Neopets Premium

Super Shop Wizard (SSW)

One of the most talked-about benefits of Premium, the Super Shop Wizard can be found in several locations. On old layout pages, it is located on the bottom left section of your Premium toolbar. On new layout pages, it is located the top left corner, next to the bookmark and favourite icons, or by opening the "Premium" dropdown menu on the top navigation toolbar.

It looks and acts a lot like the regular Shop Wizard, but with one major difference: it searches every user shop in Neopia, rather than just a few at a time. This means you can find the lowest price a lot faster!

Like the regular Shop Wizard, the SSW may not be used on Faerie Quests. (Briefly following the initial release of the Premium overhaul, however, users on quests could use it, but no longer.) It also isn't any more powerful for gallery searches than the ordinary version. So if you want to rummage through other users' galleries, it's probably better to use the normal Wiz and save the SSW for when you really need it!

Search Limitations

There are a few limitations to what you can use the SSW for. The items below cannot be searched for in user shops or user galleries using the SSW:

Most (but not all) paint brushes
Most (but not all) transmogrification potions
All Nerkmids
All Secret Laboratory map pieces
All Petpet Laboratory map pieces

Non-SSW Searchable Items »

Searching for any of these items will return the message "Sorry, you are not allowed to search for ______ with the Super Shop Wizard".

However, you are allowed to search for these items using the "price-only" feature (read more on that below).

Price-Only Feature

The SSW has a unique feature where you can get an average price of all of an item's shop listings by clicking the "price only" checkbox prior to searching. You can restrict this average using the max price parameter to get a sense of the cheapest prices, although without the ability to see which shops they are in! Price-only searches do not seem to have any restriction on quantity; you can do as many as you want, even when the Super Shop Wizard is tired from your normal searches!

As discussed above, this is also handy for items that are not normally searchable with the SSW. This allows you to quickly see if any of the item is available in user shops, instead of repeatedly refreshing the regular Shop Wizard hoping to come across one.

Time Bans

The number of times you can use the SSW per hour is restricted. After a random number of searches, the Wizard will become "tired" and ask you to come back later. You can still use the regular Shop Wizard if this happens.

SSW bans always last until the top of the next hour. If you are banned at 1:15, your ban will last 45 minutes; if you are banned at 1:59, your ban will last only one minute. If you find yourself getting banned from the SSW a lot, you may want to space out your searches more. Constant searching will tire the Wizard faster, and may also lead to him taking longer resting periods.