Introducing Colnect – A social network for collectors
Colnect, delivering their post in our High Tech Industry Association event project, Develops and operates a unique service for collectors worldwide.
Reminder: The three posts with the biggest amount of comments, facebook “likes” and retweets will earn their companies a free booth and tickets to the event.
The post was delivered by Amir Wald, Founder of Colnect.
Collectors connect on Colnect. Winner of the Startup2.0 competition, Colnect offers unique services to collectors worldwide. Colnect is available in 50 languages and offers extensive collectibles catalogs which provide the base for personal collection management and easy Auto-Matching for swaps. The enormous help of its devoted collectors community managed to bring Colnect, a bootstrapped start-up, impressive achievements. Why do collectors flock to Colnect and spend their time helping it grow? The set of unique services has started the enthusiasm and it’s best explained with a short example.
A beginner coin collector, Pamela, has a few dozens of coins she can offer other collectors and perhaps a few hundreds of other coins which would interest her. Before Colnect, she would find other collectors on Internet forums and send them her swap list.
It was usually a simple text file or spreadsheet with some information about the coins she had. She would then receive such similar files from other collectors and would breeze through them trying to find herself appropriate matches. This would take A LOT of time and many times yielded no results as it was never easy to find enough matches for a good swap. There was also the problem of trustworthiness. Occasionally, she would also check online marketplaces in hope of finding some good catches.
Colnect makes a huge difference. Pamela now looks at Colnect’s huge coin catalog and simply marks, with a single click, each coin she’s interested in. She also marks what she can offer. Since the catalog is centralized she can now automatically make the matches between what she wants and other collectors offer and vice versa. Now she can organize trades much more easily. Colnect’s strict ratings system greatly improves the chances of a fraud.
As of May 2010, Colnect collectors have more than 20 million collectible items listed on their lists. The community has created and is constantly improving the catalogs for the different categories on Colnect: stamps, banknotes, coins, phone cards, bottle caps and many more. The collectors have translated Colnect to 50 languages to make it easier to communicate with other collectors from around the world. Now you know why collector collector and connect on Colnect.
Happy collecting 
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31 Comments
2010-05-25
08:53:54
Introducing Colnect – A social network for collectors | http://bit.ly/aRfbKe #israel #thewadi #tech @htia2010 @colnect
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2010-05-25
10:02:19
The Wadi for High Tech Association Conference: Introducing Colnect – A social network for collectors http://bit.ly/bVHoJs
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2010-05-25
11:07:48
@dorongez I saw the post was published on http://bit.ly/bVHoJs – how exactly do u consider the score for the competition?
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2010-05-25
11:15:24
Colnect shows us that with a dream and some persistence, everything is possible
2010-05-25
11:16:42
Thanks for publishing this post about Colnect.
Question regarding the competition, is 1 tweet == 1 Facebook "like" == 1 comment here?
2010-05-25
11:18:04
@oferwald Have you seen the post on http://bit.ly/aRfbKe ? Don’t forget to “like” it ;)
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2010-05-25
11:22:06
@oferwald Have you seen the post on http://bit.ly/bVHoJs ? Don’t forget to “like” it ;)
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2010-05-25
11:22:50
@oferwald OK, now I see you’ve already commented on http://bit.ly/bVHoJs – dream and persistence, eh? :)
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2010-05-25
11:37:20
“Introducing Colnect – A social network for collectors | http://bit.ly/aRfbKe #israel #thewadi #tech @htia2010 @colnect” -@thewadi
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2010-05-25
15:04:23
Help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-25
15:04:24
Help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-25
15:04:24
Help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-26
14:02:19
[...] Introducing Colnect – A social network for collectors [...]
2010-05-27
12:44:47
Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:44:47
Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:44:48
Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:45:49
@SoundGuy Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:46:06
@darshu Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:46:19
@DanielRomano Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
12:46:25
@ezrabutler Please help @colnect win by clicking the Facebook “like” on this post: http://bit.ly/bVHoJs Thanks :)
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2010-05-27
13:33:18
best for phone card collectors
2010-05-27
13:33:48
best site for phone card collectors!!
2010-05-27
17:48:02
@Ealz Thanks for re-tweeting http://bit.ly/bVHoJs and helping the frog startup :)
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2010-05-27
18:45:41
I think that Colnect it is the best site for collectors
2010-05-27
18:47:31
I like Colnect!
2010-05-27
19:10:18
Hola Amir
Se pueden publicar comentarios en Español
2010-05-27
19:11:21
Perdón, quería hacer una pregunta, no una afirmación
¿Se pueden publicar comentarios en Español?
2010-05-27
21:09:28
Thanks to Amir Colnect is the greatest site for all collectors worldwide.
2010-05-28
08:45:49
iflvico, claro que puedes escribir en Español, no dicen otro en ningun lugar... Si quieres practicar tu chino, puedes hacerlo tambien ;)
2010-05-28
14:17:38
I know, so for browsing on the Internet event, the site Colnect.
Finding that is the perfect site to catalog my collection of coins.
By the time I offered to become a contributor, I accepted with pleasure.
Thanks Amir for the construction site Colnect.
2010-05-28
14:49:41
Great site! The most useful on-line interactive database of collecting items. Simply the best!
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