It is not necessarily “wrong”, that depends upon how one defines “supply”. To many, supply does indeed mean manufacture. Such parts still being technically obtainium does not mean that there are not changes in the community. Post-manufacture, they exist in a completely different market of collectors and hoarding, where in a few years you can buy a used CRT from somebody for several times the price of a nice new one now. DESPITE the fact that millions of them may still exist. Hoarders will obfuscate the supply/demand equation as they usually do. Today’s liquidated surplus $0.50 part becomes tomorrow’s ZOMG >>WOW<< VINTAJ “rare” $100 part on ebay and the like.
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