Hey Cavaler, I tested it and it works. That alone already deserves a congratulations.
But to be honest, I find it rather time consuming and not very user friendly:
- It's useless for people who collect by date because you can only fill in the type, not the date or mint mark or variety.
- You have to go to every coin page of the coins you want to search for the catalogue number which is very time consuming.
- I filled in (as a test) 4 very common coins from Argentina and 1 very common coin from Aruba. After only 5 very common coins the result was already only member who has all 5 in his swap list. And then it turns out it was someone who is already a member since a few years but never made one single swap. So I was back to square one.
- Another problem (although I'm sure that's solvable): you can't delete coins you've added. Suppose after adding x coins you still have a lot of members who have all these coins and then you add one more coin and only one member left (that's what happened to me when I filled in 4 Argentina coins and 1 Aruba coin). That swapper wasn't available but I couldn't delete that last coin to go back to that whole list of members who had at least the other 4. So I have to start all over again.
- Another serious problem: after filling in a lot of coins you finally come to one member who has all the coins. But then it turns out he's not reliable (bad feedback), he's not active anymore, he lives in a country where postal services are not reliable, he lives in a country far far away which means high shipment costs,....
I support every effort you make to make swapping easier and I certainly don't want to disappoint you but I don't think this one is a solution swappers are waiting for. The general idea behind this is fantastic, but I think there are just too much practical disadvantages. Maybe some of them are solvable. If you could exclude inactive members, that would be a great step forwards but I'm afraid you don't have that kind of information?
