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Hello all. I want to move my whole sell/trade list to my second collection. Is there a way to do that?

I beleive you can only do it one set at a time.  When in the set , use th drop down menu to isolate only the cards For Sale/Trade. Then use the other drop down menyu to Move all Items to "Collection".  This will only move the Items that are shown.

I have never been a 2nd collection guy but maybe I just don't get it? What is the advantage/reason for wanting those cards in a 2nd collection?

In my experience it's a barrier to free trade as your prospective trading partner has to move in between your want list and your FS/FT list. But maybe there are other advantages to such an arrangement? 

Let's say you have a set with 750 (blue) of the cards witht he remaining 42 (pink) in your wants. Of the 750 cards you already have you also have 700 of them for trade (green).  If all of these are in the same collection and you display 100 cards per page, instead of 8 pages, you have 15 pages.  If you buy 3 cards you have as wants at a garage sale, let's say #498, 612 and 722 so you go to update your collection, what page are these cards on? 498 on 7, 8?, 612 on 11, 12, 13?, 722 on 14, 15?  If you have superfast internet, clicking on several pages may not be a boig deal But iwht rural internet, this can be a slow process.

By having my traders in a "Traders" collection and only having my Haves and Wants in the same collection, I know #498 is on page 5 maybe 6 depending on VAR, 612 on page 7 and 722 on page 8.  Yes, you can isolate only your wants and update form there but the site sometimes kicks you back to the full collection each time you "Add Card to your Collection".  Now take this into the 2008 Upper Deck Documentary set of almost 5,000 cards.

If the extra clicking on pages is not a big deal to you, then stay with one colelction.  For me where I have some 80,000 individual traders and I have rural internet (barely better than dial-up), it does so I use a Traders collecction for my baseball.

For the OPs question, I went back and looked in case there were recent updates. Nope. As Bruno stated, you'll have to do it individually. I had to do it like that when I separated everything out. Pain, yes, but worth it in the end.

As for reason to separate, for many like myself it makes the collections look cleaner. Every collection has its purpose. Each sport has their own collection (haves and wantlist) and then I have my collection that is for traders only. Everything has its place and easier for me to keep things organized. This was especially so when my PC was tied into my main collection and I had a lot of overlapping information that became confusing.

I may have misunderstood. My assumption was that you were creating a new "trading" collection with a new Username that would exist separately from your main collection. In my experience, I have found those members who have multiple usernames tough but not impossible to navigate. 

If I'm close to a second complete set. I may build it and sell/trade it as such

To clarify. Let's say I have moved all my dups to trade/sell but I decided I don't want to trade/sell at the moment but I have people I know that want to buy some of my extras (friends IRL) then I don't want to move my whole trade/sell list into my collection because it will then be too big to search (even at 1000 per page). So it sounds like it isn't a thing unless a set at a time, so I'll propose it as a new feature. 

What sandyrusty says makes sense but for me I just prefer to have all those pages and one collection. I don't see a 2nd collection as much of an added benefit for me but I do find it helpful to hear why others use that feature.