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I've read a few guides on the intarwebs about Poupee, but a lot of what I learned about Poupee came from trial and error. I present to you the "extra gift" information I know in hopes to educate and make your Poupee experience more enjoyable. This post won't cover the basics as there are so many pages on that already. A knowledge of Japanese is not particularly necessary but it helps. I will add more to this guide when I find out more things, naturally.

Go! Go! Piyo Balloon!!
Poupee's only game on the website costs 30 ribbons to play. The aim is to use your mouse and click your piyo (baby bird) around the screen and pop the balloon of your choice. Obviously the higher you go, the better the rewards when you do finally pop a balloon. There's no discernable difference between the yellow, blue and green birds as far as I've experienced. PROTIP: In the beginning, start navigating through balloons like normal. When the counter in the lower righthand side starts getting towards 40-50-or-60, it's usually safest to either park yourself beak facing off-screen on either the left or right side of the screen, at the bottom. The caveat about doing this is that you may find yourself trapped come 70-80-90. If you see an opening, you can navigate yourself to the middle where I've found many times there to be no balloons during the higher numbers. Expect to see decent to rare rewards past 100.

Your Friends' Birds, Closet Item Comments, Ribbons, Shells & You
Common knowledge that your friends' birds can often times give you shells (keep your eyes peeled!) but your chances increase when you comment on their closet items. Your chances are increased even more when you comment AND suteki. Comment clubs (places where people arrange commenting circles in order to get ribbons and shells) will have you comment on five or more items of one particular person to increase shell chances, with people reporting one or more shell "GETs".

Another advantage to commenting is that you will receive 1 ribbon per comment given. From the Poupee website: "The number of ribbons you can get by making comments each day is 20 ribbons! *Usually up to 20 ribbons.* Also, you cannot get ribbons if you received comments from poupees who have already got the maximum of ribbons that day."

You receive seemingly nothing for suteki'ing a person's closet item. But it does increase your chance for hott bird-on-shell action.

CTRL+F, ALT+N = Your Real Friends
Do you find yourself spending too much even though you're buying a whole bunch of seemingly cheap stuff? Comparative shop aggressively! Open your "FIND" option in your browser, usually CTRL+F, enter the name or partial name of the item you want to sell or buy, then click next page. Press "ALT+N" (find next) for every page you go to, just keep on loading those pages! This way you can absorb more information about item pricing, or even open new tabs for every differently priced item you want to buy. Don't spend 100+ ribbons on something you can find on the 64th page for 35!

Deal About Shells
Some people tell you shells are worthless, just sell them in the furima (fleamarket). Others will tell you they stand hardily by their luck with the shell spring. I have not found any sort of method of putting shells in the spring to get anything better than wallpaper (time of day, etc). I've scoured Japanese search results even. There seems no method  to the madness. What you decide to do with your shells is your own business, try your luck if you want.

Best advice I can give you in regards to shells: If shells are your thing and you just are not fast enough at buying the cheap ones, try visiting all the other item pages (bags, shoes, tops, etc) and just buy up comparably priced items instead and shell those for yourself.

Uploading Closet Item
Do not try to post up more than five or six closet items in a twelve hour span! No matter how great the item is, or how fancy the brand, you will get shell-shocked!! Past a certain number of posted items, Poupee will start giving you mediocre ribbon counts and no item besides shells! I've had to limit myself to only five items per twenty-four hours for fear of being innundated with shells! If I post five items at 10AM, I may be able to post one or two more things at 11PM the same day but normally I will get rofled with shells past that. Just be patient and wait until tomorrow!

Drugstore & Mall Brands Available (incomplete list)
Feel sad that most of the items you own cannot be branded due to the prevalence of Japanese or haute couture brands? Never fear! Here is a small list of easy to find brands that are featured on Poupee and are probably in your closet as we speak!
- Forever21
- EXPRESS
- Aveeno
- Irregular Choice
- Johnson's (like the baby powder and stuff)
- Diesel
- Hush Puppies
- Kenneth Cole
- Kitson
- iPod
- Baby Phat
- L.L. Bean
- Lancome Paris
- Fubu
- GAP
- Hollister
- Maybelline
- Bath & Body Works
- Claire's
- Dickies
- Free People
- American Eagle (Outfitters)
- Urban Outfitters
- Anthropologie
- Loreal Paris
- American Apparel
- H&M
- Sanrio
- Disney
- San-X
- Aeropostale
- Abercrombie&Fitch