“Prismatic Evolutions” Demand Higher than Supply, Allocations Severely Cut to Local Stores

[Water Pokémon Master]

Your local Pokemon stores are in pain.
Despite TPCi printing a similar amount of Prismatic Evolutions as previous holiday sets, many local stores have been forced to limit or even cancel customer preorders.
By our polling, an average U.S. store is receiving less than 10% to 15% of what they requested to buy from distributors.
Why is the average store not getting enough Prismatic Evolutions product? I spoke to Ben DeGuire, owner of Player 1 Services in Maryland, one of the largest Pokemon stores in the U.S. His sentiments echoed what I heard from other stores.
“I think a large part of the issue is that stores who do not normally order Pokemon are requesting to buy this set from distributors. Think small book stores, tabletop game stores, and other TCG-adjacent stores.” DeGuire frequently speaks to Pokemon’s distributors.
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[TheLegend]

May the odds be in your favour and beat the scalpers

 

[Exo]

 

[YourGamingBuddy]

The Pokémon company has missed out on tens of millions dollars of profit by having such horrible supply-demand projections. They need to fire whoever made supply projections as they neglected to consider factors such as: the advertising boost from Pokémon Pocket TCG, the desirability of new rarity Masterball Reverse Holos, and the long demonstrated effects of Eeveelutions. As a result, everyone loses, it's sad all around. I hope they take serious note and print a lot more over the next year.

 

[Nirvanna21]

Beat the demand, don't buy the product. Singles all the way yo!

 

[MarlinRimes]

Best of luck getting product lol

 

[Clam]

I’m skipping this set anyways. It’s mostly reprints. I can wait a few months.

 

[Flamewheel]

It’s a good thing I don’t collect much of modern anymore, and it’s a good thing I am not an Eevee girl.

Best of luck to the genuine collectors out there trying to get this set.

 

[KuroDotEX]

Bruh I just wanted a pack or two just to open for fun. Can't even have that now.

Good interview though.

 

[Darkbenji151]

I collect Spanish cards and products and it sells out slower in most cases. Same experience for me. Win!

 

[GoldGarchomp]

Unfortunately I am in the minority; but if I can’t preorder it or buy it for msrp, then I just won’t buy it. TCG has elite boxes for 350 plus. That’s just awful. If everyone didn’t buy from scalpers this would have stopped a while ago. I think this year may be the year I stop buying all together. Too many hyped sets, I think this will be a problem for the next six months at least.

 

[Firemaker]

I had hoped to pre-order a box from my local game store and they had sold out in the first fifteen minutes. I'm just glad they'll do a bunch of products throughout the year.

 

[Ice Arceus]

As someone getting back into collecting after the PTCG app got me hooked on the cards again, it's been a real bummer trying to seek out some of the products. Besides lucking out a couple times, I spend more time trying to keep tabs on it... Definitely a rough time to get back into collecting. *sigh*

 

[Samaritan]

My LGS was affected by this. A couple months ago, they thought they were getting several cases of ETB's. I was planning on buying a case. Their allocation was then reduced to 1 case (10 etb's) and one case of each of the other products. They usually get a decent amount of product too. Not the insane numbers that bigger stores get, but more than most small LGS.

 

[GaKi134]

This, is what we commonly call a mediocre human being.

 

[inkink]

Got some on pre-order but haven't received any further communication. Here's hoping something comes through!

 

[River]

Not exactly surprised. TCG Pocket kicked everything into overdrive.

 

[Psychic Nature]

I got lucky with one ETB preordered from Pokemon Center, but one of my local card shops never got their Surging Sparks allocation. They’ve been selling Pokemon for decades. It’s just hard to comprehend how bad demand has gotten but this is the state we’re in.

 

[Grim Thoughts]

The stupid supply problems that have been happening since Surging Sparks have been slowly driving me from the hobby again in a way reminiscent of 2020. I hope it doesn’t come to that fully. I miss the G block’s extremely affordable prices

 

[Nintenfreak]

they need to try and make more Pokemon marketable than Pikachu, starters and Eeveelutions. Come on buttlickers, make Boldore the darling of the Pokemon world.