Online Resources: All Things "Colnect"

I did the research and examined my options and decided that for assembling and maintaining a wantlist / inventory that Colnect really is an excellent option. The ability to export the data and keep only the columns you prefer sold me. The “compare varieties” option is MAJOR helpful and much easier than flipping back and forth through a catalog. Also the amount of data is astounding. I really think they have something. And just “clicking” is so much faster than typing numbers. I’m a trained touch typist, but I’ve never had good speeds for numeric data entry - I tend to have the most typos entering numbers.

While they have not been licensed to use Scott numbers, their SN numbers are thinly veiled Scott’s. I needed the Scott numbers so that if, in the future, I can enter values

But, just in case they pull a “photobucket” stunt and try to hold my data captive, I will definitely export my data to Google spreadsheets on a regular basis. 

If anyone would like to “friend” me on Colnect, I’d be delighted. I’m philatelia there, too.

An unexpected bonus - instead of browsing and shopping, entering all this data will be good for my stamp budget! Haha! 

Thanks tobben63  and philatelia for advocating for Colnect, I have to admit I am getting curious. 

Friended you on Colnect as well Theresa (philatelia) - hope it works for you! I also friended René (renden ), Torbjørn (tobben63 ) and Tom (jpotx113 ) on there a while back - so we're in good company!

I've also got a backlog of a bunch of Cinderellas and some stamp varieties I need to add to their database... Really should get on with that... Did add a missing Dubai stamp a while back.

So I went to their website to open an account. I gave them my email & waited for a return email. I get it saying my account was deactivated. I didn't have one! I just requested to open one.

Good grief. So much for opening an account at Colnect!

and today it has been resolved. I guess I opened an account but then somehow deactivated it.

Oh well, I'm back in again, same name as here...

It'll take some time before I get everything added though. Not much in there at the moment!

Theresa philatelia - how did you manage to add that many stamps so quickly on Colnect??? I'm impressed!

Ha. I realized I had an account at colnect but never used since I had signed up! I may have to rethink using it for trading but still use Stamp Manage for inventorying.

philatelia, tobben63, cjoprey Does anyone know of a video / instructions from browsing the Colnect catalogue? I just cannot seem to figure it out.


Let's say I have a stamp from Algeria in my possession. All I know is it is from Algeria and it's a 10f stamp (I'm making this up.) I don't know the year it was issued at all. But I want to identify the stamp.


When I go to Colnect, I go to the catalogue, then select Algeria, and then it wants me to pick a year of issue. But I don't have a clue! How can I eventually get it to show the stamps?

When I go to Stampworld, by comparison, I can scroll from Algeria #1 to the current issues if I like. Yes, I can filter as well, but at least I can see the stamps. With Colnect I seem to need to know exactly what I'm searching for before it will show me anything.

No doubt I'm missing something basic. Can you point me to some proper help?

PS - I went through the 'advanced filtering' tutorial but it still wants me to pick 2-9 years in the filter, which just seems odd to me.

Oh wow, cjoprey , it's amazing what one more click will do. Especially if it is the correct click. Switch to List is exactly what I was missing. I was just filtering and filtering and filtering.


Thanks for this,

Mark

I will at some point register with Colnect and at that time I suppose I will learn more about the benefits of membership.  But until that time, I have one particular question I've been wondering about.  Are you able to set a variable which determines how many stamps show up on the page?  I haven't found anything like that yet, so I am always limited to only 10 stamps on the page, and to see the next 10 I need to click on the next page.  I can imagine I will get real tired of that when trying to go through all the 80 yen Japanese stamps, for example (all 4,002 of them, or 401 pages).



Ryan

When you're registered you can select to have up to 250 stamps per page - it will display a small dropdown in front of the "showing 1 of xxx" message where you can pick the page size.

I was aware of the cross reference in Colnect. I have my own custom spreadsheet with far more varieties than colnect.   I can quickly filter and sort so have to enter the data in my spreadsheet.

However the subsequent discussion on how to use colnect did give me tips on how to better use the site.  Scott is not a 100% subset of SG (Concise). 

tobben63 : Thank you very much for making those illustrations showing how to maneuver through the information in Colnect!! It is extremely helpful. I had been looking for options like that, but had never been able to figure them out.

Many, many thanks!!