Durban already knows how to ship things.

Durban harbour handles more container traffic than any other port in South Africa, ships arriving from six continents, most of it never making the news because it's just Tuesday. There's a decent chance the MacBook you're about to sell already made a longer trip than the one it's about to make now, into this country, through a harbour a few kilometres from wherever you're reading this.

So a two-day courier run to a warehouse near Johannesburg isn't asking much of it. Compare that to the private-sale route: agreeing to meet a stranger somewhere public, usually a mall parking lot because it feels safer than your own driveway, then hoping they don't “discover” a fault five minutes after you hand it over so they can talk the price down.

A courier collection skips all of that. No meeting at Gateway, no negotiating in a parking lot, no chance for anyone to invent a scratch once your Mac is already in a sealed, insured parcel. You get an offer online, and you get paid what you were quoted, because the price was never something to argue about face to face.