The Neopian Economy...

Discussion in 'Neopets Chit-Chat' started by TtotheJay, Oct 12, 2010.

  1. TtotheJay

    TtotheJay Level II

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    Really sucks. Most things are HTS, and a lot of people on the site are near retarded and lack the business skills to sell or buy anything, and I think this is because no one knows what a lot of items are worth because NO ONE IS BUYING THEM. o_O
     
  2. Calmwinds

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    I think you should not restock in toy/furniture because it's too HTS.
     
  3. powerof0

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    I suppose it's natural that activity levels would be lower than during the summer, because the kids are back in school... But yes, people seem to be buying less than normal. Perhaps they're too busy saving for BD weapons?
     
  4. av_eric

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    The economy for Neo has been bad for a while.
    Summer when up a little but now with the battling, everyone is just doing that.

    This is the first battle plot in years! of crouse everyone is doing it
     
  5. Aemira

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    Faerie quests aren't being given out so there's no need to buy random items that you'd never use like toys and expensive food. =/

    There are too many items on neo that are useless because they aren't 1-time use or there's just no use for them at all. They should convert all the toy and gift items into piles of dung =p
     
  6. TtotheJay

    TtotheJay Level II

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    Yeah all those non 1 use items just keep building up, with no one buying them. :-\
     
  7. av_eric

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    well some one use items, such as codestones, dubloons, books and neggs are obought i you put them up for a reasonable price. I get a codestone, cheapest on SW is like 4.5k...I put in for 4,3k and sells in an hour or less.
     
  8. TtotheJay

    TtotheJay Level II

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    Yeah codestones will always sell, I'm talking about MPs, Plushies, And even some PBs. Stamps, books. A lot of things just don't sell very well anymore.
     
  9. xavarn10

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    I know this is a stupid question but what is HTS?
     
  10. itunes

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    Hard to sell
     
  11. av_eric

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    I still find books and stamps sell fairly well,
    you jsut need to kow the right ones.

    The GCFYP allways sells,
    and stamps newly reitred sell pretty quick.
    The neoquest stamps dont sell...cause thier so many

    And MP's arent used that much.
    they are more for collectors or r99
    or resells ofcourse (pokes myself)
     
  12. chillin

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    I know right i switched all my list to ETS only. The only thing worth rsing/abing in is BM/DM Meri food and magic for High end MP's(a couple mill +)

    Stamps sell alright at 75% of TP Books are ok too.

    What ruined the market is resellers. For sure. Why pay full price when you can just buy everything at reseller prices? I mean no matter what you wan't/need theres always someone selling it at a incredibly cheap price. This makes sense because the item you wan't to sell is being offered for half the price you are willing to sell it for.

    I have a couple more theories on why resellers ruined the market but im lazy as crap so im not going to type them.
     
  13. Sparratic

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    I've noticed people stopped buying books. I have a bookshop in neo and my sales have dropped significantly. I used to make about 600k+ a day now I make about 400k. Chillin I agree with you that resellers are evil....but were all guilty of that crime ;)
     
  14. Dora

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    I have also noticed that nobody is buying Mootix's nowadays either, Either because of how muh they have gone up or everyone has one lol
     
  15. xavarn10

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    How do you make so much selling books?! :O
     
  16. powerof0

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    I wonder if people who AB at the Attic are affected by this slump in the economy. Surely they must have been more affected since more expensive items are usually harder to sell.
     
  17. Sparratic

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    I AB in books :) simple as that, i have over like 1000 books in my shop, someone is always buying stuff. once I hit around 800 books I restock and update prices with autopricer which takes like a day lol because shopwiz ban
     
  18. ambdsm

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    Not everything is HTS, go buy stuff in the Stamp Store and you'll sell them np.

    Also if your REAL lucky and restock in the toy shop and get a faerie doll
     
  19. number460

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    Faerie Quest aren't handed out, and the Employment Agency is down, so all those random items aren't being used anymore. I hadn't had a time where i didn't need to restock for a long time.
     
  20. Kangaroos

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    Yeah what I'm really upset about is Illusen and Jhudora. Its been difficult to even move some of my r99s now because nobody is using them or purchasing them for quests. I'm just holding onto them until the quests are re-instated because I refuse to go reseller on some of these items.