WGET Batch

It runs until the thread is 404, pausing for two minutes between gets.

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
ECHO downloading to: %~1

ECHO start >%temp%\dl.cmd.tmp
SET it=1

:START
WGET -N -nd -P "%~1" -U Mozilla/5.0 -r -l 1 -A.jpg,.png,.gif -X/b/thumb/,/b/src.cgi/,/d/thumb -I/b/res/,/b/src/,/d/src,/d/res/ -e robots=off "%2" 2>> %temp%\dl.cmd.tmp

::TYPE %tmp%\dl.cmd.tmp
FIND "ERROR 404: Not Found." %temp%\dl.cmd.tmp
ECHO ERRORLEVEL IS %ERRORLEVEL%
IF "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" GOTO END

ECHO Itteration: (%it%) site still exists.  Pausing script.

:: PAUSE here for a few minutes to be polite

:start_timeout
ECHO 2.0 minutes to go
@ping -w 30000 -n 1 -l 8 1.1.1.1 >Nul
echo 1.5 minutes to go
@ping -w 30000 -n 1 -l 8 1.1.1.1 >Nul
echo 1.0 minutes to go
@ping -w 30000 -n 1 -l 8 1.1.1.1 >Nul
echo 0.5 minutes to go
@ping -w 30000 -n 1 -l 8 1.1.1.1 >Nul
:end_timeout

SET /A it=%it% + 1
ECHO Restarting script...
GOTO START
:END
ECHO DONE!
PAUSE
DIR "%~1"

Question to WINDOWS EXPERTS:
I want to echo '|' character. How do i do it? >echo "|" prints "|", with quotes, and i don't want quotes.