Below are our guidelines and rules for tagging Trading Post lots in our history. These guidelines, like marking items as not having a price when wishlists request for unvalued Baby Paint Brushes, are made to ensure all our lots are tagged consistently. Please be sure to read through the entirety of this page before getting started.
To get points, your tagged prices will be verified to make sure what you submit is accurate. You will receive points for:
The main rule is to only ever specify a price if you can find it in the wishlist. Do not take any other sources in account, such as other Trading Post lots, current Jellyneo prices, or petpages that lot owners may direct you to. If the information is not in the wishlist, then it cannot be used.
Most users will use number shorthands in their wishlists, with the most common ones being "#k" for "# thousand NP" and "#m" for "# million NP". See our terminology section for other shorthands. Sometimes a wishlist will only have a single-digit or two-digit number "#" without a shorthand, and most of the time this will mean "# million", so you SHOULD specify a price. A somewhat uncommon shorthand you may see is "#kk", which is another short for "# million" (a "thousand thousands").
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If a user provides a price range or lists multiple prices for a given item, always specify the lowest mentioned price or NP value they are willing to sell the item at.
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If a user only provides an offer to beat price, you SHOULD specify that price. However, if they provide both an offer to beat and an "auto" price, you should assume that the user expects a purchase price closer to the "auto" price, and therefore you SHOULD specify the "auto" price as the tag.
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If a user provides a market value (like a Shop Wiz price, a Jellyneo price, or other Trading Post prices) for an item, you can reasonably assume that the user expects near that amount, so you SHOULD specify a price. However, if a user references a market, but does not provide that market's value in the wishlist, then you should ignore it and follow the other guidelines to specify a price.
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If a user specifies they want less or more than a mentioned price for an item, you can assume they still want close to it, so you SHOULD tag it at that price. However, if the user clearly wants significantly less or more, then mark it as not having a price.
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These items should always be marked as not having a price. Even when prices or values are listed, they are not what the seller wants, so those prices should be ignored.
If a user does not explicitly include any price or NP value in the wishlist, mark the lot as not having a price.
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If a user mentions an item is not for trade, mark it as not having a price.
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If a user only mentions the price they bought an item at, or the listed price is for an item they are buying more of, mark it as not having a price.
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If an item in a lot is labeled as "free", mark it as not having a price.
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If a user asks a price that is clearly not serious, like "1 NP" (for an item worth significantly more), an obvious joke number (for an item worth significantly more or significantly less) or a way too high price (anything above 2.1 billion—more technical readers may know why this is our limit), mark it as not having a price.
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If a user advertises the trade as a paperclip trade, mark the lot as not having a price. Since the user always wants something of a different value than what they're trading, we cannot tag these properly.
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Often, a user will ask for other items. How to tag these lots depends on which items are asked for, and if an NP value is given or not.
If a user is seeking pure NP, plus an item (or more) of insignificant value, then you SHOULD specify a price, ignoring the added item(s). Insignificant items can be anything relatively cheap, or items worded like "junk", "cheap", "cute", and "cool" for example.
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If a user gives an NP value to the item(s) requested, or mentions a total NP value of what they want, then you SHOULD specify a price.
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If a user is asking for significant items, but does not give a value for those items, nor a clear total value wanted (also see Guideline 5.3.), then mark the items in the trading lot as not having a price. Significant items can be anything relatively valuable (common ones are Baby Paint Brushes and Nerkmids), or items worded like "ETS", "non-junk", "good", and "nice" for example. If a user gives a choice between pure or unvalued items, then you SHOULD specify the pure price.
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If a user is asking for undefined items from a list that is outside their lot's wishlist, we cannot know if they are significant or not. As such, we cannot safely assume they are not, and you should mark the item as not having a price. If a user gives a choice between pure or items from a list, then you SHOULD specify the pure price.
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All of the above guidelines should be taken in account, in addition to the following guidelines when tagging lots that have multiple items.
If a user specifies the prices in the wishlist to the items in the lot (often using abbreviations), always tag the prices correspondingly. These can be out of order, so pay extra attention. Sometimes these prices will be based on rarity (often shortened to r#). You SHOULD still specify the price then, but you will have to check each item's rarity in our database to properly do it.
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If a user doesn't specify the prices in the wishlist to the items in the lot, and there are exactly enough prices for the amount of items in the lot, it is safe to assume that the prices from left to right correspond with the items from top to bottom respectively.
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If a lot has multiple items, and some are identical, sometimes the user will only list the price once for the identical items. Usually this means they want that price for each, and if the identical items are grouped, you SHOULD specify prices, using the order of the previous guideline. However, if the identical items are spread out, we cannot safely determine which prices belong to which items, and you should mark all items as not having a price.
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If a user is selling a group of only identical items, usually they will mention only one price, and unless they specify what the price is for each, you should assume the price is the total price for the whole lot. In this case, you SHOULD specify the divided price, and if it doesn't divide evenly, round up if the decimal is 0.5 or more or round down if the decimal is 0.49 or less.
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If a lot is a mix of significant and insignificant items, and lists exactly enough prices for the significant items, you SHOULD specify prices for all the significant items and mark the insignificant items as not having a price.
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Unless it is one of the above situations, if a lot only has a single price for the whole lot, or has too many or not enough prices listed in the wishlist, then mark all the items in the lot as not having a price. We cannot safely determine which prices belong to which items, nor can we divide prices over different items.
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If a user only mentions one price range for a variety of items, we cannot tell which items are on the lower side of the range versus the higher, so mark all the items as not having a price.
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If a user offers bulk pricing for items alongside an individual price, you SHOULD specify the individual pricing. You should assume that only one of the items will be purchased.
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Some lots are trickier to tag than others. Several special situations are listed here, but if you are ever in doubt, just click the "Next Trade" button to get a new trade!
Reserved lots can be difficult to tag. Often they are part of multiple lots, and the price(s) or number(s) listed aren't the actual sale price for the item(s) in the lot. Only specify prices on reserved lots that have them clearly listed, and mark all others as not having a price.
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Sometimes a user will advertise that they have the same item in an auction or their shop at a lower price. Because auctions use increments, the price changes, so we cannot use those prices for tagging and they should be ignored. However, a shop price is fixed and the lowest they are willing to sell the item at, so you SHOULD specify that price if mentioned in the wishlist.
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Sometimes if a user asks for a combination of pure and items, it can be unclear if the listed price is for just the pure part or for the total of pure and the items together, most often because they don't list a specific amount of the items they want. One common indicator is if they use the word "in" or not. When included, it usually means they want that amount in pure and items together, so then you SHOULD specify a price. When there is no indicator, then due to the Trading Post having a limit of 2,000,000 NP pure, if the listed price is higher than that, it is safe to assume the seller knows the limit and they meant it to be the total, so you SHOULD specify a price. If the listed price is 2,000,000 NP or less, we cannot know for sure if they meant it to be the total or not, so mark it as not having a price.
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As mentioned in guideline 1.1, sometimes users will not include a shorthand in their selling price "#". While most of the time this is likely to mean "# million", it is not always the case. Especially when it is a three-digit number, the price could mean either "# thousand" or "# million". If in doubt, this is a rare situation where you can look at the market value outside the wishlist (like Jellyneo's price history) to determine what they probably meant.
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Mistakes happen, and sometimes wishlists have errors in the pricing. If an error is obvious, and the correct price can still be determined, then you SHOULD specify the correct price. If an error is obvious, but no correct price can be determined, then mark it as not having a price. Only ever correct wishlists when absolutely certain it is an error!
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Some wishlists will list a market value and then also list what they want, but without a clear value listed of what they want. In these cases, the reference price is usually more than what they actually want, but since they don't list a value of what they want, you should mark it as not having a price.
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Some wishlists are simply unclear as to what exactly they want. If the actual selling price cannot be determined, then mark it as not having a price.
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Below is a guide to common terms and abbreviations seen in Trading Post wishlists.
Auto
An asking price accompanied by the word "auto" means the user will "automatically" accept an offer of that amount without further consideration of other offers.
BPB
An abbreviation of Baby Paint Brush, a very common item asked for in wishlist due to its fairly stable price tag.
ETS
An abbreviation of "easy to sell"; refers to items that are, as the phrase suggests, easy to sell. Easy to sell items are those that are always in high enough demand to quickly find a buyer. Some items generally considered to be ETS are paint brushes and Nerkmids.
HTS
An abbreviation of "hard to sell"; refers to items that are, as the phrase suggests, hard to sell. Hard to sell items are those that are always in very low demand and usually take a while to sell.
LF
An abbreviation of "looking for," which is simply a way of stating that they desire the listed price.
MP
An abbreviation of "my price," which is simply a way of stating that they desire the listed price. This is almost always a comparison preceded by quoting "TP" meaning "Trading Post price" and/or occasionally "JN" meaning the most recent price on Jellyneo.
OBO
An abbreviation of "or best offer," meaning the user is seeking the listed price but may accept less.
ONO
An abbreviation of "or nearest offer." This means the same thing as OBO.
OTB
An abbreviation of "offer to beat." A price declared to be an OTB is simply the highest offer the seller has received on the item or lot.
Pure
Refers to Neopoints, i.e., an amount to be paid with Neopoints only.
Quicksale / quick sale / QS
This means the user is selling the item at a moderate or heavy discount to quickly liquidate. This is almost always accompanied by an asking price. This is very similar to "auto."
Reserved / res / RSVD
This means the lot's sale has already been negotiated with another user. "Reserved" wishlists may or may not include a price. Furthermore, prices in these wishlists may not be wholly indicative of the sale price—for example, they may be part of a split trade.
Common shorthand used in numbers on the Trading Post are:
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This page was last updated on February 20, 2025.
