I lost the Valentines that my son sent me because I did not login and collect them before the event was over! I don't remember seeing anything about them having to be claimed before the event was over. And if I had claimed I would have lost the daily hammers because he was trying to finish this thing all the way up to the last second. He literally sent me those last 17 valentines 1 minute before the time was up :( I think we should have at least had the chance to grab those last few valentines today. Some people do not sit on the computer all day long. They get on, play their hammers and leave. So if someone sent them some after they played yesterday they just lost what was sent to them.

If I may add my two cents...... I can understand valentines tokens expiring once the event is over. It's up to us to be sure to spend them all before the end of the event.
However, those of us whose reset occurs in the middle of the night have received valentines from friends in different time zones who are able to play right up until reset. I'm sorry, but I don't think I should be expected to stay up until 3am (eastern time) if I want to redeem valentines prizes that are set to expire shortly after they've been sent. I think we should have had until the following reset to collect our prizes.

I agree with Karole. I play EB in the evening and my husband plays it in the morning. The 14 Awesome Valentines I sent him at 9PM Eastern were sent after he had already gone to bed. When he logged in to collect them this morning, each time he clicked on one it said that the gift had expired. Bummer.

Lisa, you are wrong as I do remember being able to claim prizes that were sent after the event. I too started with EB1. I also noticed that I did not get the slot machine at the beginning of the event. I was going for 1 year without missing a day but losing those 3 Valentines plus the loss of the slot machine plus the fact that I am stuck on one level trying to get boots for a week now has me not wanting to play.

And to add further insult to all of this I just came back into the game to play some more of my hammers as I was too tired to play them last night. I had 10 Valentines from my son and one from the developers waiting to be opened. They weren't there last night when I came in. So now I'm wondering how many more were sent but did not get to me yet. And why, if we can't open them, are the developers still sending them? And yes the tokens ended yesterday but nowhere did it say the valentines themselves would expire also. And as someone who still plays EB everyday I can tell you that anything like valentines or presents where you get something from opening them, you still have a few days to open all of your gifts before they are taken off the screen.

And that note on the main screen saying that we have 4 days left is exactly what tripped my son up. When I told him yesterday that it was the last day it kept telling me that the screen said there was 4 days left. That is why he was working until reset to try and finish the quest.

when i logged in last night it said there was 28 hours left...so i left my gifts to open tonight...when i logged in today about 14 hours later it said everything was over so i lost 32 gifts...thats not fair at all...its a total rip off