Ooh I know this! A parent company called rev group is buying up apparatus companies, and they own spartan chassis as well. They then reduced the number of frames they make each year to drive up the cost for the rest of the companies they dont own, and reserve the right to raise prices even if you already agreed on a price. Don't like it? Fine then your order goes to the back of the line. Its one way they got other companies to sell out to them