EB Games stunned customers earlier this week<\/a> with its Pokemon 30th Anniversary TCG prices being twice that of other retailers, but it has now published a statement from the Managing Director walking back those prices and stating that it was part of the plan to weed out scalpers and ensure that the cards go to the fans.<\/p>\nThe full statement as well the new prices can be found below:<\/p>\n
EB GAMES POKEMON 30TH ANNIVERSARY TCG NEW PRICES<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Pok\u00e9mon ex Box \u2013 Sylveon ex & Greninja ex \u2013 $55 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Knock Out Collection \u2013 $25 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Poster Collection \u2013 $39 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Tech Sticker Collection \u2013 $32 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box \u2013 $120 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Binder Collection \u2013 $79 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Mini Tins \u2013 $23 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Booster Bundle \u2013 $59 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Battle Deck \u2013 Espeon ex & Umbreon ex \u2013 $49 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Ditto Premium Collection \u2013 $99 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collection \u2013 Day (Espeon ex & Pikachu ex) \u2013 $439 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collection \u2013 Night (Umbreon ex & Pikachu ex) \u2013 $439 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Figure Collection \u2013 Mew \u2013 $75 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration Figure Collection \u2013 Mewtwo \u2013 $75 AUD
\nPok\u00e9mon 30th Celebration \u2013 $65 AUD<\/p>\n
EB GAMES POKEMON 30TH ANNIVERSARY STATEMENT<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon Fans, Firstly, thank you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a huge week. The excitement around the Pok\u00e9mon TCG 30th Celebration collection has been incredible.<\/p>\n
Our priority from the beginning was simple, even though we knew it wouldn\u2019t be universally popular. We wanted genuine Pok\u00e9mon fans to have the best possible opportunity to secure these once in a generation products while making life as difficult as possible for scalpers.<\/p>\n
Setting what many considered an outrageous preorder price was part of that strategy. Scalpers don\u2019t build communities. Fans do. That first phase of the strategy has done exactly what it was designed to do.<\/p>\n
Our focus now shifts to the next phase. Our team is now reviewing every single preorder and will continue doing so over the coming weeks. We\u2019ll identify and cancel preorders that don\u2019t comply with our purchasing policies, just like we did a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Once that purge is complete, we\u2019ll announce one final preorder release made up of those cancellations. We\u2019ll give the community notice before it goes live so everyone has the same opportunity to preorder.<\/p>\n
As planned, we\u2019re now confirming our final retail pricing for Pok\u00e9mon 30th Celebration, which is the same as Pitch Black. Every genuine preorder already placed remains secure and will automatically move to this pricing. These will also be the prices when the final preorder allocation goes live in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,211116,134,346],"class_list":["post-791475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eb-games","tag-entertainment","tag-pokemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}