Colored motherboards

**happyscraper** · 05-25-2012, 03:01 PM

Hey Easy, if someone sends you a box of all colored motherboards, do you lower the price and if so what is your price? Thanks:

**easyrecycle** · 05-26-2012, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by happyscraper

Hey Easy, if someone sends you a box of all colored motherboards, do you lower the price and if so what is your price? Thanks:

If someone did send me a box of only colored boards or "crappy" boards I will stay with the price I have listed and most likely send them an e-mail letting them know what they need to do before the next shipment but if they send me a pallet full I will give them a call and it will be taken on a case by case.

I try to be a honest buyer and this whole color board grading thing I feel is wrong in a few ways...you asking the seller (you) to put so much more work into the end product on top of more labor on our part to make sure it is what it should be! Since we send things off to the refiner if people start to only send the lower grade board our prices will have to drop to stay in the profit...but if people keep sending them as they are now..our prices will not change. That is also why when gold prices change as much as they have...our prices pretty much stay the same as we have that and many other things factored into our pricing.

One thing I have had people say from here and from other clients...they like stable prices that they can count on so we try to keep them as stable as we can and don't change them very often!

**rbrooks715** · 05-26-2012, 09:40 PM

if you think all motherboards are the same, and that the buyers are screwing you on the grading/price, you should simply send your boards into your favorite processor.

then you can come back and claim that the processor screwed you on the recovery values.

or, for those who are unable to meet the minimums weight requirements, you could simply tear a few mother boards down. and compare the percentage of pin plating between the boards. on the newer boards you will notice that the memory slots and pci slots are no longer full coverage. those pins will only be plated at the contact point. for those who have excellent color vision, you will note that the plating on those pins is not as dark. this is from a thinner plating, flash plating, which results in a difference in the depth of the reflection. that results in less pm per sq inch of board.

there are some very competitive buyers in this business. they are far too competitive to start price fixing at this point. and if they were going to fix prices, they would start with higher grade components than motherboards.

you can expect to see a multi grading system for cards in the future. there is a rather noticeable difference between recovered rates of half height modems, ( especially the newer asian produced,) and the old graphic cards. we are not seeing as many of the newer low grade cards in comparison to the percentage of low grade motherboards.

easy is correct, which is a miracle in its self, a buyers pricing system is based on the recovered value of the material and their own margins. when the value drops, the buyers either reduce their price or their profits. that is a rather simple and easy decision.

i will let you guys go back to beating this dead horse.

have a great memorial week end.

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