Used Xbox One consoles in Melbourne typically sell for A$135 to A$285 (about $94 to $200). Xbox One consoles sell on the model and the storage, and the fastest way to lose a sale is handing over a console still signed into your account.
Selling a Xbox One in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
On anything stored in a garage or shed, check for damp. The winters here are wetter and colder than the city’s reputation suggests, and fabric and particle board both suffer for it.
Handing it over in Melbourne
Australia Post covers everywhere, but distance pricing is real and interstate parcels cost meaningfully more than local ones.
What Xbox One consoles are worth
What lifts the price
- All cables plus the external power brick on original models
- Larger internal storage
What pulls it down
- Disc drive failures, a known weak point
- Controller drift or worn bumpers
Working out what yours is worth
- Identify which model you have from the rear label
- Confirm you have the correct power supply for that model
Getting it ready
- Factory reset the console and remove it from your Microsoft account, then confirm it boots to setup.
- Gather the controller, power cable and HDMI lead, and check the controller sticks for drift.
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- The model and storage label on the underside
- The controller sticks and triggers, plus any scuff, crack or vent damage
Put in the description
- Whether it has a disc drive, and whether the drive has been tested
- That it has been factory reset and removed from your account
Model and storage: “Xbox One S 1TB with Controller and 4 Games”. The variant matters enormously — original, S, S All-Digital and X are different consoles at different prices — so name it exactly. Say how many controllers and whether games are bundled.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Victoria)
Common questions
Where can I sell a Xbox One in Melbourne?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Is there controller drift?
Test both sticks in a menu and answer honestly. Drift is common, cheap to fix and forgiven when disclosed — and resented when it is not.
How much is a Xbox One worth in Melbourne?
Most used Xbox One consoles change hands for A$135 to A$285 (about $94 to $200). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling a Xbox One across Australia, what Xbox One consoles are worth, everything second hand in Melbourne, or Gaming in Melbourne.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.