It's all a matter of weight versus $$. Fingers off boards don't weigh much themselves. So let's do some math!

For example purposes, let's say a board is 10lbs. It takes a lot of fingers to add up to a real pound, so let's say the fingers are about .5lb of that 10 lbs. So we can figure:

Whole: 10lbs x $9 = $90

Broken: 9.5lbs x $3 = $28.5
.5 lbs x $65 = $32.5
total = $61

You earn more as whole boards then by taking the fingers off. In this example, the fingers would have to be at least 1/10th the total weight. (Then it would be $92 broken.) I'd imagine you'll make more broken with memory chips, then with other peripheral cards.



Always check prices, weights, and do the math.