Pink Poogle Toy Forum

Well, how about really old items?
Like Wine Bottles, made way before Neopets sets itself as a kid site, and starts to worry with sponsors to please. How much those worth?

The Rose Wine and White Wine bottles are in the Trading Post for about 4 million right now.

Gotta love expensive retired stuff. :-P

Anything hrobi owns.

No seriously, paint brushes... They are ridiculiously expensive.

yeah, pbs are waaaay too high. And morphing potions...and of course anyhting from the 'good old days'

Ahh, well I can't afford anything over 880k right now x_x;.. that's the most I've ever had on Neopets.. but I'd say Paint Brushes are way too expensive, and it seems as if the prices are only going to keep inflating I have to keep relying on my lab map for good colors, and I have very little patience for that.

On another pet site they have a system where you just go to a page and pay a set amount to get a special color for your pet. Maybe if Neo did something like this....But then you'd have to eliminate paintbrushes altogether.

Ignore me

I totally agree. p/bs are selling for way more than they're worth. even the lame colours like white are unbuyable. i can see the super cool ones as being worth that but not white.
and all avatar items are worth waaay too much. they're really essentially uselsss items but they give out avatars which only some people collect, which somehow inflates the price horribly

All paint brushes should be stocked in a shop -- preferably a hidden-tower-like setup where they're all at fixed prices -- instead of given out as REs. The prices on some colors (orange, Island, Fire) are ridiculous right now due to avatars, and this would fix that problem.

Actually, the sword was only 13 million in the tower and the bomb is a bit weaker than that. :P



That's exactly what I was thinking. They need some way to cap the prices of some of the more popular items because, in my opinion, some of their prices are exorbitant.

I agree with a hidden-tower styled paint-brush shop idea. It would work, and it wouldn't do much at all to the economy if the prices were set fairly. I mean, look at the Darigan and baby paint brushes. If other brushes were sold like that, they'd be cheaper (or maybe, in some cases a bit more expensive), but at least there'd be a set price. *shrug* Instead of one that bounces all over.

The most expensive items are BD items, because BDers are usually restockers with money and therefor are extremely competitive, so they all race to get the best items, in turn blowing up the prices to extreme amounts. Lab maps and PBs? Psh, please. What's the most expensive PB, Grey I think? 2.4m comes nowhere close to the best weapons. And the lab is pretty awesomely priced if you think about it. You can get some very expensive colors with it. I've gotten Maraquan 3 times already, and the MaraPB is over 1.7m.
And I don't think PB prices should be regulated by a shop, it's fun watching the concept of supply and demand demonstrated right before you. I know I'm going to get hit for this comment but come on, whoever knew Neo would turn into a real working economy? Besides, if PBs become cheap then painted pets will no longer be special.

Supply and demand is all well and good, but not when it comes to avatar inflation. I mean, I can understand rising prices for Faerie, which is low supply and high demand (due to really cool recent pets), but half a million for an orange paint brush? Please. And no one's saying paint brushes have to be cheap -- just that a fixed price would be a good idea. Having the Darigan and Royal PBs on sale in the Hidden Tower for a set price doesn't make them "cheap," right?

I agree about the avatar part, that's just annoying. Maybe they should just sell avatar paint brushes in this imaginary shop everyone seems so fond of hehe.
And yes I do think Darigan, Royal, and Baby PBs are cheap in relation to how much people want Darigan, Royal, and Baby pets. The price would inflate a great deal if they were to suddenly disappear out of the HT shop.

Demand isn't always for the items orinigal purchase. Just becuase orange paint brushes are intended to make your pets orange, and hence htey'd have a relatively low market value, they give you an avatar which causes inflation. People don't want it becuase it's orange, they want it for the avatar. Another example is Wonka Bars, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Chocolate was selling exteortionate prices and people were buying it. People didn't want chocolates, they wanted Golden Tickets, but that didn't stop it selling high.

If you want a PB, you have to shell out for it. I think that this second market's good, simulating a modern day economy. My only complaint is that the way PBs come into the market is too random. People should be rewarded with PBs, it shouldn't be available to all players, IMO. People should have to work for it. This makes it much more rewarding, to be honest, and also much more elitist. People may see this asa bad thing, but, hey. People with more money should get better items, better pets etc.

This is all very complicated. On the one hand, we have people wanting items lower, but on the other hand, we have people (some times the SAME people) saying that it would devalue them. Perhaps the economy is just best left as is, or we'll just have a huge crash.