Zephyrine

Yeah, it definitely depends on how it was obtained. If it turns out that my store's been distributing the GAMESTP one to all of our customers instead of the WIN2011, I'd feel really bad, because we had a huge amount of people actually come in and get it from the Mystery Gift during the times they were supposed to. They all came in on good faith that they were doing everything right. On the flip side, after one of my coworkers found out that we had a Celebi on there, he told one of his friends. And his friend told some of HIS friends... it kind of spiralled and he ended up having them come in right before close while we were still distributing Entei, and he reset the distribution DS dates so they could all get a Celebi. When I found out about it the next day I double-checked to make sure the dates were current, but I know for a fact that there are a handful of them out there - and probably more than that, if this has been happening at other stores - that were not obtained the way they were meant to be. The bad thing about case-by-case basises with this is that it's really difficult to verify how something was obtained. Especially if it has an OT that's commonly been obtained non-legitly. Ifthat'sevenaword.

I was kind of confused about that myself. :< My manager did mention that we haven't been getting some shipments, which I thought was really strange... though, we did have some really cruddy weather not too long ago that literally stopped all deliveries coming in and going out. Maybe that had something to do with it? I was expecting the WIN2011 one, but then I remembered that, so maybe we're just using our old cartridge. I really hope this isn't true for all of the Celebi we've been distributing! Some of the kids who were coming in were so excited to be getting it... ...if my brother did the event without telling me I'm going to hurt him so bad. :< I'll try approaching the shrine from different directions and interacting with it again. I really hope this works. Thank you for your help. Oh, and thank you for the welcome! C: EDIT:: Alright - no luck so far. :< Either my brother already did the event, or there's something else messing with it that I've missed. If I can make it out there today, I'll trash my wonder card, release my Celebi, and get a new one. If it works after that, great; if not, I'll try pulling up one of our preowned copies of HG or SS and working with the distribution for that. And if THAT doesn't work, I'll talk to my manager about our distribution cartridge and see if he's had any word on the WIN2011 one. Most of my coworkers don't actually know a whole lot about Pokémon (I keep getting calls and texts from them when I'm not working asking about how the distribution and Wonder Cards are supposed to work OTL), so it wouldn't surprise me too much if our entire store's overlooked something. ...it would suck REALLY hard, but it wouldn't surprise me. I'll definitely be in there tomorrow - I'm working the launch - so if it's something wrong with the distribution cartridge and it can be fixed, I'll do my best to fix it.

So, I work at Gamestop, and I brought my copy of SoulSilver with me to my shift last night to pick up the Celebi we're distributing. When I got back from work, I ended up going to bed, but I turned it on this morning to look it over. This is what it's got - "Modest nature. Jan. 9, 2011 Pokémon Event Apparently had a fateful encounter at Lv. 50. Capable of taking hits." "Dex No. 256 Name CELEBI Type PSYCHIC GRASS OT GAMESTP ID No. 02271 Exp. Points 117360 To Next Lv. 7766" "Item Jaboca Berry" Everything looks normal except for the fact that I'm pretty sure it wasn't January 9th last night. I checked my DS system and sure enough, it says it's January 10 today... turns out my brother thought it would be funny to mess with my settings. I didn't think anything of it once he told me that, since I actually got it at the time we were supposed to be distributing it, but I went to Ilex Forest with Celebi as my lead Pokémon, and nothing happened. I restarted and double-checked my Wonder Card. It says... "Time to travel with CELEBI! You have already received this gift before. Date received Jan. 09, 2011" Is it possible that the screwed-up date on my DS corrupted it somehow? Or am I just overlooking something really simple? Any help you'd be able to give me with this would be awesome... thank you so much in advance!