With the new market rate, everyone is selling at similar prices at the moment, so it is really a seller's market to make some money if you can get the stock in your shop moving. I am selling everything I am making, very quickly and even buying in some stock to fill slots in my shop. A week ago nothing was selling in my shop at all. Here are some tips I have picked up for getting items selling quickly and making money. Please add to them if you have any more.
- The market rate is what most people are selling at and the price is high, close to the maximum so if you sell at this rate, expect sales to be slow as your items will be in the newspaper alongside similar prices and they won't stand out and say 'buy me'.
- Cut the prices as low as you can to still make a profit and only experiment with putting the prices up once you get an idea of how quickly they sell.
- If you sell fast with a small profit margin you are making coins. If you have a higher profit margin but are not selling you are not making any money at all.
- Open as many slots as you can in your store. When people get a large number of neighbours, only those with the most items to sell will be showing up in their selection. I can only see neighbours with 5 items for sale and above on my farm.
- Every time you place an item for sale, it puts your other items back into the rotation of the newspaper. So don't fill all your slots at the same time. Leave a few minutes between each one.
- If you have 12 slots, leave one empty to use this one when you need to get things moving again by selling an item and getting the others back in rotation.
- If you have time and barn space, sell in singles. When people are short of money and don't have space in the barn, they can't buy in bulk. They can also buy quickly without thinking and doing mathematical calculation to see how much it is costing them per item.
- If you need to sell in bulk consider making the prices so they are easy to work out cost per item.
- Keep a variety of items for sale in the shop.
- Look to make items that you can make quickly and cheaply and sell for low because they have not taken up much resource/ingredients to make.
- Aim to have your farm self sufficient in that you don't need to buy in ingredients from other people. Prices in the newspaper are so high than buying at these prices will affect your profits if you have to sell at low prices.
- If all the slots are full in the shop and nothing is moving, discard an item and put something else up for sale. Plan for this by having cheap stuff always in at least one slot to discard if necessary. I use cheese, flour, eggs and milk for this.
- Cheese is probably my best sales generator. Both my dairies are making it all day long probably about 120 a day. I am selling cheap today at 24 but I sell it all, usually as soon as it fills the slot and it gets the sales of other items moving as it puts them back into the newspaper rotation and gets buyers visiting my farm for more bargains below what everyone else is selling at. Don't think if you go too low in price you will not make money. I am making about 30,000 coins a day.
- Make sure you have "allow quick invite" switched on in settings.