What are the biggest mistakes you've made on Neopets?

[samo231]

Hi ,

I was just wondering, What were the biggest mistakes you made while playing Neopets? For me, I lost a total amount of about 300K Noepoints at the (you need an account to see links), cause I didn't know anything about this game and that it was actually taking from your neopints, (I know, that was a really stupid mistake ).

Other than that, I always end up spending tons of Neopoints on useless things and I also keep buying the Employment Agency jobs items in advance, before I accept the job and when I try to accept the job I find that it was taken.

[Fabulous]

OH I thought you meant the biggest mistakes neopets the company has ever made, I was like boy have I got a list for you*

I fed a magical gold chomby plushie to my skeith instead of using it. It had taken me weeks to save up the 50,000np that the plushie cost at the time. A small part of my 11 year old soul died that day. If you need to write my villain origin story, it begins at that moment

*I have an article on Viacom's/JS's gaffes over the years that is half-written; I was going to use it as a case study on how to run a 160 million dollar IP into the ground. But my academic pursuits are leading elsewhere so it may end up as a half-baked post on CK instead

[motherfucker]

OH I thought you meant the biggest mistakes neopets the company has ever made, I was like boy have I got a list for you*

I fed a magical gold chomby plushie to my skeith instead of using it. It had taken me weeks to save up the 50,000np that the plushie cost at the time. A small part of my 11 year old soul died that day. If you need to write my villain origin story, it begins at that moment

*I have an article on Viacom's/JS's gaffes over the years that is half-written; I was going to use it as a case study on how to run a 160 million dollar IP into the ground. But my academic pursuits are leading elsewhere so it may end up as a half-baked post on CK instead

[Garchomp]

In reference to the above



On topic;
I put a stamp worth 120mil at the time into my album instead of into the auctions. I still feel the pain like it happened yesterday. I will never let that pain go.

[Erik.]

Back when I was young and just fucking retarded apparently I made the same mistake almost every month where instead of ticking the amount in the 'remove box' in my shop stock I typed a "1" in my price tab

[Synth Salazzle]

I forgot to log out at the library when I was 11 and I cried so hard when someone stole my dubloons when I came back next week they thought I was a lost child.

[kittyray]

The first year after the site theme came out, the prices of Mysterious Valentines Day Cards skyrocketed through the year to about 500k a piece because I guess everybody thought they were retired. I started liquidating assets mid January to buy as many as I could to sell closer to the holiday, only for them to start stocking again and the price to tank.

[sparklies]

I think I actually saved up to feed a kad an unbuyable once before realising that the rest of the people who fed kads didn't actually drop hundreds of thousands each time they fed.

[Minerva]

Accidentally feeding a draik egg to my grarrl when they were worth millions. Refused to own a grarrl after that.

[samo231]

On topic;
I put a stamp worth 120mil at the time into my album instead of into the auctions. I still feel the pain like it happened yesterday. I will never let that pain go.

WOW, 120mil stamp!!! I'm speechless, like I literary got lightheaded only from the idea, my 300K is nothing compared to that.

I also see that you guys lost millions from those mistakes, and back then, young me thought it was the end of the earth.