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[nubcaked]

Hello! I am a newbie with autobuying (AB) and I am still wondering what shop should I AB at with less than 100kcapital.

Another problem I facedis that it takes quite long for items to sell in my shop, slowing down myrefinancing and causing me to not have enough capital to restock.

Someone please help me!

[anbeezy]

Scot's super system is ALL you'll ever need.

http://www.neocodex....68-supersystem/

[carrice]

whick shops are you going to??
Price the items half there original worth and theyll sell real fast
items from food shop sell quite fast.

[without123]

^
I agree w/ that guy.
But generally the bookshop is quite an easy place to AB at. Low profit (like 3-5k) usually, but a LOT of 'em

[huevoquilmes]

pharmacy(13), food(1), choco(14 i think), clothes(4).. all good places to start

[jonahfinn]

like anbeezy said, scot's super system has it all.
Though the shops I AB at vary slightly. but Fresh foods is always a good start.
I set my profits to 3000np and always sell at lowest

[nubcaked]

Alright, I could AB at small shops that sell cheap stuff. I got that part...

But is there any way to sell my items faster? I have been using the lowest -1 neopoints setting for the Abrosia Item Management to price my items. But they still don't sell fast enough.

At that pricing settings, I could only sell about 5 items out of 40+ in my shop in about 8 hours.

Am I really selling slow or do I simply have too high an expectation?

[jonahfinn]

Alright, I could AB at small shops that sell cheap stuff. I got that part...

But is there any way to sell my items faster? I have been using the lowest -1 neopoints setting for the Abrosia Item Management to price my items. But they still don't sell fast enough.

At that pricing settings, I could only sell about 5 items out of 40+ in my shop in about 8 hours.

Am I really selling slow or do I simply have too high an expectation?

I've upgraded my store so that it fits 150 items, and since everything is priced at lowest, buyers might be inclined to purchase a few extra things from my shop.
I've often had a few users spend up to 60k in my shop in a single visit on various items.

Just have a variety of items for sale.

As for the number of sales per day, I usually get at least 10.
5 in 8 hours seems good to me.

[RWS]

Spooky Food is a great shop where you can buy items for relatively cheap and sell them for high profit (around 80-90k)

[Mystery]

mystical surroundings (108) might be a really easy place if you have good connection

[Islane]

I always thought that the pharmacy is a good start from a low capital in np to increase it.
Herbal eggs sell fast, good profit and you can make up to 100k in an hour or so before investing those 100k in other shops.

Edited by Islane, 09 May 2011 - 06:01 AM.

[Seven]

I've upgraded my store so that it fits 150 items, and since everything is priced at lowest, buyers might be inclined to purchase a few extra things from my shop.
I've often had a few users spend up to 60k in my shop in a single visit on various items.

Just have a variety of items for sale.

As for the number of sales per day, I usually get at least 10.
5 in 8 hours seems good to me.

Only thing that sucks about having a high quantity of things is that there's a much greater chance of being wiz banned, and the whole lowest-price thing barely holds for long in such a dynamic price competitive restocking market. I have trouble sometimes even pricing 30 items quickly, so there's usually a time I have to set out for just getting off of Neo to price things since wait intervals between wiz searches have to be so long to not get banned. That's why I generally like high profit low quantity shops, like say, Mystical Surroundings. Sure you'll get fewer pings along the way and it won't feel as good, but it does away with some of the hurdles of pricing.

[nubcaked]

Ohh thanks for the recommendations.

I am just curious.. How do people achieve like 10+ million profits each day just by AB-ing? Its totally hard for me, having about 5 buys in 8 hours, to comprehend how they do it... lol...

[simplicity155]

Ohh thanks for the recommendations.

I am just curious.. How do people achieve like 10+ million profits each day just by AB-ing? Its totally hard for me, having about 5 buys in 8 hours, to comprehend how they do it... lol...

magic is probably where people get the majority of things at this range, there is a massive competition here though and the freeze rate tends to be higher because people have to set "competitive rates" in order to beat one another

[nubcaked]

Well that answers all the doubts I had. Thanks everyone!

I'll start off easy with low profits for now! ;D

You all have been a great help!!!

[sc4fps3]

Pharmacy can be good, but it can be slow to restock most of the time since it is filled with tons of crud. The only thing that moves out of the shop quickly is the cure for whatever the Wheel of Excitement disease is (Herbal Scrambled Eggs at present), Medicinal Soap, and any UBs. Hardly anything else sells, since people realize you can get cured for free at the Healing Springs. However, when Pharmacy does restock, there are large quantities, so you can often grab 2+ of something in a single restock.

Personally, I would advise against food. I keep my profit margin at 2500 NP, and that buys tons of junk at Fresh Foods. And the stuff that is worthwhile takes forever to sell. Maybe you could try with a higher profit margin, but I never saw too many really profitable items.

Books can be good too. There are always plenty of 3000+ NP profit books that stock, and with cheap prices people will impulse buy in your shop. The only thing is that books can be pretty slow to restock at times. When it has a down period, it is dead. Don't bother trying to AB then, as you'll just get yourself RS banned in 30 minutes.

[nubcaked]

Firstly, I would like to clarify something... Does UB means Unbuyable? (Sorry about stupid questions.. I am rather new to neopets as well)

Secondly, you mentioned about the down period for the book store, sc4fps3. How do I know if the book store is at the down period? No restock in an hour or so? (I presume)

Lastly, is it true that I can become an advanced member by posting 500 post (including replies)?

[Islane]

I can answer the first question, UB = unbuyables, the items that sell for more than 100k, so not in stores, but in the TP or auctions

[carrice]

Firstly, I would like to clarify something... Does UB means Unbuyable? (Sorry about stupid questions.. I am rather new to neopets as well)

Secondly, you mentioned about the down period for the book store, sc4fps3. How do I know if the book store is at the down period? No restock in an hour or so? (I presume)

Lastly, is it true that I can become an advanced member by posting 500 post (including replies)?

when the shop doesnt restock for about 20 min just change the shop
and as for your 3rd question: yes you can become an advanced member by posting 500 non spam posts..:>

[sc4fps3]

Firstly, I would like to clarify something... Does UB means Unbuyable? (Sorry about stupid questions.. I am rather new to neopets as well)

Secondly, you mentioned about the down period for the book store, sc4fps3. How do I know if the book store is at the down period? No restock in an hour or so? (I presume)

Lastly, is it true that I can become an advanced member by posting 500 post (including replies)?

Yup, UB = Unbuyable, so any 100,000+ NP item.

The only real way to tell if a shop is in a down period is if it just sits there forever and you don't see any restocks. If you open the shop in Neopets, watch it for a little while. If all the same items are continuing to sit there forever, and there aren't any item slots opening up in the shop, it's unable to restock. Without people constantly buying the no-profit or low-profit items, the shop is unable to make room for new items to restock. If nobody is buying and the shop isn't restocking, then it is in a dead period. Like I said, you can visually confirm this by watching the shop's stock for ~10-15 minutes, or you can just see in Abrosia that there haven't been any restocks in forever, and then move on to another shop that will hopefully be more active.

And yes, you can become an advanced member by posting 500 times. But the mods are pretty strict about spam, so don't go down that road!

[jungle]

I restock mainly 4 places;
Food
Stamps
Clothing
AAA (though I do this by hand!)

Food gets some nice gov items, that at 50% off I sell very fast. (200k on one item!)
Stamps I get a lot that arn't UB, BUT they sell extremely fast usually 30-40k profit each!
Clothing is very hard to sell imo, but the few items I do sell yield a ton of profit. (100k, 200k, etc)
AAA is just very fast and hard to get good things, but when you do, you get /really/ good things.

You can try these places, though, then we will have some competition.

[batryn]

And some shops that are really slow, spooky, faerie foods, you should check to make sure that it's not fully stocked. Like sometimes spooky is just fully stocked for hours, and there is 0 chance of restocking because it's already full and nobody's buying anything. But I love pharmacy. Really easy to sell, and it always restocks around every 10 minutes (although the rate does die down during weekdays.)