Cards/Stamps: Waste of mall spot and valuable code space? Or not.

Submitted by saudor on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 12:47pm
This is possibly one of the most hated main mall spots. NB ads take 1847.38 years to recruit. Mall spots in this category are often left open for 2 milleniums or even 3. And from what I heard, sales/hits in this category are crap even in good malls. what do you guys think? I personally think it's better to mall solo a popular spot like wearables lol
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Collectibles is bad, but I am guilty of filling my stamp album using only a few shops so some of the junk i bought was probably overpriced :P But it is still bad, but magic is probably worse :P
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Pip | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 12:55pm |

Magic is good when paired with Battledome (at least that was the standard) but many malls are separating it
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saudor | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 12:59pm |

Seems that way don't it? lol... I remember my very first category was Stamps/Cards/Coins, and I remember doing okay.. although that was like 3+ years ago.
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peetree87871 | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 1:05pm |

Well I currently sell collectibles- and yes it is very bad. I liked it at first, made nice profit but now I don't even make enough to pay for my nb fee....
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phrawst | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 1:06pm |

Under collectibles, it does better but cards/stamps is terrible. 1001np is next in line i think. Especially with NB ads - many of them charge 300k for a 1001np spot and to break even, you have to sell 300 extra items and that's not gonna happen lol
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saudor | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 1:13pm |

We have it listed as "collectibles" and our bigger shops seem to do well with it. As for 1000 NP deals, we did a revamp and paired that with grooming. It seemed like an odd combo at first, but overall seems to be brining more revenue to that category.
JerseyGirlie007 | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 3:24pm |

Yeah more and more malls are doing it now. No one used to use that name before though
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saudor | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 3:34pm |

You mention Battle being paired with Magic, does that make a considerable difference?
Razul | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 3:43pm |

It is a hard spot to fill! I used to not even have it on my ad because it never filled but now I have someone and from what I understand they are doing well with it. I've never been able to fill magic or battledome though. Not once. Maybe I didn't try hard enough but meh. -------------------- Want to be part of a 4 Mil NB ad? Go Here: http://www.neopets.com/~Lideus Are your pets hungry? Go Here: http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=hamstergirl3350
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UnnconventionalLove | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 3:56pm |

[quote=Dmitri]Under collectibles, it does better but cards/stamps is terrible. 1001np is next in line i think. Especially with NB ads - many of them charge 300k for a 1001np spot and to break even, you have to sell 300 extra items and that's not gonna happen lol[/quote] :o I must have been doing something wrong... cause I was making a good profit with 1000np deals :P, it was paired with avatars, but that didn't bring in too much more. The category is VERY time consuming though, I was constantly having to keep up with my stock... which is the reason I switched from the category.
jetcitywoman13 | Wed, 20/05/2009 - 4:03pm |

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