Why the huge increase in the price of Sonus Farber Amanti G5 speakers.

Soon after the "end" of covid, I went to a JL dealer checking on the price of an F113V2.  It was $4000.  But the dealer, AA, saw the price increase on their computer and bumped it up to 5K, regardless of the stock in hand.  One month later it went up to $6K.  I found 1 new and 1 lightly used for 4K and 3.5K respectively.  Ridiculous.

@arafiq - No, Blockbuster would not still be kicking anything but the bucket, as this new thing called streaming came along and totally obsoleted the entire CD/VHS rental business model. 

I have heard two versions of the Blockbuster saga. One was that Netflix's founder was on the board begging to change their business model and he was laughed out of the room. The other is that Blockbuster was already planning for become Netflix but they had too much debt due to aggressive expansion that they couldn't finance it.

I can understand magnets getting more expensive in the states (Tariffs), but Italy has no beef with China.

When the size of your market shrinks you have to reduce the volume of your output which consequently increases the production cost per unit. Supply and demand.

I can understand magnets getting more expensive in the states (Tariffs), but Italy has no beef with China.