Summary
- Recent Pokemon TCG expansions are highly sought after, with Destined Rivals taking the spotlight.
- Pokemon Center's Destined Rivals drop caused chaos, Elite Trainer Boxes selling for $450 on eBay.
- Shopping for Pokemon TCG has become a nightmare, showcasing the demand and challenges faced by fans.
At the moment, it seems like every new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion is more hotly anticipated than the last. The Pikachu-centric 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Surging Sparks was released in November, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prismatic Evolutions quickly stole away its hype with its new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Moonbreon. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Journey Together then appeared, ushering in the return of Trainers' Pokemon, only for its popularity to be usurped by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:T🗹eam Rocket's upcoming return in Destine♏d Rivals.
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🐼Another day, another disaster for the Pokemon TCG.
With Pokemon TCG products 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:becoming harder to get hold of, the drop for Destined Rivals on the Pokemo❀n Center was always going to be a bit of a bloodbath. Somehow, though, it even eclipsed the worst possible scenario, with the exclusive Eli🐻te Trainer Boxes now selling for $450 on eBay.
The Pokemon Center Destined Rivals Drop Was Worse Than We Could Have Imagined
I could report on what other people are saying about the drop for Destined Rivals, but I th🤪ink my experience sums it up better than 💎anything else.
I joined th🍌e queue on the Pokemon Center the second it went live, and ended up in around 20,000th position. Shortly after, I reached the Pokemon Center website, but the Destined Rivals Elite T▨rainer Box was nowhere to be seen. It turned out it could only be accessed through a specific URL. Then, the website started to sputter. For some reason, every single product was removed. There were no Pokemon cards, no plushies, or anything else for that matter.
Eventually, mayb⛦e 20 minutes later, I had a product in my basket and tried to check out. The website wouldn't let me, or anybody else, put their card details in. 20 minutes more of reloading my basket, and I eventually managed to put my card details in. I was then booted out, right to the back of the queue. This time, there were over one million people in it. I should have given up hope, but persevered.
After another 45 minutes or so, I was back onto the website. The same thing happened again, but I was now in position 1.5 million in the queue. Some people were starting to check out at this point; others were still facing issues. I waited out the 1.5 million queue again, and about two and a half hours since I first joined, I was back on the website. I was able to put my card details in on the first tim🤪e now, but I was greeted with a sp🍒inning Poke Ball loading icon as I tried to purchase. The transaction didn't go through three times, and on the fourth, I was back in the queue.
The masochist that I am, I waited in the queue for a fourth time, but as I watched my position move down, it sold ou൩t. It was categorically the worst, most frustrating online shopping experience I'd ever faced, and I know I wasn't the only one as dozens of people in a Discord server I frequent went through the same thing.
To compound things, as has so often been the case with the Pokemon TCG over the last few months, the Elite Trainer Box appeared on eBay for a ludicrous price. Sales for the product have , more than any other ETB in the Scarlet and Violet era, including 151.
The Pokemon Company is in an unenviable position, but 16ꦦ8澳洲幸运5开奖网:giv𓃲en this has happened twice in a week, it's something it desperately needs to resolve for the long-term health o🐠f the Pokemo🧸n TCG.
We've reached out to The Pokemon Company Internation🌊al for 🎶comment.
- Franchise
- Pokemon
- Original Release Date
- ꦅ October 20, ♌1996
- Player Count
- 2
- Age Recommendation
- 6+
- Length per Game
- Variable
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- Pokemon
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