You are correct. Poor ole Joe is having a mental wet dream wanting to move back to the past:
“Face facts, Joe.
Newspapers are nearly as dead as weekly news magazines.”
None of our younger relatives in their 30-40’s subscribe to a newspaper. The free weekly ad paper goes from their driveway to the recycle can, unopened.
We still subscribe to our local fishwrap due to a reversal of their left wing stances. I never look in the ad section except to find the hard to finish crossword puzzle.
I don’t use Craig’s list as cop friends call it the robbers ATM.
We use the internet to sell/buy sporting goods to similiar people. We go to the internet sites of clubs/activities, we are interested in, and many friends use EBay to buy sell items.
About a decade ago, a younger relative couple wanted to sell their current home to buy a larger home for their larger family. Their Realtor refused to use the internet, she didn’t want to share the commission with other realors. There were no buyers in a hot market.
After 30 days on the market and 4 open house Sundays, I felt the realtor didn’t really want sell their house at the asking price and was waiting to come in with a lower price.
I told the wife to send the Realtor an email and to put their house on the internet. Then give her 8 hours to post the internet info or she would find a new realtor.
She and I worked on the internet to create the internet ad and it was posted after some harsh words in time for the weekend.
The internet open house had more good lookers than the previous 4. Our relative and her husband stayed at the house and monitored the realtor. After the realtor downplayed their home to two lookers, the husband told her to go sit in her car.
They ended up with a bidding war and about $10K over their asking price. One of my relatives sat in on any discussion a potential buyer had.
After the sale of their home was completed, our female relative let everyone in her circles know what happened. The worthless/game playing realtor sold her home on the internet and left the area.
I put an RCA Victor Victrola radio/record player console from the 1940s on Craigslist.
I’ve had four inquiries, all bogus.