A discount US hobby e-retailer, Miniature Market, listed the Pitch Black booster box at $189.99 in October 2026, about 1.18 times the $161.64 list price

How it’s built

1. Read from the shop's preorder listing on 30 October 2026, which limited buyers to six boxes.
2. Divided by the list price for a 36-pack booster box.

What we assumed

• The list price is $161.64.That is the trade's reported list for a Scarlet & Violet-era booster box; the shop does not show it.

Sanity check

This is one shop's asking price on the day the page was read, not the preorder date. It shows above-list pricing is not only GameStop's.

The values

• Price $: 190
• List price $: 162
• Ratio: 1.18

Where it comes from

The line in the source

$189.99

Where it’s used

• ProfilePokémon Trading Card Game
• ProfileCard distribution channel (distributors, hobby stores, mass retail)