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Counter started May 27, 2007
Last updated: July 27, 2008
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You may have heard someone talking somewhere about how they made millions of Neopoints restocking. "Really? That's amazing! What is restocking, and how do I do it?" You might have said. Well, here I will explain to you different things about restocking, such as what it is, how you do it, some common phrases used by restockers, and yes, even some of the bad things about restocking.
Common Terms
After you haggle the item, you will get one of 3 screens.
If you see no lower prices, it means that the price you originally saw was most likely the lowest price. Since the lowest price was 16,950NP, I would put in in my shop for 16,900NP.
If you notice that your items are not selling, try looking it up on the Shop Wizard again. It is possible that over time, more people have restocked the item and put it in their shops cheaper than you. If this is the case, just lower your price. =)
HOWEVER, don't lower your price too much. Yes, lower prices mean quicker sales, but if no one buys it, the item will end up deflating. No, it doesn't run out of air =P. Deflation occurs when many people keep trying to have the cheapest item, but no one buys it. This is BAD. It is bad because eventually the item won't be profitable to buy anymore. When pricing your buyable items, depending on it's value, only price it a few hundred Neopoints or a few thousand Neopoints under. For Unbuyables, don't go making it 50,000 Neopoints cheaper. I tend to stick with 10,000NP or less, if I even lower the price at all.
If you want to get the lowest price from ALL shops, consider trying out the Super Shop Wizard (SSW).
After you select Submit to 'Put into your Shop', click 'Close and view Stock'.
To put an item up for trade, click on the 'Create a New Trade!' button, and click on the checkbox next to the items. At the botom of the page, you can enter how many Neopoints you want for the item, or what items you'd like to trade for it.
Another reason you may not see any items in the shops is because you are 'Restock Banned'
1) Click on one of the profitable items in the shop.
1) Number Pad vs Number Row
There is no correct one to use, but in certain situations, one is better than the other.
(Ex 2: For an item priced at 36890NP, one may haggle 34534NP. This is hard to do on the Pad because 3,4, and 5 are on different rows. This would be best on the Row.
(Ex 3: For an item priced at 16321NP, one might haggle 15656. This is a bit far for the Row, and would be best on the Pad.
But, which is used depends on the user's preferences.
Above is one way that restockers position themselves, normally for the Row.
Above is another way that restockers position themselves, normally for the Pad.
Restockers that are left-handed can use the same positioning, just with opposite hands/fingers.
Personally, I find alternating numbers and accending/decending numbers quicker and more accurate than repetition, but the choice is up to you. Normally with a repetition haggle, I either put too many or too little numbers, which makes me have to rehaggle and decreases my chances of getting the item.
Your Experience
*When beginners ask me for advice on shops, I normally advise to avoid the Book Shop. This is because many of them only give a few hundred neopoints, or one or two thousand neopoints profit. The books that DO give nice profit tend to be hard to sell, so you wait a long time to sell them. However, many people disagree and think that books is a great beginner's shop, so it is included.
To me, there are 2 kinds of shops that your shop can be, and which one it is is decided by who come to your shop. You actually have the ability to choose which kind of shop you have. You can either have a shop that draws the same customers back each time, or you can have a shop that brings in a wide selection of new customers.
You can have a shop that brings back the same customers by always stocking the same item. Say you sell furniture and/or garden items in your shop. Whenever someone working on their NeoHome needs something and go to your shop, if it's a nice shop with a great selection they'll bookmark it for future visits. Same with if you sell food. Kad feeders and Gourmet feeders will bookmark your shop if you have a great selection.
To have a shop that brings in many different people, you stock a selection of many different kinds of items. If you stock food, petpets, and stamps, for example, you'll attract a greater variety of customers.
Now back to your personality. If you tend to get bored of things quickly, a shop that attracts a variety of customers would probably be best for you. Say you sell furniture and garden items, but you get tired of restocking them and decide to start restocking in the Pharmacy. What will all of the people that bookmarked your shop for the NeoHome items do? If you frequently change the shop you restock in, you can change the items you sell without worrying about anything.
An item's rarity affects many things, such as how often the item restocks, how much it will restock for, and how much it is worth.
Generally, items with a rarity of below 90 are buyable, or under 100,000NP. This is because they restock more often. Items with a rarity in the upper 90s tend to be unbuyable, or worth over 100,000NP. This is because they don't restock very often. Items that don't restock very often, or items that do restock often but are used often, are worth more than items that always restock and are useless. This is because demand is greater than the supply.
Items with a rarity in the lower 90s tend to restock for around 5000NP, while items with rarities in the upper 90s tend to restock for 10000NP, many times even higher.
Only items with a rarity of 100 or lower restock in Neopian shops. Items rarity 101+ do not restock and must be obtained another way. HOWEVER, there are a few exceptions to this. Some items, such as Secret Laboratory Map pieces are under rarity 101, but they don't restock in a Neopian shop.
Also, depending on your account's age, some items aren't available for you to restock because of their rarity. Here is a guide:
The first change to the system occurred in Spring/Summer of 2006. All shops now restock on random seconds of random minutes, meaning that they don't restock together anymore, and no one can be sure when the next one will occur.
The second change occurred shortly after. Really good items no longer restock at the very bottom of the shop anymore. Good items are now mixed together with the not-so-good items, making it harder for people to find them right away.
In early June of 2007, TNT changed the way items appear in shops. Instead of 6 rows of 4 items, there are not 4 rows of 5 items and 1 row of 4 items (which still adds up to 24). Also, text underneath the items and where it tells you the Neopian Inflation % are now centered. They have also, for some reason, removed the amount of Neopoints you are currently carrying, so you need to look in the upper right now.
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Q's & A's
What is Restocking?
How do I put an item in my shop/trades?
Why are there never items in the shops?
What is a restock ban?
What items do I buy?
How do I buy an item?
How can I haggle well?
What shops should I restock in?
Why hasn't "------" restocked yet?
What is Half Price Day?
Changes in Restocking
Avatars
SSW
Shop List
What is Restocking?
Restocking is basically buying items from the Neopian shops, and then selling them in your shop (or trades if it's unbuyable) for a larger amount of Neopoints than what you bought it for, therefore making a profit.
Below is the screen you will see if you miss the item, which means that someone else got to it faster than you did.
The second screen (below) is saying that you got the item.
The third screen (below) will occur if you go for another item too quickly. Just hit your refresh button or f5 key to get rid of it, as it's faster than going back to the shop and reclicking it.
So, you got the item, but what do you do next?
After you get the item, you need to open up the Shop Wizard, and search for the item name.
After you search for the item, refresh the page 5-7 times, and remember the lowest price you saw for the item. Now, go back to the Shop Wizard and search for the item again. HOWEVER, this time, enter the lowest amount you saw into the Max Price spot. Refresh the page a few more times - If you see lower prices now, put the item in your shop a bit lower than those prices.
(Ex: If you saw a price of 16,900NP, put in in your shop for around 16,850NP.)
NOTE: Using the Shop Wizard may take more time to price items because you need to RF more to get a good price.
With the SSW, you will AUTOMATICALLY be given the lowest price.
For details on how to get the SSW, see the 'Other' section of this guide.
Now, if you grab a calculator, you can see how much profit you made on an item.
You enter 16,900NP you sold it for, then subtract the 1,891NP you bought it for, and you get an answer.
On this item, you would've made 15,009NP profit. This adds up!!!
What is Restocking?
To put an item in your shop, you need to go to Your Inventory.
To go here, you can either:
a) click on your NP amount in the upper right of the screen; or
b) click on shops, then click on the picture to the very left on the yellow scroll at the top of the screen
Once you get to Your Inventory, click on the item you wish to put into your shop.
You will get a popup, and many options. Select the option that says 'Put into your Shop'.
NOTE:If you don't have a shop yet, you can get create one by clicking the little house to the right of the 'Your Items' picture on the yellow scroll.
Shops only cost 150NPs to create, so they are a GREAT investment.
You will be brought to your shop stock, where you enter the amount of NP you want to sell it for next to the item.
Now, just sit and wait for the item to sell. Once it sells, you can collect the money by going to your shop, and clicking
If an item is unbuyable (worth more than 100,000NP, however, you don't want to put it in your shop. You want to put it in your Trades.
To put an item in your trades, click on the girl with the pink flower in her hair on the yellow scroll.
Why are there never items in the shops?
There could be 2 different reasons why you don't see any items in the shops.
One of those reasons is because the shop hasn't restocked yet.
ALL RESTOCK TIMES ARE RANDOM NOW, SO THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL WHEN THE SHOP WILL RESTOCK
To see a restock, you need to refresh the page. How many times you refresh the shop depends on you, and the shop. If it's a shop that doesn't restock alot, you can refresh less than a shop that tends to restock more frequently. For shops that restock frequently, I tend to refresh the page sometime every 2-5 seconds. For less frequently restocking shops, I might refresh every 10 seconds.
What is a restock ban?
Don't worry, a restock ban sounds worse than it really is. A restock ban simply means that you can't restock for a certain amount of time because EVERY shop will appear to be sold out to you (except for Igloo and Little Nippers). You become restock banned by refreshing in your shops to many times. You can avoid being restock banned by taking breaks every once in awhile. You can get off of the computer and go outside, you can go play a few Neopets games, or even go chat on the Neoboards. This won't guarentee you will not be restock banned, but it can decrease your chances of becoming banned.
All restock bans last for random amounts of time. If you're lucky, they can be as short as 30 minutes. Unfortunately, they can last as long as 48 hours. However, the average restock ban lasts somewhere between 12 hours and 24 hours. Also, bans tend to be longer for people who have been restocking longer than for people who are newer to restocking. You can tell that your restock ban is over, because when you go into a shop items will be there.
You can tell if you are banned or not by visiting the Tiki Tack Shop . This shop is almost always stocked, so it is a great place to check if you are banned.
What items do I buy?
There being over 100 shops, and hundreds of items that stock in each shop, I cannot list every item to go for or not to go for in each shop. However, I can tell you how to learn which items are good and which aren't. The BEST way to learn what items are good and which aren't, is to select a shop and watch it for a day or so to see what restocks. Look up the different items you see to see how profitable they are. Another way to see how good an item is is how much it stocks for. 2,500NP, 5,000NP, and 10,000NP normally indicate a good buy, but NOT ALWAYS. The only reliable way to check if it's good or not is to look them up. Also, the higher an item's rarity, the more Neopoints the item is usually worth.
To buy an item, you need to successfully click on and haggle the item before everyone else going for the item. Below are the steps:
2) Confirm the item.
To quickly get past this message, just hit the enter button your keyboard. It saves precious time instead of grabbing your mouse to click OK.
3) Haggle the item.
When haggling, you do NOT have to put the same number in the box as the shopkeeper asks. If the shopkeeper asks for '810 Neopoints', for example, you can enter 789 and still get the item.
4) Click on the Neopet in the haggle picture.
Be sure to click on the Neopet itself, and not anywhere else. If you miss the Neopet, you will be brought back to the haggle page and need to click it again. This is annoying, because it wastes time and greatly decreases your chances of getting the item. So to avoid this, be sure to click as close to the Neopet as possible.
One of the most important parts of restocking is haggling.
There are 3 things about haggling:
2) Hand Positioning
3) Kind of Haggle
Number Pad vs Number Row
Above is a picture of a keyboard, with the Number Row (above) and the Number Pad (right) hilighted.
Here are a few examples:
(Ex 1: For an item priced at 1934NP, one might haggle 1999NP. This is an extremely far reach and takes up time on the Number Row, so the Number Pad would be best for this.
However, one could also haggle 2121, which could be done on either Row or Pad.
Hand Positioning
They keep their left middle finger on the f5 button to refresh the page, their thumb on enter to go past the confirmation pop-up, and keep their right hand on the mouse to click on items and the haggle picture. 
They keep their left ring finger on 4, left middle finger on 5, and their left index finger on 6. This allows them to easily move their fingers up or down for different haggles. Meanwhile, they keep the left thumb on the enter button and right hand on the mouse for the same reasons as above. The mouse is also used to click on the browser's refresh button, or the shopkeeper, to refresh the pages.
Kinds of Haggles
There are 4 basic kinds of haggling. They are:
1) Repeating- 1222; 6666;
2) 2 Finger Alternation- 54545; 23233;
3) 3 Finger Alternation- 123123; 156456; 9879;
4) Accending/Decending- 456; 987; 4567; 9876;
So you've learned how to recognize good items, and how to buy the items, but how do you choose what shop to restock in? Below are a few things to consider when choosing your shop(s).
There are generally 3 groups of restockers. They are beginner, advanced, and expert. Here are some suggestions on which shops would best suit each category:
Beginner- Food, Chocolate, Snow Foods, Book*, Pharmacy
Advanced- Spooky Food, Furniture, Garden, Plushie, Meridel Food
Expert- Weaponries, Pet pet Shops, Stamp, Coin, Shell
Computer Speed
An important part of choosing a shop is how fast your computer moves. If you have a fast connection, you could benefit in almost any shop. However, if you have a slow connection such as dial-up, a slow shop or a less popular shop would be best for you. Pharmacy would be good, because many of the profitable items stock 20 or 30 at a time, so you have time to get a few. =)
Your personality and Customer Type
Huh? What does my personality have to do with restocking?" you may be asking. Well, it actually does play a part in which shops you choose to restock in. But, I shall begin with Customers first =P.
So you've chosen your shop(s) and have been restocking there awhile now, but there are a few items that you want to restock that don't seem to be restocking. This is probably because they have a high rarity.
1 month - r90 and under
2 months - r94 and under
3 months - r95 -r100
{ Waiting for multiple confirmations 
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Half Price Day, or HPD, occurs on the 3rd day of every month. On this day, all of the Neopian shops (not including Little Nippers or the Igloo), sell their items for half the price that they normally do. This day is both good and bad. Because everything is half price, you can buy more items because items that are normally not profitable give profit now. However, this day attracts many people that do not normally restock, meaning that you have a less chance of getting items. Also, because of the extra people in the shops, the shops might begin to lag.
1337 - Elite; very skillful
5 Sec Rule - Rule created by Neopets allowing users to only buy 1 item every 5 seconds
ABer - @ut0buy3r; program used to automatically buy items from shops; WILL GET ACCOUNT(s) FROZEN
Ban - Restock ban; unable to restock for certain period of time
Drought - When shops don't restock any items for a long period of time
Deflation - (sometimes) dramatic fall in the value of an item; don't deflate your items
ETS/HTS - Easy to sell/Hard to sell; how easily you can sell an item
GJ - Good job
HPD - Half Price Day; day when shops sell items half price; more crowded on this day
Inflation - (sometimes) dramatic rise in the value of an item; there are 2 kinds, false and normal; normal occurs naturally when demand is greater than supply, but false is against the rules, and is when an item is mass bought and set at a higher price
Junk - Describes restocks; no good items to buy
K - Thousand; 1k=1000 50k=50000 1000k=1000000
Lag - When the computer runs slower than normal; decreases chances of getting items
Loss - Buying an item for more than it's worth, causing a loss in neopoints when selling
MH/MHed - Mishaggle/Mishaggled; haggle too much over or under the price asked by the shopkeeper
Mil - Million; 1mil=1million 10mil=10million
Multing - Restocking on more then one account, normally when one is banned; WILL GET ACCOUNT(s) FROZEN
OBO - Or better offer
Overlook - to quickly look through the items stocked, causing you to not see a good item(s)
R - Rarity; describes an item's rarity (r99, r90, r83)
RF/RFed/RFing - Refresh/Refreshed/Refreshing
RS/RSing/RSer - Restock/Restocking/Restocker
SSW - Super Shop Wizard; Upgrade of regular wiz; available only from Premium
Tarla'd - Referring to an item that his been given out by Tarla's Toolbar, meaning that it has been decreased in value and normally not worth buying
TP - Trading Post; place for selling UBs
UB - Unbuyable; item worth over 100k; sold in TP
Wiz - Shop Wizard; used to price buyable items
WTG - Way to go
Throughout Neopet's history, there have been many changes. Some of those changes have been to the restocking system.
There are 3 avatars associated with restocking. They are: 
Chocolate!
Restock an item with a rarity of 90+ from the Chocolate Factory 
Uni Faboo
Restock an item with a rarity of 80+ from the Clothes Shop 
Angry Air Mote
Restock a mote with a rarity of 70+ from the Brightvale Motery
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Customizable Portal (includes Calendar, Weather, News, Mapquest, Stocks, Webmail, + much more)
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1. Food
2. Magic
3. Toys
4. Clothes
5. Grooming
7. Book
8. Collectible Cards (CC)
9. Battle Magic (BM)
10. Defense Magic (DM)
12. Garden
13. Pharmacy (Pharm/Farm)
14. Chocolate Factory (Choco)
15. Bakery
16. Health Food (Health)
17. Gift
18. Smoothies
20. Tropical Food (TF/Trop)
22. Grundo's Cafe
23. Space Weaponry (Space Weap)
24. Space Armoury (Space Arm)
25. Neopian Petpets (NPP)
26. RoboPet Shop (RPP)
27. The Rock Pool (MIPP/RP)
30. Spooky Food (spooky)
31. Spooky Petpets (SPP)
34. Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe
35. Slushie Shop
36. Ice Crystals (IC)
37. Super Happy Icy Fun Show Shop (SHIFSS/Snow)
38. Faerieland Bookshop (Fbooks)
39. Faerie Foods
40. Faerieland Petpets (FPP)
41. Furniture (furn)
42. Tyrannian Food
43. Tyrannian Furniture
44. Tyrannian Petpets (TPP)
45. Tyrannian Weaponry
46. Hubert's Hot Dogs
47. Pizzaroo!
48. Usukiland! (usuki)
49. Foods of the Lost Desert
50. Peopatra's Petpets (DPP)
51. Sutek's Scrolls
53. Back to School Shop (school)
54. Battle Supplies (LD Weap)
55. Osiri's Pottery
56. Merifoods (MF)
57. Ye Olde Petpets (MPP)
58. Post Office Kiosk (stamp)
59. Haunted Weaponry (HW)
60. Spooky Furniture
61. Wintery Petpets (WPP)
62. Jelly Food
63. Refreshments
66. Kiko Lake Treats
67. Kiko Lake Carpentry
68. Collectible Coin (Coin)
69. Petpet Supplies (PP Supply)
70. Booktastic Book (BBook)
71. Kreludan Homes
72. Cafe Kreludor
73. Kayla'a Potion Shop (kaylas)
74. Darigan Toys
75. Faerie Furniture
76. Roo Island Merchandise
77. Brightvale Books
78. The Scrollery
79. Brightvale Glaziers
80. Brightvale Armoury
81. Brightvale Fruits
82. Brightvale Motery
83. Royal Potionry (RP)
84. Music Shop
85. Lost Desert Medicine
86. Collectible Sea Shells (shell)
87. Maracite marvels
88. Maraquan Petpets (MPP)
89. Geraptiku Petpets (GPP)
90. Quasalan Delights
91. Desert Arms
92. Words of Antiquity
93. Faerie Weaponry
94. Illustrious Armoury
95. Exquisite Ambrosia
96. Magical Marvels (MM)
97. Legendary Petpets (LPP/APP)
98. Plushie Palace (plush)
99. Altador Cup Souvenirs
100. Wonderous Weaponry
101. Exotic Food
102. Remarkable Restoratives
103. Fanciful Fauna (SPP/FF)
104. Chesterdrawers' Antiques
105. The Crumpetmonger
106. Neovian Printing Press
107. Prigpants & Swolthy, Tailors
108. Mystical Surroundings (BG/MS)
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Credit to thunderwolfcrys for link help.
Credit to jellyneo for table code.
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