, because the internet is full of the dishonest one. Three things decide the number, and only one of them is what you paid for it.
One
What it is
The specs, not the badge. Two laptops that look identical can be worth triple each other on the strength of the processor, the graphics card and how much storage is in them. On a gaming PC, the graphics card is usually most of the value on its own.
Two
What condition it's really in
Battery health, screen marks, a dent in the lid, whether it runs hot, whether the fans have ever been cleaned. None of this is us looking for reasons to pay less — it's what the next owner will notice, so it's what the thing is worth.
Three
What it sells for today
Second-hand tech moves fast. Something worth good money last year can be worth half that now because a newer model landed, and occasionally the opposite happens. We price off what it genuinely moves for at the moment, not off a sticker from 2019.
Worth knowing
Whatever It's Worth, It's Worth Less Next Year
Second-hand tech prices only really move one way. Every time a newer model lands, everything behind it steps down — so the phone that's been in the drawer since you upgraded is quietly worth less every month it stays there. If you're going to sell or trade something in, sooner is genuinely worth more than later. The gear people bring us that's been sitting for two or three years is almost always the gear we have to disappoint them about.
Cash or Store Credit
Both are on the table and it's entirely your call. Store credit is worth more than cash — when the money stays with us we can afford to pay more for the item, so the credit figure is always the higher of the two. It spends on anything: a repair bill, a new machine, ink, a gift card, whatever you're in for.
We'll Tell You If You'd Do Better Elsewhere
Sometimes an item is worth noticeably more sold privately than any shop can offer, because a shop has to test it, warrant it, store it and still make something on it. When that's the case we'll say so rather than quietly take the win.
Then it's your call, because the higher number isn't the whole story — it's worth weighing against what selling privately actually costs you in time and aggravation. More on that just below. Either way you'll get a straight answer, and it costs you nothing to ask.
Why there's no price list on this page
Because any number we published would be a guess, and you'd be entitled to hold us to it. We can't tell what a drive's health is, whether a battery is tired or whether a graphics card has been run flat out for three years from a model name — and those are the things that move the price most. So instead of a number that's wrong, here's a real one: send us a photo and the model, and we'll come back with the range we'd expect before you drive anywhere. Then we confirm it properly at the counter once we've tested it.
Send us the detailsOr You Could Put It on Marketplace
You might get a bit more. Here's what it costs you to find out.
Selling it yourself
- Photograph it, write the ad, answer "is this still available?" fourteen times
- Lowball offers from people who haven't read the listing
- Someone who's definitely coming at 4pm, and doesn't
- Strangers at your house, or meeting one in a car park
- The scams: a screenshot of a payment that never arrives, an "overpayment" you're asked to refund, a transfer that reverses a week later
- And it's still worth less by the time it finally sells
Selling it to us
- One trip to the counter
- Tested while you wait, by people who do it all day
- A real number, and the reasoning behind it if you want it
- Paid on the spot, cash or store credit — nothing to chase
- A real shop with a street address, an ABN and 900-odd reviews, not an account that can vanish
- Your data wiped for free, whether we buy it or not
We're not going to pretend we'll always beat a private sale on the number alone. What we will do is make it take twenty minutes instead of three weekends.
How Selling to Us Works
Five steps, most of them quick. Bring the charger and any cables if you've still got them — it genuinely adds to the price.
- 1
Show us what you've got
Bring it in, or send a photo through this page first and we'll give you a ballpark before you make the trip. For a computer, the model number or a screenshot of the specs tells us most of what we need.
- 2
We test it properly
Not a glance and a guess. It gets powered up, benchmarked where it matters, storage and battery health checked, screen inspected, ports tried. That's what lets us pay a real price rather than a nervous one.
- 3
We check it isn't stolen
Phones get run through IMEI checks, including Australia's lost-and-stolen register. It protects the next owner, and it protects you from unknowingly passing on something that was hot.
- 4
Photo ID, every time
Driver licence or equivalent. This one isn't our rule — Queensland law requires second-hand dealers to sight ID and record who they bought from, on every purchase, no exceptions.
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Cash or store credit, on the spot
Your choice. Store credit is worth more than cash — we can pay more when the money stays with us — and it spends on anything: a repair, a new machine, ink, whatever you like.
Before you come in: sign out of your accounts if you can — iCloud and Find My on Apple gear, your Google account on Android, and any Microsoft account lock on a laptop. A device still locked to someone's account can't be resold and is worth a fraction of what it should be. If you're stuck or you've forgotten the password, bring it in anyway and we'll talk you through it.
Selling or buying a phone
Check the IMEI Before Money Changes Hands
Every phone has an IMEI — a unique 15-digit serial for the handset itself. If a phone has been reported lost or stolen, that number gets blocked across every Australian network and the handset stops working here permanently. It's the first thing we check on any phone we buy, and it's worth knowing how to check it yourself.
Finding the IMEI
- Dial
*#06#on the phone — it shows on screen straight away, on any phone, without unlocking anything. - Or: Settings → About phone on Android, Settings → General → About on iPhone.
- It's often printed on the SIM tray, or on the original box.
The checks we run, and why one isn't enough
A block can take a few days to filter through to the public register after it's reported, so a clean result isn't proof of anything on a phone that went missing yesterday. That's exactly why we don't rely on a single lookup: we run the number through more than one service, check the handset isn't still locked to someone's iCloud or Google account, sight the seller's photo ID and record the sale — and every device sits quarantined for at least a month before it goes anywhere.
Free Recycling — Even If It's Worth Nothing
You don't have to be selling us something, and you don't have to be buying anything either. Bring your old tech in and we'll take it off your hands and dispose of it properly, at no charge, for most devices. It keeps a genuinely nasty category of waste out of the ground, and it costs you a trip to the counter.
And if it turns out to be worth something?
We'll tell you. People write off gear that still has real value in it all the time — an old graphics card, a machine that only needs a power supply. If what you've brought in to dump is worth money, you'll hear about it, and we'll pay you for it.
What happens to it
Anything with life left gets tested, wiped and put back into use. Whatever's beyond that gets stripped for the parts worth saving, and the rest goes into proper e-waste recycling rather than a general waste bin.
Printer cartridges too
We're a collection point for Cartridges 4 Planet Ark, so empty inkjet and toner cartridges of any brand can come in at the same time. More on that.
A couple of sensible limits: give us a ring first before turning up with a trailer load, or with anything containing a swollen or damaged battery, and we'll tell you the safest way to handle it.
Your Data Comes Off First
This is the bit that stops most people from getting rid of an old computer, and it's the bit we do for free. Anything that stores data — laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, loose hard drives and SSDs — gets properly wiped before it's resold, stripped for parts or recycled. Not "deleted". Wiped.
Deleting files and emptying the recycle bin doesn't remove anything; it just stops the computer showing you where it is. Anyone with a free recovery tool can pull it straight back. A drive that's been properly wiped gives up nothing.
The part nobody else does
Everything Sits for a Month First
Every device that comes to us is quarantined for at least a month before it's wiped, sold or broken down for parts. Nothing is destroyed the day it arrives.
That's because people change their minds. There's a photo on it nobody realised was only on there. A tax file that mattered after all. A relative who wanted it. It has happened enough times that we built the wait in as standard — so if you come back a fortnight later, there's still something to come back to.
If you'd rather it were destroyed immediately, say so and we'll do that instead.
Businesses, Schools and Offices
If you've got a store room full of retired machines, you don't have to box them up and drive them anywhere. We'll come and get them.
Free pickup
We collect from your site at no charge — a dozen machines or a room of them. Ring or use the form below and we'll arrange a time that doesn't get in your way.
Free data destruction, with a report
Every drive is wiped and you get documentation of what was processed — the piece of paper your auditor, your board or your privacy obligations actually need. Also free.
And a cheque, where there's value
Retired fleets often still have real money in them. We'll assess what's worth buying and pay for it, rather than quietly taking a free pallet of usable equipment off you.
We've done technology supply and rollouts at scale before — including a program that tested and shipped a hundred laptops a day to a private college, anywhere in Australia, inside 24 hours. The gear coming back out at the end of its life is the same job in reverse, and we're set up for it.
Business & educationTell Us What You've Got
Send the details and we'll come back with a realistic range before you go anywhere — usually within the hour during trading hours. It's a ballpark, not a formal offer: the real number gets confirmed once we've had it on the bench, and it's almost always within the range we quoted.
Got it — we'll take a look.
Someone at the store will come back to you with a realistic range, or with what we can do about picking it up. Thought of something else, or want to send a video or a voice note? Use the photo tool and we'll match it up.
Send a photo or videoGot something in a cupboard doing nothing?
Bring it in. Worst case we recycle it for free and wipe your data off it. Best case you walk out with money you weren't expecting.