Sell Your Dead MacBook

Run a dead MacBook through Apple's trade-in tool and you get a $0 quote and a recycling offer. The big online buyers — Back Market, Gazelle, the carrier kiosks — do the same. None of them are wrong, exactly; they're all resellers, and a Mac that won't boot can't be flipped as a working machine. A dead unit simply doesn't fit a reseller's business at all, so the only number they can offer is zero.

We're not a reseller — we're a repair shop with a bench full of Macs that need parts. When a MacBook "dies," it's almost never the whole machine that failed. Usually one component gave out and everything else is intact: a perfectly good logic board behind a bad power button, a healthy battery, a clean display, working ports, a solid chassis. Every one of those is something we pull and reuse to honor the 1-year whole-machine warranty on the Macs we sell. That's why a dead Mac that's worth $0 to everyone else is worth real money to us.

Here's the secret to why we'll pay for a Mac nobody else will touch: parts harvest. Every Mac we sell carries a 1-year whole-machine warranty, which means when a customer's machine has a problem, we fix it fast with genuine, tested parts. Sourcing those parts from a dead trade-in is faster and cheaper than buying new-old-stock components — and it keeps good hardware out of a landfill.

From a single "dead" MacBook we routinely recover a working logic board (worth $30–$50 to the bench), an intact display assembly ($40–$80), a healthy battery ($15–$30), plus ports, hinges, speakers, and the chassis itself. Add those up against your model and you get your credit. It's the same parts-based math we use on every broken Mac — see the full breakdown on our broken-Mac page.