Neopoint Tips

Since you can't offer anything over 800,000 on the trading post, you might want someone to put their item in Auction. You can neomail the person with your offer. If accepted, the seller puts the item up for auction starting at half the price, then putting the other half as increments.

For example:

If you agreed on 7.4 million nps, the person starts at 3.7 million, with 3.7 million increments. This equals 7.4. That way no one else will want to outbid you because the next bid would be 11.1 million.

I also do NF only just in case they mess up. lol

It is how much more the person has to bid than the last person. If the bid is at 10,000 and the minimum increment value is 1,000 than they have to bid at least 11,000.

Just for information,
I just find out that at any point of time, you can only put up to a maximum of 8 items for auction.

I make at least 100k a day in auctions . The way I do it is this. I look at the screen that says 1-20. I look at the item at the bottom of the page, I keep refreshing to see how many seconds it takes to get to the top of the page. This lets me count down and make a bid at the last second on items I want. When first starting to play keep another window open to learn the prices of items. It eventually comes natural, and then close the window out as I find it increases lag time. Also after you make a bid, refresh your screen to see if anyone has bid after you.

I scan the Auctions and try to make sure that they have AT LEAST 30 seconds (or more) left on the clock(start around the 61-80 listings, it should be at least that much time, generally) to do a little research on a potential item.

If I see something I'm not sure is a good deal, then I have time to check it's current market value on the Wiz, Trades and or Auction Genie to get an idea of it's real worth. Most of the time the items are over-priced or at current market value, not enough room to make a profit. For those things that are very much under-priced. I go after them.

Realize that you will lose more bids than you win, but you can win enough to make it worth while. I have to feel confident that the items I am chasing will still make me at least 2,000nps profit AFTER standing up to some furious bidding to make it worth me chasing. Also, remember that you can now over-bid the next "required" bid by 5,000nps instead of the 2,000nps it had previously been.

Sometimes over-bidding 5,000nps is not enough to secure the item because other people have gotten their next bid in under you by 5,000nps already and now the next bid is actually higher than 5,000nps. For example: There's a Magical Golden Nerkmid at Auction for around 10k, you find they are sold at around 30k. A lot of other people know this as well,and you put your bid 4-5k higher than the next required bid, assuming that someone else will slip a lower bid in under yours and then this way you come out on top at around 14-15k and secure the item and have still made a very nice profit.

Now, I've been trying to figure out a new way to still do well at the Auctions since the Time change problem and I have been doing very well lately, so try this:

Open 1 window to the Auctions, start with around the 61-80 listings, then open another window to the Auctions. In the first Auction window, scan up from there thru the listings, as shown in the Auction Tip Update post below. Now this time, when you find something, immediately find it on the second window. Follow it in the second window as the time winds down on it, keep refreshing to the next batch of lower numbers.

Back in the first window, you should be sitting there, ready to bid on the item. When it finally get to the 1-20 listings, when it gets about half way up, take a chance on a bid. It's a last second, all or nothing type of strategy. One shot, usually, win or not. The exact timing may have a bit to do with your online access(cable or dial-up, etc) and your computer processing speed. So test it out a few times till you get the hang of it!

Good Luck! Your Humble Auction Goddess! lol ;)

I just tried something new! I bought a whole bunch of snowballs and sold them on the auction for more than i paid for them! Most newbies sell yellow, poison, and wet snowballs from 2 nps - about 15 nps each! Every snowball i bought was under 6 nps i sold them all on the auctions! Its a great neopoint making tip! Especially if you are low on neopoints b/c the snowballs are so cheap!

Hey gang, as I'm sure a lot of you know, I LIVE at the Auctions and was none too happy about the changes made to it. One of which is that the Auctions seemingly stopped paging up to 320, now it stops at the most recent 100.

Well, I have since been clued in by another Auctions friend, that you can still get up to the old number of 320 most recent auctions. All you have to do is move the number "80" out of the address at the top of your screen and put in the next increment of "20's"

So, for example, the last page shows the auctions numbered 81-100, and in your address screen it says 80 as the number. Change that to 100 and it will then show you auctions numbered 101 thru 120. And so on, til you get to 320(number in address would be 300)Hope that helps you as much as it does me!

-Only Bid the next price... I try to get the lowest price for things at Auction with this goal in mind "Buy Low, Sell High" This will make your profits bigger!

-Know what you want to Bid/buy for what you want! With this know what you want your ideal or a good profit is...Bidding can get a bit fun when a 'war' starts but you don't want to over bid for something, you may win the Auction but you loss nps. As Kenny Rogers said "Know when to hold them, Know went to walk away, know when to run!"

-Auction when you have time.. I like to have a least an hour, to research, scoop the auctions and to get the money I'll need from the bank. You also want to watch you bids carefully to see who is over bidding, so you can stay away from them.

-Know you hook up.. For example I have a laptop with two hookups: wireless at school and dial up at home... when I'm wireless I'm a lot faster an will bet my dial. up any day of the week!

Hope this can help you

Always keep a few thousand nps in your SHOP TILL. like 50k or something. So even if you are banned from withdrawing from the bank (you can only withdraw 15 times a day), you can still have neopoints to buy things when you see something you like in shops or shop wizard.

if you open an account and get to any level above junior saver and then take money away, you will still have the same account, with the same interest rate. So you could have a millionaire mega-platinum account with 900,000 neopoints!

i don't know if this tip has been said but if you have money out with you when you log out you should put it in the bank so you can get a higher interest.

The interest rate for Ultimate Riches Bank Account is 11% a year.
If you have 10 mil nps, you would get 1,250,000 a year, or 3,425 nps a day. The bank doesn't automatically upgrade your account when you have enough for the next level. You'll need to apply for one yourself in the bank.

Junior Saver (min 0) - 4.5%
Neopian Student (min 1,000) -5.5%
Bronze Saver (min 2,500) - 6%
Silver Saver (min 5,000) - 6.5%
Super Gold Plus (min 10,000) - 7%
Platinum Extra (min 25,000) - 7.5%
Double Platinum (min 50,000) -8%
Triple Platinum (min 75,000) - 8.5%
Diamond Deposit (min 100,000) - 9%
Diamond Deposit Plus (min 250,000) 9.5%
Diamond Deposit Gold (min 500.000) 10%
Millionaire Platinum (min 1.000.000) 10.5%
Millionaire Double Platinum (min 2,000,000) 11%
Millionaire Mega Platinum (min 5,000,000) - 11.5%
Neopian Mega Riches (min 7.500,000) - 12 %
Ultimate Riches! (min 10,000,000) - 12.5%

The Red Codestones are only for Pets that are Level 250 or higher, to use to train at the New Secret Ninja Training School.

http://www.neopets.com/island/fight_training.phtml

You can exchange a complete set of 10 different regular Codestones for 1 Red Codestone at the Mystery Island Volcano:

http://www.neopets.com/island/volcano_codestone.phtml

mag codestone
vux codestone
cui codestone
kew codestone
sho codestone
zed codesrone

You can get them from

Random Events,
Tombola,
Pick Your Own,
Igloo Garage sometimes,
Other people.

Once in awhile you may find one on the Money Tree or

Rubbish Dump
World Challenge Maps, Random
Mau Codestone
Tai-Kai Codestone
Lu Codestone
Vo Codestone
Eo Codestone
Main Codestone
Zei Codestone
Orn Codestone
Har Codestone
Bri Codestone

Not unless you find someone naive enough to do so. The dubloon-o-matic only trades up

Can you break a two dubloon coin into 2 one dubloon coin?

1. Buy them from other people.
2. Get them from random events.
3. Win them from the Coltzan's Shrine.
4. Black Pawkeet Slots
5. Buried Treasure
6. World Challenge I Maps, Random

You buy a Caesar's Salad (cost 1 dubloon)
If the lowest value dubloon in your inventory is a 2 dubloon coin, it gets taken and you get a 1 dubloon coin as change.
Check the Wiz, sometimes the One Dubloon Coin is worth more than the Two Dubloon Coin. Instant profit AND your pet gets fed!

You go to the dubloon-o-matic and choose the coins you wish to make bigger

How do you make a smaller dubloon into a bigger one?

If you have a 5 Dubloon Coin, and spend one dubloon of it at a shop on Krawk Island, they return you with a two dubloon coin and a 1 dubloon coin . You would lose 1 Dubloon.

Deckswabber and all the other pirate games no longer give out dubloons. Right now, you can only get dubloons from the shrine, finding it on the floor, or buying it from someone's shop.

Altador Plot Gifts - Daily for those who completed the Altador Plot only
Free nps and food - once a month
Word Scramble - 1,000 nps once in awhile. Check here for updates.
Omelette - Free once a day
Coltzan's Shrine - Free once every 12 hours
The Fruit Machine - Free: once/day
Tombola - Free: once a day
Qasalan Expellibox - Free, once a day
Toy Box-Petpet Park. Free once a day.
Deserted Tomb! - Free once a Day

Since these Freebies come and go so quickly, we have provided a link to pages that updates them frequently.

You can check these pages for a list of Sponsor Games, and Freebies that you can get easy nps from, and Hidden Nps.

http://www.neopets.com/~My_First_Little_Pony#sponsor

http://www.neopets.com/~My_First_Little_Pony#neopoints

http://www.neopets.com/~pheophilusllicorne

http://www.neopets.com/~neo__bori

Remember to check the News EVERY day for the new Sponsor Games.

On the 3rd day of every month, Neopets sells everything in any Shop in Neopia, that you haggle the price, for half price.

Hidden Tower, Garage Sale and Krawk Island shops are NOT half price.

So everyone knows, I did a test on this for a few months to make sure it was true!!

This is a tip if you are lucky enough to grab one of those great gifts from Tarla (you can get one if you see the "alert" button flashing yellow in the Neopets toolbar, but you have to be quick – I think you have about five minutes from the time it starts to flash).

Don't price the item for sale in your shop right away, using the lowest price on the Wizard as a guide. Tarla gives out the same variety of gifts each day (I think) so when she first comes on, a lot of people will get the same item you have just received. So, the price goes down – supply and demand don't you know. Gradually the price will rise as people buy up the cheaper ones (you can be one of those people, if you want to stock up).

As the day goes on, the price will rise and you can add the item(s) to your shop. Be warned, however, that there are several of these giveaways each day so the next time, the price will be down again temporarily. Selling at the higher price just takes patience.

If I stock up on the cheaper items, I usually place the extras in my SDB. When the first item sells, I can see from the sales history what the market is bearing at that time. I can just use that sale price and avoid spending a lot of time searching the Wizard for the lowest price. On the other hand, you may suspect (or hope) that the low price has risen even further, and you will search the Wizard again.

If you have even more patience, you can wait several days, weeks or months to see how much the price has risen. This would hold true for the one-day giveaways such as the better Christmas gifts from the Advent Calendar or the items you can sometimes win in the various plots and contests TNT puts up.

Another warning – this tip usually works but not always - sometimes the price will fall and stay down – it's all a gamble in the long run.

If you have received your Tarla gift early in the day, the next times you see the alert flash yellow, go back to the Wizard to see if you can pick up any cheap versions of your gift that you can stockpile.

Look on the Wiz for items people get as random events. You can find them underpriced if you refresh a long time. This is called "Wiz Sniping

A lot of people spend all their time doing this.

Some of the things to look for,

Bottled Faeries, codestones, map pieces, Dubloons.

About 5-10 minutes or so after a neopian shop re-stock if you search the wiz for things that were in the shop then you can usually find them cheaper because some people want to get rid of them fast! Likewise, be careful when using the wiz to price your items that you just bought in a neopian shop, wait for awhile first! This usually works best in the bookshop.

You can adopt a pet with a petpet and sell the petpet. Then if you want get rid of it and do it again. Just look at the pets lookup to see if it has a petpet before you adopt it. Be quick though.

Beware brand-new items. At first, they're overpriced, until more people get them. Then the value can drop FAST. (Like new Plushies, BD or Quest items)

I get more items by adopting a weak pet every day, then doing the dailies, (Coltzan's Shrine, Fruit Machine, Tombola) with him. I get tons of stuff. The weaker your pet, the more you get Then put him back in the pound.

This also helps your own pets. If someone gets into your account, and you've already discarded a pet, they can't discard yours because you can only discard one pet a day. Gives you time to get your account back.

If you're trying to get the pack a rat avatar, go on the shop wizard and buy a load of items for 1np and then when you've done sell them all off at the trading post for 1000np a Lot.
In your wishlist put that they'd be perfect for the pack a rat avatar, and then when the next person has done with them they can just sell them off at the trading post as well ! and the next person, and so on....

Right now I have three windows open: the igloo garage sale, the bookshop, and a third to do whatever I want. I refresh the garage sale and bookshop, so I can try to be the first to get the deals.

For those people who don't have a great connection but can restock now or then, or even for the greedy fast connectors (Just joking) The pharmacy is now a real golden egg laying chicken. The cure for the disease given by the Wheel of Excitement skyrockets in price making it a nice investment. Don't try thinking why people would buy them, I don't know either but when you considerably under price the item you can sell it really quick.

I think this tip may be efficient even when the disease changes because most of the cures at the pharmacy are REALLY common items. So unless a rare disease is chosen the pharmacy is a nice place to start

Have you heard about the referral program?
All you have to do is refer people to neopets .Well i have been doing it and its a great way to get some free items. You can win np faeries even all 10 codestones. Its really cool. For all the info on this check out
Neopets Referral Program

I have a gallery going for retired items, and I have some theories about how likely they are to go up in price. Most items take a long time to go up in price after they are retired, especially the common ones. Items that are permanent (gifts and unbreakable toys and permanent battle items, for instance) will go up the slowest. The only things that will cause them to be rarer are more people playing overall on neopets and/or people abandoning or loosing accounts that contain these items. Non-permanent items like food, books and limited use weapons are likely to go up a bit faster because they get used up in addition to the above factors. On the other hand, onion rings are not a gourmet food so I suspect that once they start rising in price people won't bother feeding them to their pets. In this way, books are a better investment. No matter what common items will rise slowly, so unless you are willing to wait a year or two, you aren't likely to see a huge profit...
-KittensAndRoses

The main idea is to buy items BELOW current market value as dictated by the Shop Wizard. Then sell your item at current market value, and 1-5nps LOWER than the lowest person selling the same item as you for a quick turnover. You can find under-priced items everywhere! The Neopian stocked shops (though not all of them are under-priced), people's shops, people who mis-mark or go but the Neopets estimated values, the Trades and (my personal favorite, Auction Goddess, remember! lol) the AUCTIONS! I have made MILLIONS there, and I still do everything on our Homepage daily(that isn't game playing related) I rarely play games at all.
It just takes a little time and research and you're on your way! Rock On!

You have no idea what a GREAT tip that is! When I first started making my nps, I NEVER used the nps in my bank account! I would play games like, Scorchy Slots, and every time I made 1000 nps, I banked it. I sold the things I got as freebies, random events etc, and kept the nps in my shop. I used THAT to play with. Trust me, it works!!

I don't know if this will help but if you need like 100np for the wheel of excitement (or any low number of np then play a game instead of taking it out of your account

Here's something that works.....buy all 6 faeries at the lowest price that you can get them for...then go to the trading post & list them all as one set....don't sell.until you get a good offer over what you paid, cancel the lot and re-list it every 15 minutes as many times as you can until you get tired of it....you will get a good offer! this works...

You can do this with Codestones, and Maps too!

my shop would have to be my first for making the most np,but i have to say playing slots has helped me win maps and faeries to sell,i have yet to win a jackpot (it would be so cool to win it though)

The continuing overwhelming favorite is buying and selling in shops. I have to agree. I just spent a little time buying and selling codestones and made 20,000 Neopoints .. good stuff!

Why should you focus on Neopoints? A lot of peeps write me wanting to know if I'll give them stuff, or trade them for stuff they really need - basically begging for help. Focus on becoming a NEOMILLIONAIRE. Trust me: when you have a million NeoPoints and more, all of that begging stuff goes away. You can buy just about anything you want, whenever you want it. You don't care if it costs a few hundred more in the Wizard - you need it, so you just go buy it. Life at NeoMillionaire is REALLY good! Get there first and everything else becomes a piece of cake :)

You have to be fast, and lucky.
If you're going for nps, you have to make sure you only have a little bit of nps out at the time. If you have more then, I believe it's 20,000 nps on hand, they won't let you get any from the Tree.

Some people believe that the more items you donate to the Money Tree, the more Random Events you'll get.

Neopets has said that this doesn't work.

Muntando Fruit Giveaway This is located in the Money Tree. It takes place around 7:45 NST. (AM & PM, only on Mondays)

Balthazar's Mega Faerie Giveaway Bonanza This takes place on - 3:00 PM NST Wednesday's

Chocolate Giveaway
This tasty giveaway takes place at - 5:50 PM NST

Have Fun

These are the ages your account has to be in order to see items in Neopian Shops, with certain rarities.

New- R79
1 week- R84
2 weeks- R89
1 month- R94
3 months- R99
4 months- R100, and HT

manhunter11
11:06AM
11/14/2007

Battle, Lose, Repeat

some of my tips are to: go to every shop in neopia using the address bar...not many people do this so all the unpopulated shops have something good..., find a group of around 15 shops and just going to them back and forth, forward and reverse using the address bar in order to move fast, and final press f5 and the space bar to see what is on the page really quickly

Restocks are random now. They no longer go in order of the shops. They also no longer stock at the :00, they stock at any time. You also have to click the little image of a pet before you can buy any item. All of these changes were made to help stop auto-buying.

# Shop
1 Food Shop
2 Magic Shop
3 Toy Shop
4 Unis Clothing
5 Grooming Parlour
6 INVALID SHOP
7 Book Shop
8 Collectable Card Shop
9 Battle Magic
10 Defense Magic
11 Neopian Video Rentals
12 Neopian Garden Center
13 Pharmacy
14 Chocolate Factory
15 Bakery
16 Health Food
17 Gift Shop
18 Smoothie Store
19 INVALID SHOP
20 Tropical Foods
21 Tiki Tack
22 Grundos
23 Space Weaponry
24 Space Armour
25 The Neopian Petpet Shop
26 The RoboPet Shop
27 The Rock Pool
28 Aquatic Delights
29 Utility Fish For All
30 Spooky Food
31 Spooky Pets
32 The Apothecary
33 INVALID SHOP
34 Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe
35 Slushie Shop
36 Ice Crystal Shop
37 Super Happy Icy Fun Snow Shop
38 Faerieland Book Shop
39 Faerie Foods
40 Faerieland Petpets
41 Neopian Furniture
42 Tyrannian Foods
43 Tyrannian Furniture
44 Tyrannian Pet Pet
45 Tyrannian Weaponry
46 Hubert's Hot Dogs
47 Pizzaro
48 Usukiland
49 Foods Of The Lost Desert
50 Peopatra's Pet Pets
51 Sutek's Scrolls
52 INVALID SHOP
53 Back To School Shop
54 Battle Supplies
55 Osiri's Pottery
56 Merifoods
57 Ye Olde Petpets
58 Neopian Post Office Kiosk
59 Haunted Weaponry
60 Spooky Furniture
61 Wintery Petpets
62 Jelly Food
63 Refreshments
64 INVALID SHOP
65 INVALID SHOP
66 Kiko Lake Treats
67 Kiko Lake Carpentry
68 Collectable Coins
69 Petpet Supplies
70 Booktastic Books
71 Kreludan Homes
72 Cafe Kreludor
73 Kayla's Potion Shop
74 Darigan Toys
75 Faerie Furniture
76 Roo Island Merchandise Shop
77 Brightvale Books
78 The Scrollery
79 Brightvale Glaziers
80 Brightvale Armoury
81 Brightvale Fruits
82 Brightvale Motery
83 Royal Potionery
84 Neopian Music Shop
85 Lost Desert Medicine
86 Collectable Sea Shells
87 Maractite Marvels
88 Maraquan Petpets
89 Geraptiku Petpets
90 Qasalan Delights
91 Desert Arms
92 Words of Antiquity
93 Faerie Weapon Shop
94 Illustrious Armoury
95 Exquisite Ambrosia
96 Magical Marvels
97 Legendary Petpets
98 Plushie Palace
99 Altador Cup Souvenirs
100 Wonderous Weaponry
101 Exotic Foods
102 Remarkable Restoratives
103 Fanciful Fauna
104 Chesterdrawers' Antiques
105 The Crumpetmonger
106 Neovian Printing Press
107 Prigpants & Swolthy, Tailors
108 Mystical Surroundings

What items to RS? It depends on how many NPs you have to buy inventory with and how big your shop is (ie. you might not wanna RS dubloons if you only have 3000 NPs and you might not wanna RS omelettes if your shop is only size 1).

For a good idea of things to restock, go to the Kitchen Quest on Mystery Island, the Employment Agency in Faerieland, Edna's Tower in the Haunted Woods and the Snow Faerie Quests on the top of Terror Mountain. Even if you don't want to to the quest, you can see what kind of things they want - and these items are worthy of RS. In addition, track what items are needed for your faerie quests and check the news and the boards for items related to secret avatars which are usually in demand.

Just a quick caution to you hagglers. I've noticed that many shopkeepers seem to have less tolerance for haggling these days (Neopets may have changed the AI for haggling). It's now a LOT harder to get items for 50-60% of the asking price. I've been kicked out of several shops all over Neopia.

To avoid a kick, start haggling from 15%-40% of the asking price and make sure you offer halfway between your last offer and the shopkeeper's offer EVERY OTHER time you haggle. Also watch what the shopkeeper says - you can usually tell when they're angry.

The Shop Of Mystery is at the Top of Terror Mountain. It's basically "pot luck". Bags with question marks on them, load randomly, like other shops, but all at different prices. You choose one and see what you got. It's basically a blind gamble. lol Here's the address for it:

Tarla's Shop of Mystery

I have another useful way of making neopoints. I don't know if u already know it. Couldn't find it on the site tho. You should watch the news closely and when they bring out new bakery cakes or cookies/toys/etc. Try to buy them at the Neopian shops the same day or really soon. Go to the shop --no_html_comments- Refresh until the shop restocks --no_html_comments- There is always a very rare item --no_html_comments- buy it! And when u get some of the new ones, they will bring in lots of neopoints. You should try. Takes some patience and some quick reflects and connection . Good Luck

I did most of the 150,000NP in 3-4 days. (I am up to 170,000 now)I started buying books and selling them. The more I bought, the more I got an idea of what they were worth. I have a shop with room for 50 items and I just keep buying and selling. Start out by buying the cheapest books but buy as many as you can possibly get your hands on. Then check the shop wizard to see what they are worth and list them for sale in your shop for a few dollars less. You will be surprised how fast you earn money. You often luck onto books that cost you 300NP and they will sell for 2,000NP. Sell a few of those an hour and it really builds up fast. I also make sure I go to the garage sale on terror mountain. You can get some really good stuff there for next to nothing. I have spent most of the past 3-4 days gathering and selling rather than playing, but I figure if I do that for a few weeks then I will have loads of points to play with. The 3 best place to gather itens to sell are the bookshop, the faerie bookshop and the garage sale. Don't waste your time on junk, keep just what you need to feed pets and donate all else, it just takes up valuable space.
Also make sure you spin the wheel of excitement in faerieland every 2 hours, and play the daily freebies like tombola and fruit machine. but mostly......buy and sell books!

You can get Nerkmids at trading posts. Sometimes some people that sell them when you search w/ a wiz sell 'em for just 4,000 instead of 100,000. That's the only reason I got one. Sometimes you can find a nerkmid around the site as a random event. I hope that helps

You can get Paint Brushes and other great things. You can also get gross food and 100 nps. Can you afford to gamble? If not, sell it on the Wiz. I can afford to gamble, and I got a usuki paint brush last night. A couple of months ago I got a cheap fish pop! You have to decide for yourself.

You use your Nerkmids at the Alien Aisha Vending Machine

what can you win with Golden Nerkmids??i have just found one!!

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.)

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

The Wizing Hour Sniping Guide

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).

1) a,n,0
2) b,o,1
3) c,p,2
4) d,q,3
5) e,r,4
6) f,s,5
7) g,t,6
8) h,u,7
9) i,v,8
10) j,w,9
11) k,x,_
12) l,y
13) m,z

Using my example of the Pawkeet, I scan the shop wizard and find the following results (my observations are in parentheses):

i_love_fantasy360 Pawkeet 1 99,999 NP
rain_babee Pawkeet 1 99,998 NP
laughing_doggy Pawkeet 1 99,999 NP
kalin11 Pawkeet 1 98,000 NP
pa_dj_0205 Pawkeet 1 94,500 NP (ah ha! somone has it several thousand cheaper! in addition there are two other

If I keep searching, I get:
wolvesfanette Pawkeet 3 99,000 NP (she's got 3 of them)
kalin11 Pawkeet 1 98,000 NP (I've seen this page before)
mickatjus Pawkeet 1 99,999 NP
bluesfnno1 Pawkeet 1 98,000 NP (another less than 99,999)

Doing a quick count, I made 9 searches and got 8 different results. There are still 5 groups of shops I haven't seen. If I was serious about buying a Pawkeet, I might keep checking until I got all the results. Note that page #7 hasn't shown up which is where items in my shop (thebigshop) would appear. If you don't keep checking, you'd miss the Pawkeet I have for sale at 80,000 NP.

For most items I'll only check for five different results, but if I'm planning on spending over 10,000 NPs on an item, I usually check until I have 11 or more results. The more NPs at stake, the more I want to be sure of getting a good price!

Two last points:
When you find an item for 99,999 NP on only one page, the item may normally be unbuyable, but it might not be worth much more than 100K so the the user has put it in his shop, sacrificing a few NPs for a quicker sale (unlike the trading post, all Shop transactions are in PURE NPs).

Before you go after a buyable unbuyable, consider if there are other cheaper ways of getting it (the Pawkeet for example can be bought on Krawk Island). Try to remember items that are obviously worth a LOT more than 99,999 NP (ex. Baby Paint Brush, H4000 Helmet, etc) and use the Trading Post and Auctions to get an idea of what people WANT for the item - this might not be the actual value, but it gives you somewhere to start.

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!!!

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!

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!

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.

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!!

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.

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

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!!

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.

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!..

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!

Can't 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.

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.

I found a really good guide that will help in dump diving.
Meridell Dump FAQ
Happy diving, ya'll.

If you get an item from there, your name is added, and it uses your username to be a 'donator' . You don't actually donate, or lose an item.

I think that it is harder to get things from there because they have items that are worth a little more then the money tree.And if anyone doesnt know what the meridell rubbish dump is..its like the money tree but in meridell with different items and you cant donate.I say that you wait till they start gettin items and then refresh and hit the first item you see.NOTE:i dont recommend the money tree or meridell rubbish dump if you have a very slow connection!
The Meridell Rubbish Dump

Prizes

3 bats:=	3000np (Crypt of Chance)
3 bones:=	3 Spooky foods (Crypt of Chance, Undead Jackpot of Doom)
3 worms:=	5000np(Crypt of Chance, Undead Jackpot of Doom, Festering Fortune)
3 rip stones:=	Snowballs (Crypt of Chance, Undead Jackpot of Doom, Festering Fortune, Mutating Millions)
3 skulls:=	10,000np Undead Jackpot of Doom, Festering Fortune, Mutating Millions, Pustravaganza)
3 spiders:=	Level up. Festering Fortune, Mutating Millions, Pustravaganza, Rotting Riches)
Plushie:=	Mutant Plushie (Mutating Millions, Pustravaganza, Rotting Riches)
Jack-O-Lantern:=	Blood Grub, Melting Mirror, Moehog Skull, & Nimmo Finger (Pustravaganza, Rotting Riches)
Level 10:=	Jackpot (Rotting Riches only)

You can only scratch 5 of these cards per day. It's random so it doesn't matter what squares you scratch.

Prizes

2500 nps-	Race to Riches
5000 nps-	Race to Riches, Terror Trove, Faeries Fortune
10000 nps-	Race to Riches, Terror Trove, Faeries Fortune, Peak O Plenty, Icetravaganza
50000 nps-	Peak O Plenty, Icetravaganza
Level Up-	Terror Trove, Faeries Fortune, Peak O Plenty, Icetravaganza
Plushie-	Race to Riches, Terror Trove
Jackpot-	Icetravaganza

It's random so it doesn't matter what squares you scratch.

Know if you're going to win or not

When you start to scratch a Scratchcard that are flash, whether you win or not is already determined. To find out if you are going to win or lose do the following. At the scratch page right-click and press view source, then press Control + F and search for "prize". If you find prize 2 times, you have a losing card but if you find prize 4 times you have a winning card. It does not matter where you scratch you will win or lose anyway.

I think you all know by now, but buying and selling scratchcards is a really good idea for making a bit of money. I buy one every time i get on line and every time I'm about to sign off. sometimes i get lucky and get really rare ones My advice to people out there that like to scratch your cards, go ahead, but remember, selling scratch cards is a lot safer then trying to rely on scratching them and winning

It's a hard call: scratch or sell. Here's the way I look at it: I can make a fortune in neopoints every day just following our Hints and Tips here in the Guild. If I ever get a Scratchard for free, I scratch it: nothing lost, nothing gained. I didn't have it before, it didn't cost me anything, and if I lose, I haven't gone backward at all. The possibility of winning OVER A MILLION NEOPOINTS!!! is ONLY possible in the Scratchcard, Black Pawkeet Slots, and Lottery. I ALWAYS GO FOR IT!!! But remember: you may lose, so don't let that bother you if you do!! Just continue to ROCK ON!!!!!!

You can only scratch 5 of these cards per day. It's random so it doesn't matter what squares you scratch.

There's 6 new scratchcards that have come out

-suteks riches
-baggus bonanza
-sandtravaganza
-scorched treasure
-geb gajillionaire
-coltzans cash

500 nps
1000 nps
1500 nps
5000 nps
Sand Snowball
Scarb Ring
King Coltzan Lunch Box
Geb Bean Bag
Lost Desert Kougra Plushie
Osiris Pottery Catalogue
Hand Painted Scarab Plushie
Lost Desert Paint Brush
Lost Desert Paint Brush Plushie
Cheops Shield
Jackpot

It's random so it doesn't matter what squares you scratch.

You can only scratch 5 cards per day.