Items you should always Sell and Buy from Shops

[Lantantan]

Though trading in general is more profitable than selling/buying at shops, there are some notable exceptions. But its really hard to know which things are those exceptions. This thread is to share those hard earned trade lessons you've learned. Trade values fluctuate and my memory isn't perfect, listed values are approximate.

Things to Sell:
-Broken Pocket watch, worth 1000+ coins to shops, only 7 in trade!
-Rings worth 800+ coins to shops, only 6 in trade.
-Bracelet a 800 coins?
-Maybe basic BBB herbs on bonus days for 150 in pub? Early on food and the gun are cheap and herbs aren't needed yet. I sold 40 prefered herbs during the first 4 days.

Things to Buy:
-Lockpicks (undamaged!) for 200 at the shady shop, trade for 12 with leather caps! Great source of cheap bullets.
-Any food snack below 100 coin, trade for 4 with kids.
-Tweezers for 60, trade for 4 with some kin.
-Matches for 50, trade away for 1, but with nearly everyone!
-Safety pins for 200, trade away for 4ish with with medicine girls.
-Thread and thimbles, because you need so many of that.

Trade routes:
-2 food snacks in shop for 200 -> 2 fingernails at kids -> 1 coffee (worth 800) near cathedral.
-Soap and spindles buy for 2 -> thread and thimbles from better dressed women.
-Herbal painkillers -> trade for 8-15 with many kin.
-Herbal boosters -> trade for 3-6 with many kin, better than selling the herbs.
-SCHMOWDER -> trade for 35ish best with safety pins for 4pp from older medical girls but takes other sharps too. Or trade very efficiently for bloody bandages and used ampuls at the dead item shop, check every night!


Never sell:
-Water bottles
-Ashen swish

Also check my diagnostic guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/505230/discussions/0/1653297026050339830/

[Lantantan]

I'm on the fence about fencing (hehe) organs. Might be best to sell big healthy organs like brain and heart and turn blood liver and kidneys into painkillers.

[kevinw]

But most caps just have one bullet for trade.......

[Lantantan]

Originally posted by kevinw:

But most caps just have one bullet for trade.......

At least half have 2 bullets, and some have 2 bullets and a painkiller for 12, thats the perfect trade. There's so many leather cappers, you get afford to be picky. Even a bullet and a toast for 9 is a great trade for 200 coins.

[Adhan]

Originally posted by Lantantan:

I'm on the fence about fencing (hehe) organs. Might be best to sell big healthy organs like brain and heart and turn blood liver and kidneys into painkillers.

What about infected organs?

[Lantantan]

Originally posted by Adhan:

Originally posted by Lantantan:

I'm on the fence about fencing (hehe) organs. Might be best to sell big healthy organs like brain and heart and turn blood liver and kidneys into painkillers.

What about infected organs?

I never tried so sell them so I don't know their value, do you know? I do know that the antibiotics made from infected organs are worth LESS than painkillers made from healthy organs. To make selling them worthwhile they'd have to sell for more than the 8-10 trade value it costs to buy antibiotics.

The real value of infected organs is that they can be turned into antibiotics of any color. I found that I was always immediately using them to fill gaps in my antibiotics stock. So I'm not sure you want to sell infected organs or their derived products.

[Ender]

Any thoughts on the mystery packages the kids sell? I thought the one I bought was a great deal, but I'm still on day one so I don't trust my judgement... and it was only one so I may have just gotten lucky.

[Golden_Duke]

Originally posted by Ender:

Any thoughts on the mystery packages the kids sell? I thought the one I bought was a great deal, but I'm still on day one so I don't trust my judgement... and it was only one so I may have just gotten lucky.

Just some tradable items like matches, needles, sometimes nuts, sometimes other packages (yep, a package in a package, lol). Not worth it imo.

[Lantantan]

Originally posted by Ender:

Any thoughts on the mystery packages the kids sell? I thought the one I bought was a great deal, but I'm still on day one so I don't trust my judgement... and it was only one so I may have just gotten lucky.

Oef good but tough question. I think the individual value the items you get from a package (bought for 8) is between 6 and 10, with values typically being above 8. So typically it is a profit. Should you buy it though? The real value is that it turns kid trade goods into other kid trade goods (and some food). So its good if you want to diversify that 20 stack of (i.e.) needles, but not worth spending your last 4 needles on.

[Lantantan]

Added some Schmowder buying tips, please add some more!