Tally's Guide To Legit Restocking! What is Restocking? Restocking is buying items from the main neopian shops, these shops aren't run by other users. Different shops offer different items, profits, and difficulty levels. Every 8 minutes or so, but it's completely random, these shops are filled with new items. The job of a restocker is to try and buy the items that he will later be able to sell for a profit. Spoiler Above is a picture of the magical bookshop inventory. Finger Placement on The Keyboard. Spoiler The position of your hands on the keyboard is very important, and once you master it, it can dramatically increase the speed of your buying time. Ok so the method I use involves have your index finger of your left hand (the one you point with) on the F5 button, otherwise knwn as the refresh button, and your thumb on the enter button. Your right hand should controll the mouse. Once you see a profitable item quickly click on that item, and once the verification pop-up comes up quickly press enter, if done correctly it will take you to the Haggle page. (Bellow) Spoiler If you are Succesfull, you'll see this . Spoiler If you weren't fast enough, then it will take you to a page that says the item you're trying to buy is sold out. Haggling When haggling from the asking price, you don't have to put the exact asking price on the haggle box,insted try to use quick combinations, for example, if the price of something is 2,500, try typing in 2424, or 2525. If the price is say 23,890 just go with 23423. You also don't have to remove the 0 already in the haggle box, just leave it. But after you're done your haggle you still have to click on the pet, star moving your mouse toward the pet while still finishing typing your haggle, as it saves some much needed time. Item Rarity All items have a rarity index, this determines how often they restock in shops. In some shops such as Magical books, rare and valuable items are usually priced at 2,500, 5,000, or 10,000, these items usually offer good profits. But this is not true for all shops however so don't be fooled. There will be more on this later in the Guide. Restocking Abreviations These are some abreviations you could here about Restocking. RS-Restock RSing- Restocking rser - restocker rsed - restocked ub - unbuyable rfed - refreshed ets - easy to sell hts - hard to sell gh - got haggle mh - mishaggle sw - shop wizard ssw - super shop wizard #k - 1000 (eg 100k = 100,000) mp - morphing potion r# - rarity (eg r95= rarity 95) gj - good job tp - trading post Shop Information Some of the information below was aquired from reading other guides, I thought it would be good to incorporate it in here. http://anonym.to/?http://www.neopets.com/~restocker Food Store (#1) Reccomended Skill Level:intermediate Amount of competition:Medium Reccomended NP on hand: 50,000+ Profit:Many items of a few thousand profit, some more profitable items and occasional unbuyables The most profitable things to grab from this shop are most types of neggs, or anything at 10,000 NP, also try and go after "Bag of Peanuts". Items with 1-2 of them in stock are often profitable to buy too, however STAY AWAY from anything at exactly 2,500 NP or 5,000 NP unless you know it is profitable. Magic Store (#2) Reccomended Skill Level:Very Experienced Amount of competition:Very Crowded to Insanely Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 350,000+ Profit:Mostly unbuyables, some high profit buyables. Most morphing potions are great profit. You have to be really quick in this shop however, as it is usually the most crowded shop in neopia. Once this shop restocks, you don't have much time to pick and choose what you want to go for. Due to the amount of competition in this shop, magic works best to those who only restock in 1-2 shops at a time and have reasonable internet speed. I do not reccomend this shop for beginners. Stay away from all basic gnorbu morphing potions, all basic ogrin morphing potions as well as green uni and green kyrii morphing potions. Toy Store (#3) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate to Experienced Amount of competition:Medium to Very Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 180,000+ Profit:Buyables of varying profit, some unbuyables Anything at 10,000 is usually decent to buy from this shop, as well as pinatas which award avatars. Keep your eyes open for faerie dolls, these are quite valuable. Clothing Store (#4) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Medium to Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:Buyables of varying profit, some unbuyables Many wearables are profitable, so you will learn what items are profitable if you gain some experience by restocking for a while here or by paying attention to news about wearable items. Items at 10,000 NP are also likely to be very decent buys. Grooming Store (#5) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Hardly any Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:Some buyables, an occasional unbuyable This shop does not seem to be a very profitable shop, and it is mostly filled with junk. An item at 10,000 NP is probably worthwhile however. Book Store (#7) Reccomended Skill Level:Beginner to intermediate Amount of competition:Medium to Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:A large amount of Low Profit buyables per restock. Some medium profit buyables. Unbuyables if you are lucky. Constant Profit When the restock comes, try and spot a book for 2,500 NP or 5,000 NP (or a 10,000 NP book if you are lucky) and go for it. Afterwards you might be able to buy a couple of books that stock in amounts of 1-3 and are a few thousand profit. Then pick up as many of the cheap books between 300-800 NP as you can until the shop is sold out. Collectable Card Store (#8) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Low Reccomended NP on hand: 150,000+ Profit:Some buyables, Some unbuyables This shop is a reasonably slow shop, and often it may not be worth restocking in it because it is often completely full with no space for new items to restock. Higher rarity cards are different colours. Watch out for gold cards, these are the rarest. Some black cards are profitable, but others aren't. You might have enough time in this shop to quickly search the black card on the shop wizard to see if it is a good buy. Battle Magic (#9) Reccomended Skill Level: Experienced to Very Experienced Amount of competition:Medium to Very Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 600,000+ Profit:Lots of unbuyables, usually HTS. Some buyables. Battle Magic is an extremely difficult shop to learn, as there are no real "rules" as to what is profitable and not profitable. The high rarity items mostly stock anywhere between 10k-100k. MOST of these items are huge losses, and a few are profitable. If you want to learn what is good to get or not, try visiting the shop often, taking note of what items are junk that is hanging around the shop. Accidentally buying items that are huge losses is a normal part of learning this shop. If you buy an item that is a loss, you learn to not purchase that item again, so everytime you make a loss you gain experience. In your first few months, you may lose a few hundred k on junk items, but that fee to learn battle magic will pay itself off quickly when you are experienced at this shop. Defence Magic (#10) Reccomended Skill Level:Experienced to Very Experienced Amount of competition:Low to Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 500,000+ Profit:regular HTS unbuyables, a few buyables. This shop is very similar to battle magic, except with even more junk, but (slightly) easier to learn. This is because many of the unbuyables are full pet armours, and these armours stock for around 90k. Garden (#12) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Medium Reccomended NP on hand: 50,000+ Profit:buyables of a few thousand np profit, some higher profitable buyables, occasional unbuyables. Items at 10,000 NP are often unbuyables or high profit buyables. Items at 5,000 and 2,500 are sometimes quite profitable, but sometimes a small profit. Other items that are over 3000 np are either profitable or not profitable, so you take a gamble if you decide to buy them. Experience in this shop will help you in knowing which items are good profit. Pharmacy (#13) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:Medium profit buyables. "cheap" unbuyables. coming soon Chocolate Factory (#14) Reccomended Skill Level:Intermediate Amount of competition:Medium to Crowded Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:Buyables of varying profits. Many that are 3k-10k profit. See the description for the bakery as this shop is very similar. Bakery (#15) Reccomended Skill Level:Beginner to Intermediate Amount of competition:Medium Reccomended NP on hand: 30,000+ Profit:Buyables of varying profits. Many that are 3k-10k profit. Bakery is a great shop for a reliable profit. The items that stock in numbers of around 1-3 for 500-2500 NPs are regularly a few thousand NPs profit. You can usually get at least one, if not more from a restock. Stay away from 2,500 NP items unless you know they are profits. Items at 10,000 NPs are extremely rare, but most likely unbuyables! Merifoods (#56) Reccomended Skill Level:Experienced Amount of competition:Medium Reccomended NP on hand: 1,800,000+ Profit:Hopefully a draik egg after waiting patiently for hours! Merifoods is where draik eggs restock. The blue, green, yellow, red and ice eggs stock for around 90k-150k. The darigan draik egg restocks for an enormous amount around 1.6-1.7 million! A lot of people seem to believe that draik eggs only restock around once a month and only the best restockers on neopets are fast enough to get them. This isn't completely true. Draik eggs restock around once or twice a day, or more or less than that due to chance. I have even heard from two people who have seen two eggs in one restock! However you do need patience in this shop, as you will probably not see one for HOURS. Also you don't need to be the best restocker in neopets to get one, but you should be a reasonably experienced (Such as being at the level of restocking in medium to expert shops) as if you want to try. Note: If there's anything you'd like me to add, just let me know.
Moved to appropriate subforum. Give some specific credit to the guides you used please. http://www.neopets.com/~restocker
Great guide, definitely one of the most complete guides i have found. Will be useful once i get tired of getting frozen for using an ABer
I would suggest also going onto jellyneo and looking at the pictures of the highly desirable items for the shop your in to familiarize yourself with them. Eg. for stamp it would be a good idea to start off by knowing exactly what the 10k stamps look like and just always going for them and when you get better moving onto the 50k stamps etc.. etc... it might take months and months to see all the profitable items restock in a shop like defence magic so looking at them in Jellyneo will mean your less likely to freeze up when you see it thinking hmmm, is that a t-tear and instead you'll have the "t-tear has been added to your inventory" screen
Wow, Nice guide, but i CANT stretch my thumb and index finger from enter to f5 on my laptop keyboard. :lol: Anyway, I really don't need 350k in magic shop, i think all i need is 150k. THe highest i've seen an item stock is about 101k there.
I've only seen the Plushie Jet once, and I missed it couse I though it said 30k not 300k :K Anyways thx for the feedback Try your middle finger and your thumb.