Selling things at vendors sucks!

[CHARLIEMIKEMIKE]

As someone who doesn't do money glitches I noticed this game has a whack trading system. How would this scenario go down?

"V be like: I give: 25,000 Assault rifle"
"Vendor: here you go! You receive: 2,500 ???"
"v: wheres 1/10th of the money you OWE ME?"
"vendor: you can always buy it back for 26,000!"
"v: pulls out gun and flatlines vendor"

What kind of "selling" is this? kijiji marketplace? God!

Are the vendors intentionally scamming people? These vendors buy things for 1/10th of what they are actually worth then immediately sell them for full price. Obviously this is intentional but it's still awful.

The reason why this matters to me is because selling the stuff I stole/looted from my flatlined enemies is like-the only way to make any money!

edit: well, everyones already screaming that they did it better. Figured. It was my first playthrough of the game alright?

[Drahknon]

You shouldn't be hurting for eddies if you loot enemies and boxes and then sell everything. You'll have hundreds of thousands. The only difficult choice for me was when to disassemble and when to sell in the early game.

[Gibbo]

I've not sold anything this playthrough. Break it all down for parts. I still have managed to get the corpo flat, a fleet of vehicles and I have nearly 600,000 eddies and I've spent quite a bit on cyberware. Everything is tier 5 or above and I got all that from missions and finding eddies laying around.

[Gibbo]

Oh you can sell any cyberhacks you may find to ripper docs. From what I can tell these fetch a good price and you will find duplicate versions of cyberhacks and tier 5 hacks are worth a lot of money. Over 20,000 a pop for some of them.

[DaMutha]

I'm a first time player and I'm closing in on the platinum---I wish I had ignored all the tutorials and posts that said "don't buy anything, save every eddie for the Auto Jock trophy". It must have been a lot different before 2.0, because I easily bought all the vehicles, rented all the apartments, and now I'm still rolling in money even after buying a ton of cyberware.

[CHARLIEMIKEMIKE]

Originally posted by Drahknon:

You shouldn't be hurting for eddies if you loot enemies and boxes and then sell everything. You'll have hundreds of thousands. The only difficult choice for me was when to disassemble and when to sell in the early game.

This is exactly what I did and somehow I still ended up with the short end of the stick.

[Revy]

Originally posted by Gibbo:

Oh you can sell any cyberhacks you may find to ripper docs. From what I can tell these fetch a good price and you will find duplicate versions of cyberhacks and tier 5 hacks are worth a lot of money. Over 20,000 a pop for some of them.

Yep. Crafting and selling high level hacks rakes in the eddies.

[Tokenn]

I don't think I've bought more than 3-4 weapons in shops in my whole game so far, and don't see that I ever will. Now, I've just about levelled out in my current game, and it's almost a headache getting rid of all the weapons I've picked up...mostly I break them down for Crafting components.

Between Fixer payouts, Scanner rewards plus the cash you loot and the data panels you crack, I don't see how anybody can be hurting for money past the first few hours of the game. It's the easiest thing to get in the game.

[CHARLIEMIKEMIKE]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

I don't think I've bought more than 3-4 weapons in shops in my whole game so far, and don't see that I ever will. Now, I've just about levelled out in my current game, and it's almost a headache getting rid of all the weapons I've picked up...mostly I break them down for Crafting components.

Between Fixer payouts, Scanner rewards plus the cash you loot and the data panels you crack, I don't see how anybody can be hurting for money past the first few hours of the game. It's the easiest thing to get in the game.

I grabbed every item I could have. I bought a few weapons from the shop and also purchased mantis blades.
"how could anyone be hurting for money"
It's my first playthrough so I won't do everything right the very first time. Maybe I will have better luck on my second playthrough idk.

[Tokenn]

Originally posted by CHARLIEMIKEMIKE:

I grabbed every item I could have. I bought a few weapons from the shop and also purchased mantis blades.
"how could anyone be hurting for money"
It's my first playthrough so I won't do everything right the very first time. Maybe I will have better luck on my second playthrough idk.

Hey, if you're early in the game, you still don't know what to expect, and that's fine. The early game is a bit of a grind...just keep doing Gigs and scanner missions and you'll be fine. It gets a lot better as you get deeper in.

Pro Tip: Meet with Meredith Stout, take her cred chip but don't use it to pay Maelstrom (only a sucker would pay them twice). You can crack the chip later for a Quickhack and the E$10K it contains.

[CHARLIEMIKEMIKE]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

Originally posted by CHARLIEMIKEMIKE:

I grabbed every item I could have. I bought a few weapons from the shop and also purchased mantis blades.
"how could anyone be hurting for money"
It's my first playthrough so I won't do everything right the very first time. Maybe I will have better luck on my second playthrough idk.

Hey, if you're early in the game, you still don't know what to expect, and that's fine. The early game is a bit of a grind...just keep doing Gigs and scanner missions and you'll be fine. It gets a lot better as you get deeper in.

Pro Tip: Meet with Meredith Stout, take her cred chip but don't use it to pay Maelstrom (only a sucker would pay them twice). You can crack the chip later for a Quickhack and the E$10K it contains.

Good advice, thanks.

[holly]

advice above is solid, i've been doing all of the above plus taking out every single white dot on my minimap as long as its not ncpd (ok sometimes ncpd when i feel like trying to take on maxtac). selling their loot adds up quickly.

barghest guys aren't too difficult if you have a sandevistan to assist in headshotting and a decent airhypho to recover from dmg. they seem to drop a lot of purple tactician shotguns if you go to phantom liberty as soon as you're able.

if i want new wheels i'll ride into dogtown, rustle some jimmies, and leave with another 100k eds to fling to el capitan after combining a few of his very generous discounts :)

[Rabidnid]

I have 1 million ion cyberware, 500k in cars and 1 million in cash at level 55. The only thing I sell are the hacks I get from access points. The guns and everything else get scrapped for components.

The legendary hacks are 8k to 25k each.

[Cooperal]

Originally posted by DaMutha:

I'm a first time player and I'm closing in on the platinum---I wish I had ignored all the tutorials and posts that said "don't buy anything, save every eddie for the Auto Jock trophy". It must have been a lot different before 2.0, because I easily bought all the vehicles, rented all the apartments, and now I'm still rolling in money even after buying a ton of cyberware.

Yeah the mechanics, balancing and distribution of so many items got reworked that the economy had to come with it. Most probably the biggest change for the economy was the clothing overhaul. All clothing used to come with its own defensive stats along with buffs and mod slots sometimes. It was beneficial to check the stores regularly for clothing upgrades as you levelled. Now you can save a fat load of bucks by mostly only purchasing for style.

Similar is true for weapons in that they also no longer creep in power in tiny level intervals. This means that their are pretty much never any weapons worth buying except some fixed specialty items.

Before 2.0 you could also fill every cyberware slot right away as long as you could afford it. Now your body has a limited capacity for cyberware that starts very low at the beginning. This of course limits how much cyberware you will also be buying.

Yeah the money game is a lot more relaxed now. Their didn't used to be a lot that you could buy for purely frivolous purposes whereas now things have shifted a lot in the opposite direction. I think it fits nicely with the games themes.

[ignis]

Originally posted by Drahknon:

You shouldn't be hurting for eddies if you loot enemies and boxes and then sell everything. You'll have hundreds of thousands. The only difficult choice for me was when to disassemble and when to sell in the early game.

From my experience - sell t1, scrap t2+.

Unless you want to buy everything, selling t1 gives you enough money to buy an iconic weapon of choice and some wheels (unless you prefer bikes, in which case you can get custom variants of all 3 from quests without paying anything, 2 of them available at very beginning of act 2).

I've done 100% completion of act 1, and at the end of it had 500k eddies, 999+ t1 components, 800 t2 components, and t3+ cyberdeck (only thing worth upgrading for scrap). That is enough money for the rest of the game.

[Lil Puppy]

What I hate is having to sell anything to a vendor/machine. CDPR has no idea how to deal with collections in code apparently as it has to update both left and right side inventories completely each time you sell an item and that is an absolute waste of my time waiting for it to update when I have to sell 100 items... takes almost 5 minutes to sell that many things because you have to wait for it to update the item lists by iterating over each item in both inventories. Fix that. damn.