One of the coolest coin sites gone to garbage!
topstuf
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It's a damn shame, too. Collective coin is the easiest way to confidentially manage your collection with private notes and images.
The owner sold the site to Stacks/Bowers and lately it has become pure garbage.
No one is establishing any standards and if you look under the "For Sale" tab while browsing. (You don't have to be a member to browse. 
) you'll find stuff like a circ 1978 Washington quarter listed "for sale" @ $20,000.
Other "for sale" items are fistfuls of pennies photo'ed on the palm of the hand.
Maybe these are just beginners who don't know any better, but they really crap up what COULD be a really good collection management site and even a legit SELLING site.
What a damn shame.
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Maybe some of the people who are posts their "finds" here with multiple large photos are selling their "confirmed treasures" over there.
When was the last time you checked out that website?
Yes maybe we can send them over there so we don't have them here.....
Hoard the keys.
I have some images posted on that website, and have looked at other posted coins. Some of the items are for sale. Honestly, there is nothing on this site that strikes me as being extremely helpful to the point that I would continue to use it. In fact, I used it a couple of years ago primarily to assist myself in uploading images here. The revised PCGS software makes this totally unnecessary.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Welcome to the forum! I tend to ask a lot of questions. That's how I learn.
@scubafuel
siliconvalleycoins.com
" Collective coin is the easiest way to confidentially manage your collection with private notes and images."
There are alternate ways to do this. I simply use a Word document for everything by year purchased. Anyone who uploads coin purchases to a website, thinking that their information will strictly remain confidential, should think again. No site is totally safe from hackers.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
I think the crazy sales posts are easy enough to ignore.
Maybe Collective Coin could add an ignore feature?
I don't think the site is garbage, personally. I still have my Seated quarters hosted there. It provides a neat way to display all of the coins together, regardless of who certified them, or whether they are business strikes or proofs. It's a bit like a Registry set display, except without any constraints on what can be included. Take a look.
https://collectivecoin.com/rhedden/KQe93f7f8rh6i2DdEsAM
The site itself is nice, it's the posters that are the problem. Just got an email the other day for someone wanting several hundred (or thousand) for common, circulated clad Kennedys. I posted under each item that they were worth 50 cents. No response.
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My registry sets
I don't think an active marketplace ever developed there. I just use it to display coins and sets. I guess if a few dozen collectors/dealers got together and decided to list some fairly priced inventory there, then something constructive could be started. It would have to reach critical mass before it gets traffic, I think. Even then, is it better than the BST forum here? I don't think we should blame the website, though. After all, it's a free site.
I do this also.
If one posts on the site, it is probably best to avoid posting your home address, ss number, mother's maiden name, and credit card info.
Hackers are under every rock.
Whooooooo...,.