Value of these boards

Originally Posted by JPete

I am a printed circuit board designer. What you have are solder samples and boards that are still in the bulk panel for assembly.
In my opinion and in agreement with JGHILINO, they should be worth more than gold memory sticks. I started a thread without knowing this thread was here, about the value of gold fingers vs fully plated gold. If you could take a clearer picture close up of the pads, you should be able to see if it is just copper or gold plated.
I also agree about being able to market them as a higher yield given they have more weight ratio of PM compared to a fully populated board.

As a board designer you will know what the boards are worth. But the value of the ram is in the chips. Why do you think buyers pay close to the same for tinned ram? Also allot of the profit for the board buyers are in buying loose chips. ram chips run in the 1.75-2g per kilo of chips some even higher than that. JGHILINO has a way of being cavalier about board grades and prices and this is not always inline with reality of the PM content of the boards.

Eric

Eric, I am hoping this is just an open exchange and not personal on myself or any others.