Colnect

Colnect
Colnect Collectors Club Community
Colnect Logo.png
URL http://www.colnect.com/
Commercial? yes
Type of site Online collectables catalogs and personal collection management
Registration Free registration is optional
Available language(s) 50 languages claimed as supported
Owner Colnect, private
Created by Amir Wald
Launched 28th of April, 2002
Current status Active

Colnect Collectors Club Community, is a website containing wiki-like collectables catalogs. It allows collectors to manage their personal collection using these catalogs and automatically match their swap/wish-lists with those of other collectors. Colnect's phone cards catalog is the biggest in the world [1][2].

Contents

History

Colnect was founded in 2002 as Islands Phonecards Database with the aim to create a catalog of all phonecards. Since autumn 2008, stamps and coins are supported in addition to phone cards. In the mean time, 14 types of collectables are represented. Here is an overview:

Collectable Added on Number of items Link to catalog
Phonecards April 2002 323,000 Phonecard catalog
Stamps September 2008 207,000 Stamp catalog
Coins September 2008 27,000 Coin catalog
Banknotes May 2009 34,500 Banknote catalog
Bottle caps May 2009 13,000 Bottle cap catalog
Tea bags August 2009 14,000 Tea bag catalog
Bank cards November 2009 4,500 Bank card catalog
Transportation tickets November 2009 4,500 Transportation ticket catalog
Hotel key cards November 2009 15,500 Hotel key card catalog
Postcards December 2009 10,000 Postcard catalog
Gift cards June 2010 13,750 Gift card catalog
Casino cards June 2010 700 Casino card catalog
Beer Coasters January 2011 20,000 Beer Coasters catalog
Sugar Packets November 2011 To be introduced [Sugar Packets catalog]

(updated: 18 November 2011)

Features

The collectables catalogs on Colnect are created by collectors using the site. New items are added by contributors and verified by volunteering editors. Though any collector may add their comments on a catalog item, actual changes are done only by site-trusted editors. All users can see the catalog information (issue dates, print runs, pictures, etc.). Registered users can additionally manage their personal collection by marking each item as belonging to their collection, swap list or wish list while browsing through the catalogs. These users automatically can match their swap list with a wish list of another user and vice versa.[3] Users can purchase a membership with Premium features. Contributors get it for free.

Statistics

The site reports it caters for collectors from 113[4] countries. Lots of them are helping the site voluntary including the translators who translated Colnect into 50 languages. Still, the result may be so poor as to be barely understandable[5].

Rewards

On April 25, 2009 Colnect was announced as the winner in the European Startup 2.0 competition, out of about 200 competing companies and 11 finalists [6][7].

On December 31, 2009 Colnect was a close runner up on the TechAviv Peer Awards startup companies competition. It has lost to 5min by a single vote[8][9].

Openness

As exporting user collection data is currently only “planned”[10], Colnect is a closed system where users, although they provide the site's contents, cannot make free use of their data.

References

  1. ^ Article from "The Marker"
  2. ^ Article from "Israel on Blog"
  3. ^ Article from TechCrunch
  4. ^ Colnect's collectors by country
  5. ^ Colnect's French translation, for instance, is full of obvious mistakes.
  6. ^ Colnect wins Startup2.0
  7. ^ Interview with Colnect's founder
  8. ^ TechAviv Peer Awards
  9. ^ 5min Wins Top Spot in TechAviv’s Peer Awards
  10. ^ “Next services we plan to implement”, http://colnect.com/en/help/collecting/premium_join

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