Talk:Stores/@comment-5082505-20120508121231/@comment-5039776-20120510015358

The trouble with the Fancy Accessories store is that it often doesn't make any money. If you had to buy resources to make the recipes today, not one would return a profit. Best is the long recipe (earrings) which only loses 349 coins while the short recipe (monocle) loses 1,258 coins, equivalent to a loss of more than 2,500 coins per hour!

It does generate XP at 1,000 per hour (long recipe - earrings) to 11,000 per hour (short recipe - monocle) but this falls well short of the fruit stores.

I believe this has come about due to TinyCo's systematic and very high cost increases for resources over the last couple of months. Back in February, resources (particularly secondary ones) were much cheaper than now. This has made stores such as the Tuxedo and Art groups (including the advanced stores purchased with crystals) quite unattractive from a profit viewpoint.

Also challenging to make a profit from are the Wonder Challenge workshops and the Lighthouse store.