Why is the price of new tonearms so high

Dear Raul, sure - I have 2001 NOS samples of FR-66s on stock and am just waiting for the day their used-market price meets the US$10.000.- mark.
In the meantime I restrict myself to sell off only 4-5 units each month through Audiogon.
How did you know - god man! - you are so clever I can hardly believe it!
Cheers,
D.

Dear Dertonarm: Well there is no doubt that you " fight " and promote in ( just from your very first ever Agon post, ) almost any single Agon thread that FR tonearms trying ( at least ) that its price does not go down against your commercial bussiness and like you say almost everyone knows that: " even me ", of course that through your posts you are trying that the price goes up.

I'm not against your commercial bussiness due that the Agon " moderators " are the only ones that decide about but don't try ( like always ) to distract the attention to a different " road " that your main target: to sale those FR tonearms, making use of the people non know-how.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Btw, I forgot to tell you that in our ( till today ) two audio design teams we believe that one " route " to follow to improve " things " or to achieve the targets can do it through join/put togeter different target related talents.

Guess what?, it is working with a marvelous/great audio products and this is something that give us a real satisfaction because we are reaching almost all our audio targets, nothing more nothing less.

I understand that you can't live with our modest "sucess " but our targets are different from yours.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Raul, the one depressing thing is, that it is no fun to pull someones leg and then you see you still have to explain the sense to him.
Cheers,
D.

P.S.: by the way Raul.... how about Syntax's question some posts back whether you can give some input on modern tonearms to (which was the inital question on this thread - glad to find a way back to it!)?
None at hand ?
You should - since you are working on a tonearm, you should aware of the current state of art (even if you ignore VTA.....).

I sincerely think, that todays prices for the top-flight tonearms aren't so bad. I was browsing through the price lists of the early 1980ies and we had several tonearms back then who demanded a very serious price tag too.
In adjusted buying power we were looking at several (4-6) tonearms in the price range of todays US$8k to 12k.
Serious - it isn't much worse today.
So it hasn't really changed - we had the same game 25 years back.
Cheers,
D.