Originally Posted by Barefootsies

My thoughts exactly.

Both on the O.P. you originally quoted, and the fact many still make money. Just because the hobbyists and part timers never learned to sell, and followed the sheep copying catting everyone else does not mean everyone did.

Before people could play the numbers game with traffic, and make money a few hours a day and never learned to sell. Once it took some skill to make money, they were outta business, watching their sales drop for 24 months plus, crying on message boards about the boogie man of the week.

While sales may typically be down to most, and almost all have been effected in someway. A lot are working smarter, working harder, or doing things differently to innovate with the industry.

Not everyone is heading back to the paper hat like those can't can't adapt.