So, they looked around and saw how everybody else was increasing profits and decided to follow along?

That’s why I bought cheap “AirPods” from an off brand site. Not as good as real ones but they work just fine and if I lose them I’m out $25 instead of $100 or now $200

I work for one of the largest import brand in the US. We still have freight surcharges on all goods because of how expensive containers are for us. Your source literally shows how expensive costs got. The person I was responding to said there had been no cogs increases.

BOM cost on this thing is probably close to $35 bucks. It’s 1) a price increase for the sake of increasing price or 2) they don’t have supply so are raising the price because they can.

Normal for fitbit, scumbag company. I had a watch, my gf had one, mom & dad had one each and all 4 of them stopped working right after warranty ended

Greed does that pretty well

When governments manufacture money out of thin air, inflation is inevitable. That money has to come from somewhere.

If you were paying attention, during 2020-2021 governments said inflation wasn't going to be an issue.

In 2022, we were told that this wasn't inflation, it was just a temporary issue. Then we were told it definitely wasn't inflation, it was just issues with the supply chain. While still maintaining that this is all temporary and prices will come back down.

Now, finally, they respond by hiking interest three times in a row, as priced continue to rise.

nothing to see here. blame the wealthy and the corporations!

This is your governments fault. Wherever you are. The only solution is putting politicians on poles.

AirPods Pro first gen is still a great pickup, you can probably find them for ~$150

So they plan on absolutely nobody buying these except the segment of buyers who will pay more for flashy but underperforming hardware, just like their phone. There are so many earbuds significantly better than these for the same price or cheaper. Just like how there are better performing phones at their phone's price point.

Out of stock now, who knows if it ever actually was being sold or just listed on Amazon as a future product.

What are these "good ones" you are referring to? Apple usb c dongle is considered great for most use cases

Fuck dongles though which you’re stuck having to use with almost any phone these days. I’ve bought cheap ones in a pack and neither lasted more than two days, not to mention the awful sound quality. And the “good” ones barely last more than six months if you’re lucky. If headphone jacks weren’t a thing of the past I’d tend to agree with you.

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They're on sale very often though. It's a sale tactic where they put it at a higher msrp so they can claim to have very deep discounts and entice you to buy them on a "limited time" offer.

So yea sure on paper the price difference is $50 but in practical reality from a consumers perspective the earfuns will end up being around less than half of the new nothing price.

A lot of companies just flag a device as stolen in the system (with a police report) but take no action, but the record is there if the police submit a data request.

As far as trying to scrape money from a used sale, that sounds like extra work for almost no money.

Airpods 2nd gen is around 110-120 much better value

Could you recommend a few?

That's because I did not know they existed, even though I was on the market recently. They hit the only headline they could make.

Inflation is not a cause of price increases. It is just the symptom of price increases.

Nothing to comment

I got mine pre-google and it's been going for years and years now

I see inflation and increase of costs of components/materials commonly mentioned as causes for increased prices.

Most companies don't base price on what it costs. They base price on what the market will bear. If it costs them $80 to make headphones that sell for $100, and manufacturing costs went up, so it now costs them $90 to make headphones, they will still sell at $100, because that price was presumably optimized for demand and their marginal costs. They just make less money. If they increase price to $110, then they will sell fewer headphones, which could decrease revenue.

If price went up purely due to inflation, then the price would have gone up comparable to inflation, and people probably wouldn't care that much.

They are increasing the price because they have discovered that they will make more revenue at $150 than $100. So if they sell 150 headphones at $100, and 120 headphones at $150, they will make more money at $150. They may also find it's cheaper to make fewer headphones.

That's a sale price, if we're talking about sale prices the AKG N400NC for $50 was still the best deal in Bluetooth audio.

At the Earfun's regular price they're around $89-99. I haven't listened to either so I can't talk to differences in audio, ANC, or build quality. I do know a lot of reviews for nothing praised the build quality at $99.

To be fair to the wireless ANC earbud vs the headphone. Making it small is expensive even if it doesn’t sound as good.

Personally used to be a pretty hardcore only over ear headphone guy…. Then I got glasses.