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This is a loaded, hotly debated, issue. A rare case where I don’t agree with the situation but understand the why.
There’s two answers.
The first one that in reality there are more coloured motherboards of lower value than green. These boards have thinner layers, wood fibre instead of plastic. Tin instead of nickel. Brass instead of copper. Etc.
Because of this when you look at top pyramid level recycling and feeds to refining and recovery: where daily transactions are hundreds or thousands of tonnes, it makes sense to not go through the trouble of pulling one in 100.
So the company Chris sends his pallets, Gaylords, truck loads to wants them split and pay accordingly . And that’s the way it is.
When colours first split here I called Chris and talked to him about it. Something along the lines of ‘why did you just throw the entire high end gaming industry in the trash?’
The reality is there are so few of the high end coloured boards vs the majority less valuable ones... and that’s what he was instructed to do by the ultimate destination.
The other and more brutal answer is the top of the top, the actual refineries and recovery organisations are going to refine that board one way or another. Since they do so in bulk regardless of grade they have no interest in doing the inspection work on 2 million tonnes of coloured boards a seller claims is higher than junk quality.
On the plus side those extreme high end red and gold/black boards from the likes of ASRock etc are likely to be low telco at first glance anyway. When the entire board is flashed with gold and everything metal is copper or better... it wouldn’t have been small socket in the first place.
So there’s not much to worry about on the high side. The board that cost $900 4 years ago that got fried by a lightning strike was already telco in the first place. Removing that level of boards from the mix really does make the vast majority of coloured mobos less valuable.
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