Sell Your Used Gaming PC — 0% Fees

A used gaming PC typically sells for £250 to £900, and on WishThrift it costs you nothing to list — no fee, no commission, so you keep the whole amount you agree. A gaming PC sells on its graphics card and the honesty of its component list, so specify every part — buyers price the machine by adding up what is inside it.

The short version

Typical range: £250 – £900 — see the full gaming PC value guide
What decides your price: condition, and how well you evidence it in photographs
Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price
Category: Gaming

Before you photograph it

Ten minutes here is worth more than anything else you will do. Buyers are deciding between your listing and someone else’s, and preparation is what visibly separates the two.

List every component: GPU, CPU, motherboard, RAM amount and speed, storage, power supply wattage and case.
Run a benchmark and screenshot the result with temperatures, which is the single most persuasive thing in the listing.
Clean the dust filters and interior, and check every fan spins.

The photographs that sell a gaming PC

Four photographs do almost all the work. Shoot in daylight, near a window, with the item against something plain — and do not use the flash, which flattens texture and hides exactly what buyers are trying to see.

The full tower, front and side, ideally with the side panel showing the interior
The interior with the GPU visible
A benchmark result on screen, showing score and temperatures
The rear I/O and the power supply label showing wattage

Photograph the flaws too. It feels counterproductive, but a listing that shows the worst of an item gets fewer questions, fewer withdrawn offers and fewer arguments at handover. Buyers who can see the damage stop imagining something worse.

Writing the title and description

GPU and CPU lead the title: “Gaming PC — RTX 3070, Ryzen 5 5600X, 16GB, 1TB NVMe”. Buyers search component names. Say whether a Windows licence is included and activated, which is a genuine value add most sellers forget to mention.

Then state these in the description, because a buyer who has to ask is a buyer who might not bother:

Full component list: GPU, CPU, motherboard, RAM, storage, PSU wattage, case
Benchmark score and load temperatures from your own test
Whether Windows is installed and activated
Whether any part is second hand, was used for mining, or is out of warranty

What buyers will actually ask

You will receive the same three messages about a gaming PC. Answering them in the listing itself removes the back-and-forth, and answering them well when they do arrive is what turns an enquiry into a sale.

“What are the full specs?”

List every component by exact model. Buyers price a PC by summing the parts, so vagueness costs you money directly.

“Has the GPU been used for mining?”

Answer directly. It is asked on every PC sale with a discrete card, and a clear answer is worth more than the card looking clean.

“What frame rates does it get?”

Give a benchmark result or a real figure from a named game at a named resolution. Concrete numbers sell machines.

Pricing it so it actually sells

Start from the honest condition grade rather than the price you hope for. WishThrift listings use five grades — New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair and For Parts — and what each grade means is worth reading before you choose, because grading up is the most expensive mistake sellers make. It does not raise the price; it produces a buyer who arrives expecting something else.

The gaming PC value guide prices all five grades for this item. Pick your grade, take the figure, and if you sit between two grades price toward the lower one. Items priced honestly sell faster than items priced hopefully, and on a free platform there is no fee eating the difference anyway.

What you keep, compared

On a £575 sale — roughly the middle of the range for a gaming PC — here is what the commission-charging platforms would take, and what you would keep on each:

Where you sell it	Fee	You keep
WishThrift	£0	£575
Poshmark	−£115	£460
eBay	−£78	£497
Mercari	−£58	£517
Etsy	−£37	£538

Seller-side rates verified 26 Jul 2026 — Poshmark: 20% commission on sales of $15 and above; eBay: 13.6% final value fee, plus a per-order fee; Mercari: flat 10% selling fee; Etsy: 6.5% transaction fee, plus a listing fee and payment processing. Percentages are applied to the sterling figure above; the fixed per-order and processing charges those platforms add are quoted in their own currency and are not included here, so the real deductions are slightly larger. Full breakdown: marketplace selling fees compared.

Timing and getting it to the buyer

Steady with lifts before Christmas and in early autumn. Machines with current-generation graphics sell within days; older builds need realistic pricing.

Heavy and vulnerable in transit — graphics cards sag and coolers break loose. Local collection with a live demonstration is strongly preferable, and buyers spending this much usually want it.

WishThrift does not process payments or arrange delivery — you and the buyer agree both directly — so confirm payment has cleared before the item leaves your hands, and keep the conversation on the site so there is a record of what was agreed.

Ready to list it? It takes about two minutes, costs nothing, and there is no commission when it sells — create a free account or see how selling works.

Frequently asked questions

What is a used gaming PC worth?

Typically £250 to £900, driven mainly by the graphics card and CPU generation. See the gaming PC value guide for the condition breakdown.

Is it better to sell a PC whole or in parts?

Parting out usually totals more, especially for the GPU, but it means many separate sales, more messages and leftover components nobody wants. Selling whole is faster and attracts buyers who want a working machine today.

Should I include Windows?

If it is a genuine activated licence, yes, and say so — it saves the buyer a real cost. Do not claim activation you cannot verify.