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The Neocash Mall
With the increasing popularity of the Neocash mall and it's Items I thought I should put together a little guide about its basics, and trading information to help the newbies and to ensure that people who wish to trade items get a fair price for thier neocash. After all, it is worth real money!
The Basics
The Neocash Mall is a shop feature which allows users to buy clothes and accessories for their pets and neohomes. The purchases are made in the currency of Neocash, which has to be bought with real human paper money.
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You can purchase this Neocash online, or in shops throughout America, Canada, UK and some other countries. Not every country has the ability to use neocash, and some that do dont have the shops that sell them, but eveyone who can accses the Mall can buy Neocash online at neopets.
Cards are also sold on online auctions such as Ebay, and sometimes on the forum.
The benefit of buying a neocash card in store is the addition of a Gift box, which you can use to send Neocash items to other users, or side accounts. This is the only way you can send Neocash Items. Occasionaly TNT will give free gift boxes in the Neocash mall during site events.
You can only include one Neocash Item per gift box.
Neocash cards come in amounts of 500NC for $5 750NC for £5 1000NC for $10 1500NC for $15 and 2500NC for $25.
Vocabulary to Know
UFT: Up for trade.
RE: This means that the item is retired, which means it can no longer be bought in the mall.
LE: This means that an item is or was limited edition, meaning that it either was/is the bonus item from a mystery capsule. The LE item is random, and sometimes takes many capsules to obtain.
Challenge/Ticket Item This means that the item was obtainable only through participating in some kind of event on the site, usually requiring a ticket to take part in. Examples are the Altador Cup Challenge, Games Master Challenge, and Atlas of the Ancients Plot.
Buyable: This means that the item is currently purchasable in the NC mall. It does not mean that it is a neopoint item, which cannot be traded for NC items.
Multiples: This term usually means that someone is looking to trade one of their rarer items for multiple 'lesser' items. You will often see people trading something for 'multiple buyables'.
EB: Refers to the Elite Boutique, an elite section of the mall open only to accounts that are 49 months old. It contains a variety of non-tradable items.
Duplicates: This term refers to the large amount of cheap buyable items that users obtain, mostly by opening mystery capsules. Common ones include beauty marks, hair bows, and head scarves.
Some items are really popular, so you'll see some of these abbreviations a lot.
Caps refers to mystery capsules, which when opened award the user a number of items from the mall. Depending on the capsule, some of these can be older retired items. Also, capsules offer a limited edition item, which comes out of capsules randomly and sometimes very rarely.
SP: Means Superpack, which is a package that can be bought in the NC mall containing a set of related items. Most of the items can be bought separately, but one or two are only awarded through purchase of the pack. These are referred to as Superpack LEs.
BG: Refers to Background, a type of item.
FP: Refers to face paint, also a kind of item.
MME's: Mysterious Morphing Experiment's. LE items that were released for a short period of time at a larger cost in the NC mall as items Morph over time into different items in that collection. Each part of the transformation is a seperate NC mall item.
So far MME's released are as follows:
MME1
MME2
MME3
MME4
MME5
How to Price your Neocash Items
So you have some NC items you want to trade? Well lets make sure you dont get ripped off!!
The best way to price your item is to first check when/if it is retierd, and how it was obtainable origonaly, e.g. if it was in the mall for a long time, or if it was a LE item from a capsule.
To find this out heres a very handy website with informatinon on most NC item ever released!
http://www.neopets.com/~Vokol
Ok so now you know that your best bet is to always ask the NC board on neopets the worth of your item, this will allways be the most accurate way of pricing as value fluctuates all the time. THIS IS THE BEST WAY.
If not, if your lazy, or hate the neoboards heres a rough way to get a value;
If the item is still in the mall and buyable then the value will be the same as the NC eqivilent 250nc = $2.5 (roughly 600k nps) 100nc = $1 (250k nps)
If the item is retierd but was not LE or special in any way then you will be looking at a price of around 4 - 5 caps trade, 1000 - 1250NC = $10 - $12.50 (roughly 3million nps)
If the item is LE and retierd then the price can be amazing! I would deffinatly seek a price check on the boards but you should expect 2000nc or more! = $20 (6million nps)
Rare Items and Values
Here is a small collection of some of the most valuable items that have been released from the NC mall, the prices are in USD worth of NC that neopets users are willing to trade for them, for example, a capsule costs 250nc, and if a rare item is worth 20 caps that is 5000nc, which is the equivilent of $50.
Please note, the prices are approximate, at the time of writing this guide, and subject to change with demand.
Shenkuu River Rush Winged Talisman $250 or more!
Spyder Web Staff $130
Neoquest Wizard Wand $120
MME1-B1: Sputtering Grey Mini-Monster $100
Easter Negg Smiley Snack $90 or more!
Attack of the Revenge Background $70-$100
Appetising Caramel Apple $70-100
Balthazar's Bag of Bottled Faeries $70-$100
MME2-B1: Gold and Maractite Fish Shield $70-100
NC Mall Birthday Goodie Bag| $70 or more!
GULP... Underwater Reef Background $75-$90
Hot Air Balloon Adventure Background $75-$90
Paper Lantern Staff $60-$75
Eliv Thade Make-Up Kit $50 - $75
Ice Cream Cone String Lights $50-$60
Gingerbread Wings $50 or more!
Thespian Background $50
Geraptiku Background $40 - $50
Phantom of the Background $50 - $75
Sewing Room Background $50
Tasty Bakery Background $50
Smuggler's Cove Background $50
MME3-B1: Magma Pool Background $50
MME4-B1: Sparkling Snow Background $50
Flickering Flame String Lights $50
Shimmering Ring of Generosity $45-$50
Flower Wings $40-$50
In conclusion;
Yeh, neocash is big business! Makes alot of money. So if ever in doubt feel free to PM me and I will help you price some items!
Please let me know if you think I should add anything!
(NB. Guide by me, but pricing help taken from elsewhere.)
Edited by ShadowLink64, 19 August 2012 - 02:16 PM.