News TCG Sets Now Sold Early at Hobby Stores!

[Water Pokémon Master]

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• TCG Sets Now Sold Early at Hobby Stores!

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[FullArtGardevoir]

YEAH!!! Finnaly a premotional event close to my house and worthy of my time.

 

[minecraft7er]

[thumb up][thumb up]

 

[_drif]

"Wal-Fart"
classic.

 

[meme_mixtape]

Is there a source to this info?

 

[Juliacoolo]

Might this also be an attempt to give hobby stores an edge over bulk e-tailers who undercut prices? There's little financial incentive to buy from a hobby store when you can get a booster box online for $85. Giving the brick and mortar stores a week of exclusivity should help them gain a niche.

 

[ZygardeGuy]

By "Hobby Store" does he mean something like a comic shop with leagues?
I think this will be the most expensive set since DEX

 

[DaGod503]

Haha wal-fart that's pretty funny but that's cool for hobby stores to get sell the stuff early

 

[Deku]

I'm overly salty that the binder which has Alolan Ninetales has the electric chicken deity on the front.

 

[SupremeLeaderQuagsire]

This is pretty cool.
I remember seeing something about the Lycanroc deck boxes coming to the west. Can someone confirm this? I don't want to have to pay a bunch for shipping, lol.

 

[Blakey Alex]

Us Brits always have to wait

 

[Epist]

Might this also be an attempt to give hobby stores an edge over bulk e-tailers who undercut prices? There's little financial incentive to buy from a hobby store when you can get a booster box online for $85. Giving the brick and mortar stores a week of exclusivity should help them gain a niche.

Not much since some of the "e-tailers" are also hobby stores who do prerelease events (i.e. Derium's) which means that they can ship GR on May 1st for a price lower than most LGS. Players may stop by to pick up a couple packs on May 1st from their LGS but the cost-conscious will still be ordering online.

 

[CreXzzzz]

Canada not left behind? That must be a typo. Tcg doesn't care about Canada ever! I just got my first league cup promo in the mail, from January!

 

[The Cat Hatter]

Is it like card stores with league, and will it be available in Canada?

 

[chella182]

Might this also be an attempt to give hobby stores an edge over bulk e-tailers who undercut prices? There's little financial incentive to buy from a hobby store when you can get a booster box online for $85. Giving the brick and mortar stores a week of exclusivity should help them gain a niche.

It's likely that was taken into consideration as well. I'll admit, while I do support my local store a lot (I'm there once a week and always buying crap haha), if I can get a sealed product for £10 cheaper online, then I'll do that 'cause at the end of the day it's not a cheap hobby (I collect as well as play), so I make savings where I can. BUT if my local store were allowed to sell them before official release then I'd likely buy from them instead of online because impatience I say would because...

Us Brits always have to wait

Yep, pretty much what I was here to say. My local store does fantastically well for itself, particularly surrounding pre-releases (largest SM pre-release in the entire world iirc ), but it would be awesome if they could get the new cards before the bigger retailers like Toys R Us and the supermarkets. Really hope this is implemented for the UK (and well everywhere, I guess) in the future.