Disc drives
Sell a console with a dead disc drive.
It will not take discs, will not read them, or sounds like a coffee grinder. That is a price, and a smaller one than most people expect.
A disc drive is the single most common thing to fail on a modern console, and it is also the failure people most overestimate. A disc edition with a dead drive is worth roughly what a digital edition is worth, not what a broken console is worth, because everything else in the machine still works perfectly.
That is a much smaller gap than the panic suggests. The drive is a few hundred rand of difference, not a few thousand, and plenty of buyers genuinely do not care because they buy everything from the store anyway.
The one thing worth being precise about: tell us it is the drive rather than letting it come through as a working disc edition. A one-minute declaration keeps the offer you were quoted.
The consoles we buy like this.
Not sure which model yours is? Pick the closest one and we will check it when it arrives.
Will not accept a disc
Pushes it back out or refuses it
Takes discs, will not read
Spins and gives up
Will not eject
Often with a disc still inside
Extremely loud when reading
Still works, still a deduction
Drive removed entirely
Tell us, it prices as digital
Drive replaced from another console
Often unpaired, say so
Upgrading?
Then you are not really selling. You are part-paying.
If the drive never mattered to you, moving to a digital console costs less than replacing like for like. Trade-in credit adds 12% toward either.
Take the payout as EpicDeals.co.za credit instead of cash and we add 12% on top. That is us paying you for not needing the money in your account today, and it costs you nothing if you were going to spend it here anyway.
The 12% is only worth taking if you were going to spend it. If you need the cash, take the cash, and we will not make the voucher hard to refuse.
What affects your offer.
It prices as a digital console, not as a broken one
This is the headline and it is the good news. Everything else works, so the deduction is the drive rather than the machine. People routinely expect a fraction of the real offer here.
Say whether there is a disc stuck inside
It happens constantly and it is worth mentioning, partly so we do not open the box to a surprise and partly because if it is a game you wanted back, we would rather return it than keep it by accident.
A swapped PS5 drive is usually unpaired
PS5 drives are paired to the console's board, so a drive taken from another PS5 generally will not work even though it physically fits. If somebody has already tried this repair, tell us, because it changes what we find.
Everything else is still priced normally
Model, storage, condition, controllers and box all count exactly as they would on a working console. A PS5 Slim with a dead drive still beats an original PS5 in perfect order.
We still buy it with these.
Choose the closest condition in the calculator and mention anything that is wrong. Your offer already takes it into account.
- Will not accept a disc at all
- Accepts discs but never reads them
- Reads some discs and not others
- Will not eject, with or without a disc inside
- Grinding, whirring or clicking on load
- Drive removed or swapped from another console
- Ejects on its own at random
Three ways to take the money.
Cash
Instant offer
Assessed within 1-3 working days of arriving, paid within 5 working days of your offer being confirmed.
+12%
Trade-in voucher
Take it as credit on EpicDeals.co.za instead and we add 12%. Useful if the plan was always to upgrade.
+10%
Consignment
We list it, we sell it, you get 10% more than the instant offer. Most sell within 13 days.
Trading since 2013 as Epic Deals, with 2,800+ reviews and 30 people who answer the phone. Not a stranger with a bakkie and a WhatsApp number.