DropScouts

Terms of Service

Last updated: August 2, 2026

These terms cover your use of the DropScouts website, our Discord server, and our alerts. By signing up or joining the Discord, you're agreeing to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

Short version: DropScouts is a free, best-effort alert service. We try hard to be fast and accurate, but we can't guarantee you'll get a ping, that it'll be in time, or that the price is right. Always check the retailer's page before you buy.

What DropScouts is

DropScouts monitors Canadian retailers for Pokémon and Palworld trading card products and sends alerts when we detect a restock, a new listing, or a price change. Alerts go out through our Discord server and, if you've opted in, by email.

The service is best-effort

This is the important part. Our monitoring is automated and imperfect. We do not guarantee that:

  • Every restock will be detected, or detected in time to buy
  • Alerts will arrive without delay, or arrive at all
  • Product, price, or availability information in an alert is accurate or current
  • The service will be available without interruption

Always verify price, product, and availability on the retailer's own website before purchasing. Retailers change prices and stock constantly, and listings can be wrong, mispriced, or removed. We are not responsible for what a retailer does.

We're not the seller

We don't sell trading cards and we're not party to your purchase. Any transaction is between you and the retailer, under their terms, their pricing, and their returns policy. Problems with an order — payment, shipping, cancellation, refunds — are between you and them.

Affiliate links and disclosure

DropScouts is free. Some links in our alerts, on this site, and in our Discord are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you buy after clicking, at no additional cost to you.

As an Amazon Associate, DropScouts earns from qualifying purchases.

Affiliate arrangements do not influence which restocks we alert on or in what order. We alert on whatever our monitoring finds.

Email and SMS communications

By signing up you give express consent under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation to receive commercial electronic messages from DropScouts. Every message identifies us and includes an unsubscribe link that works immediately.

If we introduce text message alerts, they will require a separate express opt-in — email signup alone will never be treated as consent to text you. Where SMS is offered, message frequency varies, message and data rates may apply, and you can reply STOP at any time to opt out or HELP for assistance.

For details on data handling, cookies, and advertising, see our Privacy Policy.

Using the Discord server

Our Discord has its own rules, which you agree to when you enter. In short: be decent, no harassment or hate, no spam or unapproved self-promotion, and keep things on topic. We may remove content or remove members at our discretion, particularly for:

  • Harassment, hate, or abuse of other members
  • Spam, scams, or advertising without permission
  • Using our alerts to run a competing service, or redistributing them at scale
  • Automating access to our alerts in a way that degrades the service for others

Acceptable use

Don't scrape, copy, resell, or redistribute our alerts or data as your own product or service. Don't attempt to disrupt, overload, or reverse engineer the service. Personal use is what this is for.

Founding members and free access

Where we describe access as free — including any "founding member" offer — we'll honour what we advertised at the time you signed up. We may introduce paid tiers or additional features in future, and we'll be clear about what changes if we do.

Limitation of liability

DropScouts is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the service — including missed restocks, late or failed alerts, incorrect information, purchases you made or didn't make, or amounts you paid to a retailer.

Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, in which case the above applies to the maximum extent the law allows.

Changes to the service or these terms

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of DropScouts at any time. We may also update these terms; the date at the top reflects the current version, and continuing to use the service means you accept the update.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@dropscouts.com

DropScouts is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Bushiroad, Pocketpair, or any retailer we monitor. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.