| kellygirl26 06:57PM 12/02/2005 |
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My Shop--Some Things I've Noticed " Two things I've noticed today as I've been stocking up my shop with codestones. First, even when your price is the lowest on your Shop Wizard screen, it seems that items sell much slower when you have a lot of them. For example, if I'm not having tons of luck finding codestones and manage to stock one or two, they disappear quickly. If I have 13 of the same stone in stock, they sit there for ages. I imagine that when others who are looking to resell items at a profit come across a shop with a bunch of the same item, the price seems like less of a deal. The other thing that I've noticed, which sort of goes hand-in-hand with the first, is that I tend to have much better luck selling my stock when I have a wide variety of items. When I check my shop history, I often see the same person buying two or three things. So, maybe they were looking for a Main Codestone on the wiz, then, once they were in my shop, they ended up buying an Orn Codestone and an omelette too. Because of both of these things, I'm trying to vary what I sell in my shop. (It's worked pretty well so far...I've made about 20k selling codestones today.) |
| stasiasilverstar 03:26PM 11/13/2005 |
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Wiz Sniping Guide " Hey Gang! I came across this players Wiz Sniping Guide while on Premium. She's quite accomplished and it's very detailed and informative. Take a look http://home.neopets.com/~Tulio_1000 |
| thebigshop 09:05AM 03/28/2005 |
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Shop Wizard Listings " Understanding the Shop Wizard: (The following explains a bit more about what I said about YOUR SHOP WIZARD PAGE under "Guides" on our web page.) When you look at a Shop Wizard Page, you aren't looking at everybody's shop. I may have a Pawkeet for sale at 80,000 NP and you might not see my name/price info when you search for "Pawkeet" on the Shop Wizard. What you're actually seeing is a group of shops selling a Pawkeet. Neopets has divided its users into groups based on the first letter of their user ID and there are 13 different groups (there used to be 8, these are the updated groups).
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my example of the Pawkeet, I scan the shop wizard and find the following
results (my observations are in parentheses): |
| lindsmorghart 04:15PM 06/18/2004 |
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If ya don't see it..... " I used to have a huge problem whenever I went to a person's shop because their background was black and I couldn't see their prices. Well I guess that I could have just clicked on every single item that I wanted to buy but I didn't want to sooo just highlight it all!!!!! When you figure out what you want to buy then just click somewhere else on the screen and click on the item you want to buy. Hope that this helps!!! |
| stasiasilverstar 01:24PM 02/27/2004 |
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Re: Should you expand your shop ? " My shop is Size 25 and rarely ever filled, yet I have made over 50 million nps! If you price your items correctly,(1-5 nps BELOW the LOWEST of the same item after 5 or 6 refreshes) your items will move so fast that you don't need a really big shop! |
| al_quds 01:44PM 11/02/2003 |
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I have a small tip... " This is a VERY small tip, but I thought I'd share it! This works for me! Did you know that every item in Neopia is sell-able? You did? Well then why do people discard things like sandals and dung? I made 250 neopoints today in my shop from sandals, dung, palm fans, bottles of sand, keyrings, and boats. Just put sandals, dung, palm fans, and blue, black and red bottles of sand in your shop for 1 neopoint. Mine sold in a minute! Sure, it's small. But when you want neopoints, everything counts, right? You can also put one small maybe 10 or 15 neopoint item in your trades, and say something like "Junk dump!" and people know what that is. Today someone gave me a usuki set worth 150 neopoints along with some sand and keyrings. It's a corny thing to do, but it does work! I got a lot of neo-cola too. Neopia just doesn't sell things unless they are worth over 300 neopoints! |
| onering_ 09:05AM 10/28/2003 |
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Re: How many times CAN you refresh a wiz ? " It's a max of 300 refreshes in an hour. They break it up though. Sometimes you'll refresh some and they'll say come back in 20 minutes, or 10, etc. It averages 300 refreshes and hour though. I tested it thoroughly ! lol The bans end on the hour. If you get kicked out at 5 minutes after the hour, your ban is one hour. If you are banished at 20 after, you get a 40 minute ban. If you’re banned at 10 to, you get banned for 10 minutes, etc. |
| stasiasilverstar 03:15PM 07/14/2003 |
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Pricing Items " This is something that members need to do on the own. Determining the price of things. Allow me to offer you a little lesson. IF the item in question is UNDER 99,999nps, type the name of the item, identical. Other prices should now show up 99,999nps or lower. Take the one at the top, let's say it 37,700mps for this item. Now put in 37,699nps as you new max willing to pay and refresh again. Do this repeatedly until after 6 or 7 refreshes, nothing lower comes up, then set your price slightly lower, usually 5nps lower. You should now be the lowest priced of that item currently. You may need to recheck your prices to make sure that you are still the lowest. I'm online so much that I check SEVERAL times a day! You should re-check AT LEAST once a day, and re-price your items as needed to make yourself the lowest again. This is the fastest way to move items under 99,999 nps, thru your shop!! I've made MILLIONS doing this and you can too!! Good Luck and Rock On!! |
| onering_ 10:17AM 07/09/2003 |
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Underpriced Items " Buy codestones, faeries, Dubloons, Paint Brushes,Map Pieces, etc., Anything that people get as a random event. Newbies sometimes under price them on the Wiz. Just keep refreshing till you come up with one cheaper than the rest, then sell it for the going price. |
| mrsoccer311 08:21PM 08/10/2002 |
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Re: Shop Wizard " This is always a good idea. Another thing I like to do, is mix it up by simply typing "Paint Brush" Then doing a search will bring up a different paint brush each time. Also you could type Dubloon, Faerie, Codestone, Schorchstone (Not sure if that is spelt right) and so on. This is a really good tip for buying and selling in your shop. -Dale |
| weberockin 08:12PM 08/10/2002 |
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Shop Wizard " Always search on a couple of your more favorite expensive items. Almost always, you'll find someone now and then selling something for far less than it is worth. I just bought a red scorchstone for 2,000np! It sells immediately at 48,000np!! That's a cool 46,000np profit instantly!! |
| guesszoo 08:40PM 06/23/2002 |
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10,000 a day? " I made about 24,000 today in about half an hour just buying and selling Har Codestones. Buying and Selling in shops is the clearly easiest way to being a NeoMillionaire - you just have to spend a lot of time on the Shop Wizard learning what items will move fast, what the best prices are, and catching people selling those items at prices way low. Codestones and Faeries are my favorites to make a ton of Neopoints in a short time frame. Of course, you need about 100,000 Neopoints to really make points with codestones and faeries. Until you get that much, you'll have to pick cheaper items to buy and sell. Just spend a lot of time on the Shop Wizard. |
| onering_ 05:39AM 06/12/2002 |
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Re: RE: 35 million/onering " I go to the Trades. Find out what is popular. That means checking what people are asking for in their Trades. Example: You'll see several posts where people say. "H4K Auto" If you see enough of those, you know it's an item to look for! I check the Wiz and refresh to the limit until I find one that someone has underpriced. .I refresh around 5 or 6 times per item. I don't just refresh the same items 300 times! Way too boring! I then put it in the Trades and sell it for what it’s worth. I only accept nps! You have to start checking for yourself. Wand of the Air Faeries used to be worth 160K, I made a LOT of nps off of those! They’re now worth 95K so I don’t buy them. Prices go up and down. You have to pay attention. I don’t play games, I just do this. It’s not for everybody. Most people like the games and are happy to make nps that way. You should enjoy the game first. I made my first million just playing games and buying under priced codestones!.. |
| superuperstar 04:59PM 08/14/2001 |
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When you are neoshoppin' " When you go to a shop that has maybe a codestone or map piece for like 1,000np that you found on the wiz, after you buy that item check the rest of their store cuz they might have some other rare item like that for the same price or cheaper! One time I went to a shop that had a map piece for 2,250np and when I was done luckily I decided to see what else they had and there was an orn codestone for only 1,000np! I got both of them! |
| shiftytitan702 08:37PM 08/06/2001 |
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TiP " Cant find an item in someones big shop? Press Ctrl + F this will pop up a window and you will only need to type in the item you need and it will magically go there. |
| guesszoo 09:13AM 06/28/2001 |
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shops.." Never, EVER use Neopets "Est. Value" for pricing your shop items. ALWAYS use the Shop Wizard to see what others are selling the same item for. Do several searches with the Shop Wizard so you get a good look at other shops' prices for your item. Then, price it a little below the lowest price if you want it to move quickly. If you price it a little higher, it won't move as quickly, but you might get more np. Like "themoira" says, get to know what certain items will sell for and when you can buy them cheaper, go for it, then resell them at the going price. |
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