How is MyCollect doing a few months into operations?

U1chicago

It seemed like there was a lot of excitement when MyCollect was launched (including a multi page thread on this forum). I joined as well but it didn't seem to draw me in as much as other platforms (this forum, CoinTalk, IG). I also did not see much in the way of comments or discussions. And it was not as simple to post a video like it is on IG (last I heard there was no app and so the mobile experience was less than ideal-especially compared to IG or this forum).

Is anyone on here actively on MyCollect? How has the experience been for you? Is the site growing, stagnating, or declining?

Mr_Spud

I still participate there, it’s fairly stagnant but still has potential

lermish

I was somewhat excited when it began but I have found myself logging in less and less often, maybe once a week now, and when I do I see very little new content or posts.

Walkerfan

I have yet to check it out...

FlyingAl

I don't think it is getting anywhere near the traffic that was expected. New posts can't be numbering more than 15 a day or so from what I see.

pcgscacgold

I visit MyCollect several times a day and never go to IG for coin related things (I do use IG for other content).

I like the platform and post there regularly. I also use it to connect with new people and some that are also here. I would like to see the bust half group get more action over there as it is a central location to discuss things as opposed to a thread here and there. So far there is little posted by others.

I also like the inventory and set building capabilities there. I would think others would find the set registry nice because you can load PCGS, CACG and NGC slabs.

pcgscacgold

As an add on, just went there now and had a message from a "friend" about a coin available.

pcgscacgold

@lermish said:
I was somewhat excited when it began but I have found myself logging in less and less often, maybe once a week now, and when I do I see very little new content or posts.

Yes you are correct. I am surprised more don't use it for tracking sets.

If I had not bought and posted coins from you and @pursuitofliberty there would be very little new content on the Bust Half Group page. I posted a message a few days ago asking the 131 followers to put some photos up. Nothing yet but I check each day to see.

gumby1234

Its definitely slow over there. I think it has potential except for chatting with other collectors.

giorgio11

I've started a Certified Lincoln Cents group and it has 78 members currently, but the excitement seems to have died down a lot and frankly almost no one else ever posts in the group. I've even written a couple of articles on Lincoln cents as an educational aid for beginning collectors. Not much traction there either.

I think Ian had better start ranking some of those Registry Sets people have posted and maybe do some other things to create a stir, or it's going to end up like (ahem) Sleepy Hollow. IYKYK.

Frankly, I have to say my attendance and participation in this forum are way down as well since PCGS has screwed up the whole Digital Album Photos mess and no one at PCGS seems to care (save for one kind photographer).

Kind regards, George

pcgscacgold

One by one I have been finding/adding "friends" on MyCollect. I go by the same "name" there so feel free to send a friend invite. It is easier to see posts if linked as friend.

giorgio11

@pcgscacgold said:

@lermish said:
I was somewhat excited when it began but I have found myself logging in less and less often, maybe once a week now, and when I do I see very little new content or posts.

Yes you are correct. I am surprised more don't use it for tracking sets.

If I had not bought and posted coins from you and @pursuitofliberty there would be very little new content on the Bust Half Group page. I posted a message a few days ago asking the 131 followers to put some photos up. Nothing yet but I check each day to see.

I just posted a new Bust half Trueview, my little contribution @pcgscacgold . Take care! George

Catbert

I haven’t visited in weeks. I still think here is where the “action” is.

P0CKETCHANGE

I suspect we are the “beta testers”, and they will be making changes based on how the platform has been used. Remember that Ian owns an extremely successful auction business and has (as far as I know) done nothing to promote MyCollect except make a post here on the forum. I still enjoy using it and have even bought a couple coins by messaging on the platform.

NeophyteNumismatist

I still love the concept of having areas of specialized knowledge without threads getting buried. Unfortunately, I have been keeping the half cent group afloat. FB already has a very successful HC group, so that hurts traffic on MyCollect. I hate FB with a passion, but once something is established, people don't want to convert.

BLUEJAYWAY

Have not visited the site as yet. But will eventually get there. Its mentioned here there are some articles that were posted on the site. May learn something new.

Floridafacelifter

Fair to middling- but I wish them success

FrankH

I'm still with Collective Coin
https://collectivecoin.com/
It's the best for my purposes. Simple, intuitive and NOT AT ALL mimicking ANY.... social ....media site.
I'm using it for my BST in the World Coin category here.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1095375/group-of-world-coins-for-sale-couple-gold-coins-added#latest

1madman

I feel somewhat guilty to say it, but I visited and registered on the site the first day it was available, and I’ve never gone back since to check it out.

There was even a booth at the ANA for the website

FrankH

From grading to "coin sites" ....complication isn't a positive thing.

Windycity

I like the groups concept but don't like the main page being dominated by coins for sale.

bigjpst

I check in every couple days. Not much new in the groups I follow. Including the BST.

Conshyboy

I don't get the same vibe from my collect as I get here by that I mean friendliness, commoradary and just feeling welcomed. There is very little interaction among posters

Catbert

Welcome comrade @Conshyboy ! We do have camaraderie here (said in a friendly manner).

Conshyboy

Lol I was unsure of that spelling and didn't feel like looking it up but you're response is why I enjoy this Forum as opposed to others. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. @Catbert

pursuitofliberty

@Windycity said:
I like the groups concept but don't like the main page being dominated by coins for sale.

@Conshyboy said:
I don't get the same vibe from my collect as I get here by that I mean friendliness, commoradary and just feeling welcomed. There is very little interaction among posters

Indeed. I agree with both of these statements, a lot.

Even though sometimes this place get's quiet, or a bit off center, in so many ways it really hard to beat this place. Thanks PCGS if you're reading this.

I registered, did a minor profile, and a post (or two?), and check occasionally. It isn't lively, so I don't participate.

burfle23

I was excited about it and posted more at the start than I do now; see little response to posts there.

coinbuf

Funny I was just wondering the same a few days ago. So I followed one of the links provided in an older thread to get to one of the groups. Like before you are unable to move around the site; this seems like a bad move as it means you cannot view very much of mycollect without creating a profile. There was a work around for this but that seems to have been closed off, I have not signed up and I still see no reason to at this time.

SanctionII

I joined and participate in a few groups. I have posted a few times , including photos. The responses to my posts and photos have been minimal. I now check in every couple of weeks and note the activity level is much less than on these forums.

pmh1nic

The UC forum is the standard by which we judge other coin forums. Given the number of members here you only need a small percentage of the members adding content every day to keep the forum active versus a new forum where every member would have to add content every day to give the appears of a similar volume of activity.

Conshyboy

I had posted an interesting article here on CU regarding local steel mill destroying experimental coins back in the 70s it got many views and good comments put the same post on Mycollect and not one comment about the content of the story and its a dam good story. I just found it odd that nobody on that forum had anything to say about it.

burfle23

@Conshyboy said:
I had posted an interesting article here on CU regarding local steel mill destroying experimental coins back in the 70s it got many views and good comments put the same post on Mycollect and not one comment about the content of the story and its a dam good story. I just found it odd that nobody on that forum had anything to say about it.

I would have commented if I had seen it; I mostly see coins for sale or adds to folks inventory. I try to participate in a counterfeit reporting Group.

pcgscacgold

I could be wrong but my experience is that you see things from “friends”. As soon as someone here accepted my friend request I saw some things they had posted. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place though.

U1chicago

@pcgscacgold said:
I could be wrong but my experience is that you see things from “friends”. As soon as someone here accepted my friend request I saw some things they had posted. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place though.

I think that is true. The only time you would see other posts (not from friends) is if you directly go to a group.

DCW

I really like the concept. I created a couple of groups. The Civil War tokens group is I think 91 members. But maybe 3 or 4 people actually post. And nobody really comments about anything other than saying something is "nice."
It's disheartening.
Perhaps, the name suggest to people that it is something personal, and you simply post photos of your (MyCollect)ion.
That isn't very fun or interesting. I like to engage in conversations about pieces and learn about history.
The participation simply isn't there.

Conshyboy

@burfle23 I had posted it in the articles section which at the time seemed appropriate it got 67 views but not 1 comment. I don't feel I make the connections there like I do here

DCW

People just seem strangely hesitant to reply to posts there. As if the whole point is someone documenting their collection by posting photos

EliteCollection

I think the issue is that when someone replies to a post, it doesn't resurface that post to the top of the page for others. So people don't see replies. Maybe that's something @ianrussell can fix.

I try to interact with people's posts, but it does seem like people are reluctant to comment.

coinbuf

Someone else mentioned the excessive number of for sale posts, I noticed right away when I first looked at the site that many of the groups seemed to be heavily spammed with offers to sell coins. It may just be possible that the bulk of the members on mycollect are IG, internet sellers who are less interested in interaction just there to sell?

winesteven

I partake in MyCollect mainly by adding inventory. I think it’s unfortunate the “forum” concept is unwieldy, but that could be due to how this one (PCGS) is designed and laid out, and it’s different on MyCollect?

Steve

EliteCollection

@coinbuf said:
Someone else mentioned the excessive number of for sale posts, I noticed right away when I first looked at the site that many of the groups seemed to be heavily spammed with offers to sell coins. It may just be possible that the bulk of the members on mycollect are IG, internet sellers who are less interested in interaction just there to sell?

There's a lot of for sale posts because there's incentives to post for sale posts. It's free to post with potential to make money. There are less incentives for people to move their conversations from forums to MyCollect. Maybe over time if MyCollect improves it's site and there's more people joining, there will be more interactions. It's network effect that MyCollect does not have yet.

I think the inventory and set registry functions is great. When rankings and points system is added, I bet there will be renewed interest.

U1chicago

@coinbuf said:
Someone else mentioned the excessive number of for sale posts, I noticed right away when I first looked at the site that many of the groups seemed to be heavily spammed with offers to sell coins. It may just be possible that the bulk of the members on mycollect are IG, internet sellers who are less interested in interaction just there to sell?

There are several groups that are specifically called buy/sell/trade so when I was posting, I’d use those. However, it seems like some were posting the same item in those groups as well as the ones that weren’t meant to be sales groups (and that does give the impression of spamming).

burfle23

@pcgscacgold said:
I could be wrong but my experience is that you see things from “friends”. As soon as someone here accepted my friend request I saw some things they had posted. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place though.

Well, I didn't unfriend anyone who had requested me friend them, but I did unfollow several and cut the sales ads in my feed way down...

giorgio11

@giorgio11 said:
I've started a Certified Lincoln Cents group and it has 78 members currently, but the excitement seems to have died down a lot and frankly almost no one else ever posts in the group. I've even written a couple of articles on Lincoln cents as an educational aid for beginning collectors. Not much traction there either.

I think Ian had better start ranking some of those Registry Sets people have posted and maybe do some other things to create a stir, or it's going to end up like (ahem) Sleepy Hollow. IYKYK.

Frankly, I have to say my attendance and participation in this forum are way down as well since PCGS has screwed up the whole Digital Album Photos mess and no one at PCGS seems to care (save for one kind photographer).

Kind regards, George

Here's the link to the Certified Lincoln Cents group:
https://mycollect.com/groups/certified_lincoln_cents

winesteven

@giorgio11 said:

@giorgio11 said:
I've started a Certified Lincoln Cents group and it has 78 members currently, but the excitement seems to have died down a lot and frankly almost no one else ever posts in the group. I've even written a couple of articles on Lincoln cents as an educational aid for beginning collectors. Not much traction there either.

I think Ian had better start ranking some of those Registry Sets people have posted and maybe do some other things to create a stir, or it's going to end up like (ahem) Sleepy Hollow. IYKYK.

Frankly, I have to say my attendance and participation in this forum are way down as well since PCGS has screwed up the whole Digital Album Photos mess and no one at PCGS seems to care (save for one kind photographer).

Kind regards, George

Here's the link to the Certified Lincoln Cents group:
https://mycollect.com/groups/certified_lincoln_cents

I just joined your group. In a couple of days I’ll post my Lincoln Wheat DATE set. Photos will take a week or two longer.

Steve

pcgscacgold

@winesteven It has been great to see all your coins there. I stop in at MyCollect first thing every morning. I have running conversations going with two or 3 people over there. It is so easy to "talk" with people on MyCollect.

I do wish more used the groups feature. It would be nice to learn about Capped Bust Halves and that is a much easier place to do it then here with thread after thread to weed through.

Your coins are superb. You have a great eye for quality. Congrats on what you have accomplished.

giorgio11

@winesteven said:

@giorgio11 said:

@giorgio11 said:
I've started a Certified Lincoln Cents group and it has 78 members currently, but the excitement seems to have died down a lot and frankly almost no one else ever posts in the group. I've even written a couple of articles on Lincoln cents as an educational aid for beginning collectors. Not much traction there either.

I think Ian had better start ranking some of those Registry Sets people have posted and maybe do some other things to create a stir, or it's going to end up like (ahem) Sleepy Hollow. IYKYK.

Frankly, I have to say my attendance and participation in this forum are way down as well since PCGS has screwed up the whole Digital Album Photos mess and no one at PCGS seems to care (save for one kind photographer).

Kind regards, George

Here's the link to the Certified Lincoln Cents group:
https://mycollect.com/groups/certified_lincoln_cents

I just joined your group. In a couple of days I’ll post my Lincoln Wheat DATE set. Photos will take a week or two longer.

Steve

Welcome Steve! Looking forward to your participation!

Kind regards,

George

oreville

Is it easy to use to keep track of multiple PCGS and NGC graded coins of the same date, mm and grade?

JeffersonFrog

Over the last two months, I have posted almost daily on MyCollect. I like the concept. But.

It would be nice to know what the Principals' ultimate goal is, because for whatever reason, there's not a whole lot of posting going on, and there is almost zero conversation going on. For example, the Mercury Dimes group has only 8 posts since MyCollect's launch. 8!

Again, I don't know what the business purpose of MC is, but in my opinion, the GUI does not lend itself to conversation. But my basis for saying this is these Boards, which I have become so accustomed to. When I showed my daughter the, "Can you believe they did this?" screen, she said, "Yeah, that's how Instagram does it." So maybe they aren't trying to mimic these Boards. Maybe they are trying to attract a younger audience. Maybe it's a placeholder for something in the future. Who knows?

In the meantime, there appears to be a fairly high number of people viewing, a few people posting, and almost no one collaborating.

Thru my lens ...

TurtleCat

I’ve largely been disappointed with it. Most posts are trying to sell things and there isn’t much participation in any area. It is a good idea but may need a lot more for it to start achieving its goals.

The fact it has been so long and their registries still aren’t active is very odd as well.

privatecoin

Just downloaded the App on my phone today. I definitely like it and it's potentials