There is a shortage of plastics coming out of the Texas area due to the weather. Many production plants are shut down. From what I read, COVID had actually deepened the inventory - until now.

Yea, everyone filed force majeure. Only pellets I’m aware coming in are from Canada.

A set of plastics I had in my cart at Marco went up $20. If it was market related we'll never know.

I work for an underground waterworks supply company. Our PVC pipe suppliers told us last week 80% of the resin plants in Texas and LA. were closed and pipe prices were going up.

Wiring I use has gone up over 50%.

Parts I use to create the fire effect for ACNC and TMNT went up 2.5X+ in the USA (from $4 each to $10-12 each [was $12 earlier into Covid], and the process to modify them for modding can damage them). I tried to get another 200 out of China, and it took over 3 months to find I'd get about 5 of the branded part I ordered, then a bunch of unusable knockoffs (white box) with the wrong effect (slower/dimmer) and near impossible to dismantle without damage for modding.

Just put in a new order for the PET plastic I use for several mods, and surprisingly the price is actually a fair bit cheaper (compared to Jan. 2020 from my last bulk order).

It’ll come back down guys.