Buy Uptrip cards on OpenSea

Here is how to buy Uptrip cards on OpenSea without surprises: compare a card's offers on this site, follow the link to the listing you like and complete the purchase with your wallet on OpenSea. Uptrip Card Market has nothing to sell itself, so the payment always runs between you, the seller and OpenSea.

Before you start: account and wallet

OpenSea ties every account to a crypto wallet. Without a wallet of your own, you can sign up with an email address and OpenSea creates the account and a wallet together; a wallet you already use can be connected instead. If the card should later show up in the Uptrip app, keep in mind that Uptrip's help names MetaMask, Trust Wallet and Rainbow as the wallets it supports.

Minted Uptrip cards sit on the Polygon blockchain. Funds held on another chain can still be used, because OpenSea can switch them over during checkout. In regions that MoonPay serves, OpenSea also accepts credit and debit cards through that payment partner, which adds a processing fee.

Finding the card and the offer

Cities, airlines, planes and specials have their own pages on this site. Start from the city cards or the plane cards and open the group you are after. That page puts the offers currently open on OpenSea side by side, and its list of recent sales shows what buyers actually paid. The cheapest open offer of a group is its floor price. For a quick look across everything on sale, buy Uptrip cards on the start page lists the cards with open offers, starting with the cheapest.

Collecting for a particular Uptrip collection? Then open its page under collections. It shows which cards the collection asks for, which ones are on sale right now and what the missing ones would cost at today's offers.

Checking the offer

Following the Buy on OpenSea link opens the listing directly. Look at it closely: the item should belong to the collection uptrip-cards(opens in a new tab), and the card name should match the card you want. The contract address of that collection is listed in the Uptrip NFT guide.

Then compare the price at checkout with the figure you saw here. The offers on this site are refreshed automatically, but in between a listing may already be sold, cancelled or given a new price, and what counts is the price OpenSea shows. OpenSea also recommends looking at the seller and at the history of a collection before buying.

Completing the purchase

The wallet window is your last chance to catch a mistake, so give it a moment. Check that the amount matches the offer you chose and that the item is the Uptrip card you meant to buy; once you sign, the blockchain will not reverse the payment. To get there, click Buy now on the listing and follow OpenSea's checkout.

Expect a second cost besides the card itself: the network fee, called gas. It pays the network's validators, OpenSea keeps none of it, and you do not get it back when a transaction fails. If the asking price is too high for you, you can make an offer instead. That needs funds in wrapped form on Polygon, and the seller decides whether to accept.

After the purchase

When the blockchain has confirmed the transaction, the card sits in the Collected tab of your OpenSea profile. If that wallet is linked to your Uptrip account, Uptrip's help says the card appears in the app as well, as a non-original, since you did not fly for it.

Whether the card helps you with a collection depends on how many originals that collection demands. Our guide to originals and non-originals explains the rule, and the guide to getting Uptrip cards describes the other route, which starts with a flight of your own.