A4 · STOCK & SOURCING
Every EdinCard slot holds a named, sealed Pokémon TCG item bought through legitimate trade supply. You can see what it is before you pay, and what you get is exactly what the label says.
SLOT TYPES
Every machine carries a mix across all three, so the same row never feels the same twice — and there's always something at an everyday price.
One sealed booster from a current, in-print set. The everyday pull, and the slot we restock most often.
A mixed-era pairing dropped together, weighted toward sets that are getting harder to find on shelf.
Special edition or reprint product, loaded in small runs. Shows up, sells out, doesn't come back on schedule.
SOURCING
Stock is bought through UK trade distribution and established sealed-product wholesalers. Everything arrives sealed in case or box form and stays sealed until it's loaded into a slot.
Older and out-of-print product is bought as sealed, verified stock and inspected before loading. If a box shows any sign of tampering, resealing or damage, it doesn't go in a machine — it goes back.
We don't buy loose packs from secondary marketplaces, and we don't buy anything we can't trace to a supplier.
Our sealed-product guarantee
No pack in an EdinCard machine has ever been opened, weighed, mapped, x-rayed, sorted or resealed. Pull rates in our slots are the manufacturer's pull rates — nothing more, nothing less.
What we won't stock
No third-party "repacks", no custom mystery boxes, no graded-card gacha, no ungraded singles sold as chase items. If a product's appeal depends on you not knowing what's in it, it isn't going in the machine.
PRICING & ROTATION
| Slot type | What's in it | Restock cadence | How it's priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | One sealed booster, current in-print set | Every service visit | Benchmarked against local shop shelf price |
| Double | Two sealed boosters, mixed era | Every service visit while stock lasts | Combined cost plus a fixed margin |
| Vault | Special edition, reprint or out-of-print sealed product | Ad hoc, in small runs | What it cost us to acquire, plus the same fixed margin |
Printed on the label, charged at the reader. If those two ever disagree, the machine is wrong and you get refunded.
Sets move as availability changes. A slot that's empty for two visits gets reassigned rather than left dark.
The mix is tuned per site. A game shop and a student café don't want the same three rows, so they don't get them.
REQUESTS
If there's a set you'd buy from a machine and we're not stocking it, tell us. We can't promise availability — some product simply isn't buyable at trade any more — but requests genuinely do shape what we chase down.
The same goes for venue hosts: if your regulars keep asking for one thing, that's the most useful stocking data we get.
Send a stock requestALSO WORTH KNOWING
See which Edinburgh venues have a machine, and which are next in line.