Best way to sell old tech from office ?

[Rider007]

Our office is closing down and we have a number of old PC's , printers that we want to get rid of. Any reccomendations for wiping hard drives etc . Computers work fine just old tech that someone must want to buy.

[Alex Z]

What sort of quantities, as the answer will be different if it’s 10 or 1000?

[trickywoo]

I’m interested to hear suggestions.

Not that long ago I had a four year old server that cost £2k+ that I no longer needed. People were selling them for £30 on eBay. I look the drives out and weighed it in for scrap.

I also had an a3 capable colour printer, copier, scanner with £200 of new toner in it. Had to call in a favour to get it taken away for nothing.

I think you’ll be surprised how worthless old tech is especially if it needs properly decommissioning.

[Wilmslowboy]

Good luck.

We have been paying companies to take away old office tech for the past decade (including the supply of data destruction and WEEE certification)


The only exception being network switches and apple equipment.

[Alex Z]

When we closed our office in 2022, I gave monitors, TVs, printers etc to local schools and the air ambulance.
They were over the moon with it all.

[MonkeyBusiness]

Wilmslowboy said:

Good luck.
We have been paying companies to take away old office tech for the past decade (including the supply of data destruction and WEEE certification)
The only exception being network switches and apple equipment.

Same here. Once plugged in the value on network gear seems to vanish.
Great if you need to buy gear (we buy 2nd hand voip phones).

Bit like office furniture that's hard to shift.

[trickywoo]

MonkeyBusiness said:

Bit like office furniture that's hard to shift.

Even un or very lightly used high end stuff is almost impossible to giveaway.

I called a clearance company for mine and said some of the stuff is decent and he may want to sell it. His reply was that’s it’s only going to one place beginning with a t and ending with a p.

[nyt]

There are lots of charities if you google.

https://www.cprcomputerrecycling.co.uk/crcd/area/W...

[Rider007]

Only looking at about 6 computers & screens, 2 large multifunction printers, 2 TV monitors

[trickywoo]

Rider007 said:

Only looking at about 6 computers & screens, 2 large multifunction printers, 2 TV monitors

That charity link earlier is probably your best option. Not sure they will take the big printers though. If they do bite their hand off as you will have to pay to shift them otherwise.

[mikeiow]

Rider007 said:

Only looking at about 6 computers & screens, 2 large multifunction printers, 2 TV monitors

We had a home clear out recently.
I scraped any data from half a dozen old machines (what a fun day I had!), then removed the hard disks.
We took the machines to Curry’s: https://www.currys.co.uk/services/delivery-install...
Felt nicer than just skipping them…

Even got a small voucher to knock a fiver off any new purchase over £25. New electric toothbrush duly bought

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Give it to staff if they want it? Monitors for new starters etc?

[Rider007]

nyt said:

There are lots of charities if you google.

https://www.cprcomputerrecycling.co.uk/crcd/area/W...

Thanks , they look the people for me

[Mr Pointy]

Eraser will wipe the disks:

https://eraser.heidi.ie/

[Mr Overheads]

We use:

https://www.reviveit.co.uk/

[wattsm666]

You could try

https://www.techtakeback.com/