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This weekend all of Colnect's premium services will be freely available to all members. The promotion will begin on Thursday noon and end at Monday noon. Relevant timezone UTC+0.

Premium membership gives you access to several features that will enhance your Colnect experience. Colnect provides most of its services for free. If you regularly use Colnect, please consider supporting us by becoming a premium member. Premium membership is given to members who either actively help on Colnect or to members who pay for it.

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[Z987654321]

Gracias por vuestra amabilidad y forma de hacer mas facil el coleccionismo

[Umberto2]

Very nice. Good idea. But how can one subscribe for the Free Premium Weekend?

[Janwwm]

I just tried some of the premium options and I am a little bit puzzled of one option: Best Matches.

I always thought that this function gave me no results because I was not a premium member, but now (in the premium weekend) it still gives me no results.

I know for sure that there are other collectors who collects shop cart coins (winkelwagenmuntjes), but I see no results in my list of 'best matches'. Not even 1 collector.....

Does this function/option not work this weekend, or is there something else wrong?

Thanks already for your quick reply (so I can test possible solutions you come with)....

[Umberto2]

Please forget my question about subsription for the Free Premium Weekend.

I found out that it - of course - is working already.

[tcawe]

I just tried some of the premium options and I am a little bit puzzled of one option: Best Matches.

Let me explain the "Best Matches" algorithms and you'll know why you get no matches. It checks two kinds of matches: your swap list to another's wish list (let's call it w2s) and your wish list to another's swap list (let's call it s2w). It records the amount of matches ONLY if there are more than X matches found as otherwise we assume this match isn't interesting enough to be reported.

When you click "Best Matches" you see a list of all collectors for whom you had more than X w2s matches AND more than X s2w matches. In your case, while there were a few members who want more than X items of your swap list, there are none who offer more than X of your wish list.

So what is X and why not configure it differently? Mostly X was 20, today I raised it to 30 and will now try to launch it with 10 (wait an hour and it'll be done) and see how it affects results. Having higher X value means that people in the best matches are more likely to be a good match and having a lower X value means there will be more people shown on the list. Perhaps we should record all matches and let the member configure this X for each launch. Let's see how this premium weekend goes and what we learn from it.

As for you personally, you simply don't have many items listed on Colnect. This is both the reason that "Best Matches" has always been open for you and also the reason that it has been empty. So yes, the empty list should have a better message explaining why it is empty. It's clearly written on the Best Matches help page : " If the list is empty, it is likely because either your swap list or wish list is too small."

[lombardigian]

VERY GOOD IDEA !! THANK YOU FOR THE HELP !!

[Janwwm]

Let me explain the "Best Matches" algorithms and you'll know why you get no matches. {Explanation deleted)

Thank you for the explanation. That makes it indeed a lot easier to understand.

As for you personally, you simply don't have many items listed on Colnect.

Hmm.... In comparison to a lot of other collectors it is indeed 'not many items', but in the subcategory that I collect it is quite a lot. And all the rest are in my wish list (I want everything ).

The reason that I do not have many items is that there are not so many items on Colnect that I collect. But I am working on a nice addition to the shop cart collection, because I want to be able to show all my tokens from Holland, Belgium, Germany, England and Sweden. It just takes a lot of time to scan them all....

This is both the reason that "Best Matches" has always been open for you and also the reason that it has been empty. So yes, the empty list should have a better message explaining why it is empty.

I think that would be a good idea to improve the option, so (new) collectors understand it easier...

It's clearly written on the Best Matches help page : " If the list is empty, it is likely because either your swap list or wish list is too small."

That is something where we differ in definition/opinion. With a big collection like stamps or tea bags you are completely correct that 500 in a wish and/or swap list is a low number, but on 700 available shop cart coins it should be called a big list.

When you look in the TOKENS collectors list and you sort on collection, you will see me on the 5th position with 240 tokens in the collection, 77 swap tokens and 403 on my wish list. So, if my lists are already 'too small', what about all those other token collectors who have smaller collections/lists???

[buissjaak]

Very nice and i hope to make different swaps because you can see in a time what i have to swap where you looking for and what you can offer me what have my interested.

All PM are welcome and get answhere.

Best Regards Sjaak Buis Have a nice weekend at Colnect

[tcawe]

Glad to see the positive response for this free premium weekend We aspire to have all serious collectors become permanent premium members, as support of premium members (either by volunteering or paying) is what helps Colnect become so much better over time.

When you look in the TOKENS collectors list and you sort on collection, you will see me on the 5th position with 240 tokens in the collection, 77 swap tokens and 403 on my wish list. So, if my lists are already 'too small', what about all those other token collectors who have smaller collections/lists???

There was obviously no disrespect towards your collection or its size Best Matches are calculated across categories so if there's a member with whom one might exchange items in a few categories, all will be considered together. But your comment did open up an important issue of how to configure that X to perhaps allow smaller numbers as well in some cases. Perhaps we could limit the total amount of members who would appear on such a list to, say, 100 at most and thereby decrease X to something as minimal as 3. Anyway, please vote on this new topic.

[Janwwm]

There was obviously no disrespect towards your collection or its size

I know that and I am not in any way offended...

I just chose one of the smaller collections to collect...

Best Matches are calculated across categories so if there's a member with whom one might exchange items in a few categories, all will be considered together.

This explaines a lot for me, what I did not understand before!

I always thought (until now) that this option worked on ONE COLLECTION....

For example: I have tokens (shop cart coins) and I am looking for other collectors who also collect these items.

I always thought that when I use Best Matches I would get those results WITHIN the category Tokens....

But your comment did open up an important issue of how to configure that X to perhaps allow smaller numbers as well in some cases. Perhaps we could limit the total amount of members who would appear on such a list to, say, 100 at most and thereby decrease X to something as minimal as 3. Anyway, please vote on this new topic.

I already did...

I would like it to define X myself, but also to limit it to 1 category, for example Tokens.

Although I have some other items for swap, it is not something I collect. I just hope that some collectors (who are interested in those items) have shopping cart tokens for me instead.... So a combination of more collections could work for me, but not both ways, because I want to swap my swappable items (like paperclips and/or coins) for tokens, not for other swappable items which I don't collect....

I know I want a lot.....and just little to give, but a question not asked is a lost question....

[roadorltd]

Sunt interesat sa folosesc ocazia pe care o ofereiti de a fi membru Premiu !

Multumiri anticipate,

Adrian Gratz - roadorltd

[ciusek]

Very good idea. Thank you.

[gonparper]

no lo entiendo bien, está escrito en inglés, le doy al traductor y no me traduce, no entiendo los pasos a dar.

[tcawe]

To all asking: you don't need to do anything to enjoy premium services this weekend until Monday 12PM (UTC+0 timezone).

Espanol: no se debe hacer nada para disfrutar todos los servicios premio este fin de semana hasta el mediodia de Lunes (UTC+0)