Here you'll find information on how to purchase Pokémon at TRHQ.
For all current or upcoming flaffles, raffles, auctions, and games, check out our Special Events post!
First and foremost: Yes, this is a Team Rocket themed shop, and yes, our characters are cheats, villains, and criminals. However, that does not mean that any manner of cheating will be tolerated in events. Follow the rules or it's the blacklist for you.
Everyone loves a good act of charity, but remember, if you win a Pokémon in any kind of event, you cannot gift it to a person who also participated or had a proxy in that event. By giving the prize to another participant, you indirectly act as an extra proxy for them, becoming an unfair second shot that other participants weren't allowed. If you win a prize and want to give it away, make sure the recipient is someone who didn't participate or have a proxy!
FLAFFLES
● Flaffle price is 100mil.
● Only post your form once the flaffle has begun. Forms for the flaffle will be posted before the scheduled start time of the flaffle.
● You may participate for yourself and act as a proxy for one other person who cannot participate.
● Unless otherwise stated, each individual gets ONE entry per flaffle, be it through participation or proxy.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN A FLAFFLE:
Flatsale raffle - in short, a flaffle! This means all available Pokémon have a flat price of 100mil and winners are drawn randomly. At the specified sale time, there will be a "GO" post made by staff to indicate that you can begin posting your form. Incomplete forms, or proxy forms using nicknames, will not be accepted. If you post your form and need to edit it, ask the staffer running the event if you are allowed to do so. Usually you will be allowed to, but in some instances you may need to make a new post rather than edit your original one. The flaffle will remain open for a specified length of time, usually 15-30 minutes or more, before it will close and no more forms will be accepted. Once the allotted time has expired, the entries will be organized into raffle lists and the winners will be rolled.
But wait, there's more! If the flaffle allows Dark Balls and you purchased a Dark Ball at any time prior to flaffle, you can use a different form to catch a dark Pokémon. If you post this form and it's discovered that you don't have a Dark Ball, your entry won't be counted. If you use this form but don't win a Pokémon, your Dark Ball will not go to waste; you can save it to use another time.
Once the flaffle is over, the winners will be announced and asked to send payment and post cert info in the Certing Thread. Huzzah!
NORMAL SALES
Normal sales are an easy, affordable way to get a normal-colored Pokémon without ordering it as a custom and without hoping for it to appear in a flaffle. These sales will be held at random without any set date or prior notice, so if you want to participate in one, you need to keep an eye on the thread!
Normal sales come in different varieties: common, uncommon, or rare; expression edits or no expression edits; and dark balls or no dark balls. What's allowed will be noted at the beginning of every sale. Common sales are, appropriately, the most common and will allow you to get any normal-colored common variety Pokémon you want. Uncommon sales allow you to choose any uncommon or common normal-colored Pokémon, and rare sales allow any rare, uncommon, or common Pokémon you want. Note that normal sales only go up to rare, so legendaries will not be available in this way. To see the rarity of any Pokémon in TRHQ, check the Completed Pokémon list.
Keep in mind that normal sales are just that - normal. You can't pay extra to change the eye color or add a simple marking. You have to order a custom Pokémon for that. Expressions are allowed if, and only if, indicated by the staffperson holding the sale, as is Dark Ball usage.
The Pokémon you request in a normal sale can be at any stage you wish. If you want a Blastoise, you can enter for a Blastoise; you don't need to start at Squirtle. Bear in mind that if the Pokémon evolves through stone use, you'll need to post in the Evolution Thread and pay the item fee before they'll evolve.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN A NORMAL SALE:
These run very much like flaffles. A staffperson will make a Normal Sale post in the thread and state the conditions on rarity, edits, and Dark Ball use. The sale opens as soon as this post has been made and ends either after two hours have passed or until there are a maximum of 15 participants, although some normal sales run twenty-four hours and will specify if they do. The post template (code) used to enter a normal sale is the same one that's used for regular flaffles. Each sale will have no more than three winners. Once winners are rolled, they will send the colorist a trade for 100mil (or 600mil, if they opted for an expression mod) and post cert information in the Certing Thread - make sure to add details about the expression edit, if applicable.
Winners are no longer required to wait out the next few normal sales before they can participate again. If it becomes obvious that the same couple people are winning every normal sale, however, we may reinstate a limit of waiting out one sale instead of three.
AUCTIONS
● Starting Bid: 1bil
● Be respectful of the other bidders.
● No editing posts or bids.
● You can't withdraw bids.
● Please only bid if you have the pure gold. Only gold bids will be accepted.
● Snipe guard will go into effect 10 minutes before the end of the auction.
● You may only hold high bid on one Pokémon at a time.
● The form used to bid will be posted for the duration of the auction.
RAFFLES
● Tickets are 1mil each. Forms to purchase tickets will be posted for the duration of the raffle.
● Please send trades to the shop mule immediately after posting your form in the thread. Include the page number on which you posted the form in the trade title.
● You cannot choose what ticket numbers you get. There is no limit to how many tickets you may purchase or how often you can purchase them. You may also purchase tickets for other people.
● RP raffles are almost identical to paid raffles, except the number of tickets you can acquire is limited and is tied to the number of posts you make in the associated event ORP. Information about how to acquire RP raffle tickets, as well as the forms for them, will be posted for the duration of the RP raffle.
● You may only win one Pokémon per raffle.
● At the end of the raffle the winners will be randomly drawn from the list. First winner gets first pick, second winner gets second pick, etc etc.
● Remember to check back after the raffle has ended to see if you won a Pokémon. Winners have a set amount of time, typically between 36 and 48 hours, to send in their preferences. Failure to do so will result in losing your place in the picking order and being bumped to last pick, or possibly even losing your win altogether. If you know you won't be available at any time between the end of the raffle and the end of the following day, contact staff to ask about submitting your preference list early.
BREEDING
Visit the Breeding Subforum in the Guild for more information on Pokémon breeding!
