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On another philatelic site, sellers are commenting that sales are down.
People are beginning to hold back on their discretionary spending. This is probably in light of the banking situation, and other interference caused by politicians.
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Interesting. Did you enjoy the show?
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When i attended the stamp show in Albany Sunday beside the old geezers there was a young lad of 11 or 12 and two or three female collectors, Besides my wife the other ladies may have been post card collectors..there were 6 or 7 postcard dealers attending. One dealer said to me that this is the last generation for stamp dealers..the young people are not interested.
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" . . . and other interference caused by politicians."
Seems that is about all they are good for.
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"Did you enjoy the show?"
While sales were not what I would have liked, I do enjoy hob-knobbing about the hobby. Also, this show brings in many children and teens who know the hobby well.
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I will be at a music festival from Thursday until Sunday and I just read in am interview with the man who organises the whole thing, that this year will be the first time in 18 years the festival is not completely sold out. He also mentioned that many bands have cancelled or postponed their tours in Europe because it has become too expensive while other bands are asking three or four times their normal fee, which makes them too expensive for this festival.
Difficult times...
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I was a TCA (Train Collectors Association) member for years. In the 70's and 80's, train meets were great. Even the local chapters meets were well attended. Then the meet attendance started dwindling and some local chapter meets became non-existent. Just like in the stamp hobby, train collectors tend to be the older crown and as they went to the big caboose in the sky... there were few of the younger crowd who were interested. Well, in addition to stamp collecting, I still run the trains in my basement and enjoy them.
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Aye everything is cyclical. Economies go up and economies go down. Inflation goes up and inflation goes down. Prices go up and prices NEVER come down.
Those that have money always have money. The poor always get the short end of the deal.
Seen it, been it, bought the T-shirt.
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Back in the 1980s I couldn’t afford to buy hardly ANYTHING - prices were so crazy and everybody and their uncle were jumping on the bandwagon buying stamps as “investments”.
These days I can buy big box lots for peanuts in comparison. I now own stamps that I could only dream of back then.
So I’m going to enjoy the ride and have fun building nice collections, loving the hobby to the fullest. If my heirs don’t get as much $$$ as they would have years ago well big boo hoo, too bad, so sad. I won’t be around to care.
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Interesting on a slightly more positive note: I use Stampworld to catalog and track my many collections. About a year back I post here that I'd found that every time I went to Stampworld the catalog values were dropping. I went in yesterday to add some more stamps to my catalog and had a pleasant surprise that the values across the board had risen some. I find Stampworld attempting to be far more market driven in their catalog values than Scott. They seem to adjust their catalog values according to the values received from the sales achieved on their site. So, I found this a positive indicator for the hobby!
Regards ... Tim
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Last Saturday (April 15) the Medicine Hat Coin and Stamp Club held our semi-annual show. Attendance was down 22% from our show last fall. I barely sold enough stamps to pay for the rent of my tables. For every person who purchased something I had 3 or 4 who wanted to sell an inherited collection - some of them quite large 6 - 12 boxes. The members selling silver and gold coins did VERY well. I think uncertainty in the economy certainly has an effect.
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I run the most respected model car show in the country. 1200 participants from US, Canada and Europe and not advertised anywhere. All the well known builders displaying their work and two vendor rooms full of manufacturers and key vendors.
We hadn’t held the event in 3 years. 2020 the state was shut down. 2021 no events over 500 attendees and 2022 our insurance would not cover Covid claims. We didn’t know what to expect in this brave new world.
Early on I had misgivings as several manufacturers bowed out. This was the first time we had trouble filling the vendor rooms.
The chatter on the Internet was promising. In the end we had a banner event! Attendance as high as ever. We did well financially.
Most important was the tone of the day. People were nice! They were hugging people they hadn’t seen in 3 years. Everyone was smiling and we didn’t get the usual complaining. People thanked us for doing the show!
Overall it was a good experience!
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I just spent this past weekend at a model railroad show. While Saturday saw a substantial crowd, and Sunday's crowd was significantly lower, sales were not to par with what is normal for this show. I actually sustained a loss for the show when considering my expenses. Other sellers also stated that their sales were down despite the attendance.
On another philatelic site, sellers are commenting that sales are down.
People are beginning to hold back on their discretionary spending. This is probably in light of the banking situation, and other interference caused by politicians.
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Interesting. Did you enjoy the show?
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When i attended the stamp show in Albany Sunday beside the old geezers there was a young lad of 11 or 12 and two or three female collectors, Besides my wife the other ladies may have been post card collectors..there were 6 or 7 postcard dealers attending. One dealer said to me that this is the last generation for stamp dealers..the young people are not interested.
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" . . . and other interference caused by politicians."
Seems that is about all they are good for.
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"Did you enjoy the show?"
While sales were not what I would have liked, I do enjoy hob-knobbing about the hobby. Also, this show brings in many children and teens who know the hobby well.
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I will be at a music festival from Thursday until Sunday and I just read in am interview with the man who organises the whole thing, that this year will be the first time in 18 years the festival is not completely sold out. He also mentioned that many bands have cancelled or postponed their tours in Europe because it has become too expensive while other bands are asking three or four times their normal fee, which makes them too expensive for this festival.
Difficult times...
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I was a TCA (Train Collectors Association) member for years. In the 70's and 80's, train meets were great. Even the local chapters meets were well attended. Then the meet attendance started dwindling and some local chapter meets became non-existent. Just like in the stamp hobby, train collectors tend to be the older crown and as they went to the big caboose in the sky... there were few of the younger crowd who were interested. Well, in addition to stamp collecting, I still run the trains in my basement and enjoy them.
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Aye everything is cyclical. Economies go up and economies go down. Inflation goes up and inflation goes down. Prices go up and prices NEVER come down.
Those that have money always have money. The poor always get the short end of the deal.
Seen it, been it, bought the T-shirt.
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re: Signs of the Times (or Coming Times)?
Back in the 1980s I couldn’t afford to buy hardly ANYTHING - prices were so crazy and everybody and their uncle were jumping on the bandwagon buying stamps as “investments”.
These days I can buy big box lots for peanuts in comparison. I now own stamps that I could only dream of back then.
So I’m going to enjoy the ride and have fun building nice collections, loving the hobby to the fullest. If my heirs don’t get as much $$$ as they would have years ago well big boo hoo, too bad, so sad. I won’t be around to care.
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re: Signs of the Times (or Coming Times)?
Interesting on a slightly more positive note: I use Stampworld to catalog and track my many collections. About a year back I post here that I'd found that every time I went to Stampworld the catalog values were dropping. I went in yesterday to add some more stamps to my catalog and had a pleasant surprise that the values across the board had risen some. I find Stampworld attempting to be far more market driven in their catalog values than Scott. They seem to adjust their catalog values according to the values received from the sales achieved on their site. So, I found this a positive indicator for the hobby!
Regards ... Tim
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re: Signs of the Times (or Coming Times)?
Last Saturday (April 15) the Medicine Hat Coin and Stamp Club held our semi-annual show. Attendance was down 22% from our show last fall. I barely sold enough stamps to pay for the rent of my tables. For every person who purchased something I had 3 or 4 who wanted to sell an inherited collection - some of them quite large 6 - 12 boxes. The members selling silver and gold coins did VERY well. I think uncertainty in the economy certainly has an effect.
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I run the most respected model car show in the country. 1200 participants from US, Canada and Europe and not advertised anywhere. All the well known builders displaying their work and two vendor rooms full of manufacturers and key vendors.
We hadn’t held the event in 3 years. 2020 the state was shut down. 2021 no events over 500 attendees and 2022 our insurance would not cover Covid claims. We didn’t know what to expect in this brave new world.
Early on I had misgivings as several manufacturers bowed out. This was the first time we had trouble filling the vendor rooms.
The chatter on the Internet was promising. In the end we had a banner event! Attendance as high as ever. We did well financially.
Most important was the tone of the day. People were nice! They were hugging people they hadn’t seen in 3 years. Everyone was smiling and we didn’t get the usual complaining. People thanked us for doing the show!
Overall it was a good experience!
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