Upper Deck e-Pack Trading Feature Launches March 21st

[RGM81]

Just received the following email from Upper Deck:

Trading is Coming to Upper Deck e-Pack™ on March 21st! Completing your sets will now get even easier, as trading is coming to Upper Deck e-Pack™ on March 21st.
With trading on e-Pack you will be able to send trade offers for cards you want and complete your sets even faster! What’s more, once a trade is accepted, the trade happens instantly.
Make sure to check out this exciting new feature on March 21st!

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Please note that we will be setting up a special sub-forum in the Hockey Trading area where members can post their WTTF and FT lists.
e-Pack transactions will not be eligible for feedback in the Trade Manager. We are simply providing a venue for our members to connect and set up deals with one another on e-Pack.

[creasecollector]

Pretty cool, nice to see the trading function finally added. This will please a lot of collectors who love to rip E-Packs !

[Rraincock]

I think that this may save e-pack (for this year).

I wonder though, aside from the McDavid YG and some of the higher end jersey cards, who would bother trading common cards? I wouldn't mind finishing off my sets (to get to the super silver magical set and the McDavid bonus cards)... but there is no way that I can leverage that many trades without buying a case of the product to begin with.

I hope that the e-pack trend dies soon.

[RGM81]

Deal out your commons for the guys you like, get the shiny.

[MattDMC]

I wonder if you can only do 1 for 1 trades or will it allow you to do a 50 for 1 trade? I wonder what kind of limits it will have?

[creasecollector]

I wonder if you can only do 1 for 1 trades or will it allow you to do a 50 for 1 trade? I wonder what kind of limits it will have?

Good point. Never thought of that. Will be interesting to see what UD does here.

[TRDouble]

That's what I've been wanting to do.

I don't have a COMC account and don't plan on getting one, unless I really, really have to, so I've been waiting for this.

[30ranfordfan]

I assume the platform they're using is similar to the Tim Horton's site that was launched back in the fall. There you could trade your extra cards "for any card I need" or look for a specific one. You didn't actually search someone out to make that deal with: The system did that for your.

I'm going to bet there is a way for you to list the cards you want, and then offer up whatever you want to get rid of. As more and more users do that, the system should just make trades for you.

[RGM81]

Having talked with Chris Carlin a little bit about the trading platform...

Me: 1. Will trading, when it comes, be peer to peer or will it be automatically fulfilled by the system as it was for the Tim Hortons promotion? I really hope for the former. If I have three cards that my friend collects, and he has three Carey Price cards, I'd much prefer to be able to deal with him directly so we can help out each other's collecting.

Chris: *The plan is for trading to take place on a peer-to-peer basis. Since this is a digital environment, the trade (when accepted) will happen securely and instantly.

[Sharky94]

Definitely looking forward to trading. I have 138 cards, and I have three of six different players. Yet, I still only have two Sharks cards, total! Love that distribution...