Favorite merchants

Frodo1 · Post by **Frodo1** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:49 pm

Who is your favorite merchant? By that, I mean who buys most or all items at the best price? I am excluding thief fences of course. It is so much harder to earn gold in Oblivion than it was in Morrowind, especially for a character like mine, who is taking a noble path.

So far, the best that I have found is Rindir in the Imperial Marketplace. He buys everthing except miscellaneous items and has the best buy prices I've found to date. I'm expect there is someone better than him though.

Tsunami17 · Post by **Tsunami17** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:36 pm

I know what you mean. If anyone knows a good merchant with lots of money, who sells good weapons/armor, let me know....

Or knows of a place that could tell me some adventures to find some cool magic items.

Frodo1 · Post by **Frodo1** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:43 pm

Spoiler

At the end of the quest, Unfair Competition, which you can do right off the bat in the Imperial Temple District, you can take a magic mace and a nice one-handed sword. I forget the names of them offhand, but both are very nice for starter characters. One is found on an enemy, the other stashed away in the battle area. These are not killer weapons, but they are a good start.

RegenCoE · Post by **RegenCoE** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:23 am

Basically what you should do before every sale - try to sweettalk

Get your standings with the merchant as high as possible, and always haggle - sooner or later your mercantile skill will raise and you can haggle for even better prices - and off course try to go to the same merchant over and over, as the game saves your last "haggle" value with that merchant. Whenever you go to a new merchant it's reset to below 50% of the base value.

Nirvana24 · Post by **Nirvana24** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:33 am

Sweet I was just going to ask about this. I'm looking for a merchant who buys for more than 800 gold. Anyone find one yet? Highest bidders I've found have been the fat elf in the imperial city, and random smiths.

Reason being I found some blunt weapon I don't want (I'm a blade man) and it's worth like 2500 gold.

RegenCoE · Post by **RegenCoE** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:45 am

Try the merchants in the various mage guilds. I think in one of those I found a merchant with more than 2000 gold ... though I can't remember the town anymore

Cailan · Post by **Cailan** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:19 am

i like the Anvil armour and weapons shop. he has 1200 gold and i rarely have anything worth more to sell him

Cailan · Post by **Cailan** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:22 am

There are Ayelid ruins directly south east of the imperial city, near the Lake Rumare end of The Gold Road, with an excelent set of armour and a sword that is simply awesome

Nirvana24 · Post by **Nirvana24** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:24 pm

[QUOTE=RegenCoE]Try the merchants in the various mage guilds. I think in one of those I found a merchant with more than 2000 gold ... though I can't remember the town anymore

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2000 gold will do fine! Tell me if you remember the town. I'll look around in the mean time.

mordib · Post by **mordib** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:26 am

hey up, i thought id bring up this thread again as its really bugging me that there dont seem to be any merchants with over 1200 cash to buy weapons and armour off you. Im getting to the stage where nothing I pick up is worth leess thean 3000. any ideas?

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:20 am

The worst thing is, I can't seem to find one. And I've looked.

I have the same issue so to speak, am progressing in my lvl and am finding more expensive stuff, only no merchant. Heh.

Cailan · Post by **Cailan** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:54 am

i think the only way to get more is to invest in shops (high mercantilism skill) problem is ive sold over 300000 gold worth of loot and am not even at journeyman!!

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:52 am

[QUOTE=Cailan]i think the only way to get more is to invest in shops (high mercantilism skill) problem is ive sold over 300000 gold worth of loot and am not even at journeyman!![/QUOTE]

But isn't there a cap on this as well. From what I understood if you invest 1200 the merchant who used to be able to sell for 1200 will now have 2400. The only thing is I think I read in the guide there's a cap on investing ... or maybe I don't remember well.

I miss the crab. I don't kill crabs actually

mordib · Post by **mordib** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:42 am

I understood the invest limit to be a measely 500 (though actually come to think of it i'm sure i heard that on these forums from someone

). Either way it makes little difference, mercantile is one of the few skills that really is impossible to get to higher levels until you have been playing the game a long long time...

But then after a bit of an epic gaming session yesterday i've decided that whilst it makes me scream at the computer everytime i pick something up its not really a biggie, even at 1200 there comes a stage when you have more money than you know what to do with. Which brings me onto my next moan... why isnt there a 'buy everything' option with any of the merchants :laugh: