For private sellers
Everyone's listing says the same thing. Yours can show it.
“Barely used. Runs perfectly.” So does every other listing on the page, including the ones that are not true. A three-minute test produces a link a buyer can open before they message you.
What the report tells you
Three figures, each with its reading.
What it holds
%
The share of its opening throughput the machine still has after minutes of load, which is the honest version of “runs perfectly”.
The curve
shape
A picture of how it behaves once warm. Buyers who know what they are looking at will read it; buyers who do not can see that you were willing to publish it.
What the browser saw
facts
Cores, memory, graphics and the browser's own view of the machine, read live rather than typed by you into a listing box.
The diagnosis
The shape of the curve, read for your case.
01A flat line
The machine holds what it starts with. Say so, link the report, and hold your price.
02A gentle step near the start
Normal on most laptops: a boost window closing. Worth explaining in the listing so a knowledgeable buyer does not read it as a fault.
03A long slide
Be straight about it and price accordingly, or spend an evening on the fan and the paste and re-run. Either is better than a buyer discovering it in week two.
Every class comes with a stated confidence and the measurement’s own noise floor. How the shape is read
Where a browser stops
What it cannot tell you.
- It cannot prove the report came from the machine in the photographs. An honest seller and a dishonest one produce the same file; what it removes is the excuse for not testing at all.
- No battery cycles, no drive hours, no screen or hinge condition. Those are still photographs and an honest description.
- No temperature in degrees. The report shows the effect of heat, not the number a sensor would give.
Which run
Standard, 3 minutes.
About 3½ minutes, and enough to show whether a machine holds up. Use the deep run if the buyer is technical or the machine is expensive enough that the extra four minutes are worth it.
Both kinds are free. The choice is on the set-up screen.
Questions
Asked in these words.
- Will a buyer trust a test I ran myself?
- More than they trust an adjective you wrote yourself. It is a report generated by a third party, in plain words, that they can open without installing anything. It does not make you unimpeachable; it moves the conversation from what you say to what the machine did.
- What if the result is bad?
- Then you have found out before your buyer did. A disclosed flaw costs you some of the price; an undisclosed one costs you the sale, the return, and the rating.
- Is it free?
- Running the test is free, both lengths. A report unlock is optional and is about getting the cause and the fix plan; the curve and the headline figures you would want for a listing do not need it.