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HTGallery's Guide To Infinite Wealth!

by _peekabooicu_ and a_metal

All references to Neopets, Neopets characters, games, items, or any other aspects are copyright 1999 - 2002 Neopets.com.

This manual is COMPLETELY free and should only be obtained directly from htgallery, a user on neopets.com. This manual was written to answer the many questions we receive regarding how we got to the top #5 richest neopians, and stayed up there!

Introduction

CONGRATULATIONS! You are now the proud owner of the most important manual related to Neopets. Studying the manual entirely can make you a very rich neopian. Only reading parts you think are important will get you stuck or leave you broke. It's your call!

So you decided you would like to become rich on neopets. Good choice. You decided you want to do it in an honest way, without cheating, scamming or hacking. Even better! Before you read on, we must warn you that it will take a lot of hard work to get where we got to, but in the end, beating the game is more than enough as a reward. It took us about 3 months to figure out the game, 3 months to make good money (45 million NP), and 2 months to make GREAT money (an additional 50+ million EACH in 2 months!! - we lost track) If you get discouraged anywhere during this manual, go have a look at http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=htgallery and make it your goal to beat us!

What you need

Good news, you don't need much at all! You will need a shop, a few starting neopoints, and a lot of patience. Patience to find deals on the shop wizard and patience to sell with a profit. One thing you REALLY need is a good head on your shoulders - to protect yourself from getting hacked, scammed or get cheated!

Primary Source Of Income - Your Shop

Before you do anything, make sure you open up your shop. Select a friendly greeting and description, and DON'T put in backgrounds or music. This will make your shop harder to access, and people might give up on trying to load your shop. Very often we will see "broken" shops, where you cannot access the items you are trying to purchase. Stick to the basics for your "selling" shop. If you ever have enough NP to make a gallery, you can spend a little bit of time placing backgrounds in there. Music is ALWAYS a NO NO! Many computers will crash upon loading shops that contain music files.

Starting or Emergency Income - The Games

If you currently have less than 10,000 NP, or if you have less than that at any time, play the games! Many times we hear how people's computers are too slow to play the games. You are LUCKY if you have a slow computer, go play Meerca chase, it is SO much easier to beat the HARD level on a slow computer, and it pays out good. With a little practice you can make 3000 NP per day on it. If you are low on money, stay away from the Chance games. If you have a few thousand NP, you can try them, because they generate the most random events where you'll receive free codestones, map pieces, paint brushes and nerkmids. You CAN open 2 different games at the same time, if your computer is slow, or you are just really fast.

Recommended Games:
Puzzles: - Codebreakers (Once you figure it out, easy to beat) - Destructo-Match (Easy Money - it's more a game of chance, you can't lose) - Treasure Hunt (Time consuming, but the maps you receive are worth THOUSANDS - Not recommended for beginners new to neopia)

Action: - Bumper cars (Very easy, very fun) - Deckball (Good payout, the dubloons you can win are worth LOTS) - Deckswabber (A bit harder, but still fun and good payouts) - Ice Cream Factory (The EASIEST game around! Gets boring after a while) - Swarm (Mega Fun! And good payouts) - Meerca Chase (Fun, you'll need practice to become really good at it)

Luck/Chance: (don't play these if you're LOW on NP's, there's a Chance you will lose!) - Scorchy slots (Many random events - 90% chance of winning) - Neopoker (Many random events - 60% chance of winning) - Sakhment Solitaire & Scarab 21 (fairly safe - 90% chance of winning)

Buying and Selling Techniques

Let's start making some big bucks.

First thing you need is investing money. If you don't have 20,000 NP, start playing games first. You need money to make money. Next are items. Everything sells, and you can find deals on anything with enough persistence. We've found that concentrating on a specific type of item works best. E.g. battledome items, plushies, maps, usuki items, petpets, … the options are endless. Be careful, investing in new items is always risky as they might drop in value a lot. As you go along, you'll find out about easy to sell items, hard to sell items, and margins you should take.

It's always good to make a little pricelist, in notepad or excel, something you can keep on the side of your screen. Place 3 columns in it. Column #1 Column #2 Column #3 Name of item Current Price Up or Down

Column one obviously has the name of the item listed. The second column has the current selling price. You will learn how to determine this price in the next section. The third column has an up/down indicator. As you check the price every day, you'll notice it either going up or down. Sometimes just slightly and sometimes a lot. If it goes down a lot, stay away from the item for a few days or weeks, and then check prices again.

Using the shop wiz to determine the price of an item

Go to the shop wiz. To do this, click on SHOPS on the left hand bar, and then click on the magic hat in the top yellow bar. Type the name of the item. Click on search. Now keep refreshing and keep your eye on the lowest price. Press the F5 key and hit Enter to refresh and view a new screen. Once you've done 5 or 6 refreshes, you know approximately what the lowest price.

You'll also notice that every screen has certain types of names listed.  e.g.  names starting with S, C and K are all together,  names starting with W, O and G are together.  This will help you determine which screen you will end up in. 

Let's say an item is priced around 500np on all screens, and the lowest price on your screen is 750np, most likely you will have fast sales if you price that item at 650np. 

NOTE:  If you go by the lowest price in your screen, and not in ALL screens, you run the risk that you will end up losing should you not sell fast enough.  Keep a close eye on it!  The item might be dropping, and your screen might not have caught up yet!

Creating A High Sales Shop

  During our first 5-6 months we've had many shops.  We've sold everything from broken toys, to battle dome items.  No matter what we did, there was always profit.  The most success we had with specific shops. E.g., shops dedicated only to battle dome items, shops dedicated to medicine, shops dedicated to plushies or books.  All of which, with a bit of effort, could generate up to 100,000 NP profit per day. 

  There's a few keys to a successful shop:

1) Have a nice variety of items
2) Make sure your prices are good - they don't have to be the absolute lowest, but low enough so people will notice you
3) Restock often! Especially in the beginning this is VERY important!  If you don't add new items, you don't add new profit!
4) Don't put in backgrounds or music. Your shop needs to load FAST or you WILL lose sales.

  Of course, you shouldn't start off with a specific shop.  Generate some NP first.  Sell whatever you can pick up for a deal. Once you have some money to spare (meaning when you get over 100k), you can set up an item-specific shop.  Eventually you will end up with the following scenario:

  There will be links from your working account to your gallery and investment account, and vice versa.  In your working account you can also put up a link to your trading lots should you be selling unbuyables (items that sell for more than 99,999 NP)

Making Money On The Auctions

It is quite hard to just go to the auctions and make np's.  Your best bet is to start off on the shop wizard and learn as many prices of items as you can. This way you will spot *deals* on the auctions much faster, especially for non-suspicious items which most people don't know prices of. 

Using this method to make NP will require you to start in the first 40 auctioned items and refreshing there until you find a deal.  Most of the time, for the really good deals, it's a tough battle and you will need a fast PC.

You can also *tag* items.  Do this by using the auction genie to look up a certain item, and bid ONCE on the *very* good deals, depending on the increment.  This way you can always go back to check your bids.

Making Money On The Trading Post

Unless you have serious investing capital (200,000np or more), or have a lot of expensive items that you want to trade up with, then you won't make much on the Trading Post.  There's even a good chance you will lose money on deals that are seemingly great.  You will also need an increased dosage of patience.  Unfortunately there's no telling what items are good, and what items are bad investments.  It's a hit and miss situation.

Personally, we have lost a lot of money, and gained a lot of money using the trading post.  The items we found most profitable were the more expensive battle items.  We still prefer the shop wizard, because it's fairly *instant* money, without having to haggle for a good deal for hours or days.

Frequently Asked Questions

1) What items should I start looking for?
Any item!  I've even bought piles of sludge for 1 NP and sold for 5-7np at one point (just for fun).  Try to stick with items that are worth about 1 to 5% of your total cash flow.  e.g. if you have 100,000 NP, find items worth 1,000 - 5,000 np in selling value. If you purchase items worth less, you will probably end up spending more on increasing your shop size than probable profit you can make.

2) What items should I stay away from?
Food, morphing potions and new items fluctuate too much in price.  We don't suggest you invest much in them.
Unless you have a very fast connection, don't get into neggs or codestones either. There's a lot of people looking for them, and you need to be fast to  catch the deals.

3) Can I do restocks in the neopets market shops?
Of course. However make sure you know the prices of the items before you get into this. You'll also need a VERY fast connection - even our cable connection isn't fast enough to do the restocks

4) What about Limited Too items, should I purchase those?
To be honest, we purchased a few codes, but mostly the plushies etc, which now come without codes, just for collector value.  We cannot criticize Limited Too items, however what we can say is that we won't be purchasing the item codes.  The plushies on the other hand are quite nice :)

5) Can I have an item or some starting NP?
No - And consider yourself blocked. If you're not willing to put in the little bit of effort now that you've been spoon-fed the method to becoming rich, then anything we give you will be wasted anyway.  We put the time and effort into making this guide, you put the little bit of extra effort required to put it into practice.

6) Did you really become that rich this way, didn't you ever hack or scam or cheat?
No. We always report all hackers/scammers/cheaters or bugs found on neopets right away without exploiting them.  We have used the methods described above to gain most of our NPs, some of it came from trades, however we found this to be too time consuming for the NP's we received in return.

7) What's the biggest mistake I can make?
Being impatient, and rushing into *deals*.  If you have the lowest price on the wiz, even if it's only 1 NP, don't expect to sell in 2 minutes.  If it doesn't sell overnight, check the wiz and make sure you still have the lowest price.  Stay competitive.  If someone offers you a trade that sounds too good to be true, it usually is. - check prices, check prices with your friends, make sure you're not getting suckered into accepting items that are dropping rapidly in value and are impossible to sell.

8) What is the second biggest mistake I can make?
Investing all your money into one item.  BIG mistake.  Try to never invest more than 50% of what you own into an item, unless you are positive you can make a quick sale with a lot of profit.

9) When I do trades, what do I have to watch out for?
Items that are similar to Hidden Tower items, or more expensive items.  
Examples:
Expert Bow (4000np)  - Dual Expert Bow (110,000 np)
Flame Reflectozap (100000np) - Reflectozap 2000 (Hidden tower item worth over 2 million)
U-bend (500np) - U-bend of great justice (Hidden tower item worth over 1.5 million)
Blizzard Ring (5000np) - Tornado Ring (Retired Hidden Tower Item worth over 2 million)
Wand of supernova (100,000np) - Staff of supernova (325,000 NP)

If you are selling a Wand of the air faerie in trades for 160,000 NP, scammers will often bid a nice item and 16,000 NP. It's hard to see, don't hurry and click,  count the 0's.  Even harder to tell is 19121 offer on a 190,000 np valued item.

It is better to lose a seemingly good deal and check everything, than to lose sometimes hundreds of thousands worth of NP.
When in doubt whether something is a hidden tower or retired hidden tower item, check our website. If it's not listed in the asset list, it's not a Hidden Tower item.

- To Be Continued (as we get more time available) -

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