The good thing about owning aLaptop is that its alot easier to sell on once you are done with it. Whether you no no longer need
it or are upgrading or are selling it to raise some cash, its small and comapct for easy delivery, collection or shipping.
Whether you put it in the local paper, on Ebay or Craigslist, or even you
notice board at School, College, University or Workplace, there will always be someone who wants what you no longer need,
even if its just spares or repairs.
An Accrurate Description
It is important to describe your laptop properly to avoid wasting time, misunderstandings and potential disputes.
Laptop Specifications are avaliable free online, all you need to do is copy and paste, this saves on typing errors and is a lot faster.
However, you are resonsible for describing:
Working conditions e.g. everything works except the sound, may need new driver.
Costmetic condition e.g Normal Wear and Tear minor scuffs, no major bumps, dents or scratches.
Completeness e.g. boxes with original box, OS and Application CDs, Cables but missing manual, downloadable online
from Manufactureres website
Is it Safe to sell your laptop?
Scrub, Scrub, Scrub
This ones obvious, if your laptop is grimey, sticky or splattered with dried up with noodle soup, coffee, tea splashes and
a keyboard that has its own eco-system, you really need to clean it before showing it to the buyer.
Data Wipe
Laptop Are a part of everyday life, they can store boat loads of personal information such as bills, addresses, contact details, emails,
bank account numbers etc, All of which is not a good idea to pass on to anyone else. Even if you format it and reinstall the OS before
selling it, anyone can unformat it to access your old information making you a potential victim of identity theft which can
take a long time to sort out and ruin your credit rating. Even if you are just donating your old laptop or giving it to a relative or
frined to use, its always better to remove sensitive personal infomatin before handing it over, incase that person decides to sell it on in the future.
The only way to get rid of data is to overwrite it, there are many FREE scrubber software downloadable online that
wipes of your data quickly:
Free Disk Wipe
Free Disk Wipe data cleanup and file wipe tool, that allow you to completely wipe/remove/ delete/erase a selected files,on a disk (floppy disks, hard disks,logical drives, etc).
Any Data Recovery Software or Tool can't restore file, if file have been erase using Free Disk Wipe - Data File Wipe tool.
Free Disk Wipe are useful if you want to make it difficult for people to recover data from your disk.
Wipe Clean
Ensure that any sensitive data is securely wiped from your hard drive and can never be recovered.
WipeClean™ allows you to securely wipe individual files, full folders or file patterns from within selected folders.
WipeClean™ also integrates itself with the Windows System Shell allowing easy Explorer right click wiping and even the ability to wipe the files contained in your system Recycle Bin.
Protect your privacy and sensitive data with the easy to use WipeClean™.
Copy Wipe is a utility for copying or securely overwriting (wiping/erasing)
entire hard drives. CopyWipe can ease and expedite the transition to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one
drive to another. CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the
contents of a drive. A number of options are provided for wiping, most of which exceed governmental standards;
this allows the user to choose an optimal balance between security and duration of the
wiping operation.
If you are a company, it maybe better to have your systems professionally wiped before selling, recycling or donating your Laptops,
this avoids potential lawsuits arsing from customer data falling into the wrong hands.
Cash on Collection
Weh you actually meet up with the buyer, the same rules as selling apply, except that this time, you do the counting and keep your eye
on the cash.
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