Kollecta is a social networking site designed for collectors of all shapes and sizes. The site is currently in beta and has a database of "over a million collectible items" and allows you to check off what you currently have in your collection, what you'd like to add, and what you're willing to sell to someone else. Once you've created a profile with all of your stuff you can join a group and share that list with other collectors on the site. Users in the group can talk about their passion for coins, stamps, smurfs, or whatever else it is you're collecting, rate items value, share collecting tips, and arrange to buy, sell, or trade items with others.
Providing what you collect is in Kollecta's database, the site could be a good place to keep track of your collection and connect with people who can help you add to it. If what you collect isn't in their database, or there isn't a group for it yet Kollecta provides you tools to add them.
Kollecta is currently free, with mention on the site of a potential cost later down the road. A similar site for collectors is iTaggit.
[via EmilyChang]
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2-11-2008 @ 8:57PM
barney said...
Hi Emily, thanks for the Kollecta write-up!
A quick note: when users add new items, they become part of the large Kollecta database for everyone to share. The idea of course being that it may make building a collection online easier for someone else, if a particular item is already there for a member to click 'have it' or 'want it'. Adding new items benefits the collecting community, and members receive Kollecta points for this. In the future we hope to recognise members' contributions to the community by way of giveaways, special privileges, and so on.
Thanks!
Barney
www.kollecta.com
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