Motherboard Discussion Looking for buyer's responses and other perspectives as well.

or sell them to a buyer who buys motherboards as motherboards.

We have been refining them and the colored boards where there before and will all ways be there. I really dont see why everyone wants to change there pricing...we will buy them all as straight motherboards.

Originally Posted by rbrooks715

what are you paying for the chinese motherboards? i could get you several tons if the price is right.

I buy those at Motherboard #2 price...I think it is $3.00 per pound right now.

Originally Posted by rbrooks715

what are you paying for the chinese motherboards? i could get you several tons if the price is right.

Same as any other motherboard but if you send us a whole lot of cheap grade that wont work...lol they need to be mixed.

Originally Posted by rbrooks715

that's a decent price compared to the competitors in your area.

We try to stay competitive as much as possible. Our #2 price is at $3.00 per pound right now. If you would like to sell them then I would be more than willing to buy them.

Originally Posted by rbrooks715

so a motherboard is not a motherboard. if you require a certain mix of selective boards to meet a price, then you are using more than 1 price for motherboards. which is what the op was asking.

The thing I do not want is someone only selling the cheap ones sold to us as we will lower the price a little bit, but we will still buy them as motherboards when the lot is a mixed lot.

This is how we see it.....we have been refining boards for some time now....these chines boards where there before along with the colored boards....so why have a new pay scale? I don't know about you but I don't need or want 50 boxes of the same thing, IF (and this is a big IF) the lot is being sold as a mixed lot. In my neck of the woods, many customers I buy from do not want to spend the money on payroll so the lot is one product all the same. So we refine them the same...and pay the same. I just do not want someone sending me a truck load of chines boards if they expect a higher price I might have been paying prior as a mixed lot that contained a "good" mix of all types of boards. For the discerning customer who has separated out the various "different qualities or grades", then yes, this "would be" taken into consideration likewise. However, we do have very satisfied customers, both sellers, buyers and the refineries we work with.

I have reopened this thread at Computerscrapper's request. Please keep it civil.

Alright, lets get this party started....The topic be motherboards and the new classifications that many are finding when reaching out to buyers......Now then, while it is true that every buyer is different, there is one universal truth...Every buyer is at the mercy of their buyer and when things change at that level then it will invariably trickle down the line to everyone.
When it comes to motherboards I thought that something like this was coming....Anyone who looks closely at motherboards can see the major differences between the various types. Grab an old 486 series board and then a Pentium 4 board and it is pretty easy to know the difference. So it becomes apparent that eventually, when the gold fever died down, that things were going to change.

Now I can't say for sure what is going to happen within the industry but I am guessing that eventually all buyers are going to have to do some kind of new sort to stay within the confines of the rules for their buyers.

Alright, lets chew this over....I am itching for a great discussion on motherboards here.

amen to that statement.

Now part of the reason why this all came about (if anyone asks me) is because you have so many buyers out there paying diffident on motherboards and how they grade them. So you had people removing gold fingers and chips or putting this board in with this board and all of this caused the refining of the PM levels change very wildly from batch to batch.

I have had some boards that have been picked almost clean of chips, fingers and so on...this hurts the bottom line big time and I feel this is why there is this new grading going on but I can tell you that at the end of the day all the boards are most likely being mixed and refined in the same box due to refining costs.

They want to pay less for the lower grade boards and pay a little more for the better grade boards. The amount of time this takes in labor is HUGE for anyone who moves some weight in boards.

And when we get back to the original part of this discussion provided by Parrothead we find that some buyers are using completely different systems...The color coding system is rather confusing for many because there are old boards that come in a different color other than green....To me it is kind of a gold color (some refer to it as yellow) and that has thrown off the entire system for a lot of people.

Of course Boardsort has gone a completely different route by specificying CPU socket size....Large socket is considered high grade while small socket is a lower grade...Ok, but there are variations on both sides here....Some of the Xeon processors come with a larger socket, they resemeble a large P4 processor. On the other side of the coin comes the 486 processor...This came in more than one size and one of the sizes is small, so how many people are devaluing their 486 boards with the small socket because of this system?

Still, this does not mean that either of these systems are bad or wrong...They just happen to be what works for those buyers....I am sure that not everyone agrees with the system I use, which has 3 grades of motherboards but at this time it is the best that we have been able to come up with. Our system is based on the actual CPU and goes by age. Of course this means that the person needs to know what CPU came on the board, which can also be a problem.

Solving this issue 100% is probably not in the cards but I would love to hear some other ideas on this as well. We have some great minds on this board so maybe we can really work something out.

That is why we don't follow the system at this time but if its abused we will have to change that. But all large, small or green and color boards to us is the same price. With the information we have in front of us we don't see an issue with "mix" boards. But if someone sends us only color pricing or would like to send us only one type of board they need to send us a e-mail first to find out the pricing that it will be for that.

In doing a bit of research last night I noted that some buyers, even some of the major players in the game, have decided to make a completely different category for the so-called "chinese boards" moving them out of the motherboard category all the way around. I have a feeling that we are in for a wild ride over the next several months when it comes to e-scrap in general.

It appears that most of the changes are coming from the end users, the final link in the chain. So like I mentioned previously, those changes are slowly starting to trickle down the line to those in the trenches. When I was first made aware of the entire change to the sort I was told that the board value on "chinese, rainbow, small boards" would be less than half that of the older boards. Obviously that was not the case. Still there is something that I would love to see....A report from a refiner, processor on the actual recovery from a ton of "chinese, rainbow, small" boards. This would give everyone a better idea of what is going on right now.