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Tiburon
06-12-2010, 10:31 AM
i got a bead on some used solid rubber york training bumpers:

345 pounds of york training bumpers
45x4
35x2
25x3 (?)
10x2

he wants $680, about $2/pound. is that a good deal?
toddmr
06-12-2010, 10:43 AM
$2/pound is about the retail price new:http://bit.ly/aBWkkc

But you'll have significant savings if you don't have to ship.

I've been getting an order together to place directly with York and adding two 10kg bumpers (total weight 44 pounds) to my order would cost me $122 delivered. So about $2.77 per pound delivered, and that's with the 30% discount.

So if I had the cash, I'd buy them and since I don't need that much bumper weight would resell whatever I don't need to recoup some of the money.
Tiburon
06-12-2010, 10:48 AM
Thank you. Don't know why there are 3x25. Dumb.
Dastardly
06-12-2010, 11:37 AM
$2/pound is about the retail price new:http://bit.ly/aBWkkc



Why are their blue plates 35lb?

Blue is supposed to be 20kg (close to 45lb)
toddmr
06-12-2010, 03:57 PM
the link I posted was to refer to one of the few places I've seen pricing for the York bumpers online. All of the York solid-rubber bumpers I've ever seen are black, which is what I have at home.

The standard colors are for kilo-denominated plates and I've never seen a color scheme for pound plates, but it does appear that there's some kind of bastard-standard for pound-denominated plates where:

red = 45#
blue = 35#
yellow = 25#
green = 10#
Greg C
06-13-2010, 08:49 AM
Thank you. Don't know why there are 3x25. Dumb.

Probably lost a sleeve on one due to repeated drops. It happens more frequently with lighter plates.
Tiburon
06-18-2010, 01:04 AM
Got the plates today, talked him down to $1.75/pound. Thanks for the help guys
thersites
06-18-2010, 01:49 PM
Congrats. I really like my York bumpers. They are almost all dead on for weight (only one of four is not dead on to the ounce & it is 4 ounces heavy) compared to some other bumpers I have (CAP). The one down side is that you need to be somewhat gentle with them as the brass collars deform more easily than the steel collars on some other bumpers. That is probably why there were only 3 25s. Enjoy.