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How to get the most out of free drop alerts: get each store and your inbox ready

Our free email alerts go out only when you can act right now: a store drawing, a Pokémon Center waiting room or pre-orders are open, and the store's own link comes first (our alerts page). To make one count, get ready before it arrives: your store accounts, a saved address and card, and an inbox and phone that won't hide the email. Here's what each game's alerts cover, what to set up at each store, and how to make the email hard to miss in Gmail, Apple Mail and Outlook.

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In short

  • An alert means it's open now. No reminders, roundups or news, and no restock or in-store-only alerts.
  • Get the store ready first. Be signed in on the phone you'll have with you, with your address and card saved, and keep the store's own emails out of spam.
  • Each store works differently. Walmart charges winners for you; Premium Bandai and Riot winners have a few days or 24 hours to pay; at Pokémon Center, getting in isn't getting a box.
  • Make our email a priority. Add alerts@printedprice.com to your contacts, then set one rule in your email app and one exception on your phone.

Covers

What our free email alerts cover for each game, what to set up at Pokémon Center, Walmart, Premium Bandai and the Riot Merch Store before one arrives, and the inbox and phone settings that keep it from being missed.

Doesn't cover

How an alert is sent and how quickly; How email alerts work covers that. Buying from shops at a fair price; that's Deals.

What an alert is, and what it isn't

Every alert is an opening you can act on now. The store's link comes first, and it goes to the store's own page, never ours. Each email names the kind of alert, the game, the store and, when the source names one, the product (How email alerts work). You choose games, not single products. Here's what each game's alerts cover today:

  • Pokémon: store drawings, invitation lists, where a store lets you ask for an invitation to buy, the Pokémon Center waiting room and pre-orders.
  • One Piece: Premium Bandai lotteries and pre-orders.
  • Gundam: Premium Bandai lotteries.
  • Disney Lorcana: pre-orders.
  • Riftbound: Riot's drawings at the Riot Merch Store.
  • Naruto: alerts start when NARUTO CARD GAME pre-orders open, expected from early 2027.

What we don't send:

  • Reminders that something opens later. Start times are on Windows.
  • In-store drops and in-store-only lotteries, such as Bandai's Official Shop lotteries. There's nothing to tap, so they're on Windows instead.
  • Restocks and prices at shops. Deals shows fair-price stock from vetted shops.
  • News, rumors, card reveals and date changes. Those are on Releases.
  • Starter decks, in any game.

Store by store: before the alert, and after you tap

At every store, the basics are the same: stay signed in on the phone you'll have with you, and save a shipping address and a payment method, so checkout is a tap, not a form (our alerts page). The rest depends on the store.

Pokémon Center: the waiting room

Before: there's nothing to enter ahead of time. Sign in before it opens, on one device.

After you tap: you join a virtual queue. The wait it shows is a guess that can go up as well as down, and the page may refresh by itself, so keep that one tab open and don't refresh it (Game Rant). Getting in doesn't reserve stock, and limits are set per drop. More in Walmart drawings and Pokémon Center queues.

Pokémon Center also sells some items by invitation, emailed by Pokémon Center itself to newsletter subscribers it picks. Those emails don't come from us, so check your spam and promotions folders for them too (how Pokémon Center invitations work).

Walmart: the drawing

Before: a free Walmart account, signed in, with your address and card saved. If you'll enter in the app, install it and allow its notifications.

After you tap: enter during the window, which has been about an hour. Entering in the first minute or the last gives the same chance. Check the address, card and quantity before you submit, because you can't change an entry. After the window closes, Walmart picks entries at random. If you're picked, Walmart places and charges the order for you, then emails you; if you're not, you hear nothing. Walmart's drawing prices have been above MSRP, $69 to $69.99 for Elite Trainer Boxes that list at $49.99, so check the price before you enter (Walmart drawings and Pokémon Center queues).

Premium Bandai: the Chance to Buy lottery

Before: a free Premium Bandai account with a US address. You have to be 18 or older, and only one account: extra accounts void your entries.

After you tap: enter once, any time in the window; the windows so far have run four to eleven days, and entering first doesn't help. On results night, check My Page, because Bandai doesn't email people who aren't picked. Winners have had four to ten days to pay, and Bandai says not paying may count against you next time (how Chance to Buy works).

Riot Merch Store: the Riftbound drawing

Before: make sure you can sign in to your Riot account before sign-ups open, and that emails from riotgames.com aren't going to spam or trash. Riot asks for both.

After you tap: entries are open for five days, and Riot picks at random, with checks that each account is real. Winners are emailed a link to buy a few days later and have 24 hours to use it; if they don't, someone new is drawn (Riot's drawing FAQ, September 25, 2026).

Pre-orders, at any store

A pre-order alert links straight to the store's product page. Open it on the device you're signed in on, and check the price against the MSRP before you pay. Deals shows which shops have the same product at or near MSRP right now, before shipping and tax.

Amazon: invitations

Amazon sells some Pokémon products by invitation (how the stores compare). As of October 20, 2026, Alexa for Shopping can check daily for new ones: how to set it up.

Make the email impossible to miss

Start with the step on our alerts page: add Printed Price Alerts, alerts@printedprice.com, to your contacts. Then set one rule in your email app and one exception on your phone. Menu names are as each provider's help page shows them on October 17, 2026, and they can differ by app or system version.

Gmail

  1. Make a filter on a computer; Gmail's apps can't. In the search bar, click "Show search options", enter alerts@printedprice.com next to "From", and click "Create filter" (Google).
  2. Tick "Never send it to Spam" and "Always mark it as important." Then click "Create filter" (Google).
  3. If an alert is in Spam, select it and click "Not spam"; in the app, it's "Report not spam".
  4. In the Gmail app, open "Settings", choose your account, and check "Email notifications". On iPhone, Google lists "High priority only" under "Get notified for important emails" (Google).

Apple Mail on iPhone

  1. Make us a VIP. Open an alert, tap the sender's name, then tap "Add to VIP" (Apple).
  2. Turn on VIP alerts. In Mail, tap the Info button next to "VIP", tap "VIP Alerts" and choose your alerts (Apple).
  3. Check that Mail can notify you. In Settings, open Mail's "Notifications" and turn on "Allow Notifications". On iOS 27 it's under "Apps", then "Mail" (Apple).
  4. If an alert is in Junk, move it to the Inbox: tap "Move to Folder", then "Inbox".

Outlook

  1. Add a safe sender. In Outlook.com, Outlook on the web or the new Outlook, go to "Settings", "Mail", "Junk email". Under "Safe senders and domains", select "+ Add safe sender", enter alerts@printedprice.com, then "OK" and "Save" (Microsoft).
  2. Keep alerts in Focused. If one lands in "Other", right-click it, choose "Move", "Move to Focused inbox", then "Always move to Focused inbox". In Outlook for iPhone, tap the three dots, "Move to Focused Inbox", then "Always Move" (Microsoft).
  3. In the Outlook app, open "Settings", then "Notifications", and choose "All" for Mail, or "Focused" once alerts go there (Microsoft).
  4. If an alert is in Junk, open "Junk Email", select it, and choose "It's not junk".

iPhone Focus and Do Not Disturb

In Settings, tap "Focus" and choose one, such as "Do Not Disturb" or "Sleep". Tap "Apps", then "Allow Notifications From", and add your email app: Mail, Gmail or Outlook. Do it for each Focus you use (Apple).

Android Do Not Disturb

On Android 14 and up, open Settings, tap "Modes" and choose "Do Not Disturb". Under "Notification filters", tap "Apps" and allow your email app (Google). On a Samsung Galaxy, touch and hold the "Do not disturb" quick setting, then under "Allowed during Do not disturb" tap "App notifications" and add it (Samsung). Older versions and other phone makers name these settings differently.

Do the same for the stores' own emails. Walmart emails drawing winners, Riot emails its winners a link to buy, and Pokémon Center sends its invitations by email.

When one arrives

  1. 1
    Tap the first link. It's the store's own page.
  2. 2
    Open it where you're signed in, with your address and card saved.
  3. 3
    Check the price against MSRP before you enter or pay.
  4. 4
    Enter once, in one tab. Don't refresh a waiting room, and don't make extra accounts.

Every alert also has a Manage alerts link to change your games or stop, and a one-click Unsubscribe.

Sources and notes

How we checked this

How we checked this: what our alerts cover is from our alerts page and How email alerts work, as of October 17, 2026. Store rules are from our store guides, each dated there, and from Riot's drawing FAQ (September 25, 2026, read October 17, 2026). App and phone settings are from Google, Apple and Microsoft's own help pages, read October 17, 2026; menu names can differ between versions.