Stripping Notebook to sell parts

Hi,
Sadly, my Sager NP8275 mainboard stopped working. Unfortunately with no homegrown resellers the cost will is half as much as I originally bought the laptop for.
It's 3 years old and to play 700+ euro just to replace the mobo doesn't seem worth it to me.

So my question is, how do I go about selling the part?

Do I strip the laptop barebones? SSDs, RAMS etc.. are OK.
I'm worried about the rest though, GPU, heatsinks and whatnot.

Or do I just sell the laptop as is but specify broken mainboard? Would anyone buy? Would it diminish the price of the laptop as opposed to selling parts separately?

Any advice welcome, thanks.

 

Sold in parts you will get more absolute $$$ for it. But it will also cost you more in time and boxing/shipping.

I would remove any/all storage device(s) from it and put it for sale 'as-is' and pick the highest bid.

Not only is it not worth 700+ euro for the M/B, it isn't worth (much) more of your time for a small increase in bottom line profit.

 

@Lews Therin sell it by parts. Rely on local buyers more than on eBay - they may come for single part and end up buying half the notebook. Selling it as a whole might diminish its price greatly. Word of advice though - sell display module only as a whole.

 

Lews, there you have it (advice from opposite ends of the spectrum... ).

Time or money (they are equivalent, but one is worth more than the other...).

Good luck.

 

Cheers guys. Obviously I have a tough choice to make
If I do decide to sell part by part how do I determine the value? Obviously I can't sell at market price is there a formula for this?
Get market price take 5pc off by N years?
can you advice? Thanks

 

@Lews Therin there must be something like local private ads website in the area. Just list the stuff there - RAM, CPU, GPU, SSD, PSU separately at prices slightly lower than lowest for parts in same condition sold there - and the notebook as whole without the aforementioned stuff, for $100-300, depending on display. You should sell whole display module for the cheapest price of same display ordered from ebay including shipping - and remains don't account for much. If you live in a big city, most parts will be gone soon, and laptop too if you're lucky - and it doesn't take much place if not.

If you live in a deserted area, though - it might be better listing the thing as a whole on Ebay or something like that, to save a lot of time. Motherboard for your laptop costs $350-400, so it should be sold at least $400 cheaper than same laptop yet working, for someone to take interest in it.

Alternatively, you can try to win this auction. Check compatibility before bidding, though.

 

Thanks Starlight. Very good suggestions.
Unfortunately in Ireland the population is small enough to not have enough people with same laptop brand. I will include UK too cheers.