Prismatic Evolutions Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Boxes now have an asking price of $500. There are currently only three boxes available and supposedly the market price is $390. Regardless of which number you prefer it is absolutely absurd.
The prices of all Prismatic Evolution’s products has jumped up significantly recently. But this PC ETB is something else. The price of a regular ETB is currently $100. Is getting an ETB from the PokemonCenter.com really that special? Or is it an artificial way to differentiate products to increase their price aka marketing. I mean it’s four to five times the price of an already inflated price for normal ETBs.
And what’s going to happen when Prismatic Evolutions comes out and a huge amount of product is dropped on the market? Are people ready to have ETBs back down at $50 when they paid $100? I kind of don’t think so. The fear of missing out may have driven people to make some very rash financial decisions.
Prismatic Evolutions may very well have been printed heavily after the Pokemon Company recognized the demand for 151. It’s very possible we could all be buying Prismatic Evolutions products at MSRP from well stocked shelves at GameStop and Target for months on end.
Now supposedly small local game and card stores are not getting much product at all of Prismatic Evolutions but I think that may just be because The Pokemon Company is focusing on having product pushed by distributors / vendors to large retailers. So we may have dual pricing where local stores price there stuff at ridiculous secondary market prices while large retailers come in near MSRP.
Regardless Prismatic Evolutions is proving to be a very wild ride. It’s almost like a bunch of crypto bros bought into Pokemon and now everything is out of whack. I’m not sure I know what to think anymore!