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I’m looking to buy a used Mac and maybe sell one, too. I checked the old standby places like Small Dog, PowerMax, MacSales, et cetera. It was basically the same price to buy a used Mac from one of those places that it costs to buy a new one from Apple.
Any other ideas?
Looking for a relatively recent Mac from 2024-ish.
I got a M1 MacBook Air that was only 1-1.5 years old on trade for a set of wheels/tires a few years ago via Facebook Marketplace. It's my mom's main computer at the moment.
Going to throw out the Apple refurb store; pretty good place if you want a nice price on something only 1-2 years old (Plus you get a full warranty). Yeah, I know it's "commercial".
The Apple Refurb Store was actually the first place I looked, and they didn’t have any 16 inch MacBook Pros at all. I was shocked.
My goal wasn’t so much to avoid businesses, but to avoid going places that all seemed to think they could justify charging the same price for generations-old Macs that would be charged for new ones. For some reason, companies all seem to think they can get away with charging like $5,000 for M3 Macs.
If I wanted to spend full price for a Mac, I’d buy a new one. :shrug:
I’ve taken to pawn shops. The good ones test and verify the quality of the equipment. Many will wiggle on the price, and have markdowns based how long it’s been in stock. It may take some time to find what you want, but if you’re friendly they’ll take your contact info and let you know when something comes in.
obvs wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:47 pmThe Apple Refurb Store was actually the first place I looked, and they didn’t have any 16 inch MacBook Pros at all. I was shocked.
My goal wasn’t so much to avoid businesses, but to avoid going places that all seemed to think they could justify charging the same price for generations-old Macs that would be charged for new ones. For some reason, companies all seem to think they can get away with charging like $5,000 for M3 Macs.
If I wanted to spend full price for a Mac, I’d buy a new one. :shrug:
How tight is your timeline? Rotation of stock happens frequently - I remember having set 3rd party alerts in the past to catch what I wanted.
Well, my older (10/21) M1 Max, 16-inch MBP is available. My plans were to ship it to uki BUT while I had been able to ship stuff to him in 3 previous shipments (including a 2019 MBP), in 2022 the shipping company within Venezuela failed with my fourth and last attempt. I can still get a report from my Apple AirTag that I put inside it, but I suspect that I am only getting a report whenever someone passes by the waste bin that the AirTag is in.
Lessee: 2 TB SSD, 64 GB RAM. Heh: I haven't wiped it YET so it still has OS Sequoia on it (as a just-in-case backup). Anything else you need to know?
I very much appreciate it, but that's actually exactly identical specs with my current Mac.
Speed isn’t the majority of the reason I’m wanting to upgrade. It’s actually storage. I want to upgrade to a system that has at least 4TB, because I have about 1.7TB of files right now.
