Neopets Reselling Guide
Reselling is buying items at a discounted price from other users and selling them on at a higher price than you paid.
Usually the items commonly resold are rarity 99, morphing potions, transmogrification potions, and paintbrushes.
Beginner Reselling :
So you want to begin reselling to make a good amount of Neopoints, but you don't seem to have enough to start buying stuff in the first place?
Well I believe the best item to start with is a full set of Codestones. Go to the shop wizard and look for all of the them, buy them for as cheap as possible.
Once you have a few sets put them in trades for around 45k. You should not pay more then 30k for all the Codestones. The reason people buy them for 45k is well they are too lazy to go buy them separate for the avatar. (prices may differ on plot/war inflation)
Other items to look for are Neggs, only buy them for around 1250 Neopoints per token, so 2500 for a Purple Negg, and 7500 for a Ultra Icy Negg. So on and so on. Then know which Neggs to buy do you math, usually Cool Neggs, Ferocious Neggs, Sneggs, and Super Neggs provide consistent profit.
One other thing you can do is go on the shop wizard, look for commonly used stat increase-rs like, Bomberry Elixir, Essence of Drackonack, Energising Elixir, Silver Knight Negg, and Bubbling Fungus (Fungus is usually UB though). Then once you bought up all the cheap ones go on the trading post and toss them up for average price for a relatively simple profit.
Advanced Reselling :
So now you made a little bit of moola and want to get the ball rolling for some real profits. It is now time to become acquainted with the Trading / Auctions board. Start by looking for desperate sellers, they usually will be found on topics like "Reseller buying with pure" try to spot them out and send them a Neomail with the price you want to pay.
Now before you do that learn the prices of things you're going to be buying. Lets start with paintbrushes, ignore all buyable paint brushes, also ignore all basic colors. If the brushes are under 200k offer up 80-100k. Then move on to mid level paintbrushes like, Checkered, Shadow, Spotted, Skunk, Rainbow, Electric Blue, Disco Fever, and Strawberry Fields. Look up on the trading post for there current prices then Deduct 50k for every 100k under 500k. Keep in mind a few of these fluctuate often.
Moving on to the high end paintbrushes look out for Baby, Darigan, Royal, Fire, Usuki, Lutari, Halloween, Grey, Mystery Island, Maraquan, Pirate, Desert Pink, and Orange. The pricing on these differ by quite a bit from each other but generally try to offer 100k less then trading post price for anything around 800k, 200k less for anything around 1-1.2 mill, 400k less for anything around 2-2.4 mill, and the ones over 4 mill try to figure out a price yourself they are commonly not sold on reseller boards anyways.
Morphing Potions, same basic concept with these as paintbrushes. Ignore all basic colors or pay no more then 100k for them (does not apply to limited edition). Also make sure you check the shop wizard some Morphing Potions are buyable due to Tarla such as, Split Lenny, Green Uni, Orange Koi. When buying them remember that Morphing Potions are usually harder to sell then paintbrushes, so make sure you offers compensate for that. Always do extremely low offers on any potion not rarity 99, avoid un-priced ones as well. Any potion whose trading post price is over 2 mill offer no more then 1 mill (always try 800k first). Morphing Potions also take patience they can take over a week to sell sometimes, but you can generally make massive profits if done right.
If you items don't sell within about a week for full price or near it, go to boards and again and try to get at least what you paid for, but remember everyone takes losses some times. Also don't bother with Morphing Potions or mid level paintbrushes if you only have enough Neopoints for one item. Try to stay consistent and do selling rotations of at least 3 items. Always avoid any other type of items unless you are highly patient and highly confident. (Battledome items are an exception, along with some stamps and books.)
Edited by Ghostface, 17 October 2009 - 01:47 AM.
