Each merchant in Skyrim belongs to a certain type and is engaged in the purchase and sale of things of a certain class. Yes, after activating the corresponding Skyrim Speech skill perk, any merchant will buy any items from you. However, this will not happen soon and not for everyone. Because not every hero will invest the perks that are so necessary for character development in non-core areas. So, as a standard, you won’t be able to sell good-quality iron armor to a local magician or healer. However, some merchants are distinguished by a high degree of versatility, so that already within the same city you can conveniently and quickly sell trophies of various types without any special problems.
Skyrim Trader Types
Innkeepers are also involved in buying and selling items, and they are distinguished by a sufficient degree of promiscuity, so that you can sell them a lot. However, selling stolen goods is a separate issue in Skyrim, and respectable merchants will not buy stolen goods from you; such items will not even appear in the trade menu. If you want to get rid of items that were not obtained through dangerous wanderings and bloody battles, you will need to look for a dealer in The Elder Scrolls, so you are ordered to join the Skyrim thieves guild, separate articles have been written about this on the site. But almost all representatives of the trade of the world of the Ancient Scrolls will happily buy ordinary items from you, if this type of goods interests them. However, do not be surprised at such low prices when selling hard-won property, and do not be surprised at the scrap prices for foreign goods. The “value” indicator for items shows the real price of the item, something like the exchange rate of the central bank of the Nords, so the difference between the purchase and sale prices of merchants should not be scary, but it cannot but be alarming.
Price difference in Skyrim
This injustice can be corrected by you in the near future, or rather slightly corrected. Many speech skill perks affect pricing, that is, your things begin to be accepted at more reasonable prices, and sales prices return from heaven to earth, in any case, they begin to steadily strive towards it. However, if you don’t want to spend free perks on trading, then you can do it this way.
Do you need money in Skyrim?
However, it should be noted that the use of gold coins in Skyrim can be found very easily, much easier than in the previous series of the Elder Scrolls, also described on the site. In Oblivion it was possible to get by with modest sums; the same can be done in Skyrim, but with great difficulty. Because then there will clearly not be enough money to buy a house, equip it, and learn skills from many masters. You may also like this or that artifact, the prices for which are considerable from merchants.
Merchant Gold is Limited in The Elder Scrolls 5
It is also worth considering the fact that merchants will not buy absolutely all items from you. Trophies that your hero, having already lost the ability to run from overload, with the last of his strength, will put on the counter. Skyrim merchants also have limited money. Technically, it will be possible to continue selling to him, but not to receive hard cash for it. However, The Elder Scrolls 5 has an answer to this as well, in the form of another speech skill perk.
Should you develop trade perks in Skyrim?
So developing the skill of eloquence can be a useful idea, however, I’m still developing the character’s profile skills, and I’m not spending money.. Now let’s move on to the fact that the range of merchants undergoes significant changes in the process of passing Skyrim. Which is not very logical, but is objectively necessary to preserve the game mechanics.
Higher level means better things?
Despite numerous assurances regarding the leveling system in Skyrim (when the game adapts to the player’s level), one cannot help but notice an interesting feature. The range of merchants over time, according to the development of your character, becomes richer and elven armor and arrows quietly and smoothly appear among local shopkeepers who traded in rusty steel armor. There is a fact of updating the assortment of stores in Skyrim, which occurs as our hero develops. Some of the illogicality of this action can be explained by the fact that traders find new suppliers of goods. In any case, there is no alternative to this adaptation option.
Are all merchants in Skyrim equal or not?
After all, otherwise, if you initially divide merchants according to the quality of goods, you will be able to buy a decent weapon at the start of Skyrim, thereby gaining a gaming advantage (the well-known solution in Fallout 2 works in a similar way). So even in the most remote province of the Nords, in the future it will be possible to replenish the supply of high-quality arrows or buy other modern equipment that is so necessary in the fight against dragons.
Merchants in Skyrim are those who sell a wide variety of things and to whom you can sell all the unnecessary loot of the main character. They are usually found in all cities and small settlements, and sometimes roam along the roads. All merchants specialize in goods of different categories.
The gold reserves of Skyrim merchants, just like their assortment, are far from unlimited. True, after some time the assortment is replenished, so before making another purchase from the same seller, it is better to wait a few days.
Pharmacists and jewelers
Pharmacists, who are also alchemists, buy and sell various alchemical products. They typically trade in animal parts, cooked and uncooked food, a variety of ingredients, dangerous poisons, elixirs and recipes.
You can turn to jewelers for valuable stones, jewelry, ore, ingots, and tools.
Flea dealers and blacksmiths
The first category of merchants in Skyrim specializes in a little bit of everything. Most of the items come true to them. Flea dealers have a special column in the trade section called “Miscellaneous” - it contains goods of various types and categories.
Blacksmiths specialize in certain things: hides, armor and armor, arrows, ore/ingot fragments, various tools, and weapons of all types.
Innkeepers and Spell Providers
Traders who are classified as innkeepers often do not own inns themselves. Their usual selection always includes items such as food, unprepared food and ingredients.
Spell suppliers are also Skyrim merchants. They usually make money by selling magical things, so these merchants are well versed in books, various spells, soul stones, enchanted clothes, and so on. Vendors can also be contacted for Daedric artifacts, ancient scrolls, spell tomes, and magical staves.
Hunters and farmers
In addition to official traders, goods of a certain type are also accepted by hunters and farmers. The former are interested in those things that are usually obtained during hunting or fishing, and the latter - in what grows in the fields and beds.
Hunters live in special camps and are sometimes found in city markets. Farmers farm near their homes and can be found anywhere in Skyrim.
Buyers of stolen goods
The last category of merchants in Skyrim are buyers of stolen goods. They work for the Thieves Guild and do business only with its members - otherwise they simply cannot be reached. Typically, the player only gains access to the buyers after completing certain quests. At first, there are only a thousand gold coins in their accounts, but as the Guild improves, this amount gradually increases (the limit is 40,000 coins).
Buyers are the only merchants who accept stolen items. In addition, they can sell goods of absolutely any category.
Dremora Trader
With the Dragonborn expansion for Skyrim, players were able to summon a special merchant straight from Oblivion itself. His appearance, although reminiscent of other dremora, is still closer to human.
A merchant can be summoned for only fifteen seconds, and the time required to examine the goods does not count. You can fulfill the call endlessly, without any waiting. The buying and selling process is exactly the same as with regular sellers.
The Dremora merchant has two thousand septims with him. He is interested in things of any type and class, except those that have been stolen. It is also worth noting that the player cannot use his eloquence on Dremora (not a single level).
How to sell an item?
In order to start the trading process, you need to find special NPC characters who specialize in this area. You need to start a regular dialogue, and then select the option of the remark “What is for sale?” (or an analogue of this replica).
A new window should appear on the screen with the name of the merchant and the categories of things he sells. At the bottom of the window you can see the name of your own character and all of his inventory.
It is worth noting that not every seller will be interested in a particular item. You can notice this trend through your inventory, in which some things will be highlighted and some will not. To sell any unnecessary item to a merchant, just select it and press the R key. By the way, you need to buy goods in the same way.
Useful money mods
Skyrim merchants almost always have a limited supply of gold. Typically, this problem is solved in several ways: the player can start doing business only with buyers from the Thieves Guild, or he can use special modifications that expand trading opportunities.
One of the most popular mods is “Rich Merchants of Skyrim”. It was created specifically for those cases when players who had accumulated a large amount of loot had to look for several sellers at once in order to sell all their goods. The "Rich Traders" mod increases the account of each trader to 20,000 gold coins. This amount appears to them every time a couple of days after the location is updated.
Another interesting mod adds a completely new merchant to the game named Ma"jahar. Ma"jahar is a Khajiit who is located at the gates of Whiterun and offers his services to the player. He always has a lot of gold with him, which he happily exchanges for any things. In addition, the Khajiit can easily replace the buyers of the Thieves Guild, since he also accepts stolen items.
A simple modification increases the initial amount of gold in the cash register of each store. Very often the available septims are not enough for a normal transaction. By installing a mod in Skyrim, rich merchants can be found in any outback.
You will no longer have to travel around the major cities of Skyrim and talk to the character at every counter. This may not be the most honest way to get a little rich, but trading with the mod will be much easier.
There are two plugin options to choose from:
1. Rich merchants 1 - there will be ten thousand septims at the store cash registers (instead of the standard seven hundred and fifty).
2. Rich merchants 2 - there will be two thousand septims at the store cash registers.
Installation procedure:
Select one of the modification options from the archive;
Unzip it by placing the DATA folder in your Skyrim root directory;
Confirm replacing files if necessary;
Activate the application through the launcher.
After installing the mod, Skyrim merchants will become rich in two in-game days - during this period the contents of the stores are updated.