General Forum

Happy sunday everyone just wanted to pick other members brains when it comes to catologuing on here, the awesome tcdb.  I see some users just use the one collection while others have multiple collections, say for a certain team or player when catologuing.

Looking to see what people prefer, or what the benefit is to seperating collections out on here.  I am thinking about breaking mine up by my PC teams ect just to have everything for that certain group in one area.  Thoughts?  Curious to see people's resoning and preference. Thanks!

I found it easier to manage my collection when I separated everything out. I'm a set collector so I have a collection for each sport. Then I have a collection just for my PC and another that has my traders, regardless of sport for both. It was so much easier for me this way, especially after I put the traders in their own collection.

At first I didn't thimk I would need to add another "coolection", my physical collection is in a major state of disorganization. But I have found it makes handling duplicates a bit easier with another collection. 

I have 3 collections:

1. Main Collection - My PC

2. Dupes - Known duplicates that I either want to keep like when I want a copy of a card in my set collection and an additional one with my team or player collection OR I don't know what I want to do with the dupe or not sure if the card is a dupe.

3. Traders and/or For Sale - As stated these are my trade/sale list. This is the one to check if you want to make a transaction with me.

I keep multiple collections and have found it useful.

• The default collection is empty to facilitate moving cards after trades
• I have a separate collections for cards for trade.
• I then have multiple collections for the things I collect. I found this is easier to manage when there are cards that intersect multiple interests. I would gett one for each. For instance, take 1978 Topps Jim Rice. I would need one for sets, potentially one for HOF'ers and one for my player collection.
  • Sets
  • HOF'ers
  • Players, etc.

thanks, I like the way you have things set up egreen

I'd like to understand more about how having multiple collections makes it easier (in what ways is it easier?). Having a separate collection for traders seems redundant when there is a for sale/trade category within the collections. 
 

I used a separate collection for building my 1978 set (and trading dupes from it), and have come to the tentative conclusion that it didn't make a difference. But I should note, I don't (yet) use the site to keep my PC catalogued. I only use it to facilitate trades with a trade list and want list.
 

I have contemplated having a separate collection for my bulk low-grade traders (instead of editing the condition of them all individually), but I only see that being useful in the scenario where someone would be browsing and enter that specific collection intentionally (since they'd come up on trade matches un-flagged just like my regular traders). I'd have to sort through a prosal to see where each lived to know from the catalog if it was low-grade or not (right?). For example, I have 600 low-grade 85 Topps football cards from when I was little. I also have about 50 high-grade 85s for trade. Regardless of what collection they are in, cards from each will show up on trade matches. Keeping them in different collections might make it a fraction easier for me to track down which are low-grade and which aren't (vs pulling the cards and seeing), but unless the potential to trade partner knows to look and does that work himself, having the low-grade cards aren't going to make a difference to them. (Right?)
 

When I look at people's collections, I always choose  "all collections" and search their trade list there. I don't know what their different collections mean to me, I just know that if they are in a trade list, they are available. 
 

I'm always looking for an easier way.

for me i think it is the benefit of seeing I have X amount of Oakland A's cards ect, but I guess in the end it really doe snot make a big difference

I have only used multiple collections when I get a larger lot of random cards. I enter them into "Collection 2" so I can see a tally of what I have received before merging with my main collection. 

I have found the various filters here provide me with enough information about player/team/hall of famer etc numbers for my needs.