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First off I love the site.  Its got me interested in collecting again once I put all my cards in.

Here is my situation and I apologize in advance this could get long.  I collect Green Bay Packers only but I am interested in anything Green Bay Packers...well almost anything.  Take police sets for example I only need 1 set from 1 agency I am not interested in a set from each agency.  Also variations, I don't need a Topps card with the copyright line starting with A and A*.  The OCD in me likes the fact that these cards are listed and its kudos to the site for including them BUT it can be cumbersome to navigate the checklists.  It can also be disheartening to see that a player has 250 cards and I only have 4 but when you look 245 of them are from police sets and I only need 1 more.

Overall I'd rather have the cards listed but my question is is there a way to get the checklists with these variations filtered out?  I know when I go to add all missing cards to my wantlist there is an option to not include variations but I am not ready to start trading so I have been wary of starting a wantlist. I don't want to take your time contacting me for trades when I am not ready to trade. I could solve that problem if I could make my wantlist (and my tradelist for that matter) private so no one could see it so I guess that would be my second question.

Anyway, sorry for the lengthy post.  Like I said I love this site and it is perfectly fine the way it is.  I'm just wondering if there are readymade ways to make it even better for me.  If not I will figure out something or just learn to live with it.

Thanks all and happy collecting.

You can turn off accepting trades until you get your want lists finished.

His issue is:  An example.

1998 Green Bay Packers Police which has 20 cards each set but there are 125 sets.  He only wants the 20 cards with different fronts who care what back it has.   That the 2500 different backs.

Then you have the   Hero Decks Green Bay Packers Football Heroes Playing Cards,    7 different years which you can only tell by the box they came in.  Yes a few cards are different in the years but not all.  We show 6 but the 2016 is the same as the 2017 not showed (I have the box).

Say he did not have any of the 20 cards of the 1998 set.  He has to add all of the 2500 to get a match for one of each.  Then has to remove the other 2470 cards from his want list when he get the 20 cards he wants.   Then they would show up in his No Status list.   I have been working on Admin to add another list Do Not Want so they would go there.

The same goes for the Var.

Sorry as of now there is no easy way to get what you want by using the matches without adding and removing a lot of cards   The best thing is to put in you profile that you do not care which Var it is.

You can always do what a few others of us do for sets with the dots or other silly variations, we check them all off as wants but then remove the others from our want list once we get one version. 
While I don't collect all different variations, I do like to keep my checklists correct and if I do happen across both versions, I'll keep one of each.  For more noticeable variations, I do look for both versions.

This is 100% what I do.