Collectorz.com Newsletter October 2007
Dear collector,
In this newsletter:
- Collectorz.com news: Happy 7th Anniversary
- Collectorz.com Connect update
- Meet the Collector: Alwin Hoogerdijk & The Collection that started it all
- Top Tip: Surprise your loved ones with the X-mas Gift Package
- Your favorite CDs, DVDs, games and comics
Collectorz.com news: Happy 7th Anniversary
This month Collectorz.com celebrates its 7th anniversary. We would like to thank all Collectorz.com customers who have purchased our products in the past 7 years; some of you even before that, when Music Collector was still known as Keep it Compact. Without your support and feedback we wouldn't have been able to bring the products and the company to the current level.Thank you all!
Collectorz.com Connect update
Visit the Connect pages, the homes of our databases for DVDs, CDs, comics and games.Here's an update:
Movie Collector Connect: Each movie has its own details page with more info like cast & crew, release year, running time, genre, plot and available media editions on DVD, Blu-ray or VHS.
New is the review box. Share your opinion with other movie fans and review and rate your favorite movie or TV series. See for example Superman: Doomsday with Adam Baldwin.
Meet the Collector: Alwin Hoogerdijk & The Collection that started it all
Alwin Hoogerdijk, CEO of Collectorz.com, had (and still has) a huge CD collection himself in the early 90s. Having bought multiple duplicates, he started looking for a decent solution to catalog them. Being a programmer, he started working on a CD cataloger just for himself and his own collection. When he had finished the program and added his collection to it, he named it Keep it Compact and published it on the internet just for the fun of it.Other collectors found his program useful and in the years to follow, more functionality was added. Alwin's collection of CDs kept growing (800+) but also his piles of DVDs and video games: the Collectorz.com series was born.
In 2000, Keep it Compact was renamed to Music Collector and Movie Collector was published as the second product in the range with five more to follow.
Music Collector is the oldest product in the range. Keep your eye out for version 8, a major upgrade which brings many new features and enhancements of existing ones.
Top Tip: Surprise your loved ones with the X-mas Gift Package
As a Collectorz.com user, you know exactly where your collectables are since you have them nicely organized with our software.Share your experience and surprise friends and family on Christmas Day with our Collectorz.com X-Mas Gift Package.
The Contents:
- The Collectorz.com laser barcode scanner for on-the-shelf scanning
- Three Collectorz.com Pro programs of your choice
- The Collectorz.com software backup CD
- Premium email support for one year
- Worldwide shipping
- FREE Gift wrapping
Your favorite CDs, DVDs, games and comics
Music, Movie, Game and Comic Collector use our online databases to retrieve details and cover art. It's fun to see what the most popular titles are over the last four weeks, especially for CDs. New releases enter the top 10 immediately, like the new Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and John Fogerty.Your favorites:
Top 3 DVDs:
1. Transformers
2. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
3. 300
[ more ]
Top 3 games:
1. Halo 3 [Xbox 360]
2. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box [PC]
3. Bioshock [PC]
[ more ]
Top 3 comic series:
1. Countdown [DC]
2. The Uncanny X-Men [Marvel]
3. X-Men [Marvel]
[ more ]
Top 3 CDs:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
2. Queen - Greatest Hits
3. Mark Knopfler - Kill To Get Crimson
[ more ]
- Happy Collecting -
The Collectorz.com team,
Alwin, Bernard, Ronald, Sven, Henk-Jan, AJ, Mark, Vinnie & Syts
www.collectorz.com
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