Selling Contraband

[Chad]

Hey lads

I have several contraband items (8 or 10 I believe) and I really don't know what to do with them because as soon as I get inside a system I'm being scanned and my contraband's being found.

Any tips?

Cheers

[ralphtobybob]

The UC store on Mars will buy any contraband you find on the planet. Since you're just fast traveling, you don't get scanned.

[Powerferret]

In addition to what others have suggested, i also built a small outpost on jemison's moon to stockpile contraband in case i forgot to put it in my shielded cargo. I just drop it all in storage till im ready to smuggle it.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Space Todd Award:

Hey lads

I have several contraband items (8 or 10 I believe) and I really don't know what to do with them because as soon as I get inside a system I'm being scanned and my contraband's being found.

Any tips?

Cheers

Let them find it, do the jail time, steal back and sell it on planet.. make up the loss xp later.

[Wurst der Führung]

Originally posted by ralphtobybob:

The UC store on Mars will buy any contraband you find on the planet. Since you're just fast traveling, you don't get scanned.

You cannot fast travel with contraband onto planets / moons with contraband checks last time i checked.

If you can manage to smuggle with a shielded cargo, you can even sell contraband on the Trade Authority kiosks. Although the 5K credits probably won't be enough for more than 2-3 items.

Also if you become a pirate, EVERY store in the key will buy them gladly, including the medical supplier.

Also if you're about to get scanned by mistake, jump as fast as you can. You will get a small bounty, but won't lose the contraband.

[JACKSin]

I made an outpost at my rl location on earth and put a plastic basket down and dropped all the contraband in there. First I tried chests but the only one I could build didn't have a high enough weight limit. Then I tried just dropping them on the ground but they kind of sunk into the terrain a little and were hard to see. So I got the open top basket and that held them real nice.

I thought I tried selling contraband at the den and couldn't but who knows. You can join the pirate faction and sell it at their hideout, though.

[Chad]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by Space Todd Award:

Hey lads

I have several contraband items (8 or 10 I believe) and I really don't know what to do with them because as soon as I get inside a system I'm being scanned and my contraband's being found.

Any tips?

Cheers

Let them find it, do the jail time, steal back and sell it on planet.. make up the loss xp later.

Nice idea, thanks.
Is it easy to steal it back?
Also, going to jell equals losing XP?!

[roach112683]

Originally posted by beagle:

You have to go to the Red Mile on Porrima lll. Starship attendant inside the buiding will sell a special cargo bay and a scan blocker.

Bartender will also buy contraband.

[Dr. Dro ඞ]

Originally posted by Space Todd Howard:

Also, going to jell equals losing XP?!

If you do not pay the fine, yes

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by Gnülchö:

Originally posted by ralphtobybob:

The UC store on Mars will buy any contraband you find on the planet. Since you're just fast traveling, you don't get scanned.

You cannot fast travel with contraband onto planets / moons with contraband checks last time i checked.

If you can manage to smuggle with a shielded cargo, you can even sell contraband on the Trade Authority kiosks. Although the 5K credits probably won't be enough for more than 2-3 items.

Also if you become a pirate, EVERY store in the key will buy them gladly, including the medical supplier.

Also if you're about to get scanned by mistake, jump as fast as you can. You will get a small bounty, but won't lose the contraband.

I did not fast travel "onto" Mars, I fast traveled from a location on Mars to the Mars landing zone.

[Manuel]

Originally posted by beagle:

You have to go to the Red Mile on Porrima lll. Starship attendant inside the buiding will sell a special cargo bay and a scan blocker.

is the first thing i do, i remember about red mile planet people are not involved with any factions, like pirate, but i was going inside the bar, but cannot find anyone to talk about contraband stuff XD

[Lynx]

Sell them at the den in the wolf system or more optimally the key if you are a member of or have access to the crimson fleet. You can sell any contraband at these locations without having to be scanned, selling at the key is better because you will have access to four vendors right across from each other allowing you to sell more than 11k worth of goods.
Actually trying to smuggle the goods is a pointless waste of time that makes no sense because it would require you to buy shielded cargo at the red mile/key and then go through a %scan to sell the goods to a vendor who offers the exact same price as any other vendor as all sell prices for contraband are flat.
Really contraband is more of a pain than anything else as you will pretty soon realize that selling guns and armor you loot will get you more money beyond the extremely early game without having to worry/be annoyed by ship scans. I would recommend just ignoring/trashing contraband unless you have access to the key.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Manuel:

is the first thing i do, i remember about red mile planet people are not involved with any factions, like pirate, but i was going inside the bar, but cannot find anyone to talk about contraband stuff XD

The bartender will buy contraband, and stolen items. And has quite a bit of cash-on-hand (relative to most vendors). Unlike most bars/coffee shops in the game, she will actually buy anything, not just food and drink items.