I want to open up some serious discussion and would like the large buyers on this forum chime in a lot if they could.
I want to bring up what is brought up on this forum more often then anything and that is removing parts from a board to "Maximize" profit.
Sure you can squeek a few extra cents here and a few their but is this hurting the industry as a whole?
Do buyers of circuit boars and other electronic junk now build into their pricing knowing that parts will or can or will be stripped?
While doing this and squeaking a few extra cents are we only hurting ourselves in the long run and other people that don't do this?
Here's an example of what i came across the other day. I had a guy bring over 22 pounds of finger cars. He said the ends were not cut. At first glance they looked like they weren't. Well if i had dumped them into the box i would have not seen what i saw. As i was hand moving them each one had about 1/2 an inch of gold cut off the back. It was a very clean cut to so it was hard to tell. I brought this to his attention and he said he was working on getting clean cut fingers and didn't think if he cut off a small bit rather than the whole thing that it would matter. Well we ended up settling on a price and he said he wont be trying that again unless he cuts the whole finger.
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