Selling equipment

[Buddha Bob]

Quick question on looted gear. What is the best buy back rate you can typically find?

I'm a noob but so far the best rate is only about 20% of the face value even in large cities and fortresses. The gear is repaired to 100%.

Is there a better way to make money on equipment sales?

Thanks in advance!

[thebadman]

Depends on your world seed.

Prices you get is combo of economic difficulty setting, relations with settlement, events, what you sell, type of settlement and how many attached locations it has.

You probably want to get allied with big city with as much housing and production hexes, each increases prices and keep bandit camps around for that sweet ambushed caravans bonus, when bandits raze something you can score extra buck selling wood when they rebuild.

20% for gear does not sound bad at all.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Buddha Bob:

Quick question on looted gear. What is the best buy back rate you can typically find?

I'm a noob but so far the best rate is only about 20% of the face value even in large cities and fortresses. The gear is repaired to 100%.

Is there a better way to make money on equipment sales?

Thanks in advance!

The prior poster covered many important points. Also keep in mind that repairing things to sell them is only worth it if the sell value is greater than the durability value. Generally most weapons except low end are worth repairing, and most armor except high end is NOT worth repairing to sell.

Have a reference item to compare prices in cities to identify good places/conditions to sell. I use the starting 2h axe and keep it only to measure general prices.

[Vandrosch]

I always use a round shield (worth 100) or the hexen apple (worth 1000) as my indicator item. If the shield sells between 19-22 you're good to sell in that settlement. The nice thing about the apple is, that is shows the decimals; sell price of 195 mean 19.5.