Thanks to Harry, I also ordered 100 25-52 SS yesterday. I was customer 503. The 450 BPE was already gone.
My MBA wife reminded me that none of us on the outside will ever be likely to know what really happened & that it might not be market forces. She cited 3 local examples of businesses that did not need to fail. (1) A hostile take-over by a wealthy stock owner who intended to strip the business of its assets & cause the business it fail. That cost about 600 jobs & cost about 2,000 families their retirement. (2) Fiscal mismanagement & lack of accountability. The management of a successful organization used the organization's good reputation to borrow & spend $$ that could not be repaid. The firm was bought out of bankruptcy & continues to operate, but investors lost heavily. (3) The principal owners of a long-established small business were a married couple. They divorced & could not agree on a settlement. A dozen people lost their jobs.
