Yes! They do bother me, A LOT! I think they miss the whole point of malling and who you want to be in a mall. I think they see it as a way to get-rich-quick and want to jump from noob to billionaire in a month. I like knowing that someone has spent about a million neopoints to get to their shop size first so they are somewhat committed shopkeepers! As for the internal recruiting issue, I know I felt bad for my mall losing the larger shops we had just recruited to the upper branches. I think if they do move they should wait to move until a replacement is found when possible. Also, if we could have "fill-ins" for the categories that are open it would make our malls more appealing I think. I think it makes us look a little bad to have a lot of links going to an application....but it IS effective! Hmmm.....I KNOW this policy has been well thought out and there are reasons for doing it this way though! I must say that when I got asked to move up I felt bad because I had only joined the mall a month earlier and we had almost gotten to full capacity with really good size shops. While I understand the idea of promoting from within -- if the info is pasted on the info pages we can apply for the positions if we want. I don't know how you handle that in the future :( and that is why I do not manage a mall! :) I joined The Nursery Malls because I thought their policies were the most logical & well communicated. They also have a great reputation with the larger malls as a starting place. Now that I have been with them a little while I think they are managed really well! I love the way they have a treasury and just post where the neopoints take them and that the info pages are updated so frequently! _____________________________________________________ ~ Mimi's Ménagerie Avatars ~ http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=temps_bons&misc

i hate those malls. So frustrating. They go on for days

[quote]Yes! They do bother me, A LOT! I think they miss the whole point of malling and who you want to be in a mall. I think they see it as a way to get-rich-quick and want to jump from noob to billionaire in a month. I like knowing that someone has spent about a million neopoints to get to their shop size first so they are somewhat committed shopkeepers![/quote] For malls to have some effectiveness, you need at least spooky size. and even then...

I don't think one necessarily must be spooky-sized. I'd argue The Nursery is a HIGHLY effective mall. They let me start when I was a mere size 33, and I was doing brisk business, allowing me to upgrade fast. I got caught up with the Preschool "move-up" thing, so now I'm trying to recoup np from going from 60 to 105 more quickly than my np could last, but business is still good. I think it's important for the malling community to have smaller malls that are able to offer a happy medium between typical stores and the MM shops. It provides a nice balance of selection while allowing more people to get involved in the sport that is malling ;). Oh, and hello, all. I'm Alexandra, I'm a new member of NeoMallers, and I'm the proud Attack/Defense owner of The Preschool.

Aw, look at all the Nursery Malls' members coming to bat for us =} That is great guys! Cris would be proud! As I know I am. We do set new minimums each month so that we can all be in marketplaces soon! When I took over the Preschool branch as manager, it was size 50 or 75 minimum, now it is 150 =} We up it 25 every few months, and let the members get there in a steady pace, but all new members must be there to apply or whatnot =} And agreed. We had 2 manager switches and abandons back to back, so we have openings from them taking 'not-so-best' "mallers", and such. =)

I know this topic is old, just thought I would add my two cents: I don't believe the size of the shops is the main factor in deciding the effectiveness of a mall, even though it is very important... i think the dedication of the shop keepers and mall owners/managers is what really makes the mall a success or not. And yes, I am a member of The Nursery malls as well.... i've went from size 110 (or there abouts) to size 250.

It looks like almost everybody from the nursey malls have come here :o Agreed how they are a well-organized mall, and agreed about how annoying those malls with size 10 requirements.

XD Trust me, if we brought everyone from our malls here, it would be chaotic. (: And thank you. (:

~ May ~ Since the thread was poked up I'll add my two cents.. I think it's not about malls that start off small and go increasing, with a decent quality and all - nursery mall(and branches) are well managed and well filled, ever growing malls - and I see that cause I've seen them around for a while and they seem to be improving.. I try to keep mine that way too, improving, growing.. Now, if your current/minimum size is 20 or 30 forever? that's awful.. lol *shrugs* Did I make sense? XD

Well malls under market size are not really worth the time =/ It's better to just restock... unless you just want to get a feel of what malling is like... without the profits.