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Merchant Tips
1 of 12: The amount of gold you get from merchants when you sell stuff can vary according to your Appraise skill, which in turn is affected by your Intelligence modifier. That means you'll get better prices not only if you raise your Appraise skill, but also if you increase your Intelligence modifier.
2 of 12: One way to do that temporarily is to drink a Potion of Fox's Cunning right before talking to a merchant you want to sell to. Also, you can equip all the items you have that boost Intelligence, even if you don't normally wear them.
3 of 12: Always sell from your own created character's inventory, even if a companion has a higher Appraise skill. This is especially true if you have one or both of the special-item feats (see link below). If you don't, and a companion has a much higher Appraise skill, check to see if he can sell items for more than you can.
4 of 12: Some merchants are just better or worse than the average merchant to sell to. For instance, Sand (first available in Act I, Part 3) is by far the best merchant to sell to in the entire game, giving over twice as much for stuff as the regular merchants.
5 of 12: If you sell a lot of things to one particular merchant, you'll eventually start getting the message that he doesn't have enough gold to buy your items. It seems that all merchants have a limited, non-renewable gold supply to buy things with, even though that value is never displayed.
6 of 12: What you should do is just sell off cheap stuff to clear out inventory space, and save more expensive items you don't want until you can sell them to a really good merchant like Sand. (See the Inventory Tips for good ways to store all the stuff you'll be building up.)
7 of 12: Another thing to keep in mind is that each merchant has a "sell cap," meaning a maximum price he can offer for any item, no matter how much more valuable it may be. Sand, for instance, has a 10,000-gold sell cap, so he can offer you at most 10,000 gold for any one item, even ones that are really worth way more than 10,000.
8 of 12: Later in the game, there'll be several merchants who can give up to 20,000 gold for a single item, which is as high as the sell cap ever gets.
9 of 12: Read on for my "best merchant strategy," which tells you when to save up stuff and who's best to sell it to.
10 of 12: From the beginning of the game, save up all valuable stuff you want to sell until you reach Neverwinter. Then you can start selling your under-10,000 items to Sand.
11 of 12: Actually, if Sand offers you 10,000 for something, you may want to see what another 10,000-limit merchant (like Repko the Weaponsmith) would offer you for the same thing. If it's way less than 10,000, you should probably sell the item to Sand instead of saving it for later. (No other merchant will ever have the *huge* item-buying markup that Sand does.)
12 of 12: After Sand runs out of money, save all your valuable sale items up for the merchants in Crossroad Keep, who start being available in Act II, Part 3. They'll be your main merchants for the rest of the game, and most of them can pay up to 20,000 gold for items.
