Why has the price of a used B-pipe suddenly skyrocketed?

[OCD Solutions]

2 years ago a good used B-pipe was selling for around $450, recently closer to $550. now they are over $600, WTF are people thinking?

One very clean mod setup with a ceramic coated chamber gets listed for more than the going rate and suddenly every used setup is worth that? Nice! I'm sure the offers are rolling in as we speak. I'd pay extra for the ceramic coating but how does that translate into a regular pipe being worth more this week than last?

 

[chriselmore_1]

No chit! $600+ for ugly modified pipes with stuck screws

 

[DirtyJ]

Certain people think that there parts are gold plated or something it's not always just pipes!:reporter:

 

[Dustin Mustangs]

Not to mention alot of the used ones have tons of stuff needed before they could actually be run. Gaskets, couplers, clamps, mounts, fittings, ect. Add all this stuff in and you are paying new price for a cobbled together pipe.

I think you could add ada heads to this phenomena as well. For sale posts with them listed at $275 get people calling 2nd dibs and posting up good price and whatnot. Uh ok, $25 more and you can get one new. Add in the o-rings and it's pretty much the same price.

Buyer dictates the market and it seems some around here just point and shoot.

 

[chriselmore_1]

Yea i saw a riva girdled head for 275 recently. You cant even buy domes for that pos. So the head is limited to its used dome life.

 

[chriselmore_1]

Tha adas are out of control too. 250 to 275 and often need orings, threads are worn out , and have a dinged up dome

 

[LIVE2RIDE Powersports]

Summer time, parts go up. During the winter people can't give stuff away. It's Supply and DEMAND

 

[norcal ex]

some of these prices are ridiculous for B-pipes... however, I paid 600 shipped recently for one and I thought it was a good deal because it was cut for powervalves. In california to buy a B-pipe, you pay for the pipe, then you need to pay 9.25% for taxes then you pay shipping... it comes out to a little over 800 bucks.

 

[JustinB]

I am more curious why the price of a new B-pipe has gone to over $700. How can the price of something that has been in production as long as this pipe be increasing? I would understand if it was something totally new..

A new "modified" (port matched) B-pipe cost almost $900 from Wamiltons. They cost $775 from Blowsion.

 

[dbredleader]

Parts prices

Supply & demand rules this, but there is a sucker born every minute. Used parts are only worth what somebody is willing to pay. If parts are
selling at elevated prices, then they must be "worth " that price. That is why I don't have a Factory pipe. (yet)

 

[OCD Solutions]

modded pipes are a different story, I paid $725 for my B-pipe right from Factory Pipe, I just now paid X-Scream $250 to modify it to work with my new engine package and then paid $175 more to have it ceramic coated.

Grand total I have $1150 into mine..

Some mods are worth paying a little more for but a bone stock b-pipe with a season or two on it isn't worth more than $550 to me. :dunno:

 

[LIVE2RIDE Powersports]

I am more curious why the price of a new B-pipe has gone to over $700. How can the price of something that has been in production as long as this pipe be increasing? I would understand if it was something totally new..

A new "modified" (port matched) B-pipe cost almost $900 from Wamiltons. They cost $775 from Blowsion.

More people are riding, more people are wanting them. They probably make the same amount of them but sell more then they were. Again Supply and Demand. And Inflation, etc

Prices will always go up, on everything.. It may drop for a year or so but is always gradually going up.

 

[Matt_E]

I am more curious why the price of a new B-pipe has gone to over $700. How can the price of something that has been in production as long as this pipe be increasing? I would understand if it was something totally new..

There is more to product cost than material.
I bet FPP's overhead cost (wages, taxes, real estate cost, insurance) has went up over the years.
All that cost has to go somewhere.

 

[OCD Solutions]

Have their prices really gone up any? I paid $725 a little under 2 years ago for mine right from FP and have heard recently that they are roughly the same price now.

 

[JustinB]

Have their prices really gone up any? I paid $725 a little under 2 years ago for mine right from FP and have heard recently that they are roughly the same price now.

I bought one in 2005 new for like $620 from FP.

 

[chriselmore_1]

705$ for a limited and 675$ for mod per factory pipe's website

 

[chriselmore_1]

some of these prices are ridiculous for B-pipes... however, I paid 600 shipped recently for one and I thought it was a good deal because it was cut for powervalves. In california to buy a B-pipe, you pay for the pipe, then you need to pay 9.25% for taxes then you pay shipping... it comes out to a little over 800 bucks.

ill keep that other bpipe warm for you...

 

[steve-uk]

just buy new.....

http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/62224

same with alot of the used parts in the for sale thread, you can buy brand new for a few $$ more and not have the risk, even oem parts alot are cheaper brand new from greater yamaha that what people want for them used....

 

[SUPERJET-113]

I bought one in 2005 new for like $620 from FP.

Ok, so you bought one new in 2005 for $620 from FPP.
I paid $525 for a new one in 1995 from FPP.

Thats not to bad of a hike in 10 years...basically $100.
But from 2005 to 2010 with a price difference of another 100 dollars in 5 years, that sucks!

Well sometimes you can pick them up for around $400, but like said most will need some screws unstuck or have a stripped hole or something.

If you think about it, its something that will pretty much last you your lifetime of skiing and then some if its taken care of and fixed right away when something breaks.

Even though mine is 15 years old, the only things I've had to fix so far was putting a timecert in a stripped hole on the top of the manifold last year.
I have opened the manifold/headpipe throat out to 49mm and these old 701 chambers have the small stinger already on them...

 

[Matt_E]

The first B-Pipe I picked up in 2005 was about $300, from Slymo. :biggrin: That was a Blaster Mod chamber.
Next one was just a half a year later for $480. (WAB?) It's the one I still run. (Well, I bought a new headpipe a couple years ago because I donated mine to the Waddle build)