I made profit reselling a MacBook by breaking it!
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This is insane…..I have the same Mac, and want to upgrade to newer, you have me thinking…….
Get the hammer mrssea
HAMMER TIME!
The 2018 isn't even that old
@@hatsonchickens m1 IS a huge jump
I have a frikin 2015 macbook air
Just curious but why didn’t he look at sold listings so he could see what they were actually selling for and at what price people were buying?
He said somewhere in the video that he actually did but just didn't show it on camera. I was thinking the same thing until he said it
I do the same. I part out working devices because when it’s in tack and working, people low ball you like crazy.
When it’s a part they need to fix another device then they need it asap and willing to pay top dollar.
Thanks for this, I always enjoy your videos. In fact, your series on the 2009 Mac Pro inspired me and I'm in the process of refurbishing one I recently picked up on eBay, using your videos as a general guide.
You are so underrated you deserve to have 1 million subscribers
I wish there were more of a market in Mexico for this kind of thing.
This is why I use offerup/ Facebook marketplace. eBay sucks with their fees.
I knew you would do that
I'd imagine the best way to sell most tech is to break it (like with cars). People pay for chargers, screens, keys etc. Most people selling old machines don't bother because its not always easy to break a computer (especially apple products built after like 2011) and if you wreck a functioning computer you're losing a chunk of cash
Hi Luke, I’m looking to get an old MacBook form my older sister because she got a 2020 or 2019 MacBook Pro with the i9 and would like to know if getting a 2017 MacBook would be worth it
She got the Intel Core i7 Model I think the 5350U or something like that I’m going to be doing basic video editing in Final Cut Pro or IMovie, let me know on your thoughts
Thanks
Skylar
Very interesting. I wonder how much I can get for my car if I sell the parts. 🤔
It's not broken, it's been unwound. Your computer lives on in the devided state
This can be a business
Which model of MacBook would be the best bet for music production?
Any Apple Silicon (M1) model. Just wait for the 14" and the Apple Silicon 16" later this year :)
2:52 69 - Nice.
- Luke Miani 2021
I never sell anything on eBay unless they have the £1 final selling fees, or the new 80% off final selling fees. No one in their right mind would sell privately at full final price.
Kinda clickbaity tbh but now that I have clicked the video is very interesting!
4mins and I’m here!!!!
Nice shirt luke is that banana republic?
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It just prove to me once again why I do not shop e-bay! E-bay sucks!!
lol i thought he was gonna smash and sell it as smashed by famous youtuber
"600, good grief. What are they smoking?"
MacOS Weed?
Yeah ikr 😂😂😂
oh the new MacOS. MacOS weedos
@@harshitarora693 it's a joke from one of the wwdcs
@@aaaaaa-nr5mo Then it's OS X Weed
@grimAXE macOS low sierra
Jesus that thumbnail with the hammer lol
Don’t use the Lord’s name in vain!!!
@@IHaveFriendsIDefinitelyDo Jesus fucking Christ, I'm truly sorry!
@@cidsx Wait that's illegal 👁️👄👁️
I thought that's what he was going to do. 😀
3:43 I wish apple would start selling their parts standalone. Would make repairing stuff much easier and you won’t have to deal with shady eBay listings.
Haha Apple and right to repair… next joke.
@@rushilkisoon sucks how they pretend to be ecofriendly while pulling this shite off
It ain’t gonna happen unless right to repair gets passes everywhere
Should apple do that, most people would end up changing a macbook pro 15-20 years later instead of 8-12 !!!! It would be welcome, though!
@@rushilkisoon Well, the EU is making some progress in that matter... not much, but some.
Ah yes. „Breaking“ a MacBook with an I*FIX*IT set. Classic.
As a newly minted MacBook owner, this was painful to watch.
Same
How . He’s just taking it apart and selling
the parts
@@vihaansingha8340 It's seeing a perfectly working MacBook just taken apart
@@TheOmegaRiddler To be fair, those components he sold will be used to make many more perfectly working MacBooks.
Same
Man! This gets me all nostalgic for the past. I used to run an ebay store called the Laptop Chopshop and basically did this in the mid 2000s. I would buy people's broken laptops for pennies on the dollar, tear them down, and sell all the individual parts for a decent markup. Trying to find what to call everything was a challenge in and of itself since I didn't have a whole lot of competition at the time and I might be the only guy with that particular part. So pricing was always hard to nail down. It certainly made for sustainable living back then, though I ended up giving up on the business for greener pastures. I'm sure the market is far too flooded to jump into that sort of thing as a business now, but it was fun at the time.
I hope you get a million subs your videos are always something to look forward too!
ok
@@Ok-lu8gx ok
@@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 with Geico
2:00 lemme guess : people will start selling the Chips of their macbooks to Louis Rossmann XD
The thumbnail reminds me of Plainrock124's Bored Smashing bruh
Same
Why didn’t you look for sold items? That’s the price you can expect
Yes, the listing price is just kite flying - the green listings in 'Completed items' are the actual selling prices.
Exactly what I said I wonder why he didn’t
He did, he mentioned it but didn't put the footage in the video
Mac chop shop.
Apple: No, wait, that’s illegal!
Luke: You don’t sell to the public your own OEM parts! Who’s fault is that?
*Apple wants to know your location*
@@idum1685 Everyone does. If you try to stop your OS from phoning home, you’re losing a lot of functionality. Seriously, if I was concerned about personal privacy, I would never be on the Internet.
@@NormanF62 wow it flew waaaaaaay over your head
well i was expecting the mac getting smashed with a hammer
The clickbait screen showed Luke smashing it with a hammer! To be fair, what YT slaps on a video isn’t alway under a creative’s control.
So there!
How did you get that computer for $1000 to begin with…?
Ohhhh yeahhh earlllyyyy squad
That was a great view of how to "potentially" maximize profits by selling in parts (many other domains do this for same reason). The one thing you may improve on is looking at eBay Sold/Completed listings, not current auctions, as a better read on potential selling price. At end of the day, factoring in value of time and mitigating risk of nefarious buyers, I would probably sell as a whole.
I have a faulty MacBook Pro 2014. Would it be better to sell the parts individually?
probably, whats broken?
@@clooss idk, there’s green lines on the screen but it might be the gpu
really good video, i occasionally repair ps4s and even if I cant fix them I can easily double my money by selling parts
Don’t have a comment but want to help Luke with the RUclips Neural Net, so he can grow faster. =)
heeeere's more help!
Lets not forget the money you made by making a cool video about the process
Side money ahahah 😂
I suggest checking the Ebay values with the "sold" option on, it'll give a more accurate picture. Additionally, limiting the geography to the local US listings could help as well, if there are enough results.
8:28. I see your back to your 10k$ iMac Pro.
If only eBay wasn't the kind of nightmare it is. The layout reminds me of 1998.
One minor overlook is you're not looking at the "sold" listings on eBay.
The worst kind of pain is when you think you can get loads for a device but you forgot to look at the sold listings 🥲
He mentioned that he looked at them
@@uchihasasuke7436 Only for the logic board though, as there weren't really any useful listings for them already up; he wasn't looking at sold listings for the other parts.
But the current market is so limited so its only what’s available so it was right in this case.
first comment and first view
luke what are you doing you destroyed a perfectly usable computer you monster!
The real question is where did he bought that computer at 1000$
Can I get a MacBook I need for school but I don’t have enough money to buy it and I'm really poor😞
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15:34 Chad Luke
Luke what are you doing you destroyed a perfectly usable Macbook you monster
Nice, now I m going to destroy my house and sell the pieces…
Lol, you would actually get a lot considering lumber prices.
Cleaning up that lumber to use again wouldn't be fast or cheap.
You shouldn't use something called `IFixIt` to 'destroy' something. You should use an 'I destroy it' kit, preferably a sledge hammer
This iscrhe sort of content we need
I can’t imagine waking up one day then thinking, “hmmm, I’ll destroy my MacBook and I’ll sell it!”
He didn’t destroy it, clickbait
thanks for the tip. now to repair the MacBook, buy a used one, not the part.
Selling electronics on ebay can be a great outlet or a stressful situation if you get a bad customer that may be troubleshooting, makes false claims, brakes the item and blames you for their mistakes or they already had some nefarious intentions (swapping parts) to begin with.
for me the first step to sell a used Macbook Pro is to see if you can send it to Apple free keyboard replacement program. You get a new keyboard, a new battery, a new palmrest, and trackpad.... selling a used laptop with all those components new (including a battery count of 1) is a great perk!
2:50 Nice.
Your video is working off improper data, you keeps showing us eBay search results for live auctions / buy it now and what your really need to be showing is are the Sold / Ended listings that give much more clearer insight as to what the prices are like
Exactly right
“Logic boards rarely die” *cries in Louis Rossman*
Hooo "board SMASHING" that youtuber style who smashes items for fun
plainrock124
imagine a RUclipsr attempting to build a fully working macbook from scrap parts only, and buying all of your listings 😂👀
2018 and up Logic boards are T2 chip Locked! not to mention the touch ID sensor is married to that Logic board!
so might as well forget about selling your logic board buddy you only have 3 parts you can sell. Anything 2018 and newer needs Apples Depot repair service you have to ask for from Apple! they will fix anything wrong with your computer for 450$ to 500$ flat rate. water damage everything! its something that apple will not tell you they do but they will do it!
not to mention you better make full use of that icloud backup and time machine backup because on the newest M1 Laptops the SSD chips are completely soldered to the motherboard! so there's no way to recover the data! not even apple can recover the data in most cases! so you better make use of external storage and! your icloud! Apples practices is getting out of hand and is becoming to point of straight up e-waste 90% of the time.
Luke, what are you doing?! You destroyed a perfectly usable MacBook you monster!
A MacBook that’s worth less sold as a laptop than as a collection of individual parts. Heh
That’s the same thing with a car. Take it apart and sell its parts individually, you‘ll get $10000 from a car that is worth $3000. But taking one car apart and selling its parts is a full time job. It takes so much effort and time. And don’t forget that you need a place to house the parts in.
DUDE, 1000$... here in Spain the 2018 MBP 256 16GB it sells for as minimum as 1500€ (1800$), the other listings are for 1650, 2000€ and more...
The selling strategy is should be to go to a different country and sell for 1,250$ ahahah
m1 chip dropped intel-mac prices significantly, generally no one should buy 2018 MBP for such high price, sellers just didn't realize that yet.
I bought mine for 600€ (basemodel 15' 2018)
Why dont you stop clickbaiting and say what you have done easily in the title:
BY SELLING PARTS instead BREAKING IT,...
damn i nearly subscribed to you, now im looking for the still not existent "remove content from this CREATURE" button....
i think there is more money fixing macbooks. LOLs. 60 bucks per or iphone screens
You forgot to mention the computers you buy for a review and return to Apple.
Business-wise, it is smart. However, I cringe to think (obviously I'm on the buyer end more often) of how many folks end up parsing their macs and macbooks instead of selling them whole. But hey.... not your fault. More interesting might be your thoughts on ebay sellers who just reroute Amazon product (computer and otherwise). Frustrating for those of us trying to use ebay to find the mom and pop sellers.
I managed to pick up an M1 Macbook air for a bargin price as a customer return from a popular high stret retailer in the UK at the weekend (John Lewis) for £780. It is clearly new and never actualy been used for more than 5 minutes.
I use my mac mainly for youtube and 4k video editing so the M1 meets all my needs. I have a 2018 512gb version and it is more sluggish in my user case, noisy even when doing nothing. The second hand market seems week at the minute so this may be a good shout for me as it is in A1 condition.
you profited $240 for about 12 hours of your time spent disassembling, listing, selling, packaging, shipping and so on... maybe $20 per hour, your real profit came from this video
The big question is Luke , could you make a profit from dropping them in a dumpster with minimum damage , but with a maximum knowledge that there will be someone to pick up ware you left of . Yet the individual although capable of making money himself , will intern save you time and eventfully money . After all , this is the other end of the spectrum your showing us ! . Don't think it's such a good idea to try it though , as we live in M1 days and they are incredibly controversial to say the least .
Intel days will soon be a thing of the past for Apple and the organism that is discarded , old , broken and abused Mac's will be a hole different " ball game " .
You did the pricing wrong. You should check “Recently Sold” because those are the prices it’s actually been bought at.
Edit: it’s under advance search options, it’s a check box.
Kind of covering old ground Luke? This whole selling individual componants as apposed to selling the whole MacBook comparison.....Hmmm
Can you try placing a MBA M1 logic board into a MBA Intel chassis?It would be interesting to see if it works. As well as open up additional options for future repairability.
So you condensed it down into sellable parts, rather than outright breaking it making select parts inoperably useless.
So basically you wasted a whole bunch of time parting out a Macbook just to end up selling it for almost exactly what it was going for on Ebay intact. In other words, completely pointless. But in the end you got a video out of it, which means your actual profit is all youtube revenue.
Can you do a video on how to repair the bright vertical patches in a 2019 (or newer) macbook pro? I've got one and i have about a two inch chunk where it's brighter with lighter colors and want to know how to fix it without swapping the display!
Tell us, how much money in FleaBay fees did you pay/did they gouge you for? Was it really over $200?! Yikes!
You call this breaking???? I expected you to be smashing a random macbook and then selling it
I know smashing a computer only to resell it is bad but its entertaining to see a mac getting smashed... unless it's your own mac then you'd be crying on the ground begging for it it to stop
Didn’t the base 2018 15” MacBook Pro cost $2400 retail? How did you acquire yours for $1000?
If you have a 2018 or 2019 MacBook Pro then why are you upgrading it?
Interesting. I have a 2010 MBP that isn't worth much but still runs. Wonder if I can chop it up for a better price...
I disassembled my early 2008 17in MBP and got $390 in total; if is sold assembled I would only get $180
In the end, you have to figure out how much your personal time is worth and figure that into the decision. A lot of eBay/Esty sellers aren't really making any money once you factor in a living wage for their time.
Ooor you could just take a hammer to it like in the thumbnail and then have Hugh Jeffreys finding and buying it. Smart idea!
What makes you unique to the other Apple RUclipsrs so keep it up :)
There's a difference between disassembling and "breaking"
stop the annoying clickbaits, please
Even u get the number u said, u will need to pay 4 times the eBay or whatever transaction fee. Will it still make a profit?
If you're trying to value things on eBay it's helpful to look at sold listings. Then you see what things are actually selling for.
I did the same with an iPhone SE 2020 that was iCloud locked and made £200
Yep. Same reason you can make more parting out a popular car than selling it intact. Also, the reason some model Toyota’s and Honda’s are stolen so often
I sold a old iphone and my ebay account got banned cuz a buyer screwed me over they claimed it was broken when it was working 🙄
Lets buy them for 1200$ and sell them for working parts at 1600$ stonks
I made profit reselling a MacBook by DISASSEMBLING it!
The problem is, it's much harder to sell parts because that limits your target audience to those who need to repair their devices
Plus the video , “I sold my MacBook on ebay” ain’t gonna get as many views as this one, not an sponsor.
Do you think that repair shops are buy your components or individual people repairing MacBooks are ?