Give us more time to use our Holiday Cards after we get them.

[twobits]

I had to wait for some money transfers before I could buy some of my wants from the holiday sale. I woke up and saw it was done. I build up my cart and bought the stuff I wanted. After a bit I also got 15 holiday cards. Unfortunately it was 9 different ones, so I needed one more to make the badge. I tried to post for a trade and it said I could not as I had to wait a bit longer, as I had built the first badge last night. So I could not post to trade for it, and the offers kept being filled before I could offer a trade. I started to convert some to gems, but after I converted two, they expired.

Really, less then 15 minutes to deal with your cards is just not enough. You can earn them right up to the sale ends. We should have a grace period after they are earned to be able to trade and other wise dispose of them, that should last at least a day or two past the end of the last time you can earn a new card. As it is my 15 cards I earned with my purchase were more of a tease and frustration then a bonus.

[GOB]

A grace period of a day or two to finish trading would be nice. I earned several cards right before they expired, and now I have enough duplicates to trade for a badge, but they can't be traded anymore.

[Schulz]

Agree with twobits
P.S. need Itsy and Zippy for badge

[contrivable]

+1
I was missing two cards for the full set, then bought deals in the hope to maybe get them and the expectation to be able to buy any cards still missing afterwards from the marketplace. The five cards I got from the final purchase were comprised of only three different cards and reduced the number of missing cards to one. So I clicked badge process and the last missing card, then went to the market only to be greeted by:
"This item may no longer be bought or sold on the market."

This happened before the official timeout. I only wanted one simple and, as also stated by the marketplace, still valid trading card.
23 cards but only 9 different. They are still visible in my inventory but I cannot even put them into an offer to another user.

I believe previous sales had grace periods of a day. Would need to investigate though.

[elhugo]

+1 I agree
its dissapointing I lost 2 Blase 3 Clementine 3 Itsy 3 monte 6 Rhombus 7 Sage 3 Silver 2 Sparkles 0 Tender 1 Zippy. wouldn't lost this many if the market place still sold card until the very last minute.
steam should give the users that still have cards to be able to trade, craft or make them into gems for a few days at least

[karol82]

+1
I'm an idiot. I thought cards expires at 1 February 2015 and I left almost complete set in intervory...

P.S. Sorry for my English.

[⎛⎝kingj0n⎠⎞]

I agree...

[V3R0Z]

100% agreed

[reedoo]

Agreed. This is ridiculous. Considering that you can make purchases on the last days of the sale, and no every user sits on Steam 24/7 you AT LEAST need a grace period to trade. 1-2 days is not enough, you need a week or two to finalise some trade deals with friends.

Also I think it BS that they expire at all. Considering that they have a $ value this is a total farce. The fact that they can only be earned via a specific period and via specific actions is enough to restrict their commonality I think.

[Redsco]

Agree...

[PSIII]

I crafted all I needed the night before the sale. Had two extra cards from some of the badges, but didn't do anything with them (was just gonna get rid of them in the morning). Now they're gone. Honestly, it doesn't affect me (they were just two extras) and I'm fine with it, but I really think they shouldn't disappear after the sale ends. I'm pretty sure some people bought some from the market, but wanted to wait before the end to craft, but then they get shafted by the cards (and thus, their money) disappearing. It's not fair to them. But heck, the 40 gems from the two extra cards I had would be nice...

[Otto]

I would also quite appreciate this, and I promise to use any extra time they could give us. I normally don't care about badges, but I currently have 9 out of 10 and it's very frustrating.
It stated for me that it would expire the 3rd of January, but I didn't realize it was so early morning. No excuse really, I just had so much to do this year and little time for play and sleep, I could only use Steam for learning / training / helping friends with co-op and even that was often rushed.

I really would love you guys for it, Valve.

[Mick]

I don't see it happening, sorry.

Not that I don't think they should have a little more time for them because of the holidays. I do, but I haven't really seen them change anything unless there was a major problem and it was on websites and such.

[Seretti]

You were warned from day 1 that they would expire on January 2nd. That gave people plenty of time to craft their badges and whatnot.

[aergered]

I was only burned losing a handful or cards at sale end, but it's still lost money for me. I agree more time would be nice. Give cards and then no time to actually use them... kinda dumb.

[contrivable]

There was a specific time given for when the cards would expire and it wasn't respected by Steam.
Apart from not making much sense with sales (that provided cards) expiring by the same time, Steam simply closed tradability before the stated time thus invalidating cards early. All the while they mislead customers by offering cards and showing them as valid. Again, this is arguably fraud.
I bought enough stuff to get me 5 cards somewhat close to the given expiration date since I planned to buy deals after I was done with work. Assuming that I knew the correct deadline I didn't hurry and bought in the final hour. And cards were an incentive for me to spend more recklessly. Only afterwards did I check to see I'm missing a card.
From earlier sales I knew buying on the market was easy and fast and cards where available in abundance - so that's where I went. There I had to discover I couldn't get the final card that way.
I had no prior experience with the trading forums and generally didn't want to get into deals not clearly cut with other players.
My ignorance of the trading forum and the rumoured "40 minutes" and my anger and shock about Steams sudden executive decision prevented me from even checking if I could trade with players in the alleged 40-minute grace period.
Later, when I found a fitting trade offer, I discovered that within the offer/deal page neither the other trader's inventory nor mine held any holiday trading cards thus contradicting my profiles inventory.

I know of Steam's tendency to cut deals short. I think they did this on Thanksgiving. But when they make things part of a deal that magically vanish after purchase I think I have the right to be upset and entitled to be done right by. Of course, once the fan is hit Steam is unlikely to repair a situation in which they are well-off.

Steam did such a good job with Don't Starve Frontier Pack by showing what you end up getting in case you already had Don't Starve (the singleplayer basegame). Things like that lead to a certain calm of mind when buying on steampowered.com. And then such foo happens, very disappointing.