Uptrip card prices explained

Uptrip card prices are not set by anyone in the middle. Each seller on OpenSea names an asking price, and that price can change or disappear at any moment. Rather than quoting a figure, the sections below explain how prices appear on this site: every card group lists its current offers starting with the cheapest, next to the sales recorded so far. What binds you is the amount OpenSea shows at checkout.

How a price comes about

A card reaches OpenSea once its owner has minted it in the Uptrip app. The owner then lists it at a fixed amount of their choosing, frequently adding a date on which the listing ends. Anyone who accepts that amount can buy the card straight away. If it is too high for you, OpenSea lets you propose a lower sum as a bid, and the owner decides whether to take it.

Uptrip Card Market stays out of this deal. It sells nothing, sets no prices and does not rate sellers. It reads the listings from OpenSea and lines them up so you can compare them.

Reading an offer on this site

Open a card group, for instance through the city cards or the aircraft cards, and its offer table sits below the introduction. Every row stands for a card and its seller, sorted by price with the cheapest at the head. Besides the amount, a row tells you when the card was listed, when the listing runs out and who is selling.

Amounts are given in the token of the listing, just as OpenSea delivers them. When you compare rows, look at the token as well as at the number. The large box in the page header repeats the cheapest offer of the group and links straight to it. Further down, each card tile names the cheapest current offer for its card or says that the card is not for sale.

Last sale and floor price

Offers tell you what sellers want today, sales tell you what people were willing to pay. The page header of a card group names the latest sale together with its date, and the list of recent sales lower on the page goes back from there. A single old sale says little about today, while several similar sales in recent weeks give you a better feel for the market.

NFT traders call the cheapest item currently listed in a collection its floor price. On this site, each card group has such a floor of its own: it is the price in the row at the head of its offer table.

What this site cannot tell you

Every row is a snapshot. The tables refresh automatically, but by the time you click, the seller may have changed the amount or the card may be gone. Checkout on OpenSea has the final word, and the network fee for the transaction is charged in addition.

Bids that buyers place on OpenSea do not appear here, because the tables show asking prices of sellers. Nor can the site tell you what a card is worth to you. That depends on whether it fills a gap in a collection of yours and on how the Uptrip app counts it.

Collecting towards a reward? Originals come from flights you take yourself, while any card you buy on OpenSea counts as a non-original. A bought card therefore fills places in a collection that do not ask for originals, never the original ones. For those open places, cheap offers are an economical way to get there. The tip section of our guide to Uptrip collections explains how to plan it. Before you buy, check in the Uptrip app that the collection and its reward are still open.

Where to see live prices

Prices here are live data, which is why this guide contains no figures. For the current offers sorted by airline, start at the airlines; for series and event cards, open the specials. A collection page under collections adds up the cost of its missing cards at current offers.

What the rarity and edition labels on the cards mean, and why they do not tell you a price, is covered in the guide to rarity, editions and specials.