How to avoid the "junk" I sold from from showing up on merchant inventories?

[Lampros]

I cannot tell which items are "new" and worth buying, because the merchant inventory is overloaded with my junk. WTH?

[EvilShuckle]

What do you mean? You can see what they sell. You can see whether it's the trash you sold or not

[Deleted *******]

its a system to re-buy anything you sell by accident. They stay there permanently.
Better sell to vendors that travel from act 1 to act 3.
incase you will need something back

[Yeyo]

I have the same issue, so I first buy and then sell.....

[Fargol]

Originally posted by Lampros:

I cannot tell which items are "new" and worth buying, because the merchant inventory is overloaded with my junk. WTH?

I kind of agree, and it would have been nice if there was a "Buyback" tab to show stuff you sold him.

[Beast of War]

Originally posted by EternalFun:

its a system to re-buy anything you sell by accident. They stay there permanently.
Better sell to vendors that travel from act 1 to act 3.
incase you will need something back

It isnt failsafe. I had to reload a savegame an hour back because only ceremonial weapons can be used in the Monestary puzzle on Tactician difficulty ( where rusty or any placeholders could be used at lower difficulties ) and not knowing this i sold these green weapons off as i do not need green stuff.

But it had vanished, no vendor still had it to rebuy.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Fargol:

Originally posted by Lampros:

I cannot tell which items are "new" and worth buying, because the merchant inventory is overloaded with my junk. WTH?

I kind of agree, and it would have been nice if there was a "Buyback" tab to show stuff you sold him.

There is, but it's only for the duration of that interaction, in case you accidentally sell something you didn't mean to. Once you exit the trade dialogue, that's it.

[bzz]

Open the trade window twice, it should sort their items at top then your items at the bottom

[Lampros]

Originally posted by EvilShuckle:

What do you mean? You can see what they sell. You can see whether it's the trash you sold or not

Yes, but when you have hundreds and later possibly thousands of items on offer, it's hard to separate the ♥♥♥♥ from the gems - so to speak.

Originally posted by EternalFun:

its a system to re-buy anything you sell by accident. They stay there permanently.

I understand that, but it's a horribly inefficient way to do it.

In the least give us the option to have a separate "buyback" items?

[Snaef]

Room for alot of improvements in the merchant for sure.

I tend to start by using the slider (top middle) to switch to trading rather then bartering.
This also sorts the merchants inventory somewhat.
Then I transfer the bags with loot that I have flagged "As Wares"
Then I shop.
If you still find it impossible to get an overview, there are categories you can flip through.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Snaef:

Room for alot of improvements in the merchant for sure.

I tend to start by using the slider (top middle) to switch to trading rather then bartering.
This also sorts the merchants inventory somewhat.
Then I transfer the bags with loot that I have flagged "As Wares"
Then I shop.
If you still find it impossible to get an overview, there are categories you can flip through.

Yeah, I tried to switch to trading. But the issue with categories was that those categories are bugged. For instance, weapons show up as "ingredients" or something like that. The whole vendor mechanic is a mess - and it's been that way since Divinity as well.