The article is devoted to highlighting the problems of working crediting in the Soviet satirical magazines in the period of new economic policy (NEP). On the pages of these publications scarcity of assortment of cooperation, poor quality, lack of seasonal goods, unwillingness to sell on credit deficiency, abuses of sellers was regularly ridiculed. These defects are found reflection in all main genres of satire (the feuilleton, a caricature, and small satirical genres).