Tips for making lots of sp in Subeta, aka maximizing restocking efficiency

Use the classic, time honored method of ‘buy low, sell high’, aka restocking. Whether or not this makes you a scalper or a cheater or merely someone who provides rare items even when they’re out of stock is up for debate, but regardless, this is an online game and sp doesn’t actually mean anything. But it lets you buy stuff!

This is a method that also lets you earn money ‘passively’ in that if you’re the kind of person to only use subeta for three weeks once a year (like I am) you’ll still earn sp even while afk. In fact, it’s almost better to be afk for a while because that way you can come back to piles of sp waiting patiently for your arrival.

To most effectively maximize your inputs versus your outputs, you’re gonna want to use Subeta Lodge. If you haven’t used subetalodge in the past, it’s a wiki for subeta, especially items. It’s useful for checking out new wardrobe items or figuring out genetech combos, but I use it mostly for this.

When using subetalodge to restock, there’s a very specific set of filters you’re going to use. Go to the ‘all items list’, select which restocking shop you’re going to peruse for the moment, and use the drop down menu to search that shop only. Then, sort it by user price: high to low. I would also recommend setting the minimum user shop price to 10000 sp, depending on which shop you’re buying from. Filter out retired items by setting the rarity filter from 0 to 99. Then, all there is to do is to search by keyword. If the shop you’re searching sells a lot of muffins, search ‘muffin’ and do a quick scan to see if there’s any matches that you can see. If so, buy it to resell. Rinse and repeat.

Then, all you have to do is open a user shop and list everything, which takes a while depending on how much you buy. Find an interesting youtube video or something and zone out for a minute while you type in numbers.

• It will be vastly easier to search a shop that has a lot of repeated names. The Book Nook is a bad choice, because very few of the books have shared words, but most food shops or accessory stores have a bunch of stuff with the word ‘pastry’ or ‘sock’ or what have you.     • 
• You can also forgo filtering by keyword entirely if the shop stocks varying ‘kinds’ of items, like food and minions, or wardrobe items and weapons. Filtering the item type for ‘minion’ in a shop that sells mostly other things will let you scan through the minions even if they all have differing names.
• It’s important to remember that price = rarity for the most part. When you sort by user price, all the most expensive stuff will rise to the top, but you’re also very unlikely to see any of that unless you’re very lucky. Scroll a little further down and you’re more likely to see something that the shop is currently selling. Most of the time you're going to be buying items with a 7-10k margin, rather than spotting 1 super expensive rare item.
• The more that you do this on a specific shop, the more that you’re going to notice unusual (and therefore rare) items in that shop. If you spot something unusual after becoming familiar with a shop, buy it. Worst thing that will happen is it’s not actually that valuable, best thing that will happen is finding a super rare item that will sell for a ton of sp. This also makes it more efficient to stick to a few shops and specialize. 
• It’s also often more worth it to buy 3-4 of a less valuable item than just 1 of a more valuable one, if only because you have to spend less time listing everything. Buying 5 of a 15k item is much the same as 1 75k item when you have to list 200 items at a time. 
• By far the most laborious part of this process is listing, because you have to type the price of each item individually. I’d recommend using a gold account for this because of the autoprice feature, but obviously that isn’t feasible for everyone. If you get one of those gifts for being a long time member, a free month long gold subscription is worth considering. 
• The price of items in restocking shops changes fairly regularly (thank you to the staff members for adding variety) so if you’re gone for a while its good to check and see if that formerly profitable item is still worth buying. Or if that formerly ignorable item is now relatively valuable.
• Quests are useful for earning money, but they’re also useful for restocking, because eventually you’re going to come across an item that is currently cheap and in stock, but visibly more expensive in user shops. Buy all of them. I think this is how most people tend to restock on this site, but subetalodge is a godsend and makes it possible to go to a shop directly. 
• The time that you do this also matters a bit. The shops decrease their stock during the night, when less people are using subeta, but during the day at peak times, other people will probably have the same idea, so you’ll have a competition to get the best stuff first.
• If you want to thank me for this writeup, given that this will probably make it more difficult for me to do this easily, I will gladly take any bug related item you don't want. I love insects and arachnids of any kind.
• This process would obviously be grossly unethical if done in the real world, but luckily this is a game and the points don’t matter. Indulge your inner capitalist pig.

This is the closest you’re going to get to irresponsibly playing the stock market in Subeta, so have fun with it! Happy hunting!