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I'm involved with an online stamp store for collectors. We estimate the average age of our customers is 70. The business has been around for 30+ years; a big co
by electroly 5y ago
I'm involved with an online stamp store for collectors. We estimate the average age of our customers is 70. The business has been around for 30+ years; a big contributor to customer attrition is death. I can't imagine the hobby surviving for another generation.
- m463 5y agoprobably eerie parallels at the model train store
- massysett 5y agoIt will survive. Years ago I would never have imagined walking into a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (American chain restaurant with a shop that sells novelties) and finding vinyl records and even record players. The selection includes stuff from thirty years ago and brand new stuff, like Disney soundtracks-these are interesting because they do color art on the front of the vinyl itself and sell it in a clear plastic sleeve. Nostalgia and the yearning for physical objects are powerful things. Pair that up with the Internet and its ability to unite far-flung niche communities and yeah, I have no doubt at all that stamp collecting survives.