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Sharner frowned and nodded slowly as he read through the new contract before him. Looking at the hooded figure seated across from him, he cleared his throat and spoke. “So this basically says I drive away the sellers of the best items I typically receive? How does this benefit me?”
The hooded figure regarded him silently and, with a hint of malice in his voice, calmly replied. “This is for the greater good. We need you available for the new arrivals to our purpose in Bezantur. The ones who may actually end up purchasing your wares -also inexperienced in the ways of Thay- rather than simply use you as a clearing house to unload all their gear while you spend all our money buying it”
Sharner looked back at the contract and tried to summarize what he read there. “So starting at my seller’s 5th season, and increasing with every season thereafter, I will begin lowering the purchase price I offer at an increasing rate. And if a seller has 10 seasons or more, I offer no more than 1% of the true value of an item offered to me. In addition, I will begin offering flat rates - I am no longer to haggle with individuals or try to judge how well they appraise the items being sold.”
Sharner looked across the table to Ranita and Havureela the Mystical, “You two have all already agreed to this as well?!”
The women nodded slowly, looking about as pleased as Sharner felt with this change.
The hooded figure spoke once again. “You are in the business to make money, not to become a dumping ground for all the undesirable items adventurers find. Let them use the merchants outside of Bezantur for that. Adventurers with the experience we’re talking about here should already be traveling outside the city and know of at least some of the many other merchants they can deal with.”
Ranita frowned and spoke up “Wait - so this change is only for us merchants here in Bezantur?”
“Yes. You will be our representatives for the newly arrived in Bezantur. With the new flat rates you will provide, perhaps you will have items purchased from you more often by the more experienced individuals. In turn, their purchases may help maintain your gold reserves when we can’t get to you and replenish your stock ourselves for those new adventurers who have items to sell you.
“And, most importantly for you, perhaps you may even make a bit more coin in the process.”
Sharner heaved a great sigh and picked up the quill to sign the revised contract. “You had better be right. When do we start?”
“Soon,” answered the hooded figure almost immediately. “Very soon.”
This is an advance warning that as of the next server update, the general merchants in Bezantur will begin selling items at a flat rate which will not check a PC’s appraise skill. However, they will enforce a system of diminishing returns based on the level of the PC selling items to them. The diminishing returns will start at level 5 and will drop with every level until reaching 1% for PCs at level 10+.
Therefore, it will be in every mid-upper level PC’s best interest to get out of Bezantur to start selling items if you want a decent price for them. There are lots of merchants in the PW, and more upcoming soon as well. Go find them! :)
The hooded figure regarded him silently and, with a hint of malice in his voice, calmly replied. “This is for the greater good. We need you available for the new arrivals to our purpose in Bezantur. The ones who may actually end up purchasing your wares -also inexperienced in the ways of Thay- rather than simply use you as a clearing house to unload all their gear while you spend all our money buying it”
Sharner looked back at the contract and tried to summarize what he read there. “So starting at my seller’s 5th season, and increasing with every season thereafter, I will begin lowering the purchase price I offer at an increasing rate. And if a seller has 10 seasons or more, I offer no more than 1% of the true value of an item offered to me. In addition, I will begin offering flat rates - I am no longer to haggle with individuals or try to judge how well they appraise the items being sold.”
Sharner looked across the table to Ranita and Havureela the Mystical, “You two have all already agreed to this as well?!”
The women nodded slowly, looking about as pleased as Sharner felt with this change.
The hooded figure spoke once again. “You are in the business to make money, not to become a dumping ground for all the undesirable items adventurers find. Let them use the merchants outside of Bezantur for that. Adventurers with the experience we’re talking about here should already be traveling outside the city and know of at least some of the many other merchants they can deal with.”
Ranita frowned and spoke up “Wait - so this change is only for us merchants here in Bezantur?”
“Yes. You will be our representatives for the newly arrived in Bezantur. With the new flat rates you will provide, perhaps you will have items purchased from you more often by the more experienced individuals. In turn, their purchases may help maintain your gold reserves when we can’t get to you and replenish your stock ourselves for those new adventurers who have items to sell you.
“And, most importantly for you, perhaps you may even make a bit more coin in the process.”
Sharner heaved a great sigh and picked up the quill to sign the revised contract. “You had better be right. When do we start?”
“Soon,” answered the hooded figure almost immediately. “Very soon.”
This is an advance warning that as of the next server update, the general merchants in Bezantur will begin selling items at a flat rate which will not check a PC’s appraise skill. However, they will enforce a system of diminishing returns based on the level of the PC selling items to them. The diminishing returns will start at level 5 and will drop with every level until reaching 1% for PCs at level 10+.
Therefore, it will be in every mid-upper level PC’s best interest to get out of Bezantur to start selling items if you want a decent price for them. There are lots of merchants in the PW, and more upcoming soon as well. Go find them! :)