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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2722852, member: 76863&quot;]They can do both.&nbsp; The thing that everyone forgets is that younger collectors are internet based collectors.&nbsp; You don&#039;t NEED to go to a coin show anymore, or an LCS or a coin club.&nbsp; People can do all of their collecting from their computer if they want too.&nbsp; Internet sales far outpace in person sales in this day an age.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t just the same crowd you see at a show or coin club that are responsible for all of the internet sales. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are plenty of younger collectors out there you just won&#039;t ever see the overwhelming majority of them making a physical appearance anywhere when they can get what they want from internet listings.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t even get into any of the potential biases many shops have towards a younger crowd that have chased them away.&nbsp; Younger collectors do exist and there are plenty of them but just like with modern collectors they will quietly collect and no one will be aware of their existence other than sales records.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a 12 year old or a teenager doesn&#039;t want to collect so what, it doesn&#039;t mean the hobby is dying.&nbsp; 12 years old thing they&#039;re going to all be professional athletes and we all know what teenagers are focused on.&nbsp; No one still likes all the same things or didn&#039;t develop a new interest since they were those ages.&nbsp; Previous collectors probably all had these same thoughts when cars came out and the radio ect ect.&nbsp; Collecting will be just fine.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Price changes are largely driven by expendable income and in a lot of ways the internet has driven prices down on somethings.&nbsp; eBay can be a race to the bottom price wise on sales for super common things, people are no longer at the mercy of their local shop for prices and other things have turned out to be a lot more available than previously believed.&nbsp; Market taste changes over time too, series go hot and cold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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