The owners of a western Wisconsin company have trailers and buildings full of antique and more recent land-line telephones but there are few customers.
Am I supposed to feel bad for them, because they made a bet on the idea that vintage telephones would be a cash cow until the sun burns out? Shoulda diversified into POGs. They are due for a comeback.
I don’t think we’re supposed to feel bad for them because of the inventory not selling like they want us to. Rather, I feel sorry for them because I see classic hoarding behavior. I am NOT a trained psychologist but I have known people like them and have helped to clean their places.
I have anxiety just reading about this. Thirteen semi trailers of phones? That’s enough to supply the entire chain of late-eighties Radio Shacks for a year.
Am I supposed to feel bad for them, because they made a bet on the idea that vintage telephones would be a cash cow until the sun burns out? Shoulda diversified into POGs. They are due for a comeback.
I felt the same way. This is obsession territory, not just a case of inventory mismanagement.
Exactly, this is a train wreck of hoarding disguised as a failing business.
I don’t think we’re supposed to feel bad for them because of the inventory not selling like they want us to. Rather, I feel sorry for them because I see classic hoarding behavior. I am NOT a trained psychologist but I have known people like them and have helped to clean their places.
I have anxiety just reading about this. Thirteen semi trailers of phones? That’s enough to supply the entire chain of late-eighties Radio Shacks for a year.