Yes, the hyper pricing of components have turned the world of CV upside down, where we are seeing more and more nice bikes having their components overtake the values of the frame, so we see more and more nice bikes being broken down for their parts. Is there a growing shortage of parts and components driving this trend and ricing? I suspect to some extent there is, as years go by and the finite supply gets used up, but it may have been accelerated a bit by the recent retro fad where the demand for C&V bikes and parts have been raised to unprecedented levels.
Maybe we C&Vers have ourselves to blame in some ways as we were so good at using the internet to spread the "virtues" of the C&V bikes we love so much.... resulting in sort of free advertising for hyper pricers at auction sites....
We certainly can use a "market correction" where prices of many C&V stuff should be racheted down to a more sensible and SELLABLE level.....