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Rumor: an Ace Hardware store pulled sealed Pokémon packs and is selling $4.99 store-made repacks

A Reddit post shows a sign at an unnamed Ace Hardware advertising $4.99 Pokémon and Magic repacks, three per customer per week. The poster says the store pulled its sealed packs.

By The Hobby Close · October 27, 2026, 6:38 PM ET· Source: Pokemon Alerts on X →

Sign at an Ace Hardware store advertising $4.99 Pokémon and Magic repacks (via r/PokemonTCGCollectors)

Image courtesy of u/ChickenFriedRiceMe on Reddit via Pokemon Alerts on X

Unconfirmed. A post on r/PokemonTCGCollectors, amplified by Pokemon Alerts on X on Sunday night, shows a sign at an Ace Hardware store advertising $4.99 Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering repacks, limited to three per customer per week, no returns. The poster says the store pulled its sealed packs from the shelf and that staff told them a lifelong collector makes the repacks.

The store is not identified, and Ace Hardware has not commented. The X post had about 2,000 likes and 514,000 views by Monday.

Repacks are a long-running sore spot in the hobby: a sealed pack has a known expected value, while a repack's contents are whatever the packer chose to put in. Big-box retailers have mostly stayed away from them, which is why a hardware store selling its own drew attention.

Why collectors should care: if you see repacks at a chain store, that is a store-level decision, not a corporate one. Sealed product from the same store is unaffected, assuming it is still on the shelf.

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