Event: U.S. Jirachi event

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Article Posted by Cyndaquil1995: U.S. Jirachi event
At U.S. Gamestops, the NZ Jirachi will be given out between February 27th, 2010 and March 13th, 2010. As many of you may know, this Jirachi, when traded to HeartGold and/or SoulSilver, unlocks the Edge of the Night Sky Pokewalker course. The flyer from GameStop is pictured below.

[iamlilyy]

In the posting it says NZ Jirachi will be given out at "North American Gamestops." Does anyone know if this is true, or is it only U.S. locations as usual? Unfortunately, it's extremely unusual for in-store distributions to happen in Canada.

[SCV]

In the posting it says NZ Jirachi will be given out at "North American Gamestops." Does anyone know if this is true, or is it only U.S. locations as usual? Unfortunately, it's extremely unusual for in-store distributions to happen in Canada.

Its at U.S. ones. I'll edit the post and the article. Thanks.

[Okami]

I might go out for this one...that is, if I can find a ride to my local gamestop, which is a few miles away. I walked for the Pichu, and don't want to have to do that again...

[canand]

When is Europe geting a Pokemon Event.

[AtomicGreymon]

When is Europe geting a Pokemon Event.

Based on past events, much of Europe will get this eventually. You guys never get it at the same time as the US, though.

The real question is when will Canada get an event? Europe only gets them a bit later... we never get them at all.

[Cyndaquil1995]

Its at U.S. ones. I'll edit the post and the article. Thanks.

Sorry, my bad

[Relyte]

Based on past events, much of Europe will get this eventually. You guys never get it at the same time as the US, though.

The real question is when will Canada get an event? Europe only gets them a bit later... we never get them at all.

Amen to that. I guess I'll end up downloading them onto platinum and trading them over. *SIGH*

[Regigigas]

where did you get the photo?

[Okami]

where did you get the photo?

They might have taken a picture of the flyer. I know when I was there getting my Pichu distribution the guy working there showed me the Jirachi flyer and was asking me if I was going to come to that as well. That would be my first guess, anyways.

[Cyndaquil1995]

where did you get the photo?

a friend of mine has a working scanner

[Tidus]

Based on past events, much of Europe will get this eventually. You guys never get it at the same time as the US, though.

The real question is when will Canada get an event? Europe only gets them a bit later... we never get them at all.

True statement here.

Gamestop here in Canada is EB Games and its in the local mall near my place. I'll take the bus this time. Last time I had to get a ride and it took 4 hours to get there. -_-

[AtomicGreymon]

True statement here.

Gamestop here in Canada is EB Games and its in the local mall near my place. I'll take the bus this time. Last time I had to get a ride and it took 4 hours to get there. -_-

There are both EB Games and Gamestops around me, however as far as I know none of them have this giveaway. Heck, there's a Gamestop in a mall no more than a 2 minute drive from my house. I suggest every Pokemon fan in Canada call the Canadian Gamestop customer service line to complain:

http://www.gamestop.ca/gs/help/StoreIssue.aspx

[randomspot555]

Gamestop has no control over getting/not getting the event. Your complaint lies with Pokemon affiliates, probably specifically Nintendo of Canada (is there one? Or do they just use NOA?) and TPCi.

The reason the US and Canada don't do events at the same time is because often, chain stores are owned by entirely different companies. It's basically a franchise that shares none of the agreenments the chain has with the corporate HQ in the US.

A good example of this is Circuity City. Even though the company FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY, closed every store in the US, and just has a skeleton crew at their corporate HQ handling some paperwork before closing forever, the owners of Circuit City-Canada own Circuity City and have none of the ties to Circuity City in the United States. Their stores are still open.

Interestingly enough, Gamestop purchased EB games in the states a few years back. And a few posts above, you said EB Games owns Gamestop in Canada.

And just FYI, just because Gamestop hosts the event in the US doesn't mean that's the only store that'll distribute it elsehere. In Australia, they distributed one of the movie events at TARGET stores.

[AtomicGreymon]

Gamestop has no control over getting/not getting the event. Your complaint lies with Pokemon affiliates, probably specifically Nintendo of Canada (is there one? Or do they just use NOA?) and TPCi.

The reason the US and Canada don't do events at the same time is because often, chain stores are owned by entirely different companies. It's basically a franchise that shares none of the agreenments the chain has with the corporate HQ in the US.

A good example of this is Circuity City. Even though the company FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY, closed every store in the US, and just has a skeleton crew at their corporate HQ handling some paperwork before closing forever, the owners of Circuit City-Canada own Circuity City and have none of the ties to Circuity City in the United States. Their stores are still open.

Interestingly enough, Gamestop purchased EB games in the states a few years back. And a few posts above, you said EB Games owns Gamestop in Canada.

And just FYI, just because Gamestop hosts the event in the US doesn't mean that's the only store that'll distribute it elsehere. In Australia, they distributed one of the movie events at TARGET stores.

It's not just a matter of them not doing the events at the same time... or an event being distributed somewhere different in Canada. Almost no events ever come to Canada, period. The only one that ever has, as far as I know, was the Secret Key for Rotom... and that was given out at the exact same time in Canadian TRU locations as it was in American TRU. That was a bit pointless, though, as the same thing was given out over Wi-Fi at the same time for all North American carts.

I'm not sure who owns who, however I've been told by employees in a local Gamestop that both the EB Games and Gamestop name are owned by the same parent company; and that company recently chose to start opening new stores under the Gamestop name as opposed to EB Games. I imagine that company is the same as the one that operates the same stores in the US, very much like how Canada's Future Shop is owned by Best Buy USA, despite the fact there are also Best Buy stores in Canada which are treated as "competition" to Future Shop.

And I have e-mailed The Pokemon Company directly, after being told by Nintendo's customer support that they're the ones who organize giveaway events and recieved this response:

> From: Customer Service
> Subject: [#XJH-104455]: Pokemon events
> To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.ca
> Received: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 6:10 PM
> For each Pokemon distribution that we have done through Toys
> R Us, we have offered the same promotion to Canadian TRU
> stores, as we have to US stores. In each case, Canadian TRU
> has declined to participate in the distribution promotions.
>
> We will continue to encourage Canadian TRU stores to
> participate in these promotions, but, in the end the
> decision is up to them.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Dave
> Pokemon USA, Inc
> Customer Service
>
> Ticket Details
> ===================
> Ticket ID: XJH-104455

They use TRU as an example, but if the same is true of Gamestop then these stores are the ones we should be directing our complaints to.