Originally Posted by
ComputerScrapper
As a buyer myself it is rather difficult for a complete education course on this topic because it depends on who the buyer sells the material too. Some buyers do not want phone cord or ethernet cord ends but my buyer does take them.
Its hard to explain...an not to easy to show...but rule of thumb...if it looks gold..it will pass as gold cord end...phone cord ends are no good but cat5 are good.
Some buyers will not buy the IDE ends. We will not buy them because we do not have the time to check them, so if we can see "yellow" its good. USB cable ends are good as 99% are all gold plated.
Take note to trim them GOOD tho...if you leave to much wire on it..the price of the ends will drop big time as the ends will need to be cleaned up at some point or time due to the fact that there will be more "trash" in the refining costs. Trim them as close to the end as you can.
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