Biggest frustration was having the 2 PC ETB's and a case of BB's in the cart, put in the credit card info and BAM.... get booted from the site after waiting for 10-15 mins
I checked the site right before drop, is unfortunately for everyone to experience that. Feel way less pain just knowing I missed than the site screwing people over
Site was only good for like 10 minutes till it crashed for the entire duration and when it came back up everything was sold out… pokemon center gotta do something abt this cuz its only gonna get worse from now on out due to the increasing popularity… hopefully there is a second wave 🤞🏽
Pokemon cards its just scalper world at this point,thats what you get when there is high demand,and if they increase the print the price drop,so yeah,you pokemon fans are fucked 😂
Agree. I was able to get 2, but 2 others I was texting said they couldn't get their orders through and one got the bot notice and another " temporarily unavailable". Awful.. thanks pokedoc, your discord gave me the notice while in the gym :)
I was the one in your discord i pinged prior saying they might drop the preorders around 9am yesterday morning i was wrong by like 15 mins they dropped at 8:45 but i alerted an hour prior for everyone to lock in and be ready and lots of people in discord saw and got the preorder if u dont have poke notify u need to get it now its worth its weight in gold
Why did people pay $200+ for Booster boxes on ebay when they could of just went to game stop to pre order them in person😂 they're are still accepting pre orders in person. Plus Target and Walmart haven't even dropped their pre orders either
@@AG-gb5um well you can always call and ask before showing up. But yesterday I had to go to 2 separate game stops because they have a 2 ETB and 2 Booster box limit per person. Which sucks Because I like opening 1 leaving 1 for my collection and holding 1 for a future sale or trade. But yea All you have to do is go to different game stops and provide a different phone number That's the only way they keep track of each person's orders thru their phone numbers/accounts.
I got mine in-person at GameStop, 1 ETB and 1 Booster Box. The employee didn’t even know what set I was talking about, he was like “Journey..Together??” And that was at like 1pm. So there’s likely more there aswell.
I work nights so I sleep in the morning when I got up everything so sold out and I just drove down to my GameStop and placed my preorders I would love a Pokémon center box for my collection but I will never pay so much for a preorder
All the recent sets need a MASSIVE reprint for the next couple years, this market has made collecting such a nightmare with pre orders and INSANE prices. This hobby shouldn’t cost this much on new releases.
@@Doma0004MC when I was preordering mine I was talking to the guy working there and he said if you are a pro member you can pre order as much as you want. Once the release date comes they are limiting people to two of each of the items. That goes for prismatic also. Probably the best place to go unless there is a line of people waiting. Won't be much stock left because most products are already preordered. That is where I will be next Friday tho 😆
Am i the only one that feels some dookie went down this morning. Why do i feel the bots put some software in to crash and boot everyone so they could capitalize. Funny thing it says unavailable not sold out.
I got ban when I was trying to log in to my account multiple times because the website keep loggin me out or go down so many times. But hopefully all that was after I pre order two PC ETB's. But after I was just trying to see if my order add correctly because after add check out, they didn't send me an email right away confirming the pre order. I git the email 31 minutes after lol The website crash so much that it took that long for the email. Btw they disbanned me after like 5 hours lol So I couldn't pre order any other things, but I am happy with my two ETB's ^^
At this point I feel like it’s better to do like a lottery/concert queue while releasing a certain date so everyone has a fair chance.. with captcha to rid of the bots.. these surprise drops at an early Time or late evening favors only one time zone… just my venting…
I don’t know if this is a fix but I feel like pokemon should be like hey you have from this day to this day to pre order the product after that no more pre orders. Essentially make to demand. So if 500 people pre order the etb than they make 500 of them instead of their lets just guess how many people will buy them. To be fair I’m not sure about the whole card process and how long it takes to make them but I feel like them trying that once would at least give them a gauge on how many people are pre ordering. Limit is cool and all but if Pokémon center isn’t willing to fix bots then the limit will only do so much. In the long run a pre ordering system where you make it to how many orders are placed could potentially deter some resellers as they will see the product has no “rarity” or “limited stock” attached to it.
I was there during the release this morning but the lag was so bad that I kept reloading, and kept getting timed out, I am just tired of seeing product sold for crazy prices ON RELEASE. I’m probably going to buy the card I want straight up because competing for sealed product at a fair price really sucks
Was able to get 2 ETB, and 2 "Enhanced" booster boxes from PC. Obviously thankful to do that from twitter notifications, but, little frustrated to see that it's possible all booster boxes will have the promo cards when Gamestop is selling below the PC pricing. Hopefully PC has some kind of exclusive something.
Personally, I don't feel like any sets are worth these prices. I have 5 ETBs of prismatic evolution on pre order and after seeing PokeRev not pack one Eevolution illustration rare out of 4 ETBs im tempted to send them back. The pull rates are horrific. Besides the team rocket set, no other set has interested me so far. I have only touched the base set of scarlet and violet (just because its base set), other than that nothing is screaming at me. (maybe surging sparks)
I wish I knew about the reshiram card being in all booster boxes. I didn’t end up buying because I thought only the pokemon center had it. Oh well. I’ll just buy it from someone when it comes out.
Im super pissed. I thought it would be next Thursday. I completely missed all of it. I got 2 prismatic ETBs from PC luckily, but i wasnt planning on missing this!! Fuuuuck
welp thats just how pokemon works bro they got the best strategist and marketers in the game since 1999... they want all the people looking at the " very limited stocks" for the hypetrain to continue... and of course we are all suckers for them... hands down pokemon know what they are doing lol goodluck trainers!
I was at a doctor appointment with my daughter when I saw the drop, literally in the room with provider so I couldn't work on ordering. Was stupid enough to think I'd be able to order like 15 minutes later when I got outside. Nope, tried for an hour or two and knew it would be a waste of my time. Then got hammered all day with notifications about Best Buy and Gamestop etc. More frustration cuz I'm not paying these prices. Can't afford the hobby and afraid I won't make it through this hysteria like I did last time. Been avid collector for 7 years, set completer and all, but this won't be fun and I'm about to sell everything off and get out.
I got 2 etbs and 4 booster boxes bc of your discord brother😂 pc did make me switch browsers tho to prove i wasnt a bot. (It worked on chrome but not brave)
I’ve made up my mind, I’m not buying it. Prismatic that is. I’m not paying double or over market that’s 100 percent not happening, If I see a blister pack for 15 dollars maybe. But the pull rates are not great in prismatic and I’m sick of it already. It’s unfortunate but it’s going to become if your rich you can open packs, its ridiculous
Same…I get the hype for the 2025 sets, but I don’t have FOMO anymore. I’m not willing to pay these absurd prices. I’m just going to go buy things from the cheaper sets and enjoy the IRs from those sets (that’s really the reason I collect the SV sets, even the earlier ones)
@@jessicamagri8211 same here. I just watched rev open like 45 packs and got basically nothing. I’m thinking for that reason the packs will fall in price but the cards are going to be expensive to buy. It sucks
I was able to get an etb then the site crashed hard. Sucks this keeps happening, no way with all the money they have they can’t fix the site to handle the demand.
They could fix it but if it sells out with a broken website anyways, why spend the money? I agree it would be nice if they did but I'm not holding my breathe. I understand it works good enough for them to sell their products as is.
The confusion about the BB promo is ridiculous. Pokebeach states it's a box topper included in all BBs and the description on the PC website does not state it's a pc exclusive stamped promo. Read people and don't panic
I'm super Mad. Stressful. I emailed them. All I got was a automated reply back. It's like they don't care how you feel about it. If it's scalpers. I don't know what to do anymore.
Pokemon should go hard after every "confirmed pre-order" listed for sale on the web right now. Something. Anything. Will it get to the point where we can't just go buy a pack somewhere cause they're sold out & relisted for twice the price? .....sigh.....
It would cost time and money they don't need to spend. Also, TPCI isn't the one to blame for the scalping, it's the dummies who actually buy the product off the scalpers. If no one bought, collectors and streamers alike, scalpers wouldn't make money and they would give up. TPCI shouldn't do anything, the TCG community should since they created the monster
@griever_85 they have plenty of time & money & all who can do something.....should. I agree, don't buy. That applies to a lot in life, but that doesn't mean something shouldn't be done about it. You do you, though.
whom ever is managing their website should be fire. we're in 2025 and how they're not expecting that much traffic during lunch. Unless they just have the cheapest service plan available for their website.
Sneakerheads are coming to the pokemon scene. They are botting... best bet is to buy the cheapest resell value or at least try to predict... and hold. if you wanna open thats a different story. better off buying singles.
Biggest frustration was having the 2 PC ETB's and a case of BB's in the cart, put in the credit card info and BAM.... get booted from the site after waiting for 10-15 mins
I had the same in my cart. When I clicked on the cart that's when everything went nuts and the system crashed and could never get back in.
Same thing happened to me. I feel your pain! 😭
I checked the site right before drop, is unfortunately for everyone to experience that. Feel way less pain just knowing I missed than the site screwing people over
Same thing happened to me they said I wasn’t a human I clicked the puzzle too fast… 😂😂😂
Same! I even clicked order and just had the spinning poke ball for a long time and then crashed
Site was only good for like 10 minutes till it crashed for the entire duration and when it came back up everything was sold out… pokemon center gotta do something abt this cuz its only gonna get worse from now on out due to the increasing popularity… hopefully there is a second wave 🤞🏽
Pokemon cards its just scalper world at this point,thats what you get when there is high demand,and if they increase the print the price drop,so yeah,you pokemon fans are fucked 😂
Agree. I was able to get 2, but 2 others I was texting said they couldn't get their orders through and one got the bot notice and another " temporarily unavailable". Awful.. thanks pokedoc, your discord gave me the notice while in the gym :)
Yup what’s worse was that I got blocked from the site cuz it thought I was a bot 💀 like no brah I am just trynna get some cards as fast as I can lmao
I was the one in your discord i pinged prior saying they might drop the preorders around 9am yesterday morning i was wrong by like 15 mins they dropped at 8:45 but i alerted an hour prior for everyone to lock in and be ready and lots of people in discord saw and got the preorder if u dont have poke notify u need to get it now its worth its weight in gold
Why did people pay $200+ for Booster boxes on ebay when they could of just went to game stop to pre order them in person😂 they're are still accepting pre orders in person. Plus Target and Walmart haven't even dropped their pre orders either
Exactly, 100% FOMO
i was told GS might be sold out on preorders
@@AG-gb5umthis. The 3 in my area said they aren’t doing pre orders for pokemon
@@AG-gb5um well you can always call and ask before showing up. But yesterday I had to go to 2 separate game stops because they have a 2 ETB and 2 Booster box limit per person. Which sucks Because I like opening 1 leaving 1 for my collection and holding 1 for a future sale or trade. But yea All you have to do is go to different game stops and provide a different phone number That's the only way they keep track of each person's orders thru their phone numbers/accounts.
I got mine in-person at GameStop, 1 ETB and 1 Booster Box. The employee didn’t even know what set I was talking about, he was like “Journey..Together??” And that was at like 1pm. So there’s likely more there aswell.
I work nights so I sleep in the morning when I got up everything so sold out and I just drove down to my GameStop and placed my preorders I would love a Pokémon center box for my collection but I will never pay so much for a preorder
All the recent sets need a MASSIVE reprint for the next couple years, this market has made collecting such a nightmare with pre orders and INSANE prices. This hobby shouldn’t cost this much on new releases.
I didn’t get any Pokémon center stuff but went to GameStop and made in person pre orders and bought 6 BB 10 booster bundles and 6 etbs
I thought they limit to two booster box for in person for booster box
@ they didn’t have a limit at mine
@@johnrobinson5313 the dude before me had per ordered 14 BB and think like 60 bundles I was scared he was gonna take everything
@@Doma0004MC when I was preordering mine I was talking to the guy working there and he said if you are a pro member you can pre order as much as you want. Once the release date comes they are limiting people to two of each of the items. That goes for prismatic also. Probably the best place to go unless there is a line of people waiting. Won't be much stock left because most products are already preordered. That is where I will be next Friday tho 😆
@ same prob gonna buy pro membership to for prismatic
Am i the only one that feels some dookie went down this morning. Why do i feel the bots put some software in to crash and boot everyone so they could capitalize. Funny thing it says unavailable not sold out.
I got ban when I was trying to log in to my account multiple times because the website keep loggin me out or go down so many times.
But hopefully all that was after I pre order two PC ETB's. But after I was just trying to see if my order add correctly because after add check out, they didn't send me an email right away confirming the pre order. I git the email 31 minutes after lol The website crash so much that it took that long for the email.
Btw they disbanned me after like 5 hours lol So I couldn't pre order any other things, but I am happy with my two ETB's ^^
It sucks but it’s whatever I was in class when the new set pre ordered dropped but my teacher makes us put our phones on a little table 😢😢
Joined the hobby a year ago boy it’s gone down hill fast
At this point I feel like it’s better to do like a lottery/concert queue while releasing a certain date so everyone has a fair chance.. with captcha to rid of the bots.. these surprise drops at an early Time or late evening favors only one time zone… just my venting…
Life isn't fair. Also, I'm not a bot and managed to place an order
I got blocked from the pc website
I don’t know if this is a fix but I feel like pokemon should be like hey you have from this day to this day to pre order the product after that no more pre orders. Essentially make to demand. So if 500 people pre order the etb than they make 500 of them instead of their lets just guess how many people will buy them. To be fair I’m not sure about the whole card process and how long it takes to make them but I feel like them trying that once would at least give them a gauge on how many people are pre ordering. Limit is cool and all but if Pokémon center isn’t willing to fix bots then the limit will only do so much. In the long run a pre ordering system where you make it to how many orders are placed could potentially deter some resellers as they will see the product has no “rarity” or “limited stock” attached to it.
Missed everything but will not be paying 2x msrp for prerelease. Just have to be patient
The website wouldn’t work for me and by the time it worked they were out of stock
I was there during the release this morning but the lag was so bad that I kept reloading, and kept getting timed out, I am just tired of seeing product sold for crazy prices ON RELEASE. I’m probably going to buy the card I want straight up because competing for sealed product at a fair price really sucks
I don't think I can pre order in store ANYWHERE in the UK (London mainly)
Was able to get 2 ETB, and 2 "Enhanced" booster boxes from PC. Obviously thankful to do that from twitter notifications, but, little frustrated to see that it's possible all booster boxes will have the promo cards when Gamestop is selling below the PC pricing. Hopefully PC has some kind of exclusive something.
Personally, I don't feel like any sets are worth these prices. I have 5 ETBs of prismatic evolution on pre order and after seeing PokeRev not pack one Eevolution illustration rare out of 4 ETBs im tempted to send them back. The pull rates are horrific. Besides the team rocket set, no other set has interested me so far. I have only touched the base set of scarlet and violet (just because its base set), other than that nothing is screaming at me. (maybe surging sparks)
No i was not able to get them you can click on them but then it says unavailable!
I had items in my cart roughly 8 times and they would disappear and the site crashed….. eventually I got banned as well
I’m pissed
I wish I knew about the reshiram card being in all booster boxes. I didn’t end up buying because I thought only the pokemon center had it. Oh well. I’ll just buy it from someone when it comes out.
Not officially confirmed but there are indication that all booster boxes in US are the enhanced booster box
@@VicariouslyTCGYes all the BBs should have the promo in the U.S.
@ I really hope so.
@@r0ckettp0wer I'd almost guarantee it, I believe PokeBeach & PokeGuardians info.
Ya you click on it and it says unavailable I'm pissed
After 2 hrs on the site of no success i gave up. Ive never missed a pre order for pc etbs yet and this might be the first time i miss. Sad day.
Im super pissed. I thought it would be next Thursday. I completely missed all of it. I got 2 prismatic ETBs from PC luckily, but i wasnt planning on missing this!! Fuuuuck
welp thats just how pokemon works bro they got the best strategist and marketers in the game since 1999... they want all the people looking at the " very limited stocks" for the hypetrain to continue... and of course we are all suckers for them... hands down pokemon know what they are doing lol goodluck trainers!
danny phantdam made a video its all BB have the promo there all the same....i was confused yesterday for a while too
I was at a doctor appointment with my daughter when I saw the drop, literally in the room with provider so I couldn't work on ordering. Was stupid enough to think I'd be able to order like 15 minutes later when I got outside. Nope, tried for an hour or two and knew it would be a waste of my time. Then got hammered all day with notifications about Best Buy and Gamestop etc. More frustration cuz I'm not paying these prices. Can't afford the hobby and afraid I won't make it through this hysteria like I did last time. Been avid collector for 7 years, set completer and all, but this won't be fun and I'm about to sell everything off and get out.
I got 2 etbs and 4 booster boxes bc of your discord brother😂 pc did make me switch browsers tho to prove i wasnt a bot. (It worked on chrome but not brave)
I am blessed to have gotten 2 PC ETBs. Then I went to GameStop and preordered quite a few more products! GameStop for the win!!
I just went to gamestop and skipped out on all that frustration. Ordered 4 etbs and 2 booster bundles.🎉🎉
I’ve made up my mind, I’m not buying it. Prismatic that is. I’m not paying double or over market that’s 100 percent not happening, If I see a blister pack for 15 dollars maybe. But the pull rates are not great in prismatic and I’m sick of it already. It’s unfortunate but it’s going to become if your rich you can open packs, its ridiculous
Same…I get the hype for the 2025 sets, but I don’t have FOMO anymore. I’m not willing to pay these absurd prices. I’m just going to go buy things from the cheaper sets and enjoy the IRs from those sets (that’s really the reason I collect the SV sets, even the earlier ones)
@@jessicamagri8211 same here. I just watched rev open like 45 packs and got basically nothing. I’m thinking for that reason the packs will fall in price but the cards are going to be expensive to buy. It sucks
I was able to get an etb then the site crashed hard. Sucks this keeps happening, no way with all the money they have they can’t fix the site to handle the demand.
They could fix it but if it sells out with a broken website anyways, why spend the money? I agree it would be nice if they did but I'm not holding my breathe. I understand it works good enough for them to sell their products as is.
The confusion about the BB promo is ridiculous. Pokebeach states it's a box topper included in all BBs and the description on the PC website does not state it's a pc exclusive stamped promo. Read people and don't panic
At this point Pokémon Center should just do one item per person
My roommates hate me. After I order two from my account. They couldn’t checkout theirs 😢
😂
Let's go! 20 secs! Thanks Pokémon Doctor! 🙂
Woke up too late and missed the pre-order. So sad
Bro same. Shouldn’t be with way.
I picked up a etb and booster box from pc
Surging Sparks being a mainline still has low supply, that is what created the FOMO for Journey Together
I'm super Mad. Stressful. I emailed them. All I got was a automated reply back. It's like they don't care how you feel about it. If it's scalpers. I don't know what to do anymore.
Pokemon should go hard after every "confirmed pre-order" listed for sale on the web right now. Something. Anything. Will it get to the point where we can't just go buy a pack somewhere cause they're sold out & relisted for twice the price? .....sigh.....
It would cost time and money they don't need to spend. Also, TPCI isn't the one to blame for the scalping, it's the dummies who actually buy the product off the scalpers. If no one bought, collectors and streamers alike, scalpers wouldn't make money and they would give up. TPCI shouldn't do anything, the TCG community should since they created the monster
@griever_85 they have plenty of time & money & all who can do something.....should. I agree, don't buy. That applies to a lot in life, but that doesn't mean something shouldn't be done about it. You do you, though.
I must have been on a different site. I was able to get pc etbs. Where's the disaster in that? 🤔
5 minutes eb games australia booster boxes sold out
Yeah I had 10 ETBs in cart hit checkout and they were sold out. There is literally nothing left. Not even single packs
I literally logged in 10 min. After you did and it crashed forevermore ha 😢
Got 2 booster boxes 😅
Why is the booster bundle over MSRP….sold out instantly….there is your answer
these were available at 5am
I was saying eastern time
I get the Doctor name now, gives sound advice…no one listens and does it anyway. 😅😅
Tried over an hour to get the pc etb and ended up just getting blocked. Big turn off to the hobby
It might be healthy for the market if people get burned by the booster box 😏
You aint getting no pre orders under msrp in this market , you'd be considered lucky to buy at msrp.
I’ve already seen an announcement, so just wait
I love you doc
whom ever is managing their website should be fire. we're in 2025 and how they're not expecting that much traffic during lunch. Unless they just have the cheapest service plan available for their website.
They sold out so I don't think they see an issue 😂
IM MAD IM MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY BECAUSE OF THIS CRAZY MARKET 😡😂
The Fomo is real
😊
Sneakerheads are coming to the pokemon scene. They are botting... best bet is to buy the cheapest resell value or at least try to predict... and hold. if you wanna open thats a different story. better off buying singles.
Its out of control can't get anything
Site was good at release, died about 20 min in 🤝 got what I wanted 🙏🏻
Ez case cop ever losers heheheeheheehehehehhehe
Thank to you i got 20 pokemon etb
Thank to you i got 6 pokemon center etb