Low grade Chinese Motherboards

I just wanted to let people know about these if they have not already heard, heck it may have already been a post on here. But the boards coming out of China and Taiwan are made with far less gold. I know some of your buyers may not care about the difference now, but the day will come and I don't want anyone sitting on any when you paid 3.00/lb and can only get 2.00/lb. These boards are colored Red, Blue, Yellow and Purple instead of the regular green. I have known about this for sometime, but just received 4 emails today regarding this. All I can say is be careful and don't get stuck with them.



Zack
E-scrapPlus, Inc.

Mario,

Have you noticed emails regarding this..it is like the motherboard police sent out an Americas most wanted on them or something. haha.

Originally Posted by wdaddy

Are you kidding me! I still haven't recovered from our move and I have around 150 machines to process, when I get time and room in my new garage.... now this? Yep, boardsort has updated it's pricing to reflect this also. Crap. P4 machines are not worth as much as they used to be.... keep that in mind if you are buying machines.

Cord ends dropped in price also... that'll teach me to take some time off. Thank god I don't pay for this stuff.

Wow... I just lost a lot of money.

I just got word of this last week and was waiting to get some more hard evidence before posting about it. maybe a buyer will come around and verify with some more explanation.

Here is what I know. I have seen buyers that were paying good money dropping their prices to 3.00/lb all the way to 1.50. I think it will be a very different market place here in the very near future. All I can say is be aware and don't buy anything for to much.

Originally Posted by Relectrocycle

YEP,

I discussed this very fact with one of the 3 largest processors in the US.

Apparently, the assays on the colored boards are coming in at about 1/3 of the amount of gold as the standard green MOBOs.

I am buying at $1.50 right now, and not sure how long that will be the case...

That price drop is just for the non green correct? fortunately, the big batch I recently got has zero of those in them.

just unloaded mine today at normal price and will have to start a new sorting process this week

I moved this to the electronics section in the hopes of getting even more responses from the buyers here.

I find it odd that when looking at boardsort that they split things up by CPU socket size and not by color of the board. It seems that we have a lot of un answered questions here that probably will not get completely sorted out for a bit. I also find it interesting that boardsort dropped the price of their connectors by 20%, I am guessing that something happened with those as well as far as assays go.

Might I also suggest that any buyers either get new prices posted or state that prices are on hold for certain components for a bit. Just trying to help out.

Even with this price drop $5 a machine still seems in the realm of makin good money. Instead of a 12 to 16 dollar average your looking more in the lines of 10 to 14 with this diference in a new machine. Just what im thinking is all.

Even at $8 per your still getting 60 percent on your money. Ill take that all day long to keep my current customers. Might rethink future ones though down to $4 a machine.

My yard that takes e-scrap has now changed price as well, 3.00 for green mobo's and 1.50 LB for colored mobo's. Reason being the refiners say there are less
pm's in the "colored boards." I know a lot of gaming computers have blue or dark purple mobos, and I wouldn't guess they would have less pm's but they
must.....

The only thing that gets me with this is. If they were paying so much a pound for mixed boards and they now know that newer boards have less gold. WOuldnt it make sence for the newer board prices to go down but the older ones to go up?I look at it like this. If you have electric motor they pay you so much per pound ofr this. Say $.20. when you break it apart you get $.10 for the steel caseing and $2.50 for the copper. One went up other went down. To me for one price to go down and other staying the same seems to me someone is trying to rip the little guy off.