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kleinbl00 · 2478 days ago · link · · parent · post: QVC Plans To Buy, Merge With Rival Shopping Network HSN

Studebaker - Packard is the case they always bring up im economics 101: two weaknesses do not equal a strength.

QVC and HSN have similar weaknesses :

1) they both depend on people with cable who don't watch Netflix or Hulu or have a DVR

2) they both depend on people who like buying mail-order but hate shopping online

The demographic for both is "old people". However, people getting older these days can figure out amazon. Shit, my 78 year old dad is a big fan of Woot. Which means HSN and QVC are reliant on old, stupid people.

And they are dying out.

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ArtemusBlank · 2478 days ago · link ·

So how many years before these two channels die out? Unless they decide to change things soon in a big way, this sounds like a dinosaur waiting for that asteroid to hit it and die.

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kleinbl00 · 2478 days ago · link ·

I would argue that the meteor has hit, the dust has covered the sun, the plants are all dying out but the dinosaurs can still forage on the scraps.

For another few years.

By 2020 we'll discuss them in the same breath as Skymall.