Viability of Market Stall

[Alleanna]

Because I have 3 skill points in Barter (in the Diplomacy tab) I get 80% of an item's value when I personally sell the item to a vendor. When I sell the same item via the market stall, I barely get 50% of the item's value. This seems to make the market stall obsolete in my mind. Am I misunderstanding or am I missing something?

[Morri]

If you sell stuff yourself, you'll get more because of your perks, but you are limited by the money the vendors have each season. Your villagers don't have that limitation and will keep consistently selling.
It also has the benefit that you don't have to run around with heavy items to the different villages to sell.

So it's just like with all the other things; you'll always have better/faster results if you do it yourself. This is for example the reason why I let my farmers only fertilise, plough and reseed. The harvest I always do myself because I get more produce due to my perks.

With market stall I sell the expensive stuff myself, and let the villagers handle the cheaper stuff or the overstock.

[Kwalyz]

The maximum market stall income is limited by the stall holders diplomacy level. A higher level will sell more of an item per day and bring in more coin.
When we go and sell an item to an NPC vendor, the amount of coin we get will vary depending upon the item % durability … but durability doesn’t affect the amount a market stall can sell as far I can see. So market stalls are good way to get a decent profit from items with low % left on them that you might have looted from camps or bandits.

[Lailantie]

If you don't play on hard or challenging settings, you get way more money than you will ever be able to spend just by having a few market stalls. I only sell stuff myself when I feel like it.

[Alleanna]

Thanks everyone. All good points to consider!

[AfLIcTeD]

I wish we could also buy stuff through the markets.

[Facehugger]

Just wait until you see 25-50k magically appear in your resource storage...

[intorpere]

I'm surprised the market stall doesn't sell at full market price. That would make sense. It's being sold to consumers, but when you sell to merchants, you're the middle-man, and merchants need to make a profit. It makes no sense for them to pay full price, but using a market stall means the player is the merchant.

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

Originally posted by intorpere:

I'm surprised the market stall doesn't sell at full market price. That would make sense. It's being sold to consumers, but when you sell to merchants, you're the middle-man, and merchants need to make a profit. It makes no sense for them to pay full price, but using a market stall means the player is the merchant.

We have no control on how much money those vendors at the market stall put in there pockets.

[intorpere]

Originally posted by 🎮AliveSince1961🎮:

Originally posted by intorpere:

I'm surprised the market stall doesn't sell at full market price. That would make sense. It's being sold to consumers, but when you sell to merchants, you're the middle-man, and merchants need to make a profit. It makes no sense for them to pay full price, but using a market stall means the player is the merchant.

We have no control on how much money those vendors at the market stall put in there pockets.

That's like saying the boss has no control over how much cashiers put in their pockets. Is everyone else working for free, but stallholders are paying their own wages?

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Alleanna:

Because I have 3 skill points in Barter (in the Diplomacy tab) I get 80% of an item's value when I personally sell the item to a vendor. When I sell the same item via the market stall, I barely get 50% of the item's value. This seems to make the market stall obsolete in my mind. Am I misunderstanding or am I missing something?

I routinely empty out the closer villages with all the things I have to sell. The market stall keeps on selling regardless. Also, it means I'm not forced to run-around selling stuff every season and can do other things like when I'm doing the main quest or a Herald quest, etc.

[Cocco]

Ich verkaufe jedes Spieljahr u.a über 5.000 Leinsamen über meine Verkaufsstände. Und jede Menge Pelzmäntel und -schuhe.
Diese Mengen würde ich als Racimir schwer verkaufen - von der Zeit mal abgesehen.

[invivo4u]

I use the stalls as a way to take care of overproduction but I have to be careful that my stores don't end up at zero...by setting the sliders at realistic levels.