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Update on Bottle of Sand Stamp

UPDATE, April 7: We've received multiple confirmations that Bottle of Sand Stamp is still a possible prize from the Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag.



We have an update to share about the Bottle of Sand Stamp item.


This item was originally included as a weekly streak prize in the Quest Log prize update on March 2, 2026.

On March 11, 2026, the item was also included as a possible prize from the newly released Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag. That same day, Community Ambassadors flagged the overlap to TNT.

On the morning of March 12, Jellyneo was informed by a Community Ambassador that TNT had told the Ambassadors that the Bottle of Sand Stamp was removed from the Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag pool. That day, we updated our Premium Goodie Bag listing accordingly based on this information.

This weekend, on April 4 and April 5, we received reports from two different players who had completed a full reroll of the Quest Log weekly streak prize pool without seeing the Bottle of Sand Stamp. A Jellyneo staffer then did the same on April 5, also not seeing a Bottle of Sand Stamp. We have concluded based on this information that the Bottle of Sand Stamp has in fact been removed from the Quest Log weekly streak prize pool, and have updated our guides this afternoon accordingly. (Thank you to the two users who wrote in alerting us of their findings!)

We are not certain at this time whether the Bottle of Sand Stamp has also been removed from the Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag, as had been claimed by TNT. If you received a Bottle of Sand Stamp from a Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag on March 13 or later, please let us know. We also expect the bag to be re-distributed to active Premium members this coming week, likely on Tuesday, April 7. See update above!

There are 107 comments below. Add yours!

And it already inflated to 100m
by asrk790 on April 5, 2026 2:23 PM NST
like completing this page wasn't hard enough...still need 9 stamps, including this.
by bedomi on April 5, 2026 2:34 PM NST
What a stupid decision, it never went below 10m so it's not like it lost value?? It was also the only decent thing in the quest log?!! What are they doing!!!
by dynohawk on April 5, 2026 2:38 PM NST
I also had this as weekly quest log prize the first week and was on my last day and the bottle of sand stamp was gone. I thought it was just me and I messed up somewhere since I’m not as active as I usually am. Well that’s a bummer.
by juliamarie1194 on April 5, 2026 2:46 PM NST
So glad I rerolled a whole bunch for the first time specifically for this a few days ago and wasted like 5 million NP lol.
by malaphur on April 5, 2026 3:00 PM NST
It would be nice if TNT communicated important changes like this (in a timely manner)...
by firefoxtails on April 5, 2026 3:21 PM NST
I was literally looking for it to buy the past few days for my album, and rerolled for it with no luck. That explains it! Bummer
by chelzies on April 5, 2026 3:33 PM NST
So that means pretty much nothing in this quest log set is worth trying to get anymore
by dr_tomoe on April 5, 2026 3:35 PM NST
yeah, also did a bunch of apparently needless re-rolling. so upsetting on two points: lack of communication about prize pool updates, and (as a collector) the level of half-way worthwhile prizes in the pool.
by dalekruler on April 5, 2026 3:47 PM NST
correction: the *lack* of of worthwhile prizes
by dalekruler on April 5, 2026 3:48 PM NST
i spent 20m attempting to re-roll for a prize they removed without telling anyone... seriously someone at TNT needs to start communicating with their players and ambassadors instead of just making stupid arbitrary decisions...
by quiz_master on April 5, 2026 3:55 PM NST
Hot garbage update that TNT didn't communicate. I also wasted Neopoints re-rolling for this one because I had no idea it was gone from the pool.
by coryldork on April 5, 2026 3:56 PM NST
Urgh I did the same, rerolled endlessly for it
by langlece on April 5, 2026 3:56 PM NST
Of course they removed it from the quest log which would have actually deflated it. Everything in the premium bags gets scalped.
by goku_godzilla on April 5, 2026 4:20 PM NST
Thank GOD I grabbed one on the TP when I did then! I needed it for my sand collection.
by nix_xon on April 5, 2026 4:23 PM NST
Thank god I got it the first week before this happened
by orangeblossom45 on April 5, 2026 4:24 PM NST
Oh my gosh, I am so thankful I saw this post today - I get my weekly prize tomorrow and planned to re-roll for this stamp.
by icemask on April 5, 2026 4:38 PM NST
Lol I rerolled every quest log prize 5 times, trying for something that wasn't even in the prize pool? Cool.
by cryistalene on April 5, 2026 4:45 PM NST
Absolute Baloney (because I think if I said what I really want to, I'd get a ban). I also spent way too much rerolling to get the stamp as a weekly prize! We should all get our neopoints back! Or just give everyone a free stamp, that'll fix the inflators.
by happyneopian on April 5, 2026 4:55 PM NST
...Why is it a problem if an item is in two locations? Could have just left it as is and none of this trouble would have happened.
by iluvlupes250 on April 5, 2026 5:01 PM NST
what was the reasoning for 'alerting' TNT of this overlap exactly? lol. premium players getting pissy that their goodie bags might be slightly less of a money-printer than usual?
by libra on April 5, 2026 5:02 PM NST
Me looking somewhat relieved I got this from the Quest Log before it was removed. o_o

While at the same time, duuuuuude... come oooooon! Put it back in the Quest Log for everyone else! Just let it deflate a little.
by powerwingamber on April 5, 2026 5:07 PM NST
Seriously - this was what I was rolling for in quest log...that's basically a waste of rolls and points
by nitro_buster on April 5, 2026 5:17 PM NST
As a Premium user I see no issue with it being in both places as a one off, and if they're removing it from one place it's really crummy of them to prematurely take it out of quest log rather than the goodie bag. A lot of people were counting on still having a month to try to get it, it's uncool to raise people's expectations and then yank it away.
by larimar on April 5, 2026 5:29 PM NST
Glad I bought one at 20M a few days ago. Wasn't getting it on the rerolls and noticed no new ones were popping up on the TP, I figured something was up.
by rebmon on April 5, 2026 5:37 PM NST
So glad yall posted about this. I'm so frustrated that I've re-rolled so many times the last 2 weeks to try and get that stamp and it wasn't even an option.
by switty9 on April 5, 2026 6:00 PM NST
I was wondering why the Bottle of Sand Stamp wasn't deflating like all of the other weekly prizes I had on my wishlist. That would explain it!
by purplewarf on April 5, 2026 6:06 PM NST
Ugh we ALL wasted a lot of NP trying ti reroll, the rest of the prizes are pretty lame
by fakeplastictease on April 5, 2026 6:20 PM NST
This is infuriating. What is the problem with it being in TWO places?

This is probably an unpopular opinion but seems to me SOME of the ambassadors are NOT helpful to the community. Get rid of them completely.
There is NO reason to remove items who cares if its in 2 places NOT everyone has max bank. Not everyone can afford to spend 100M per stamp.
by kurogane on April 5, 2026 7:14 PM NST
And of course this was the prize I had when my quest log glitched and didn't give me the prize.
by skellody on April 5, 2026 7:53 PM NST
That's f'd. I rerolled so many times and wasted millions of NP trying to get this stamp for my gallery. Typical TNT incompetence.
by crystalcaves03 on April 5, 2026 7:57 PM NST
Big middle finger to the ambassadors who narc'd on this. Whose side are you on, anyway? Maybe don't be an ambassador if you're not working in the interests of the broader community!
by neolodgeism on April 5, 2026 8:16 PM NST
Why are people blaming the ambassador instead of TNT? The ambassador flagged it to TNT because many players requested them to do so. TNT was the one making the decision and the mistake.

This fosters my belief that the whole ambassador programme is for TNT to deflect players' blame. And it works.
by stormmonarch on April 5, 2026 8:29 PM NST
OK, a slight revision to my previous comment: I'd like to know exactly what rationale the ambassadors had for reporting this duplication. The outcome was clearly not in the interests of the community, and has led to a lot of players wasting a lot of NP trying to reroll for a stamp that was no longer in the pool. Worse, it's also led to a massive overinflation of the stamp.

I will acknowledge that there could have been a good reason for this that we haven't heard yet, and that well-meaning people handled the situation poorly, but regardless of why - it didn't end up in the best interests of the community.

There's a segment of ultra-wealthy Neopets users who are greedy and focused only on rarity, on inflating the market and profiteering. As if we don't already have enough of that behavior IRL. If we have ambassadors who are part of that crowd, I want them ousted. They don't belong in the ambassador program, because they're only out for themselves.

Wishing predatory people the karma they deserve.
by neolodgeism on April 5, 2026 8:36 PM NST
@stormmonarch - Because it should be self-evident that reporting it will lead to removal of the item from one of the pools, when having it in both pools was better for those seeking the stamp. Despite being in both pools it was still too expensive for a lot of collectors, and it the pool is full mostly of garbage. The chances of getting the stamp were never great even when in both pools.

I don't believe the ambassador program is an attempt to deflect blame from the team. I believe TNT AND the ambassadors both generally are working to try to make decisions that will benefit the community. When I participated in the LGBTQ round table it was clear to me through those discussions that TNT genuinely cares, and is trying to do better for the community (at least on the issues covered in that discussion). I also have seen some of the hard work ambassadors have done, and I believe they're doing their best.

However, I also feel like TNT is absolutely not to be trusted to handle things properly. They make stupid mistakes all the time, and make decisions that make matters worse rather than better. This being one of them.

Not sure why users were asking the ambassador to notify TNT. What did they think would happen? I question the motives of anyone who is trying to limit access to valuable items.
by neolodgeism on April 5, 2026 8:44 PM NST
This is beyond exhausting and ambassadors are T I R E D for still pulling this after tnt is willingly working against inflation
by henriqueboonboon on April 5, 2026 9:05 PM NST
TNT needs to do better with communication and with preventing these kind of mistakes to begin with. They’ve been yanking all sorts of prizes lately. They need to do the proper research and make sure there is no overlap in prize pools BEFORE they happen. There was something I really wanted from one of the app events that was suddenly removed because it’s a possible prize for IRL merch. And of course I wanted this stamp and had been pointlessly rerolling like everyone else. Super disappointing.
by meredith_eldridge on April 5, 2026 9:10 PM NST
@neolodgeism: If you were around the Neoboard, you would have seen players asking the embassadors to report duplicated prize pool to TNT. The job of the embassadors is to relay the message and they did just that. If the embassadors relay the messages and TNT made mistakes, the embassadors got criticized. If they don't relay the messages, they also got criticized.

We should look at the root cause of the issue. With the message, it was TNT's decision to leave the pools as they were, or to modify. Why did the players waste NP and why did this stamp get inflated? Because TNT removed the stamp from the quest log instead of the premium bag as they claimed. Because TNT put out no notice when they modified the quest log prize pool.
by stormmonarch on April 5, 2026 9:29 PM NST
sigh...why are they like this
by freezepop on April 5, 2026 9:44 PM NST
@neolodgeism: This is not the first time this has happened. And each time a prize was given away in two places at the same time, TNT has corrected it by yanking it from one of the sources, as they seem to not like giving away an item in two places at once--despite making this same mistake a *number* of times over the past year.

It's quite frustrating from our perspective in trying to track stuff like this, and we really wish TNT would publicly state when they make changes. Last Quest Log rotation (Jan-Mar) also had two prizes disappear from the pool of items--without notice from TNT--but at least those were pretty low value.
by dave on April 5, 2026 10:03 PM NST JN Staff
It's truly exhausting trying to collect anything when shit like this happens all the time.
by kiriska on April 5, 2026 10:12 PM NST
crud >
by rat_attack on April 5, 2026 11:19 PM NST
I didn't even get my Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag, or any responses to my ticket about it.
by rebecca on April 5, 2026 11:24 PM NST
Upset at the thought that I've spent tens of millions trying to reroll for this stamp when it could have already been removed from the prize pool at that time.
by maowjin on April 5, 2026 11:47 PM NST
Welp - I had suspected this for a couple weeks based on the lack of new ones hitting AH/TP, but thank you to the troopers who wasted 40m apiece to confirm it :/

Everyone mad at ambassadors should seriously reconsider why they're projecting anger at unpaid volunteers who only relayed what other regular players were posting at the time. No one mentioning the bag/QL overlap expected TNT would remove the Bottle of Sand Stamp from BOTH pools - that's TNT's mistake!
by wheewhoo on April 6, 2026 12:25 AM NST
Everyone should get a free stamp at this point because millions gone when it wasn't there...
by zenopeltis on April 6, 2026 12:32 AM NST
Compensation for those who burned Neopoints for nothing.
by solarboyaaron on April 6, 2026 1:13 AM NST
This isn’t the first time something was in two places though.. Well, there goes my chance at the stamp. For now anyways, I’ll hold out hope they deflate it again later on, to a more reasonable price.

But seriously, this isn’t the first time that I thought those “ambassadors” don’t really like to speak properly for the community, they just like to make things more annoying. (But this is just my personal opinion, I’m sure there are others that think differently, and that’s fine too.)
by reiryokuryuu on April 6, 2026 1:17 AM NST
TNT makes a mistake
Ambassadors report mistake
TNT makes another mistake, offers zero communication

How are the ambassadors to blame here? They're not out to get us.

Anyway, what a bummer to lose the first good item in the QL in so long. I was excited to finally be able to earn a stamp through gameplay rather than paid features, merch, or apps.
by meredith_eldridge on April 6, 2026 1:57 AM NST
I got a response to my 3 week ticket after posting in here.

I didn't get a Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag for February because I signed up on the 8th and needed to have signed up by the 7th . Just in case this happened for anyone else, that's why.
by rebecca on April 6, 2026 2:04 AM NST
Wow we really can't get an item worth the effort into the quest log anymore.
I still needed it for my collection, I actually intended to reroll for this after my current prize because I hadn't gotten it yet
by table on April 6, 2026 2:09 AM NST
Definitely just a coincidence that all the Bottle of Sand Stamps available for autobuy on TP (even those way above the going rate at the time) somehow vanished before this information is made public
by mortychichi on April 6, 2026 2:37 AM NST
*March, sorry this year is flying by
by rebecca on April 6, 2026 2:40 AM NST
TNT continues to make garbage decisions as usual. No wonder people are leaving...
by rytuna on April 6, 2026 3:01 AM NST
Premium members get bags full of expensive stamps, and the only time in over a year that they give one out in the QL, someone decides to tell TNT, and they decide to give preference to premium users?

The QL isn't fun anymore. I liked it when they deflated items, and now they just put out garbage

Besides, they put nice things for premium members in every event (Neopies, Advent Calendar, Festival of Negg).
by anse on April 6, 2026 3:58 AM NST
The "ambassador conspiracy theorists" are gonna eat this up lol.

If TNT are going to make multiple prize pools at the same time, it's not too much to ask for them to not release the same item multiple times.

Two items deflated moderately is better than one item super-deflated. That's all people ask for when they complain about items being released twice at the exact same time. If it's truly removed from both pools as a result of that feedback, I would imagine it is a misunderstanding from TNT somewhere.
by yumakooma on April 6, 2026 4:15 AM NST
Not only did they remove it from the pool - they literally SNATCHED it from being my prize. I was like a day away and had a save streak that didn't work (not uncommon unfortunately), but I still figured I would get it eventually because the prize isn't supposed to change. Well they changed it and didn't reset my re-roll either so I knew something fishy was going on. So upset because I really wanted it but it is still expensive. The right thing to do would be to give it back to those that had it in this way. It is totally their fault. And not that this should matter, but I was going to put it in my album too. So not selling it. blah.
by brit_tain_y on April 6, 2026 4:23 AM NST
The one useful and good thing in the quest log and they secretly take it out? I’m so done with this game. There’s no point in me playing anymore
by hotwheeles on April 6, 2026 4:54 AM NST
I apologize for my initial reaction. It was probably unfair, and I do not want to put a burden on people who probably already feel heavily burdened in their role as ambassador.

I just feel a great deal of frustration about quest log. I feel like we have been baited and switched on it to a degree that sometimes makes me seriously want to just walk away from Neopets for good.

Initially we had a system where, by sacrificing our prizes for several days, we could eventually get a weekly prize to work toward that we genuinely wanted. Rare items were deflating to affordable but not dirt cheap prices.

Then all of that was taken away and we were given a system where we could gamble at arbitrarily *massively* increasing stakes for the chance to get an item to work toward that wasn't totally disappointing.

I'm autistic. I cannot work toward a weekly prize that I don't want. My brain does not do well with that at all.

The new system means that people who want to work toward a prize that they genuinely want (and I'm not even talking about valuable prizes, just prizes that we want instead of prizes that we find useless), are penalized for that. People frequently spend millions trying to get a prize they like. I've fallen into that trap once or twice.

I'm still angry at TNT for their handling of that, and I think the system is genuinely awful. I don't even like to think about it much because it makes me so angry, and every time I think about it too much it makes me want to quit Neopets. That might sound irrational but it's just how I feel.

It is a system that is hostile to users. That's the simplest way I can put it.

The fact that the prize pool has been getting increasingly worse only adds insult to injury. And now the only good prize left in the pool has been removed?

I'm angry, and I feel every user has a right to be angry.

Who should carry the blame? Obviously TNT more than anyone. But there were others involved.
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 5:15 AM NST
Lobbying? In my Neopets? It’s more likely than you think. Same energy as removing the LEV from hospital shifts.

Seems enough people complained that the POORS were going to get something gate kept. And again, no communication.

Maybe because there is jelly Neo, they intentionally just don’t care because someone ELSE will tell people
by namelesskangaroo on April 6, 2026 5:25 AM NST
@yumakooma - "Two items deflated moderately is better than one item super-deflated."

Why? Can you give me *one* good reason why? What does it harm to have items 'super-deflated'? Why do rich people never feel like they're rich enough? It infuriates me beyond what I could possibly express. The degree of selfishness that I see in this world every day makes me feel genuinely ill.

If you are a stamp collector then the value of the stamps you have should not matter to you at all. The only time you should care about the value of stamps is if you're trying to profiteer from their rarity.

I had a safety deposit box full of stamps I had been collecting for decades and hadn't put into my album yet. Many of them were valued at hundreds of millions due to how old they were. I did not feel even the slightest twinge of dismay when I saw them deflating.

Quite the contrary, I was genuinely happy for everyone who could finally get the stamps they'd been seeking.

I could have listed those stamps for sale and become a billionaire overnight, but instead I put them all in my album because I had collected them for that purpose.

And I feel for @anse and for every user who rerolled and wasted their neopoints, and for people who had the prize yanked from them when they were working toward it.

Anse is totally correct. The prize pool is now the only place where non-premium users can hope to regularly find rare items, and that seems to be no longer true.

Not sure why any non-premium user would stick around, with the way they are treated by TNT. I'm a premium user and I frequently get angry enough about the way non-premium users are treated that I consider walking away.
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 5:35 AM NST
As others, reading this news was truly upsetting. I mean;
-Wasted heaps of nps trying to reroll this thing repeatedly.
-Wasted time doing the daily quests just to complete the 7 day streaks and get another chance of rerolls (I really do not enjoy doing them, so this stamp was the sole reason I bothered).
-Not only did they not deflate properly to become reasonably affordable (we do not all have max nps; heaven forbids we also want to work toward stamp collections and the like), the moment this news came up, they inflated like mad again.
-The sheer lack of communication; people were wasting np's rerolling for the one item which was repeatedly mentioned that it is the one item most players cared for in QL, of which many voiced gratitude on the forums to finally have something worthwhile in QL again... only for it to be silently removed behind everyone's back. In Dutch we have an expression that this is reminiscent of... 'Iemand blij maken met een dode mus' (making someone happy with a dead sparrow).
-Also the annoyance of decisions seemingly consistently being made to appease one part of the community (i.e., 'we do not want items to deflate') without considering the rest of the community. Why is one side's view seemingly valued more than the other's?
by piratewolfie on April 6, 2026 5:36 AM NST
That being said, I do not think it is fair to blame it on the community ambassadors per se. I'm not ambassador, but as someone who moderates a large group for a different game, I know firsthand just how ungrateful a position of that kind can be; Other players think you have some sort of position of power, while the reality is that generally, you are the scapegoat for everyone's frustrations while you do not truly have all that much power, and there is only so much that you can do. And regardless of whether you act in good faith or bad faith; there will always be actions you take that some approve of, whereas others do not, and those that disprove of your course of action, will just assume you were acting in bad faith.

In this case; The community ambassadors are supposed to represent the community and voice the community's views to TNT. Whether we like it or not, a part of that community does care loudly about 'we do not want things to devalue, so this reward being in 2 places at once is problematic to us'. It is then up to those ambassadors to ALSO share that with TNT. If anything, if ambassadors deliberately kept quiet, that would be a 'bad faith' action, as they would then shirk their duty to voice community concerns, in favour of only promoting (or intentionally not promoting) one community viewpoint that they disagree with. Rather, they should communitcate both views to tnt; one side takes issue in X, the other side sees X as ...

Also, I doubt those ambassadors know ahead of time what tnt will do with that info. It would have been possible that no concrete action would be taken other than 'for next rotation(s) we should internally check this to ensure this does not happen again', or for the item to be removed from the premium bags, but not also from the QL.
by piratewolfie on April 6, 2026 5:43 AM NST
"Why? Can you give me *one* good reason why? What does it harm to have items 'super-deflated'? Why do rich people never feel like they're rich enough? It infuriates me beyond what I could possibly express. The degree of selfishness that I see in this world every day makes me feel genuinely ill."

Erm... Amazed I have to explain this.

So you want two items worth 500m each. One of them gets released in two prize pools at the same time and goes down to 1m. The other stays at 500m. 501m total cost.

So you want two items worth 500m each. One gets released in one prize pool, the other is released in another prize pool at the same time. They both go down to 15m. 30m total cost.
by yumakooma on April 6, 2026 5:51 AM NST
Yeah, we sure wouldn't want the rich Neopians to feel hard done by in any way.
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 5:53 AM NST
@yumakooma - OK, since I'm obviously too stupid to understand this, maybe you can also explain to me how removing the Bottle of Blue Sand stamp from the prize pool ensures we get a couple of items 'deflated moderately'? To me it looks like you've just created a false dichotomy.

In general, yeah, it's great to have items deflated any amount, but why pretend that there is some useful purpose in removing this item from the prize pool when the only possible purpose it could serve is protecting the value for those who want a profiteer from it?
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 6:00 AM NST
Wonder if this QL stamp removal coincided with the "you need to use a ticket to save your streak" day I had despite having been doing my QL every day? Surprising how often this happens - not only on QL but on Trudy's Surprise as well. Do love these glitches ! I sometimes wonder if it's on purpose to make us use our tickets!
by cabbil_bane on April 6, 2026 6:01 AM NST
Absolutely ridiculous decision. Why not to remove it from the premium bag instead? It was still considerably valuable even after quest log RR. This page was already pretty much impossible to complete, and this doesn't help in any way.
by kirisame on April 6, 2026 6:11 AM NST
neolodgeism - I didn't say removing it from the quest log was inherently good. I am explaining why ambassadors reported the prize pool overlap in the first place - so that instead of having one stamp released in two places, we might get one of them swapped for a different prize or stamp. That way, players would end up with an extra item deflated instead of just one item being deflated at double the rate.

They didn't know TNT was just going to flat out remove it from both methods (if it's gone from goodie bags too).

I am sure some people ask for prize pools to be changed to personally benefit them, but the ideology underpinning my messages is: we should avoid having prizes in two pools at once, focus on releasing as many unique items instead to ensure more items get deflated.

See the last quest log, where "Professional Curses" was initially in the pool but removed and replaced by "Its All About The Moehog" when it was pointed out that Professional Curses was also being released through Tales of Dacardia. So we ended up with two items being more easily available for players, instead of just one being double released at the same time.
by yumakooma on April 6, 2026 6:18 AM NST
I'm premium and this is an absolute ridiculous decision. I've burned neopoints re-reolling for quest log. Also having it in quest log makes more sense - it should have been pulled from the premium pool - no one is re-rolling for stuff from a goodie bag that's only accessible to premium users.

There were also plenty of good prizes in that bag- while there was ONE good item in the quest log pool.
by nitro_buster on April 6, 2026 6:30 AM NST
Both TNT and the ambassadors are to blame
by offensivedave on April 6, 2026 6:51 AM NST
I think best case scenario from where we are today is TNT (1) adds it back to QL and (2) makes a public announcement that it was removed from QL by accident, assuming it really was a mistake, and (3) apologizes for giving bad info to ambassadors. cherry on top would be (4) some compensation for any rerolls during the last month or something like that.

worst case scenario is they mistakenly removed it from both places for some reason lol. we'll find out when bags go out tomorrow.

the info given to JN on the 12th was pretty clear that the request was to remove it from the Premium bags, and the response was an affirmation of that. remains to be seen whether the error was removing from QL or the communication to ambassadors.

I think *in general* it's reasonable that you wouldn't want your paid goodie to be some freebie from elsewhere. But *in specific* here the Bottle of Sand Stamp was so rare and so desired it could've withstood being in both places for sure.

I don't envy the role of the ambassadors to represent a community that often has polarized takes, as is demonstrated by these comments. (let's please keep the discourse in here cool, btw)
by kenny on April 6, 2026 6:54 AM NST JN Staff
I won't blame the ambassador bc I don't know how this was communicated to TNT, and we have too many examples of TNT's incompetence to believe this was just another one. But the ambassadors could keep it in mind the words they use when passing on a message. Suggest to TNT what would probably be the best solution, based on players' feedback and past experiences like this. If TNT cannot learn with their mistakes, let's us players do that at least.

And I think the bare minimum would be to give the stamp to all those who had it in their streak at the time of the prize pool change.
by kirisame on April 6, 2026 7:01 AM NST
Not me selling mine a few days ago and not having any knowledge of this LOL. What a bunch of dung.
by shad0wofadoubt on April 6, 2026 7:07 AM NST
Who even cares that it was in both prize pools? Neither is a guarantee! This sucks, i wish they would add it back to both.
by lachtaube on April 6, 2026 7:12 AM NST
So unfortunate. Should've bought it sooner, just assumed it would be in the prize pool for the entire duration...like everything else...what an unnecessary rug pull.
by kasidra on April 6, 2026 7:23 AM NST
This is a garbage decision
by saraluna on April 6, 2026 7:26 AM NST
man i been rerolling for this, so much nps wasted and it wasnt even in there anymore???
by mooseydoom101 on April 6, 2026 7:31 AM NST
I think it's ridiculous that TNT doesn't just post this information publicly somewhere and we have to rely on Ambassadors who may or may not even be relying everything accurately or even at all
by kirbycoffee on April 6, 2026 7:38 AM NST
@kenny +1
by cisko116 on April 6, 2026 8:27 AM NST
Thank you for the update!
by collector_3 on April 6, 2026 9:02 AM NST
I wish TNT kept a patch notes page or something similar that they updated in real time. It doesn't have to be fancy, it could be really simple. Or even just update the TNT neoboard daily as you make small tweaks and changes. People shouldn't have to find out news like this through playing telephone with ambassadors and fan sites. That being said, thank you to our ambassadors and fan sites for making sure we have this info.
by drackonwood on April 6, 2026 9:54 AM NST
I love playing Neopets, the website that only gets worse
by anonylove on April 6, 2026 11:26 AM NST
Like premium bags matter anything to stamps and maybe books like that. It’s barely a re-release because the odds are so low to get it.
by alltimemarr on April 6, 2026 11:54 AM NST
No wonder I never got the goddamn thing despite wasting a few millions of NPs
by maninshi on April 6, 2026 12:28 PM NST
Wow - That means I just rerolled for QL weekly prize and wasted about 7-8 M in a futile attempt for the stamp on Saturday -- and my daughter did the same on Sunday on her account. How frustrating. Well, now I hope TNT floods the market with the stamp in both the daily and weekly QL, all goodie bags and RE's.
by denalio on April 6, 2026 12:50 PM NST
In general, yeah, it's great to have items deflated any amount, but why pretend that there is some useful purpose in removing this item from the prize pool when the only possible purpose it could serve is protecting the value for those who want a profiteer from it?

^ The hope of the many players who noticed this overlap, or the four RRs of Shenkuu Stamp, etc was that TNT would replace the duplicate with a different rare stamp in the bag pool (NOT QL, I don't believe a single person asked for BoSS to be removed from QL). For example, the Tombola, Mystery Island Kiko, Island Uni, and Mystery Island Chef Stamps are all in the billions each. To have any hope of finishing the page as a collector, I would need TNT to RR every one of these, so the more unique items RRed the better my chances. No QL stamp has stayed over 4m during its release cycle - I think that's a reasonable price already and deflating a second stamp from 2b to ~20m makes the album much closer to affordable than deflating that single stamp from 4m to 2m.

When people complain a prize pool should stick around longer so items that already deflated 98%+ can deflate 99%+, I think they're really not considering the opportunity cost: a different item that you might like as much, or even more, is sitting there at an impossible price instead.
by wheewhoo on April 6, 2026 2:10 PM NST
had no idea this was happening because I gave up on the QL years ago
by academy on April 6, 2026 2:23 PM NST
really love that they never bothered to communicate the change. i wasted probably a good 5m trying to get it for about 3 weeks. absolutely love it.

also as premium, i don't care if the item is in both. let's more people get it.
by dreamingstar213 on April 6, 2026 3:45 PM NST
I detest stamps and this only reinforces that feeling; I'm grateful I don't collect that junk.
by chrno_x on April 6, 2026 7:14 PM NST
I'm so glad the Ambassador was able to flag this important issue.

The bottle of sand stamp almost became obtainable for most neopians. I can see why they thought it was a problem worth solving. I hope they can put this same energy into blocking another release of Sticky Snowflake Stamp. That stamp has been given out so many times already, and most people can album it now.
by devx3 on April 6, 2026 7:28 PM NST
spent 20m re-rolling. Would have been nice to know it wasnt in the pool
by kat on April 6, 2026 9:23 PM NST
I think it's quaint that people thought that mentioning it to TNT was going to give us a better outcome than what we got. That might be why I was having such a hard time understanding why anyone would think it's important to bring it up.

People who were hoping that TNT would replace the stamp that was in the goodie bag with something else have far more faith in the team than I do, and we can see which perspective was proved accurate.

I have this attitude these days: "If it ain't truly broke (and even if it is), please, whatever you do, don't fix it."

I've seen far too many situations like this over the past few years to believe TNT's involvement in any situation will improve it.
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 11:58 PM NST
(Don't get me wrong, I know they are all doing their best and are stretched well past their limits, but I'm also pragmatic about these things.)
by neolodgeism on April 6, 2026 11:59 PM NST
Heads up:
I just got the stamp in my Spring Y28 Premium Goodie Bag!
by baxterb on April 7, 2026 2:58 AM NST
Can confirm it’s still in the premium goodie bag, just received it!
by hauntria on April 7, 2026 3:41 AM NST
Fannnnntastic that it's in the premium goodie bag. Now can TNT reimburse me the 8 million NPs spent on rerolling so I can buy it from a premium user please? That would be great, thankssss! /s
by silenceisgolden on April 7, 2026 6:28 AM NST
Awwww I really want that stamp!! I just opened the goodie bag that arrived today and I got a book - Secret Lenny Book
by contessa on April 7, 2026 9:26 AM NST
Its clearly become the most popular item in the bag, cause I also got it. I knew immeditately before the confirmation they said it the wrong way round, now was it the ambassador or TNT?
by unipie on April 7, 2026 9:40 AM NST
I'm also shocked at the amount of people investing in the gamble of rerolling... you'd be better off just buying it for the amount being spent. Wow
by unipie on April 7, 2026 9:44 AM NST
I've got it today in the premium goodie bag
by maerycrow on April 7, 2026 10:48 AM NST
Tanking the (already weak) quest log to add the top prize to the premium gatcha perk instead is such a garbage move.
by gazzletron on April 7, 2026 1:44 PM NST
so why didnt they remove the wall (h)? since that's in both pools too it would seem
by bedomi on April 7, 2026 4:44 PM NST
@bedomi not sure if you're making some joke that went over my head, but The Wall (H) is only in the Premium bag. it's not in Quest Log or any other prize pool atm.
by kenny on April 7, 2026 5:34 PM NST JN Staff
At this point, what is the point of doing QL streaks? My current prize is worth 47k and it's not even a book or a collectable I can check off my list. The weekly prize pool has been getting worse and worse.
by pencilings on April 7, 2026 5:57 PM NST
Lol I just rerolled and got an item worth 1k that is also available from the Festival of Neggs. What a joke.
by pencilings on April 9, 2026 3:20 AM NST
@pencilings - And they don't want things doubled up
by zenopeltis on April 10, 2026 7:25 AM NST

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