Collecting QSL:s - some viewpoints

[jln@xxxxxx (Jari Lehtinen)]

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Hats off for the fabulous Byrds, but have you ever thought about the
General Law Of Marketing?
"The more useless and expensive the product is, the easier it is to sell."
Which is extremely true in the case of most collectibles, for example - alas
- hockey trading cards (but still I will not give up my 92 different Jari
Kurri cards...).
But if we think about QSL:s, that's not actually a marketing object, because
its very nature is individual. QSL is such an individual creature that you
can't even be sure whether you will finally receive it or not. Are there
any better waste of time, is another question, but one thing is sure:
marketing QSL:s is hardly a possible idea. (and never mind New Zealand
asking three (four??) reply coupons for a QSL...)
This means that collecting QSL:s instead of some market products is in the
long run still much cheaper than most hobbies, collectibles are much more
personal, and in the modern world of vulgar free market ideology this kind
of anticommercial hobby is also ecologically welcomed solution.

'Ugh, I am spoken'
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