I have a quick question. What is the best way to restock from the main shops without having to shop search each item?

I tried just buying the items where there was only 1 or 2 in stock, but when I checked on shop search, they weren't worth it.

What are your tried and true ways :)

Well, it's trial and error in the beginning. I can only recommend to look the shop items from the shop you want to restock at up at subetalodge and check the prices of the (super)rare items and try to remember them. After a while you will know which items are worth more :) There is also the possibility to try to restock new items, but that is quite a battle ^^

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Practice. Memory.

One quick thing I like to do is when I'm questing, if I see an item for sale in NPC shops that clearly has some resale value, buy more than one and stick the extra in my shop.

Other than that, just familiarizing yourself with resale values.

The tl:dr is just as the users above.

Me, I SS almost always even if experience tells me that the item usually is good to restock because the Subetan economy has an ebb and flow and doesn't march in lockstep like the blackmarket communist block economy of other more inferior virtual petsites. Questing grants so much sP and items on a regular basis and there's hard shopsize limits that any restocking in order to compete and not drown you with items, it has to be for quicksale nowadays.

"just one or two in stock" This is a restock strategy for a virtual pet website that deliberately screws with supply and demand to fuck with the consumer and it reinforces their pay-to-restock business model. Subeta doesn't work that way.

How many of each item is there is not particularly relevant because you can do quests here and search shops instantly and it'll tell you if the item is there and none of the market for this item is hidden. Therefore if an item seems to only have one or two around it could be most got snapped up by questing users before you got there and it has nothing to do with rarity or worth but utility instead.

Another reason stock numbers aren't too relevant is because how many of an item that stocks is dependent on how many players there are, and how many different items get stocked is also active-player-dependent. If you are buying during a low activity time something really common could stock only one or two.

There's a surplus of some rarities of items and some stuck-random-seed items. As quest rewards these items are being massively dumped into the economy, at a rate where their actual worth is less than the sP-sink wholesale price.

Finally, Subeta temporarily culls out from shops items that are subjectively to TPTB "too cheap". Because of this there's never any item that's worthless in shops, they just may not earn you much. If you have a smallish shop you can hold onto these for the price to go up, and for most items it will by at least enough to break even