What mwasilo is saying demonstrates a lack of knowledge in the economics of what is happening today. It appears more like he has an axe to grind with everyone. Frankly, I find his response insulting and I’m sure is also insulting to a lot of other manufacturers who operate their business with integrity and with their customers’ goals as the primary concern to satisfy.
There may well be manufacturers who are increasing prices simply to take advantage of an opportunity but to make a blanket statement accusing all major manufacturers of this behaviour seems unwarranted and without any justification.
The supply chain for a large variety of electronic components including (but not limited to) semiconductors, capacitors, resistors and a plethora of other parts (many custom made too) is hampered by incredibly long delays with associated price increases, some of them being extremely high. In order to try and stay ahead of the curve we now need to preorder a lot more inventory and pay prices that are sometimes double, sometimes triple or more from what they were before. Sadly that does mean we need to increase our prices, which we are, come January 2022.
Costa Koulisakis
Simaudio Ltée (i.e MOON by Simaudio)
Boucherville, Que, Canada
