I ordered two of these two summers ago for a little passivation skid we use in the company. I paid $129 for each unit. So I can attest to past prices.
I can also attest that right now, all of the material we buy and use on construction projects are at near-high record levels. The economy hasn't knocked any prices down. If anything, it's all gone up. A length of copper pipe is basically the same cost now that it cost last winter. Steel is the same. Insulation is up. Welding gases are up. Some valves are down, but not the specialty stuff. Specialties are way up. What's happening is the suppliers are propping up prices by cutting manufacturing and production. So they completely stopped making certain valves or pieces of equipment, and laid those folks off, just to prop up the price of the stuff that's in their warehouse or at a distribution facility. They're trying to prop up demand.
Plus insurance has gone up and the actual "price of money" (financing) has gone up, and that get's passed on down the line.
I can also attest that right now, all of the material we buy and use on construction projects are at near-high record levels. The economy hasn't knocked any prices down. If anything, it's all gone up. A length of copper pipe is basically the same cost now that it cost last winter. Steel is the same. Insulation is up. Welding gases are up. Some valves are down, but not the specialty stuff. Specialties are way up. What's happening is the suppliers are propping up prices by cutting manufacturing and production. So they completely stopped making certain valves or pieces of equipment, and laid those folks off, just to prop up the price of the stuff that's in their warehouse or at a distribution facility. They're trying to prop up demand.
Plus insurance has gone up and the actual "price of money" (financing) has gone up, and that get's passed on down the line.
