How do you motivate yourself to stock your shop?

Submitted by kirsty_to_stay on Thu, 06/08/2009 - 4:45pm
Like many wearables shops, i'm getting to the stage right now where i've just had enough. I can't take this anymore :K... I need to stock too since yeah, stuff is selling out at an insane rate. Help give me suggestions to get motivated and share your own experiences. Until now profits were keeping me going, but i'm past caring about them now! Don't suggest changing category or holding off and taking a break or I might abuse my mod powers on you :O No, but in all seriousness, I love the category and normally enjoy stocking my shop, you can just have too much of a great thing. One week of this wearables boom is taking it's toll on me. I know I should be making the most of it while it lasts, guess i'll make myself stock while I wait for replies.
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~ May ~ Since my shop is still quite small, I use.. different cattegories inside my cattegory to keep me busy (the "oh how cute" factor XD) Like I used to stock only toys, then I started with plushies, then usuki.. I don't like usuki but they started to sell out REALLY well for some reason, so I got more of that.. Then I went for broken toys, wearable toys (and quickly learned that those are mostly very expensive -.-) and so on... It's not REALLY effective, but I thought I'd through the idea out there :)
~ May ~
mayarend | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 4:49pm |

:) Yeah I used to do that actually. Now it feels like, omg i bought 30 of this item two days ago and it sold out already *cry* Im kinda stocking because I have to rather than stocking because its fun and to add more stock :K Note: 789 item(s) are out of stock. Please check shop stock for details 21 of which are items i'm meant to have in stock at all times :P (i've not had the rest permanently in stock since my upgrade so it's my slow and steady goal to slowly add them)
___________ Kirsty aka "the sensitive one" Silverdragon siggy stealer Tasty tent seller
kirsty_to_stay | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 4:51pm |

:K I bribe myself with ice cream. I dunno, I think with being cloth/groom/wearables if I get tired of stocking something I just focus more on one of the other sections. I hope you get back into stocking soon though. Malling really is quite pointless if it seems more like a job than a game.
gothsunprincess | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 4:56pm |

Oh ice cream :D haha! That would work well right now. Thats really true actually, I suppose i'd be complaining less if I was stocking with the ssw. Just stock until it dies and then go do something else. Malling with the sw it takes a lot of effort to get it to give up on you, so its all i'm doing most the time when online, along with bumping my boards... probably does feel like a job right now!
___________ Kirsty aka "the sensitive one" Silverdragon siggy stealer Tasty tent seller
kirsty_to_stay | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 4:59pm |

LOL I'm eating sour gummies right now and my mom is eating ice-cream. XD I usually do 50 items (inventory max) at a time and then take a break...or continue if I feel like it. 789 items...thats about 200 less than my entire stock *lol* *cry* GL :D
pandacat838 | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:02pm |

Wait...I have a problem now... I'm just sitting here eating sour gummies and not restocking... x_x Maybe the food isn't that good of a motivational idea XD
pandacat838 | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:04pm |

I usually bulk stock when i feel like it and the rest that I have left over I put into sdb...That way all I have to do is take it out of sdb and put it into my shop when the item runs out
reseller_1337 | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:06pm |

*lol* I'm actually stocking well now at the thought of ice cream, i'm not sure we even have any right now, and I doubt i'll have some, but the appeal alone is working it. I have such a sore throat right now, ice cream would be so B) Thats a great suggestion, and one i'll work on eventually. Kinda low on pure right now since my insane upgrade, rare I have more than a mil in pure to my name. Quite right though, having a huge supply in my sdb would help kill the work, although I kinda have the spare shop space to dump right now too Twirlisha says 'Welcome!' Items Stocked : 1160 · Free Space : 7020
___________ Kirsty aka "the sensitive one" Silverdragon siggy stealer Tasty tent seller
kirsty_to_stay | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:07pm |

The Shopkeeper says 'Welcome!' Items Stocked : 3034 · Free Space : 6 Whoaa...I just finally got it filled today. I know what you mean as I have almost 1 mill nps to my name xD Firs time in a while I had the pure to FULLY stock my shop. As I did the same as you and upgraded from 153 to 608:)
reseller_1337 | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:26pm |

Oh well done :D Thats quite a leap!
___________ Kirsty aka "the sensitive one" Silverdragon siggy stealer Tasty tent seller
kirsty_to_stay | Thu, 06/08/2009 - 5:30pm |

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