Board grading

[mrsamsonite]

I'm sorry to see you slipped this in here sam, frankly, I got bored with this thread a long time ago.
I find your analogy to be rather lame actually, since your examples are mostly to move a perishable product, or to hide inferior product in the mix(which actually may have some bearing, although not to make your point, but mine) and maybe with your family pack, 1 piece, or 3, of identical product, I suppose if I had one box of boards and you had three, all totally identical, you might get a deal, maybe.

The analogy I used (which you quoted) had more to do with mixing ribeye steaks and rump roast in one package, for one price, which is something you would never have attempted to do to your markets customers and hoped to get away with it.
I happen to know boards as well as you know meats, and they most certainly are "Not all created equal". My few boxes of boards aren't much worth discussing, and I had left it at that, but still what I'm saying, and to repeat what I said, there most certainly IS a difference.

As far as the rest of this thread goes, it began on P4s, which hadn't been heard of when the boards I referred to were made. There may be millions of different electrical circuit boards, thousands of those being motherboards alone, and even though almost everything is made in a cheaper way every day, there is a date around 2001/2002 where the gold content in them took a severe nosedive, and boards made before that(especially when it's Long before that) should be treated as ribeye, and not rump roast, no matter the volume ( I mean like, nobody on this forum is talking numerous tractor trailers or trainloads) long as prices are being listed (to repeat myself once more) "by the pound"

Happy Scrappin : )

We would do that many times, if the t-bone steak was on sale and not the porterhouse we would mark the porterhouse as a t-bone to give it the sale price. The porterhouse is a more valued steak (it has the filet on it) but, usually the t-bone and porterhouse are marked as the same price or almost the same price. I do think though, that we have been using the wrong analogies of retail of goods such as meats and you mentioned earlier the retail of gas. None of us have a retail store of ewaste that we sale to customers. A better analogy for the meat industry would be not at the retail level but the prices that the grocery companies pay the slaughter houses for the meats. When buying from slaughter houses, they make all sorts of deals with mixed lots and the prices vary from deal to deal.