Summary
- Pokemon is giving away an Eevee promo card with qualifying purchases to celebrate Pokemon Day.
- However, some collectors are complaining most items worth buying to qualify are out of stock.
- To qualify for the card, you need to spend £29.99 or more on TCG products and enter the code at checkout.
A Pokemon Day giveaway is now live in the UK which gets Pokemon Center customers a free Eevee promo card with a qualifying purchase to mark the occasion. To qualify for the card, customers need to spend £29.99 or more on Pokemon TCG products, something many are joking is easier said than done considering how difficult it is to find in-demand TCG items in stock at the moment.
The promo is live now in the UK – no word yet on whether it will also be available in the US – and as long as you have the right items in your cart, you should be able to enter the code eevee2025 at checkout. Doing so should result in the card appearing in your cart along with everything else. Double check it’s there before you check out as if you pay and it’s not there, you’ll have to try again which will require spending more.
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As for what’s in stock right now that will get you over the £29.99 threshold, the Shrouded Fable ETB is in stock, as is the Cyrus Premium Tournament collection. It’s easy to see why collectors are a little frustrated, though. The sold out products when sorted by top sellers far outnumber items that are currently available. Most Elite Trainer Boxes are unavailable, and Prismatic Evolutions products are nowhere to be seen as Pokemon continues to try and fulfill its promise of making the new set more widely available.
Finding Enough Stuff You Want To Qualify For It Might Be Tricky, Though
Reddit user u/webbo117117 shared the news that the promo is now live in the UK on the r/PokemonDealsUK subreddit. While that prompted a thank you from some, others have been sharing the disappointment in finding nothing worth buying to get the card. Some have even noted that they were holding off on buying things they wanted from the TCG waiting for a promo to make it worthwhile, only to discover the stuff they were waiting to buy is now sold out.
Short of printing more, there’s not much Pokemon can do about it, unfortunately. Promos like this one could be designed to better line up with product releases, but there’s a chance that would end up doing more bad than good. Had this promo been rolled out in conjunction with the launch of Prismatic Evolutions, for example, it would have only made the set harder to get and thus resulted in even fewer actual fans getting the promo card with scalping still rife. So much so that one of the set’s Eevee cards was being sold for an inflated price before Prismatic Evolutions had even been released.
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