Used stamps exchanges.

I am not sure how many members 100stamps.club have. The frontpage say 110 active members, but the ranking say 82, and the ranking of countries gives much more members. But never the less we need more new members, some of you in top 10 have or will soon get problems sending more stamps as there are no new members to sent to.
Any ideas of how to get more members? I have write about this page at my Danish homepage and at my postcrossing profile, and when my stamp club opens again in August, I will tell about the page there too.

Indeed, you don't have your address filled in. When you can't get an address you should get a red warning message explaining the reason.

ziobaffo, may be you still didn't write your address in the profile page?
"If you delete your address you automatically suspend yourself both from sending and from receiving stamps." (http://100stamps.club/discussions/messages/168)

I'm just a new member, but I can not get any addresses to send my first. I always refer to the previous page when I click on "send me an address"

I'm new here, I read about this exchange on Luke's profile at postcrossing. Do it works! At least for me!

Great that new members have joined and happy to see that the lots which are received from them all got 4 and 5 stars :-)

Happy to hear that new members are joining.
Ok to focus on the subject!

Happy to hear that new members are joining.
Ok to focus on the subject!

@ Danubius agree.. I was think the same thing. Stick to the subject
Thumbs up!

In the ranking page are displayed members that have logged in in the last year.
In the front page are displayed the active members meaning the number of members that have sent and registered at least one lot of stamps in the last 3 months.

Your help promoting this club is working. There are new members that joined. There are about 12 new members that have stamps travelling. About 4 that have lots registered. And about 6 joined but did not sent anything yet.

So, there are more then 20 members that joined since you have promoted this project on your pages.
Thank you for your help! I hope that many of them will be active.

This post was originally about new members. I suggest that we keep discussions on the subject. We can always add another subject. In this way a discussion can be clearer and focused. I have added another subject explaining the current limitations associated with the negative exchanges.

Wishlist: of course, the wish list is an orientation, not a demand. I have in my wishlist butterflies, but I can´t rate somebody low because I don´t receive butterflies. If somebody wants stamps from France, and I have stamps from France, I will send them.
If somebody wants for instance stamps from Polynesia, and stamps on badminton, he should understand that such request can not be assumed in a general forum like this.
What I want to say is no one can be "punished" because he doesn´t follow the wishlist, specially if the wishlist is narrow, and the sender don´t have wishlist.

Another idea is this:
If you ask for, lets say, stamps on animals, it is highly probable that you will receive ordinary stamps on animals, as you are a topical collector, and your sender is not a topical collector. What will happen? probably you will be dissapointed and rate him low, which is not at all fair, because if he wouldn´t have follow your wishlist, you would have been sent better stamps, not on yout topic, but better stamps.

Sorry for the long message, Regards!

Ratings: this was extensively discussed before in the forum, I think, in the end is subjective, five, nice, four nice, but less, three, neutral, somehow dissapointing, two, some stamps broken, folded, stained....1: less than 100 stamps.
If you are rated two or less, the effect is the same, you are banned. Not so bad in my opinion.
If you are always rated three, your prestige will drop, and you won´t be taken as a serious swapper by the community.
In the end, if you rate somebody 3, and upload the photo, everybody can see it is a poor sending, and the effect in the sender´s prestige is the same than if you rate two, or one...it´s my opinion.
Besides that, I think this is a friendly swap, and I assume that everybody is good willing, unless proven otherwise, that´s why I use to rate high.



doesn´t work so different as swap-bot does:
5 stars: 5 stars+heart
4stars: 5 stars
3 stars: 3 stars
2,1 stars: 1 star

Note that the "heart" in swap bot doesn´t make average, you have, for instance 4,98 points regardless how many hearts, another problem in swap-bot is you can be banned in the first swap, if somebody rates with 3.

Further more...
I think there is a difference between asking or wishing what to or what not to receive and between demanding what you want or don't want to receive.

I agree with Lipp.
But what seems to be the problem is that what is a 1,3,4 or 5 is different for everybody. That should be more objective in my opinion.

Well, I´m going to give my opinion. I disagree and agree.

This is a general site. It is not a site to swap thematic stamps.
It is a site designed for blind swaps.
It is a site designed to swap duplicated stamps, not to buy the stamps you have to send.
If I don´t have stamps from, for instance, Papua New Guinea, I am not going to buy them in the market to fulfil a requirement.

Requirements are too often very narrow.

On the other hand, if I accept any kind of stamps, and the terms of use are clear in this aspect, I can´t understand why I can´t send what I accept to myself. I cant understand why something good for me is bad for others.
I can´t understand why some persons say, for instance "I dont accept CTO, definitives,......." but they do send CTO, definitives. It is not a simmetric swap.

If you are rated attending the terms of use, you should never receive 3 stars if you send:
-100 stamps or more.
-Good condition.
-No duplicates.
-Mainly commemoratives.
What happens in reality differs from one member to another, I have been rated 3 or 5 with the same sending.

Now I´m going to give another view, in this case, supporting Jess and Alexislay.

This is not a place to send the stamps you can't swap in direct exchanges.
This is not a place to send damaged stamps, or definitive stamps which everybody already have.


My conclusions:

1.- In general, the site is working good. Better by far than others I know .
2.- Sendings should always be scanned and uploaded. Specially low rating sendings, (name and shame). This prevents opportunistic behaviours, and allow other member to know what is going on with other members. Even if somebody rates your sending low, but it is scanned and uploaded, the other members have the opportunity to see how "strict" is your partner and if the rating is fair for his standards.
3.- In general, it is not the same when you send to someone who always receives 5 stars, than when you send to somebody that previously have sent you a poor envelope, or receives 3 stars systematically, one can mistake with the rating, but not everybody.
We are only 100 people, and, I think, we all know who is behaving well.
4.- If somebody has a good average, after 50 sendings, this person should receive extra sendings for free.
5.- If somebody, after 20 sendings don't achive, lets say 4 in average should be temporarily suspended. This prevents opportunistic behaviours.
6.- But, the rating can only be assigned based on the general terms, I insist, because otherwise, it possible to send nice stamps and receive low ratings.
I have nice stamps, but maybe not on owls, ships, or planets.

Regards.

I addition to the rating system swapbot uses; when you don't meet the requirements or in this case you send damaged stamps you get a "1" and your average drops down fast.
With a low rating average you cant join anymore.

@Jess,
I perfectly understand and i think you are right. The site is not awarding the excellence of the swap, so it is not encouraging participants to make effort.

@ alexisslay I keep wondering why this cant change.

I think the system how swapbot uses it works best.
You get a Rating 5 when you meet the requirements of the swap. in this case 100 different good quality stamps. You get a heart for extra special swap.

When you don't meet the requirements you get a 3.
You have an everage of your received points which should be 5.0

If your everage is lower than lets say 4.8 you cant join the exchanges. So everybody does their best to meet the requirements. And everybody receives good swaps.

I hope I explained it properly?

i already bring here several people from stampboards community, but they almost all stopped, like i will probably do.
I am trying to prepare the best 100 stamps possible to please the swap partner, and i am receiving too often poor lots.
The site is not strong enough against low quality swap. This will just not allow it to grow as it should be.
All the people who wrote a message on the topic are excellent swappers, But how many maintain an average under 4 for what they sent?

I have 5000+ instagram followers, will post about this too!

I have mentioned http://100stamps.club in my postcrossing profile (igro) and in the stamps collectors forum I often participate (http://filateliaactiva.forosactivos.net)

I have mentioned the 100 stamps club on my postcrossing profile, swapbot and Instagram.
I hope new members will join this club

I have mentioned the 100 stamps club on my profile on postcrossing.com and swap-bot.com
So hopefully stamp collectors will get interested to join the 100 stamp club :)