A For Parts listing is priced for what can be recovered from it rather than for use, so electronics at this grade are worth roughly 25% of top price — $3 to $303 (about £2 to £225). Does not power on, or is locked to somebody else’s account. Sold for the screen, the board, the cells or the case.
Where the line falls
Electronics age on two clocks at once: the battery loses capacity every year regardless of use, and the ports and buttons wear with every plug-in.
For comparison, one grade up is Fair Electronics.
What electronics are worth here
| Grade | Share of top price | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| Fair | about 45% | $5 to $546 |
| For Parts | about 25% | $3 to $303 |
Guide ranges, not quotes, at £1 ≈ $1.35 (August 2026). All five grades.
What the price reflects at this grade
- E-Reader — Cracked screens, which are not economically repairable
- External Hard Drive — Reallocated sectors or warnings in the drive health
- Fitness Tracker — Discontinued models with withdrawn app support
- Gaming Laptop — Older graphics generations, which fall away sharply
- Graphics Card — Heavy sustained mining use, which buyers ask about directly
- Headphones — Flaking or crumbling ear pads, the most common fault
- Hi-Fi System — Scratchy volume pots and channel imbalance
- iPad — Any activation lock still attached to an old Apple account
- iPhone — A locked handset, or one with any finance or iCloud lock still attached
Listing at the For Parts grade
State plainly whether it is account locked, and give the model and storage from the label. A locked device sold as merely faulty is the commonest dispute here.
Shots that carry the most weight in electronics:
- iPad — Front, screen on, showing the home screen
- iPhone — Front, screen on and showing the home screen, so the display is provably working
- Kindle — The front with the screen on, showing a page of text
- Laptop — Open, powered on, showing the desktop so the screen is provably working
On a typical $153 listing, a marketplace charging 20% takes $31, one charging 13.6% takes $21 and one charging 10% takes $15. WishThrift charges neither side, so you keep the whole $153. Listing is free.
Browse electronics
See every listing at the For Parts grade, or the whole Electronics category at every grade. The grade is the seller’s own; WishThrift does not inspect or verify items.
Other grades in electronics: New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair.
Common questions
Is it locked to an account?
Dead, water damaged or account locked, but physically whole enough that the components inside are worth recovering.
What is the difference between For Parts and Fair electronics?
Anything falling short of For Parts is graded Fair Electronics.