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Pokénnoisseur Wiki

How the server works, how to buy at the big retailers, and what every alert means. 🔒 pages open for any member of our Discord, 💎 pages for paying members.

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How the monitor worksPokénnoisseur posts an alert the moment a Canadian store puts sealed Pokémon product back up, and your roles decide which ones reach you.
Free vs membershipWhat the free tier covers, what a membership adds, and why the fastest lanes sit behind it.
Phone alerts, the Pokénnoisseur appGet restock alerts as phone notifications through the Pokénnoisseur app. Setup for iPhone, Android and computer, and what to check when nothing arrives.
Getting helpWhere to ask when a role will not apply, an alert looks wrong, or you are not getting the pings you expected.

Collecting in Canada

Starting outFour habits to set before you buy anything: a budget, a focus, real interest, and storage.
What drives the marketMarket price is what people paid recently. Here is what moves it, and where Canadian buyers get the number.
MSRP vs marketMSRP is the suggested price, market is the real one. How to judge an alert against both.
Where to buy, the majorsPokémon Center, Walmart, EB Games and Amazon, in order of how likely you are to actually get something at retail.
Where to buy, everywhere elseCostco, local card shops, well.ca, London Drugs, Mastermind and Zephyr Epic, and when each one is worth your time.

Decoder

Product shorthandETB, BOBU, BB, UPC and the other abbreviations you will see in alerts and chat, decoded.
Set codesME, SV and the letter codes for every set still moving, plus the two codes that mean two different things.
What the emoji on an alert meanNew, restock, pre-order, gem and the rest. What each emoji on a Pokénnoisseur alert tells you, and what it does not.
The reactions the bot adds🔥, ❌ and 💰 under an alert, what each one means, and why we ask you to use them.

Retailer playbooks

Pokémon Center CA, getting through the queue🔒How to give yourself the best shot when a Pokémon Center queue opens.
Surviving the queue on iPhone🔒Why the queue tab reloads on iPhone, and the settings that make it less likely.
Reducing browser reloads on Android🔒The Android settings that stop the system killing Chrome mid-queue.
EB Games🔒What to have ready before an EB Games drop on the new site.
Amazon CA🔒Manual restocks reward speed. Auto Buy is a price-triggered lottery ticket. How to use both.
Walmart CA🔒Late nights and a site that buckles under its own drop. What to do when a Walmart drop lands.

Server map

Sitelist, everything we monitor🔒The full list of retailers and local card shops Pokénnoisseur watches, grouped by free and membership.
Channels and roles, setting up your alerts🔒Your default role pings on the biggest channels and misses a lot. How to pick the roles that match where you actually buy.
Getting around, the channels worth knowing🔒The handful of channels that answer most questions, and where to post your hits.