This is just a common information on buying ap and buying items in the Item Mall. Now these are only guidelines, not rules. This is what works for me and hopefully afford you some in view on how to buy ap and how to buy items more effectively also. Don't forget to buy what you want.

NOTE: Prices may change now for items sold. Bonus items now sold in the web and no longer online bonus sales. Buying items is now done thru the web mall but the principles still apply whether buying from the Item Mall or the Web Item Mall. Now they can have more specials and promotions then before.
Going to the Item Mall
You click HOMEPAGE, then LOG IN, then click STORE. There are some different options about how to buy ap. You just need to click and research to see what they all give.
Here is the magic now. When you first buy ap, you get a 35% first time buyer's incentive. Then also the regular 5% to 50% ap incentive that perhaps be given. You always get a lower limit 15% ap incentive. If you are patient you can wait till the 50% ap incentive is given to buy ap now. I have found that around USA holidays that these 50% bonuses are given.
Once you have made your first purchase of ap, then it is just a matter of buying ap when you want. If you plan to buy $50 and the bonus is only 15%, then I would wait. Just buy the minimum that you need. But then the bonuses vary so that at $50 you may get 15% then at $10 it is only 5%. They vary and there is no way for me to say when the bonus ap will go up..