Do Traders Have Different Drices ?

[Mike Rodik]

Throughout the game I hear about how Sidorovich scams rookies and stuff, but I never paid attention to any of the prices. Do they really vary? For example if I sell 20 antirads to a medic trader will I get more rubles?

[Darth Cannabis]

I have noticed some variation, but haven't gone into much detail seeing if what sells for more where other than the few things noted between traders in a given settlement.

I noticed one of the traders in a place paid, more for vodka than the bartender did. If this pattern (which I have yet to check) is consistent elsewhere, then it would suggest that a supply and demand aspect focused on supply more than demand. Since the bartender paid less for booze than the trader at said location, its quite possible that the medic trader would also pay less for medical supplies (due to having plenty already). Traders paying more for booze and food than bartenders is the only part I confirmed for sure.

Generally, I found general good traders to have the best selling price for loot. I will test this more in Rostok which has 2 bartenders, a medic, and 3 separate traders (one general, one specifically armor, 1 specifically weapons).

[FlashBurn]

Yes. Also what is your rep with the faction comes into play.

[warmer]

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

Yes. Also what is your rep with the faction comes into play.

This is what I was wondering. I went on a mission for a faction and when I came back there was more things to buy from the weapon trader. I figured it was because I did a really hard mission for them. It would be nice if we had some indication of our faction relationships in a better way.

[DopeDawg]

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[DomEReapeR]

Originally posted by warmer:

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

Yes. Also what is your rep with the faction comes into play.

This is what I was wondering. I went on a mission for a faction and when I came back there was more things to buy from the weapon trader. I figured it was because I did a really hard mission for them. It would be nice if we had some indication of our faction relationships in a better way.

They do also just randomize their offerings when you leave and come back, so not sure if rep has anything to do with what they sell, but it definitely impacts cost of repairs and how much money they give you when you sell things. When I was in Malachite the scientists hated me, it was cheaper to use a guide to travel somewhere else to sell and repair, then travel back lol

[Baron01]

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

Yes. Also what is your rep with the faction comes into play.

Green reputation with a faction/camp only affect repair prices and potentially buying prices (not verified). Selling price is always the same roughly 1/3 of the inventory price of the gear. There are two types of trades, a bartender who offers worse buy out prices (roughly 1/4 of the item value) and gear sellers (those provide 1/3 of the item value).

[DomEReapeR]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

Yes. Also what is your rep with the faction comes into play.

Green reputation with a faction/camp only affect repair prices and potentially buying prices (not verified). Selling price is always the same roughly 1/3 of the inventory price of the gear. There are two types of trades, a bartender who offers worse buy out prices (roughly 1/4 of the item value) and gear sellers (those provide 1/3 of the item value).

Selling price is not always the same, I specifically compared different types of traders and different rep with traders, an exo-suit I came across sold for 22k at one trader and 30k at another, which is a pretty significant difference.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by DomEReapeR:

Originally posted by Baron01:

Green reputation with a faction/camp only affect repair prices and potentially buying prices (not verified). Selling price is always the same roughly 1/3 of the inventory price of the gear. There are two types of trades, a bartender who offers worse buy out prices (roughly 1/4 of the item value) and gear sellers (those provide 1/3 of the item value).

Selling price is not always the same, I specifically compared different types of traders and different rep with traders, an exo-suit I came across sold for 22k at one trader and 30k at another, which is a pretty significant difference.

Read my post again, there are two types of traders that offer different price for your gear, however, I have not found any seller that would buy gear for more than roughly one 1/3 of its price. This is the gear seller type.

So, where did you see the seller that provides more than 1/3 of the item vallue and what type of seller it was?

[sunflower]

I was doing some math. Weapon/Armor traders are buying staff at 18% price. Bartenders buy staff at 12%. There is no specialization ingame. If trader buys something, same coefficient applies to all items. Also buying price is rounded down.
Maybe I am not far into the quests, and some actions may affect these coefficients.

[Mike Rodik]

So all traders have same prices except the bartenders? That's good to hear. I would have liked different pricing and balancing for traders but that's for the mods to solve. I think the base game should be like this.

[Darth Cannabis]

Originally posted by Jack Ingoff:

So all traders have same prices except the bartenders? That's good to hear. I would have liked different pricing and balancing for traders but that's for the mods to solve. I think the base game should be like this.

In general, but not always that clean cut. Further testing in Rostok has confirmed the 2 sets, higher and lower, however it isn't always as clean as bartenders one traders the other. In Rostok, I observed that while the armor and weapon traders are higher, the general goods trader has bartender prices. This of course circles back to the original question of whether Sidorovich is ripping people off or not, which I have to double check now.

I advice always keeping a few energy drinks in inventory (or any other common item with set price not determined by wear and tear) and if you see 65 (higher sell price), prices are good, if you see 43 (lower sell price), prices are bad.

[BTDC]

So out of curiosity I had 2 (100%) diamond exoskeletons for 53820 in Prypyat, then visited Malachite where I am red reputation(game bugged and killed some scientists). The price was the same. As v1.1.3 as far as I concerned the reputation doesn't effect your selling price. Even the cheapskate Sidorovich would have pay the same price for those two (checked him as well)