thortek 
man I sure dont care for the direction this board grading thing is heading. seems to me it is going in the direction of metal grading by some yards, i.e. oops there is screw in that piece of extruded so that load is mixed alu, that copper is shelacked its #2 dirty etc.
how is the field buyer of ewaste supposed to handle this. I am in negotiation for almost 400 computers, how am I supposed to grade those, do I have to tear down every computer on site to grade the board before I can quote my customers a price a price? Is this what it is going to come to ?
If this is the case then it is going to force the little guy like me out of business. On the other hand, in defence of the buyers, I understand that newer chinese products contain less PM value. If boards are going to start to be graded on an individual basis, it has to be simplafied some way, and done by computer, i.e. pre 2000, pre 1995 etc. for example the servers I just broke down are all pre 1991 Sun and IBM, the gold content is obviously much much greater then after 2000 servers. the color is much darker and richer and there is no flash plating in these puppys. sooo does that mean my buyer is going to pay a premium of say 3 times what 2000 and newer boards will bring, some how I doubt that.
I understand when dealing with gaylord size or semi size loads is different for the buyers then simple 100 lb shipments by people like me, Im just saying when we slide farther down the road of grading individual boards we have to be carefull not to make it too complicated.
it is all relitive, to come up with $2000 for me to buy a load of computers is just as hard as the big buyers to come up with $20,000 or $200,000. please just remember , with out us little guys there will be no big guys.
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