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

@gano 

yes  very true. He knows what he is talking about, while other are mostly guessing. 

Actually, there are quite a few on these forums who know what he's talking about. Sales and Operations Planning is not a novel concept. However, corporate history tells us that, despite all the savvy people analyzing the markets, gathering important data, going through an elaborate decision making process, etc., many companies still managed to go out of business due to the boneheaded or shortsighted decisions made by their leadership in these very meetings. Otherwise, Blockbuster, Radio Shack, Kodak, ToysRUs, Enron, etc. would still be kicking ass, no? 

apologize but what do you mean @arafiq they know what @ghdprentice is talking about?

@gano I was responding to you about assuming that only he knows what he’s talking about while others are just guessing. What he described is a typical process in business called sales and operations planning or integrated business planning. It’s standard fare in the business world. Lots of people on this forum are quite familiar with how that works :)

His rebuttal to @1971gto455ho was that he was being cynical because a lot of very smart and savvy people sit in important meetings making important decisions like this, so how can they be wrong. I’m just saying that it is not necessarily a slam dunk as evident by so many once-successful corporations that failed despite all the brilliant leadership. Now, I’m not suggesting that SF will necessarily fail due to this, but it is not being ’cynical’ to question their strategy or motives.

@arafiq Understood. What I meant was that @ghdprentice has extensive knowledge about the production process. I regularly read his comments about China, tariffs, prices, "how it's made", etc. I have not read anyone else commenting about the subject with such insight. That does not mean that he is the only one with said expertise on this forum, just my limited following what people say.

On the subject - nothing. I know nothing. People could sell me sand in the desert for water and I would brag about what a great deal I made. 

"Wait until you see the prices when magnets can’t be sourced."

Just found out that my fav headphone manufacturer put a hold on building at least 1 phone because of the Chinese governments' restrictions of raw metals exports. In this case, magnets.