Morningstar wrote:
Just a word of caution to those of you stocking up on items in hopes to resell them for a higher price: Best not to wait too long to sell them.
My first war, I got into the buying frenzy and bought codestones and faeries thinking that they would go up even higher. Then the war ended--abruptly. And prices dropped quite a bit. I had to sit on those codestones and faeries until the next war--just so I didn't suffer huge losses. Similar thing with the last war: the first weekend of it, I watched main codestones go above 10K and sticky snowballs soar above 2000 nps. Then boom, the prices of both dropped drastically--even though the war was still taking place. And never got that high again.
And, I'd be a bit cautious with those map pieces. They did rise quite high in price during the last war. However, if you are not careful, you are liable to be stuck behind a map dealer on the shop wiz and never sell it at all. The secret lab map dealers on Neopets are extremely competitive--and do pretty much nothing but buy and sell map pieces all day. And, undercut someone's price by 1 np.
You are so intelligent and elloquent in your responses. I love reading your replies!