You can blame the buyers or the sellers, or you can blame everyone or no one at all. It's all just the market operating as it was designed to operate. This is a hobby, it is not a life altering event if we don't get a kit or part we want! If you don't like a price someone is asking, don't pay it!! There are quite a few hobby dealers as well as companies in the real world that I don't like their prices or their business practices, I simply do my business with someone else without making any waves. Although a kit or part may not be easy to find it is by no means the only one in existence, in time another one will always come up. Just my 2 cents on the subject, sorry if I went on a rant guys!