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I just recently started to play again. Just curious to see what everyone on here does to make a profit?

I used to make a killing play habitarium, and i would play key quest, but Neopets no longer has either one of these activities anymore.

Now what I am going is playing Ghoul Catchers which makes me $50k a day, and I play Jetsam Ace in the Battledome and usually win a Nekmid or two.

I have been thinking about starting a shop & selling specific items to make a profit, but I have no idea where to even start. 

 

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Fighting the Koi Warrior in the Battledome gives me more codestones than any other challenger I have tried so far. There is always a healthy market for these so it's easy to make a tidy profit. I dabble in Food Club betting and sometimes you can win quite a bit there, although it helps to follow expert bets if you are just starting out with that. Trudy's slot machine is one that gets to be worth it as long as you are playing daily, as it increases in reward with consecutive days played and will give you 100k after about 25 days, then reset. (I logged it once back when it started, and I think I made somewhere in the neighborhood of 325k off Trudy in a month or so.) I know some people make a fortune with specialty shops, but I have very poor skills at restocking and I don't have the time to curate a huge shop. Best of luck in whatever you choose!

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My main income is food club, collecting interest at the bank, and stock market. I dont play games. I dont shop stock unless its ETS codestones. In the last 5 days I collected almost 2 million np from following http://www.neopets.com/~boochi_target

Investing in stocks is the game making money for you. 

my bank interest = 10 million a year just for hitting a button. 

To say the least I'm too lazy to earn NP. 

 

Your account at 15 years will make you way more NP than mine at food club! You're sitting on a gold mine ? 

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I do a bunch of the daily activites... get free jelly, fruit slot, things like that. The slot wheels also tend to give more than they take.   Most of the free stuff I earn, I put into my shop.   It might only fetch 1 neopoint, do do that with 10 items a day, it adds up.   And some of those free items are fairly valuable.   I also play the stock market, and Trudy's Slot are my two solid earners.   Scratch cards are hit or miss, buy you can sell them off rather than scratch yourself.   I also fight the Koi Warrior for codestones, but then I use those stones myself.
I occasionally play games, but that's strictly for my own fun.

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For me its dailies, selling any valuable items I get from them, pocketing trudy's surprise, forgotten shore etc...bank interest, occasionally ghoul catchers, selling red codestones from battledome (I save normal for my own training), and then I've sold a few big ticket items that I managed to get via random event, luck, plots etc. 
I barely run a shop, just those items I find, I'm not a restocker at all and barely play games. I've got just under 6mil in the bank at the moment which I've made over a couple of months. 

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Stock Market is good if you don't mind playing the long game. I mostly do Food Club, stock market, and Battledome for codestones.

In addition to that, you could also add some easy flash games (Kass Basher, etc) to your daily play list. It doesn't net you a ton of NP, but it adds up.

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I mainly rely on bank interest, Trudy's and stock market. I also go through the list of TDN dailies, and I sometimes get decent stuff e.g. a Zomutt from Test Your Strength, some job coupons and morphing potions from the wheels. If the items required at The Coincidence don't cost me a lot, I'd do that too, and I got a petpetpet twice. Not sure if it's a net loss or profit with the Spooky Scratchcard, but I buy and scratch it every day regardless.

I haven't explored Food Club yet but I guess I will look into it since so many of you mentioned it.

The only games I play for NP are Fashion Fever, Kass Basher, Catch the Petpet and Top Chop since they're quick and easy. There are some others I play for avvies and trophies.

I occasionally restock stamps, book and food (only managed to buy 2 r99s so far, and still haven't managed to sell them lol)

EDIT: Half Price Day (the 3rd of every month) is the time to restock in bulk

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I'm another that it's mainly Trudy, dailies, stocks and bank interest for. I HAVE had good success sporadically playing Food Club - following Garet's guide - but I just can't remember to play it lately, lol.

I think, it must be kind of hard reading these responses, as I think we're all pretty much in the same boat of having a nice amount of NP now so we're sitting pretty really. When you're just starting out talk of the stock market's not much help I guess, lol, but...

3 hours ago, Duskitty said:

Stock Market is good if you don't mind playing the long game.

it IS good to get into the habit of buying stocks early on in your Neo life, as it WILL pay dividends sooner then. ? Follow the mantra of buy at 15 (or 10 if you have the Obelisk boon/Charity Corner perk) and don't sell till 60+ and you're golden. I made over a million NP selling my TAG shares when they hit 78 a couple of days ago, completely ignoring the fact that right now...

  Today Holdings Overall
       Icon    Ticker Open Current Price Chg Qty Paid Mkt Value % Change
disclosure_closed.gif12.gif TAG
(profile)  
 120         126        +6 1,000 10,000 126,000 +1,160.00%

Oh heck, who am I kidding here? !  LOOK at this. I've tried my best to get the things to line up but not really managed it, lol. But let's see if I can explain what you're seeing. Did you have anything to do with the stock market on your previous account? Either way I'll explain like you have no idea. Because you may still have no idea depending on how much sense I do/don't end up making. :ph34r: :laugh:

The last 4 sections are what matters here, I have 1000 TAG stocks. 1000 is the max you can buy on any day, so it is what we buy. I bought them at 10np each because I have the Charity Corner perk from this year that gives me the Obelisk boon of cheap stocks for an entire year, woohoo.  So I paid 10k for those 1000 stocks and they are currently worth 126k... I think I might give in and sell that last 1k  :ph34r: I like to keep 1k back when I sell just so I can see what's going on with them, but when they continue to climb in this way OHHH the temptation!

 

For right now benefits though I'd recommend spinning the Wheel of Mediocrity regularly. This is a nice little earner in a quiet kind of way. You can spin every 40 minutes, and it's only 100 to spin, unlike 500 for the Wheel of Excitement which more often than not blows a big raspberry at you anyway by having you land on the ? or by making your pet sick. I spin the WoM regularly throughout the day and the net result will always be in my favour.

OH, anddd

The Faerie Employment Agency, another nice little earner.

I have my own method for this place :

  • start from the back of the list, ones from the front disappear as you're preparing for them as other people beat you to it.
  • only apply for jobs that want items I already own, I NEVER buy anything so it's 100% profit for me.
  • have the items in your inventory BEFORE you apply for the job, this maximises the fee you get paid as you complete the job instantaneously.

 

Here's my first job for today

 

Chocolate Korbats!  Yummy, especially the raspberry fondant in the middle. 162. Collect Items Apply for this job
Find 3 of: Milk Chocolate Korbat

Time: 45 minutes   Base Reward: 1,155 NP

I have 6 of these in my inventory, probably won from Bart so I'm good for this one.

Remove 3 to my inventory before clicking on apply and...

You got the job!


Job Description
 

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Good job! You got all the items we wanted.

The job took you 0 minutes, 0 seconds.
You have been paid 1,443 Neopoints.

Completed Job Data...

Job #: 9312055

Tatofase's Task: Find 3 of: Milk Chocolate Korbat
 
Chocolate Korbats!  Yummy, especially the raspberry fondant in the middle. x 3
 
Total Time Allowed: 45 minutes

Base Reward: 1,155 NP

 

Look how much more I got paid for that instant completion. You should see the pay out when they want leeks or chocolate milk!  I'm pretty sure this agency is a front for money-laundering but the less said about that probably the better. :ph34r:

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I used to do Employment Agency a lot, but have forgotten about it these days. Thanks for reminding! ?

I do buy things for the job, as long as it costs less than the base reward, but that's mainly because I don't keep a large amount of items on hand. I tend to buy the items from the official Neopian shops since they're usually cheaper than Shop Wizard (with some exception). Items that you can buy from General Store, are usually cheaper at the General Store, so don't get them from user shops.

If you can, get jobs with a long time frame, and high base reward, because the Time Bonus is 25% of the Base Reward, less the percentage of allotted time you took. Consider the two jobs below:

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Say it took you one minute to complete the job. If you pick the first one, your time bonus would be 9438 * (0.25 - 1/17) = 1804 NP.
If you pick the second one, your time bonus would be 9438 * (0.25 - 1/7) = 1011 NP

Items that are often asked for by the Employment Agency usually sells well (at least they did a few months ago when I still bothered), and might be worth restocking.

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1 hour ago, Vlagopus said:

I used to do Employment Agency a lot, but have forgotten about it these days. Thanks for reminding! ?

I do buy things for the job, as long as it costs less than the base reward, but that's mainly because I don't keep a large amount of items on hand.

You're welcome. ?

Those baby dolls freak. me. out. lol

I'll admit that I have a LOT of stuff hoarded, so many food items saved after fighting the Chia Clown, collecting them from the Money Tree, and getting the Lunar Puzzle wrong, lol, all that I ended up not using after all when CC rolled around, so I have a lot to get rid of. Those Faeries are quite fond of the odd can of Neocola, aren't they, I just used the last of my stash of that up yesterday. It will gradually become harder for me to use the Employment Agency, but in the meantime I'm being paid to clear out my SDB. ?

All this, pure profit. :happydance:

Job Description
Date and Time of Completion
Time Taken
Reward
Find 2 of: Can of Neocola
16/7/2018 07:30am
0 min., 0 sec.
2,550 NP
Find 2 of: Can of Neocola
16/7/2018 07:05am
0 min., 0 sec.
2,550 NP
Find 4 of: MechaBerry Bomb
16/7/2018 07:03am
0 min., 0 sec.
125 NP
Find 3 of: Milk Chocolate Korbat
16/7/2018 06:36am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,443 NP
Find 2 of: Bitten Green Apple
16/7/2018 06:33am
0 min., 0 sec.
395 NP
Find 3 of: Fresh Seaweed Pie
7/7/2018 05:11am
0 min., 0 sec.
5,220 NP
Find 3 of: Chocolate Milk
7/7/2018 04:51am
0 min., 0 sec.
9,716 NP
Find 6 of: Chicken Cordon Bleu
7/7/2018 04:20am
0 min., 0 sec.
765 NP
Find 4 of: Pirate Usuki Play Set
7/7/2018 04:19am
0 min., 0 sec.
90 NP
Find 2 of: Can of Neocola
7/7/2018 04:18am
0 min., 0 sec.
3,302 NP
Find 3 of: Leek
6/7/2018 12:01pm
0 min., 0 sec.
5,437 NP
Find 3 of: Primordial Thing
6/7/2018 11:44am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,826 NP
Find 5 of: Intergalactic Spiced Beans
6/7/2018 11:07am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,412 NP
Find 6 of: Attack On Kreludor
6/7/2018 11:04am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,732 NP
Find 5 of: Dirt Pie
6/7/2018 11:04am
0 min., 0 sec.
112 NP
Find 3 of: Wet Snowball
3/7/2018 12:37pm
0 min., 0 sec.
48 NP
Find 2 of: Can of Neocola
3/7/2018 12:36pm
0 min., 0 sec.
3,302 NP
Find 3 of: Spring Onion
3/7/2018 12:35pm
0 min., 0 sec.
8,516 NP
Find 3 of: Can of Neocola
30/6/2018 03:32am
0 min., 0 sec.
4,455 NP
Find 6 of: Lice Rice
30/6/2018 03:30am
0 min., 0 sec.
3,375 NP
Find 6 of: Bitten Green Apple
30/6/2018 03:28am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,402 NP
Find 2 of: Ketchup Ice Cream
29/6/2018 11:32am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,075 NP
Find 4 of: Blueberry Gateaux
29/6/2018 11:31am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,205 NP
Find 3 of: Woo Woo Grub
29/6/2018 11:29am
0 min., 0 sec.
858 NP
Find 6 of: Apple Juice
28/6/2018 01:56pm
0 min., 0 sec.
7,117 NP
Find 5 of: Neo Crackers
28/6/2018 01:39pm
0 min., 0 sec.
256 NP
Find 3 of: Hot Buttered Toast
28/6/2018 01:00pm
0 min., 0 sec.
1,005 NP
Find 2 of: Apple Juice
28/6/2018 12:59pm
0 min., 0 sec.
2,372 NP
Find 3 of: Can of Neocola
28/6/2018 12:58pm
0 min., 0 sec.
4,455 NP
Find 6 of: Bitten Green Apple
27/6/2018 01:47pm
0 min., 0 sec.
1,402 NP
Find 4 of: Bitten Green Apple
27/6/2018 01:35pm
0 min., 0 sec.
935 NP
Find 5 of: Fried Shrimp
27/6/2018 12:34pm
0 min., 0 sec.
5,656 NP
Find 3 of: Healing Potion I
27/6/2018 12:33pm
0 min., 0 sec.
438 NP
Find 4 of: Trilo Bite
27/6/2018 12:31pm
0 min., 0 sec.
12,400 NP
Find 4 of: Chocopie Slice
24/6/2018 03:53am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,485 NP
Find 5 of: Orange
24/6/2018 03:37am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,918 NP
Find 4 of: Watery Hot Dog
24/6/2018 03:17am
0 min., 0 sec.
125 NP
Find 3 of: Sugarbunny Surprise
24/6/2018 03:15am
0 min., 0 sec.
798 NP
Find 3 of: Apple Juice
24/6/2018 03:14am
0 min., 0 sec.
4,406 NP
Find 5 of: Scarab Cookie
23/6/2018 08:13am
0 min., 0 sec.
281 NP
Find 4 of: Hot Buttered Toast
23/6/2018 07:49am
0 min., 0 sec.
2,380 NP
Find 5 of: Slime Ghostkersandwich
23/6/2018 06:30am
0 min., 0 sec.
818 NP
Find 3 of: Bitten Green Apple
23/6/2018 06:29am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,087 NP
Find 3 of: Meatless Meatballs
23/6/2018 06:28am
0 min., 0 sec.
5,546 NP
Find 2 of: Carrot
22/6/2018 04:28pm
0 min., 0 sec.
7,855 NP
Find 3 of: Sand Squash
22/6/2018 04:14pm
0 min., 0 sec.
75 NP
Find 3 of: Black Widow Truffle
22/6/2018 03:34pm
0 min., 0 sec.
975 NP
Find 5 of: Cup-O-Slime
22/6/2018 03:33pm
0 min., 0 sec.
2,093 NP
Find 5 of: MechaBerry Bomb
22/6/2018 03:28pm
0 min., 0 sec.
118 NP
Find 2 of: Farn Plant
20/6/2018 06:24am
0 min., 0 sec.
4,900 NP
Find 4 of: Infested Peach
20/6/2018 06:23am
0 min., 0 sec.
1,845 NP
Find 5 of: Cherries Jubalee
20/6/2018 06:21am
0 min., 0 sec.
706 NP
Find 3 of: Strawberry Milkshake
19/6/2018 07:56am
0 min., 0 sec.
9,581 NP
Find 5 of: Can of Neocola
19/6/2018 06:14am
0 min., 0 sec.
5,793 NP
Find 6 of: Hot Buttered Toast
19/6/2018 05:29am
0 min., 0 sec.
3,570 NP
Find 3 of: Forest Fruit Baby Food
19/6/2018 05:27am
0 min., 0 sec.
2,201 NP
Find 3 of: Aisha Riceball
19/6/2018 05:26am
0 min., 0 sec.
348 NP
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On 7/16/2018 at 9:19 PM, jellysundae said:

I'm pretty sure this agency is a front for money-laundering

Here's the proof for money-laundering :P 

Find 3 of: Bitten Red Apple
17/7/2018 05:33am
5 min., 16 sec.
7,405 NP

Maybe TNT can write an anti-money laundering plot, ideally with the Tax Beast as the bad guy whom we can beat at the battledome. ? I'm still miffed about the 6572 NP I had to hand over lol

p.s. it took me 5 minutes because I had to send 3 Red Apples to my side to be eaten by hungry pets, and then send them back to my main. All the pets in my main is at the Neolodge and bloated. Bitten Red Apple apparently costs more than normal Red Apple... what a weird world.

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I'm very lazy so I just do the food club while using boochi_target or Innocent's guide, but that only really works if you have a high account age and some money already to spend. I heard you can make 50k a day playing that mobile game too. 

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What I like to do to make neopoints is play ghoul catchers (Easy 50k in my opinion), do dailes, collect bank interest, partipate in Food Club, use the Stock Market, restock my store, and play a few easy games. So I can get 50k+ np per day which I’m very thankful for.

I hope this helps! ?

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I'm mainly games for day to day winnings - depending on how much time I have I can pick up 40k to 70k on games a day (far less if I actually have to work, I admit). Add that to the money from the GhoulCatchers game which is an additional 50,000np, my bank interest and Trudy and it's not a bad immediate pick up. Particularly if the Forgotten Shore pays up as well.

I then do dailies and sell off random stuff in my shop - Igloo Garage and the Second-Hand Shop is my main haunt for that in honesty, along with the mostly crud items that come from dailies. I tend to try my hand at the story telling and got a petpet worth a (small) fortune last time I won... not that I've managed to sell it yet!

I have stocks but I had been selling them off too soon according to others here - I'd been waiting for them to hit 20np from 15np and taking that as a win. I'm going to sit on my shares longer and see what happens. I hadn't thought about the Food betting - just put in a couple of bets and we'll see!

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On 7/16/2018 at 12:05 AM, StacyBaby said:

I just recently started to play again. Just curious to see what everyone on here does to make a profit?

I used to make a killing play habitarium, and i would play key quest, but Neopets no longer has either one of these activities anymore.

Now what I am going is playing Ghoul Catchers which makes me $50k a day, and I play Jetsam Ace in the Battledome and usually win a Nekmid or two.

I have been thinking about starting a shop & selling specific items to make a profit, but I have no idea where to even start. 

 

I miss the habitarium... wish they return it. Sad to say, I'm not as dexterous as I was when I was younger so I suck with playing the games now. 

 

On 7/16/2018 at 12:05 AM, StacyBaby said:

I just recently started to play again. Just curious to see what everyone on here does to make a profit?

I used to make a killing play habitarium, and i would play key quest, but Neopets no longer has either one of these activities anymore.

Now what I am going is playing Ghoul Catchers which makes me $50k a day, and I play Jetsam Ace in the Battledome and usually win a Nekmid or two.

I have been thinking about starting a shop & selling specific items to make a profit, but I have no idea where to even start. 

 

Sorry for the bump.

Has the daily limit changed? I think I only played 25 times and it said it's the limit.

 

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