Those who wish to register as a member shall apply for membership registration from the membership registration page of this site in accordance with the method separately designated by our company. Only individuals residing in Japan can apply for membership registration.
We will send an email confirming registration to those who apply for membership registration in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the preceding paragraph and have been approved by our company (hereinafter referred to as “members”). In addition, it may take some time to register as a member.
Membership
Lottery applications now require membership and phone number authentication (SMS and automated voice call)
The terms refer to both users and members, and only Japanese residents can apply for membership. No details of this membership yet, but I assume there will be priority access or similar to make registering worthwhile
Ah yeah, I see now that users can still do the basics:
Article 3: This Service
The “Service” refers to the following services that can be used by Users:
① Purchase of products
② Viewing information about products or services
③ Viewing and editing My Page
④ Enter the lottery using PokéPoints
⑤ Entering the lottery for lottery sales items
⑥ Other services related to the above
Wonder if phone verificaiton via a JP number is needed because that would be the main hurdle and way for them to determine who resides in Japan (since you could just put any JP address there).
This site renewal has become the next step of TPC’s commitment to ensuring Japanese residents receive full priority access over the newest Japanese products including online
Looks like you just need the convoluted membership in order to apply for a lottery. I just made a normal Pokemon Center order of in-stock products to my Tenso address with no problems.
I needed to update my credit card information from the user page and there was a new confirmation prompt from my bank (3D Secure) but nothing else. Reshipper addresses haven’t been winning lotteries for years, unless you figured out some service they didn’t know about or had an actual middle man in Japan. So it looks like this membership system doesn’t really change much and just formalizes practices they’ve already had in place.
This seems to be correct. I think the rest of products should not be affected and hopefully this is only applicable to the very hot / in-demand products.
