Other than lead the cost of the commodities used to make reloading components are a very small percentage of the selling price. They are up but nowhere near the amounts to justify these kinds of increases.
I suspect these prices are riding on the back of the surge in the price of lead and once a few manufacturers start to move up the others join in and get their increases at a time when the buyers are prepped to accept them as inevitable.
As a professional buyer I saw this a lot. Manufacturers had pent up demand to increase prices and the decision on the timing of price increases had a lot of thought put into it. So some of these increases may be needed or they may be opportunistic, but don't be surprised if they all come at about the same time....
I'm waiting to see when the price of cheap promo loads shoots up.......
Jeff
