Price Increases In Spares

Over the last 12 months how many of you have noticed the creeping price of spare parts ? Only this morning on the frontpage of connect they were advising of price hikes of 4.5 and 5.5 {e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} on Hotpoint, Indesit and electrolux spares. I have noticed spares invoices increasing and wondered how the rest of you were coping with the upward increases.
Mind you if the big boys are increasing prices their accountants must be driving up the prices to maintain there own profit and viabilty what does this tell us fellas