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Restocking
Have you ever wondered how to make LOTS of neopoints, and have fun doing it? Have you ever heard of those crazy neopians who have 2 billion neopoints? Want to know how a lot of them get it? The answer is restocking. I can turn you from a 50 neopoints a day salary, money-tree scavenger, into a well dressed, highly rich, money-tree donater! This guide has almost everything you need to know to get started.

What is Restocking?
Well, restocking is the art of going to a shop, refreshing over and over, finding an item that is sold for less money than it’s worth, buying it REALLY fast, and selling it in your shop, or on trades if it’s unbuyable (worth over 100,000). There’s a lot to restocking, but before I even START to explain that, here’s a few abbreviations that I think you’ll need:

1. rs- restock
2. rsing-restocking
3. rXX (example, r99, r80, r97)- rarity. This is basic, but the higher the number, the less likely it will stock in a shop.
4. stock- no, not stock in a company that you buy , but it means to come into a shop (an item shop).
5. gj and nt-if someone does a good restock, say gj (good job), if they miss one, say nt (nice try). simple
6. u/b- unbuyable (item worth more than 100k)
7. ab-autobuyer. A very bad thing. (You’ll learn later on)

When are Restocks?
Restocks are anywhere from every 2 minutes, to every 30 minutes- usually around 8 minutes between restocks. When there is a restock, the shops stock in order of the shop numbers (look on the url of a shop, ex: food is 1), roughly .1 seconds inbetween. There are 75 shops, so it takes 10 seconds about for all of the shops to rs.

Where Should I Restock?
Check the shop section.

I’m still confused… Where should I rs? Too many shops!!1
Well, for beginers, try snow foods, or pharmacy, or faerie foods.

I have my shop, what do I do now?
You’re ready to learn how, now. First of all, to know when there’s a rs, go to the food shop about every 30 seconds, or whenever you want. If you see more than 3 rows of items there, it’s most likely a rs. You can also tell, if there are items that usually aren’t in there. HURRY to your shop, and see if there’s anything worth buying (you should know what to rs at your shop by now). If there isn’t, refresh the page, and look again. Refresh a few times, for about 30 seconds. If you see a good item? CLICK ON IT FAST. and hit enter, to close the box that comes up. You will then go to a haggling page. Don’t freak out here. You now need to learn how to haggle well.

How do I haggle for an item?!
If the shopkeeper asks for 12749, I bet if you’re new to restocking, you think you have to put that EXACT amout of nps in. Wrong! You have to put in a number anywhere around that price, from the range of 9500-15000. Here are some good numbers that would be smart to type in, for that item:

Notice that they are all easier to type! This is a benefit, because speed always matters. There are hundreds of hungry restockers, browsing the shops during a rs, trying to get the items that you try to get. So during all of this, go FAST.
If the price is 5000, try:

If the price is 47136, try:

You’ll end up developing your favorite prices. Personally, I like alternating numbers (13131, 73737, 3535, 5454).

Note: The haggling price doesn’t always have to be under the real price, it can be anywhere near it.

Restock Bans
The neopets team has penalties for refreshing a shop too much! If you restock all day, or you refresh a shop a WHOLE bunch of times over and over for a while, you will get banned! Being banned is when you are not allowed to shop and the shops anymore. Every shop will say that they’re sold out. To find out if you’re restock banned, go to a shop that ALWAYS has items in it, like Tiki Tack. Restockers make fun of this place, because it’s the worst possible place to rs at. Restock bans last anywhere from 6 hours (rare) to even 2 days. I’ve found that it’s usually 24 hours, add or take a few. You should try hard not to get banned. If you have been restocking for a couple hours straight, play some games, or play neoquest 2, or take a break doing whatever.

Okay, I’m getting the idea of it now.
Your restocking training is almost done. Here are some random restocking tips:

~ Items that are r90-r100, always stock for 5,000 nps or over. If an item that usually would stock for less, and is that rarity, stocks, it will stock for exactly 5,000. So 4747, or 4646, or 5000, or 5151, or something like that will work well. If you see an item for exactly 5k, chances are, it’s good to rs. Not all though.

~ r99’s stock very rarilly, and r100’s, even MORE rarely. But if the rarity is over 100, the item does NOT stock in a shop.

The two illegal things!

Avoid doing these at risk of losing your account!

Using an Autobuyer
ab, or AB stands for autobuyer. An autobuyer is a program, that automatically buys an item, and most of the time it’s faster than a human. This had made me, and other restockers miss a LOT. Where do ab’s come from? People write them, and then sell or share them. I don’t know any of the sites, and I’m glad I don’t. Sometimes people even sell them. Ab’s mess up the economy, and if the neopets team has ANY suspicion of someone ab’ing, they will probably freeze their account.

Multi-Account Restocking
The abbreviation is multing. Multing is when you use more than one account for restocking. This is bad, because if you would be allowed to multi all you want, there would be no point in restock banns! Like abing, if the neopets teams finds out you do this, you’ll be frozen.