Colnect

Colnect Collectors Club Community
Web address http://colnect.com/
Slogan Colnect, connecting collectors
Type of site
 Online collectible item catalogs and personal collection management
Registration free registration is optional
Owner Colnect, private
Created by Amir Wald
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]

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, 29[3] types of collectables are represented. Here is an overview of selected collectibles:

Collectable Added on Number of items Link to catalog
Phonecards April 2002 525,126 Phonecard catalog
Stamps September 2008 484,401 Stamp catalog
Coins September 2008 50,544 Coin catalog
Banknotes May 2009 57,240 Banknote catalog
Bottle caps May 2009 27,405 Bottle cap catalog
Tea bags August 2009 66,262 Tea bag catalog
Bank cards November 2009 13,569 Bank card catalog
Transportation tickets November 2009 25,493 Transportation ticket catalog
Hotel key cards November 2009 47,116 Hotel key card catalog
Postcards December 2009 50,305 Postcard catalog
Gift cards June 2010 80,694 Gift card catalog
Casino cards June 2010 1,101 Casino card catalog
Beer Coasters January 2011 29,257 Beer Coasters catalog
Tokens June 2012 4,759 Token Coin catalog
Trading card games July 2012 41,625 Trading Card Game catalog
Sugar Packets July 2012 27,766 Sugar Packets catalog
LEGO Sets August 2012 5,236 LEGO Sets catalog
Stickers August 2012 44,470 Stickers catalog
Video Games December 2012 2,967 Video Games catalog
Functional Cards January 2013[4] 7,697 Functional Cards catalog
Drink Labels February 2013[5] 4,810 Drink Labels catalog
Medals and Decorations March 2013[6] 15,201 Medals catalog
Lottery & Scratchcards May 2013[7] 13,427 Lottery Tickets catalog
Paper Clips January 2014[8] 14,784 Paper Clips catalog
Sports Cards February 2014[9] 26,950 Sports Cards catalog
Milk Cup Lids March 2014[10] 9,057 Milk Cup lids catalog
Kids' Meal Toys April 2014[11] 4,464 Kids' Meal Toys catalog

(Last Updated: 20 February 2015, the figures in the table above were rounded down)

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.[12] Users can purchase a Premium membership with additional features. Contributors get it for free. Premium members can download any list with collectables and open it as a spreadsheet.

Statistics

The site reports it caters for collectors from 113[13] countries. Hundreds of them are helping the site voluntarily, including the translators who translate Colnect into 62 languages.

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.[14][15]

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.[16][17]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "TechNation- מדור הטכונולוגיה וההייטק של דה מרקר - TheMarker". TheMarker.
  2. ↑ Article from "Israel on Blog"
  3. ↑ "Colnect, connecting collectors: Colnect". colnect.com.
  4. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Functional Cards: New and Game Changing Category". Colnect.
  5. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Drink Labels on Colnect - New Drink Labels Catalog is now available". Colnect.
  6. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Medal Collectors - welcome to Colnect!". Colnect.
  7. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Lottery Tickets - A New Category Joins Colnect". Colnect.
  8. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Paper Clips Collectors Welcome to Colnect". Colnect.
  9. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Colnect Welcomes the New Sports Cards Catalog". Colnect.
  10. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Milk Cup Lids - Now Joining the Colnect Catalogs". Colnect.
  11. ↑ "Colnect, Connecting Collectors: Kids Meal Toys - Fun and New on Colnect". Colnect.
  12. ↑ Roi Carthy. "Colnect Is A No-Frills Collectibles Marketplace And Wiki. Someone Wake Up David Cowan!". TechCrunch. AOL.
  13. ↑ "Collectors : Countries List [Collectibles: All]". colnect.com.
  14. ↑ Colnect wins Startup2.0
  15. ↑ Amir Wald. YouTube. 11 November 2009.
  16. ↑ TechAviv Peer Awards
  17. ↑ "5min Wins Top Spot in TechAviv’s Peer Awards". VC Cafe.

External links

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