How to estimate value of a rig (to sell)?

Anyone know where I can find out how much I could sell my desktop for? I have a laptop now that beats the desktop in every way (- hdd speed), so I don't really need it around anymore, but I don't know how much I should ask for the pc. I hate seeing something sitting around when someone could use it.

If it helps, it's a hp m8400f with a Corsair 650W PSU and a 512mb Sapphire 4870, everything else is how it came from hp.

Anyone know where I can find out how much I could sell my desktop for? I have a laptop now that beats the desktop in every way (- hdd speed), so I don't really need it around anymore, but I don't know how much I should ask for the pc. I hate seeing something sitting around when someone could use it.

If it helps, it's a hp m8400f with a Corsair 650W PSU and a 512mb Sapphire 4870, everything else is how it came from hp.

Zerachielias

In my experience you will have to cut your own throat to get rid of it and even then it might never sell anyway.

Start by doing an inventory of what you have and then compare it to what those parts are currently listed for in similar auctions. Then lower your asking price by about 1/3 of whatever that total is.

Even after that, you probably wont be able to give it away for anything close to what it is actually worth. Ive had an E8400/4GB/gtx285 barebones kit listed for roughly half of what its actually worth for almost 2 months on craigslist and i have yet to even get an email or a phone call even asking to haggle the price down. Nothing.

Just gonna delete the posting and make a backup rig eventually. Fairly confident its never going to sell and if it ever does it'll take so long the price wont even be worth doing it for.

Thanks everyone.

Used computers are hard as **** to sell so I wish you good luck. I just scrap my old pc's for parts on my new ones, then sell the leftovers on ebay. Ram seems to sell pretty good and so do video cards, just don't expect to get anywhere near what you payed for them new.