Best place to trade

[Gods_strongest_asbestos_smoker]

Hello. Normally i always go to river wood to trade items, as he takes the most items from you normally for the best price to. Anyone else got a good place for great gold prices?
Also, Healing potions. Where can i buy, and get a lot of them?

[Zsrai]

There are no differences in prices between merchants at all, AFAIK. The best places are ones with a lot of merchants centrally located, like Windhelm's market or Whiterun's market; you can make the rounds at a couple of different vendors and sell whatever you need.

Healing potions you can buy at a General Goods shop or an Alchemist. Both are right next to each other in Whiterun, f. ex.

[DrNewcenstein]

No vendor will give you good prices at low levels. You will have to take perks in Speechcraft to get better prices, or find enchanted necklaces that raise the Barter skill.

Healing potions are literally everywhere, in every dungeon. I know it's tough at low levels, but buying your way to success is a very tedious method, especially since you usually come out of most places with less than 200 gold, and you spend every piece of it to recover.

Adventuring in Skyrim is not economical at low levels.

[bigdale]

If you want to make a bit more money give the local beggar a gold piece as it will buff your speechcraft by 10 points and speech tree skills affect prices. An amulet of Dibella is a common item that is light weight and can be worn for another 15 point buff to speech skills.

[fauxpas]

Don't forget about praying to shrines; if I remember correctly D's shrine gives you a buff to speech as well and Z's shrine buffs sale prices.

[DrNewcenstein]

Shrine buffs don't last long, though. Solitude is the only place that has all of the shrines (except Talos - the Shout Cooldown Blessing). If you hit a Dibella or Zenithar shrine in the open world or in a dungeon, by the time you make it to a merchant, it's gone.

Alternatively, if you don't have the Unofficial Patches, you can do the Restoration Loop to make a potion that makes Shrine buffs more powerful and longer-lasting. However, it's been my experience that once they wear off, the game crashes, at least if the potion is super-powered.

Necklaces of Haggling and Speech are hard to find, as well, and when you find them for sale, you can't afford them. It's like a game formula that they're always priced 500 gold higher than what you're carrying.

[fauxpas]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15250

Solves the eight hour problem.

[Stardustfire]

get u own ground, build a mansion with a greenhouse and a garden, plant blue mountain flowers and weed, use alchemy, profit and never again buy heal potions...

[Mringasa]

Wheat, Blue Mountain Flowers, Butterfly Wings (normal, not the blue), Blisterwort, and one other thing I can't remember... are all extremely common. Get used to carrying tons of this around, since it weighs less unmixed, and just craft what you need. Take a point or two in the Alchemy tree to buff up your healing potions, and you will never need to buy another one again. The ones in the dungeons are better until your Alchemy is high level though, so keep those as well.

For selling stuff, Riverwood/Whiterun is a good loop. Adrienne will buy all your weapons/armor, then hit the Alchemist to dump potions, and finally Belathor for everything else. If you need to dump more items, Riverwood can take the rest. Solitude itself is great when you are up in that area, as is Windhelm, Markarth, and Riften. They both have a great bunch of merchants to take your sellables. Morthal and Dawnstar are usually the places you'll run into issues dumping gear so be ready to pick and choose around those two areas.

[Avrie]

The mod "trade and barter" allows you to buff up your prices within reason ... For the vanilla game I always liked Riverwood on the way back to whiterun (As Mringasa said) ... You can dump your crap weapons with Adriana outside, then go inside and dump again on her husband, and again at the skyforge without even touching the other vendors in town. Add that to Riverwood and you can drop a bunch of stuff in a hurry,

[Black91]

Another thing to consider is to brew a potion of fortify barter. Made out of Butterfly Wing, Dragon's Tongue, Tundra Cotton or Tundra Cotton. The Tundra cotton is very common arround Whiterun. And Dragon's Tongue is easily found in the citie's walls.

[-A7 Demon Seed-]

Originally posted by CampinBoxer:

Hello. Normally i always go to river wood to trade items, as he takes the most items from you normally for the best price to. Anyone else got a good place for great gold prices?
Also, Healing potions. Where can i buy, and get a lot of them?

i would download the mod that gives merchants more money and pick a merchant you like. I also got a mod that allows me to sell stolen good to certain people without having to do the thieved guild

[bigdale]

If you sell in Riften you get access to a beggar (choose either) and a shrine of Dibella (Haelga's bunkhouse, in bedroom behind front desk) in easy proximity. It has the blacksmith, the general goods shop, a wizard, an alchemist, two additional general good stalls (fail the Brand Shei quest to keep him out of prison - still counts towards thieve's guild) a jeweller's stall and Tonila down in the Ragged Flagon who will also buy stolen goods.

[Gods_strongest_asbestos_smoker]

Thanks for all the replys. I have took into acount what everyone has told me, i also didnt know all prices where the same... I was certain each person offered diffrent prices

[Mringasa]

Originally posted by CampinBoxer:

Thanks for all the replys. I have took into acount what everyone has told me, i also didnt know all prices where the same... I was certain each person offered diffrent prices

Oldrim has a mod that does this, at least I think I remember playing with one that did. Lol. Not sure if it's been ported to SE though. The only one I've come across drastically reduces sell prices and quest rewards, making you have to fight for each septim unless you invest in the Speech Tree. It's actually a fun mod to use.