Lawlz.. my daily average sales is 15,809 NP

Submitted by jadentearz on Tue, 22/09/2009 - 6:57am
I think you'd have to try real hard to get worse than that in main market... not to mention I pay an ad fee of 354,500 for my mall o_o I'm about to give up on this... I was upgrading to stay in my hut but what's the point of upgrading when you don't make it back lol
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Also, if you are going to stick with your mall, I would request to the mall leader that they change the name of your category from magic to morphing potions (seeing how there are images of morphing potions on your button). The thing I like about stocking PBs and MPs is that you can get away with pretty decent mark-ups on some of the better sellers. Cloud pb, for example, has a 52k markup, and I can barely keep them on the shelves. If you are allowed to stock MPs, find the ones that sell well, buy lots of them, and watch the nps pour in. If you're not allowed to stock MPs, it might be time for a new mall or category
killercars5000 | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 8:30am |

[quote=killercars5000][quote=angel_shortcake]Really?! You're totally losing out. How do you get anywhere with only a 500k markup?[/quote] I, for one, don't enjoy robbing my customers. They deserve reasonable prices![/quote] Lol, good luck with malling then. ;)
Sophie703 | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 9:02am |

[quote] I mean do you price 1k over wiz? 5k? 10%? Some things that may help: Take a percentage of your stock and price at wiz price, I suggest these items be the cheapest in your letter category. (Mine is A and N). This brings in customers from the wiz and they may buy other items when they're there, and they may even bookmark. You will still make some profit on these items (though not as much), because you buy the absolute cheapest and sell a little higher. (This can't be done with all items. For example if the top 10 SSW searches are the same price, you obviously can't price higher and still be lowest in your category.) I find that the days that I restock my shop, my sales are increasingly higher. I'm not sure of the cause. It could be because the people I buy from buy from me in return, or if it's just because I have more items. Now I can't see what your shop front looks like, but make sure you have a banner that describes your shop stock that links to your shop. I prefer it above the mall banner, but some malls have rules against this. Try shop specials (see my shop, feel free to borrow the code and change it so it looks different), add page numbers if your code allows. People suggest to advertise on the shop ads, I find this a waste of time, really. You do graphics, put some ads throughout the nb. I find this increases sales. P6 and the last page are great and cheap too. My pricing strategy is 1000k profit on items below 5k, and 2k on items above. This works for me, but may not work for you. You have to experiment. Try dropping your prices until you see a nice balance between supply and demand when you don't have to bust your butt to keep item in, but you get adequate number of customers. I know you won't use all these tips, and i'm sure you're familiar with most of them, but sometimes it helps to step back and remember where you came from and how you got this far. [/quote] On healing potions which tend to sell the most I price at 1k The others really vary.. I think I'll try lowering the others and seeing what happens but I'm not sure how much help that'll really be. I'm basically getting the shaft right now. My mall doesn't allow for banners to be posted above the mall banner [center][url=http://temptryst.deviantart.com/][/url][/center]
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jadentearz | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 9:37am |

lololol indeed. and if your mall doesnt allow banners above the mall banner, theres half your problem. the other i need to see on my craptop. ie the mall, icons etc Edit: was gonna risk going online on this crapintosh but still need to log into neo - drats lol. Anyways, the nb ad is brutal murder. I killed it completely from my section of the mall since it's leads to net losses 99% of the time. As for shop banners, not having those at the top will bring most exp to the popular categories. Not being allowed to do that (having a shop banner at the top) is like a crime imo :P
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saudor | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 9:57am |

Things are really slow right now. I know there are some high volume folks in your mall so it's not exposure. I'd say it's category. People are going to seek you out when pets are sick ~ you need people to need you more than that. We have similar items, you have nearly as many hits as I have right now, and your prices are about the same as mine. I am not having the cash flow issues you are. I would not participate in an NB ad if you are losing that kind of points. Like D says a GOOD top banner will help tons. I would move the counter down (It means something to you, your customers, not so much). Expand or change your category. That's all I can think of. Good luck.
giant242 | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 11:53am |

Ok im back. And wow boardwalk shops? Isnt that run by AuntAdria? I could sworn that she allowed one shop banner above the mall banner
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saudor | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 12:03pm |

Hey Silver, sorry you're having such a crap time of it, and also sorry I didn't reply to your message earlier, I am deep in the depths of swedish plurals with no time to even get my shop stocked *cry* I think there are some great comments on here, so don't have much to add really. ___________ [color=gray]Kirsty, aka evil super mod[/color] [size=11][i]Sniper, maller, restocker Silverdragon siggy stealer Best wearables shop owner ever![/i][/size]
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kirsty_to_stay | Tue, 22/09/2009 - 12:29pm |

9. There should be nothing placed in your shop above your mall banner. All text and shop banners should be placed below it. Something tells me I shall shortly be done with this mall. It's just getting ridiculous. =/ [center][url=http://temptryst.deviantart.com/][/url][/center]
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jadentearz | Wed, 23/09/2009 - 2:06pm |

[quote=jadentearz]9. There should be nothing placed in your shop above your mall banner. All text and shop banners should be placed below it. Something tells me I shall shortly be done with this mall. It's just getting ridiculous. =/ [center][url=http://temptryst.deviantart.com/][/url][/center][/quote] lol not even text?
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saudor | Wed, 23/09/2009 - 2:21pm |

Im pretty sure many roo members have banners above the mall one, you could ask your manager to be sure, or just add it and see if anyone cares :P Im pretty sure I had a couple when I was there 0:-)
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