People buy thing and people sell things. Regardless of whatr people buy, they sell it - for more reasons than one can count.

The reason there are more raptors on ebay than other models is because there ARE MORE RAPTORS. The quad has been selling as fast as Yamaha can build them for two years. The market is flodded with Raptors! OF course there are going to be lots of them for sale. If the quad was perfect (which it obviously is not) it would still out number any othe bike on ebay.

personally I ride ~5,000 trail miles each year and I am as lazy as they come. I seel my bike each year and buy a new one - I never do more than install a few goodies, change the oil and clean the air filter. Oh yes - and thrash the **** out of them.

 

I think there are more Raptors out there for sale because more people buy them. DUH! My local dealer sells Raptors 5:1 over the Bombadier. Maybe there are so many for sale because of people like me that sell their 2002 to get a 2003. JMO.

 

Reason why raptor's sell better then ds's, the company's that make them!
Yamaha sells quads for 16 years, bombardier 4!
Same reason why people dont buy first year quads!

 

raptor's: 25
ds650: 2
400ex: 19
z400: 0
300ex: 1
banshee: 24
cannondale: 1
250R: 21
lt250: 1
lt500: 2
I would think if you look at these numbers besides the 250R, lt250 and lt500 they are probably close to the same percentage at which they sell new over they last few years.