The bottom line is the market will determine if a price increase works.
While I am a Pedersoli fan I also acknowledge they are damn expensive but, for some of the military replicas, they are the only game in town. At least for me the product quality has always been top shelf to ease the financial pain.
If people don’t pay, they won’t sell, and then they have to drop the price or go out of business…or start cutting corners. Time will tell.
One of the problems is, again for the military replicas specifically, there are so few sellers so the few that do all charge MSRP without fear of competition. I know this as I am a price comparison fool. Lucky I am about done buying.