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Get a house, access the structure control module, choose create vendor, choose your options, open your inventory, drop it, initialize it, pay maintenance, access it, put up things for sale

You are likely to encounter a problem that you cannot initialize it. Read the sticky on the Merchant forum for the correct procedure. It sounds like a lot of meaningless arm waving, but many people find it is the only way to get machine vendors to work.

I placed and replaced about 20 vendors in my house, but never encountered the problem. Guess it's 'cause I don't live on corellia