Thanks!
I SSW to restock expensive items (about 2/3 of my items) so I can be sure I'm on SSW in the middle somewhere or higher. These items are items I want users to impulse buy and don't care if they sit there a while. As for the lower priced items I buy from neopian shops because they are small profits if bought on SSW unless I get a good snipe. I have several tabs open at once and bounce between shops. If I weren't a general store I think it would take much longer because I'd have to wait for restocks in same shop(s) all the time.
I like SSW because I get to place my items in the que to sell. I rarely if ever price the lowest because I don't have to. It took some time before I learned/got the courage not to be lowest. I forgot that not everyone has SSW and most players think SW shows the real lowest price on the first click.
After I get everything priced in my shop if I want more traffic I check SSW for the items I want to sell and lower the prices (but still make a good profit). All of this takes time...and I just hate SSW bans! I wish I knew how many look-ups I had before I got one of those! I try to time the SSW look ups near the end of the hour since I'm only banned until the start of the next hour.
~ Mimi
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Mimi's Ménagerie: Healthy Tastes Good Here!
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Hey Helen. Thanks for posting my guide :*
That is so very old and needs updating lol.
Anyways, Hey TC! I was like you before :P
I started RSing before going into malling.
Well, I RS and RS and RS and RS and RS at any store I think were very moneymakers (books, cards, stamps, plushies, petpets, furniture, clothing,... and the list goes on) until I have much NP to upgrade my shop - never really putting into mind a certain category that I would love to stock. And then, there I became part of a mall when I was a shop size 212 (from my weak memory :P) and then I started tending my shop and I went on a semi-hiatus with RSing but not with malling :P. With only that shop, I became a Main Market Maller up to where I am now lol (sniff sniff LOL xD)
Well, I didnt ABANDON my RSing skills. I use it every now and then to increase my sales when the bad days come and sometimes I receive a greater profit output with it than malling. But this is what I realized. I just can't go on RSing for the rest of my Neolife. I know eventually I will get tired of it and won't have a way to make money. Good thing I resorted to malling. Business is ongoing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - and this is what malling's advantage to RSing, reselling, sniping and others.
And it's very, very fun. I know everyone would agree. ;)
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Bugsy's GUIDE to Effective SHOPKEEPING and MALLING:
Version 3: Learn More About Hut Positioning
http://www.neopets.com/~bugsy_lenny
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