Whois & Analysis for colnect.com

Colnect Collectors Club Community, is a website containing wiki-like collectables catalogs.

It allows collectors to manage their personal collection using these catalogs and automatically match their swap/wish-lists with those of other collectors.

The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

The scope of collecting is unlimited, which is expressed in the hyperbolic expression: "If something exists, somebody somewhere collects them.".

Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods and/or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

A network that allows trade is called a market.

A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique).

There are numerous types of collectables and terms to denote those types.

An antique is a collectable that is old.

A curio is a small, usually fascinating or unusual item sought after by collectors.

A manufactured collectable is an item made specifically for people to collect.

Barter is a system of exchange where goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.

It is distinguishable from gift economies in many ways; one of them is that the reciprocal exchange is immediate and not delayed in time.

It is usually , but may be multilateral (i.e., mediated through a trade exchange) and, in most developed countries, usually only exists parallel to monetary systems to a very limited extent.

Barter, as a replacement for money as the method of exchange, is used in times of monetary crisis, such as when the currency may be either unstable (e.g., hyperinflation or deflationary spiral) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce.