Glut of Pokemon? Not Here

 

If there is a huge supply of 30^th Anniversary Pokemon boxes and Elite Trainer Kits floating around out there, we sure have not seen it (See “Pokemon TCG Sellers Melt Down on Discord”). I have no doubt it is out there but I also figure the Pokemon Company is directing most of the product to mass market stores. We have had customers regale us with tales of standing in line at Target at 7 a.m., waiting until the store opened to join the crowds of collectors and resellers hoping to grab a box or fifteen of the Pokemon 30^th Anniversary Elite Trainer Kits. Another customer told us how she and her family waited in a line a block long at the local Sam’s Club to get Elite Trainer Kits. Even with the staff at Sam’s Club limiting purchasers to 2 Kits each, they ran out about 5 people before my customer could purchase any. Meanwhile hobby game stores are getting so heavily allocated that one distributor got the store one 30^th Anniversary Elite Trainer Kit.  Not one case of Kits, one Kit, along with single units of a couple of other 30^th Anniversary items.  Meanwhile, Sam’s Club gets enough Elite Trainer Kits to offer two of them to each person in a line stretching a block long.