Not sure where else to put this, but I've posted my old gaming laptop on eBay and much to my surprise it's already been bid about $100 dollars more than I was asking locally on craigslist.
I've never been sure where to start auctions or if I should use reserve prices or not. Until I happened across a Facebook blog post from a guy arguing you should never use reserve pricing, and you should start bidding near what you want the final price to be.
Must say I completely agree with him at this point. I was super worried I wouldn't get very much for this laptop, but I'm already about the point where it's covering the cost of the new desktop I built.
Literally had one message from craigslist over the course of about a month, and now thanks to dudes advice my wildest price expectations have been exceeded.