Investing 500 Gold into shops... What does that do??

[RZ]

When you invest 500 Gold into shops, do they have better stuff to sell later on? Just curious...

[kdodds]

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure the same thing as Skyrim, gives all vendors more cash. Doesn't really matter right now, because vendor cash doesn't reduce by amount purchased, so as long as you're selling stuff under their gold total, you can keep selling infinitely.

[Majora]

It means the vendors are able to buy higher value items.
It's useful if your favourite vendor has a low cash cap. You can boost it up, so you can sell them your higher value loot.
Generally the vendors with high caps have high Mercantile scores, so give you a worse deal. The big advantage to investing is you can boost the cap of a vendor with a much lower Mercantile skill, so get a better ratio on what you sell to them.

[Saizo]

If you have armor pieces that are worth 1500 gold and the vendor has only 1000 gold you can only sell them for 1000.
If you invest 500 gold, the vendor has 1500 and it will stay at 1500, so you can sell high valuable items with less / no loss.

[Valtaya]

Just another wasted feature.

You can not sell a 1.000gold item to a vendor who have just 800g, so you invest the 500, raise the vendors max gold to 2000 and now you can sell this 1.000gold item there.
It used to be, that vendors had limited cash, that replenished over time so you just could not sell an infinite ammount of items to the same merchant. now you can and this mechanic is kind of pointless.

[Horror Pigeon]

If they have 1000 they will give 1000 gold max when you sell them 1 item. Invest 500, it becomes 1500 max when you sell them 1 item.

[RZ]

Thanks for the info everyone ! I wasn't sure what it was for .. kind of hoping they'd sell a larger variety of stuff after a while, but it makes sense that they will be able to pay more for loot you sell them...

Thanks again !

[EMDream]

There is a NPC Merchant Nilphas Omellian at the Merchant's Inn in the Capital that has 3000 gold. I haven't found someone with more yet. I always sell to him. Just a tip.

[Redwood]

If you have 2000 gold piece item, you can sell it for 2000. Without the 500-gold investment you could only sell that same item for 1500.