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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1391965, member: 66&quot;]This is true, and the average age has been 50&#039;s+ for at least 37 years now.&nbsp; I would bet it was 50&#039;s+ long before that and will be 50&#039;s+ for a long time to come.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Doug is right, all you can do is expose people to the hobby, you can&#039;t make them a collector.&nbsp; They either have the bug or they don&#039;t.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t have it no matter how much encouragement and help you give them the &quot;interest&quot; will last only as long as you are helping.&nbsp; Tf the bug is there, once exposed they will take it and run with it.&nbsp; In most cases it will go into remission while they establish a career and raise a family, but&nbsp; then they come back, often in their 40s, but are then involved for another thirty to forty years.&nbsp; And that is why the average age is so high.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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