Costco's $126 Pokémon 30th Celebration 2-pack is worth $314 on eBay

Lucky members paid less than half what the boxes resell for, with 35,520 more boxes coming soon.

By Jeff NewmanPokémonNov 13

Costco sold an online Pokémon 30th Celebration 2-pack on Friday for $126. PokemonRestocks and other restock accounts listed it as two Elite Trainer Boxes and two Booster Bundles, 30 packs in all, with a limit of one per membership. That's two of the $57 boxes Costco sells in its warehouses, with each going for about $157 on eBay this week. Anyone who got through paid $126 for about $314 worth of boxes.

Get The Card Wire newsletter in your inbox. Sign up free.

Getting one took some luck. The sale started at 12:42 p.m. PT. Costco dropped members into its queue at random. One member's queue screen, published by Printed Price, showed 524,825 members ahead of them just before the start. PokemonRestocks posted that the bundle was out of stock about 37 minutes later.

It's the online half of the deal we wrote about on Nov. 11, when Costco's warehouses were selling the box for $57 and a Costco.com drop looked likely next. It came the way Costco sold Prismatic Evolutions last year. PokéBeach spotted that bundle preloaded on Costco's website in May 2025. It went live at $122 online for two of each while warehouses sold a single box for $58.

PokeRestock's copy of Costco's Nov. 12 allocation sheet shows 35,520 more boxes in transit to its warehouses. Every 30th Celebration chase card we compared on Nov. 11 sold for less than it did in September. But for now a member who finds one at $57 can resell it for about $100 more, before eBay's fees.

Members who want boxes need a plan for both kinds of drop. For the warehouse box, call your local Costco and ask which day the next pallet comes in, then be in line when the doors open. Online, a fast refresh button doesn't help at Costco. The queue picks members at random and Costco's own screen asks you not to hit back. Be signed in, join from the early link the restock accounts post before the stated time, then leave the tab alone. The next test is the 30th Celebration Ultra Premium Collection two-pack. Polygon passed along reports from restock Discords that it will cost $288 at Costco. It has no date yet.