World Economy is a mess.
Countries and continents that used to have strong economies (US, Europe, Australia, Japan...) are now on their knees and some of the traditionaly poor countries (China, India, Rusia) they now have plenty of cash to spend. (..... that's why Sarko is talking about National Soveriegn Funds .. to prevent the newly rich countries countries from buying strategic EU and US firms ).
My predictions of the rep market for the next 12 to 18 months are:
Buyers will buy less and less. Rep sales will decrease by 50%
Producers will reduce their production levels down by 30% to 35%
Rep prices will decrease by 30% to 50%. We will see more and more Asian 21J and we will se again prices of 110 USD to 250 USD like 3-4 years ago.
Fewer new rep models will be produced. May be some new good pieces but not from the factories. They will come out most likely from private " back garden workshops".
Of course their is always a posibility for a whole diferrent scenario.
Since China is a country that holds a lot of cash right now, may be they keep their prices and now start looking on more inbound sales (CHN reps being sold directly to China).
If that situation lasts longer (hope not) .... maybe we will see European and US Rep factories ... so we will have our oun reps