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New owner of a vendor here, loaded that puppy with all kinds of junk - 275 maint. fee - that's more than 5K a day?! I took most of the junk out, stayed the same. Than I took one of the expensive items out - made litle difference (donw to 265 when I took out 25K pistol), so am guessing its based on value of all items for sale?

Yeah, you want to keep your high-end stuff out of it unless it really moves.

I've noticed lagging in the update of the maintenance rate when you add and remove stuff, so be careful with checking it frequently while you're playing with it.

Thanks. I am BH/CH, don't make anyting (but harvest) and this was kind of resuply store at location where a lot of people hunt (SE on Lok). Put my own guns up there as "storage" - ones I buy at 8-10k - for "prohibitive price" of 20-25k. Next thing you know the **edit** thing sold! lol...

Almost as good as getting second bulk order for gas of a day - going to bazzar buying at x2 and selling per order at x2.5 ...

The maintenance fee is currently 1/1000th of the total sale value of what you have up for sale, every 30 minutes. This currently (unless it changed and I didn't notice) applies only to terminal and droid vendors, not to NPC vendors. There has been some indication that this will change to a "sales tax" at some point in the future, since maintaining a large stock on a vendor is pretty costly. (Just under 5% of sale value per day.) Because NPC vendors don't work for resources and because of the low margins I charge, I was forced back to using the bazaar for all of my resource sales (just couldn't drum up enough vendor business to make it worth it.)

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EuroTrash wrote:

Thanks. I am BH/CH, don't make anyting (but harvest) and this was kind of resuply store at location where a lot of people hunt (SE on Lok). Put my own guns up there as "storage" - ones I buy at 8-10k - for "prohibitive price" of 20-25k. Next thing you know the **edit** thing sold! lol...

Almost as good as getting second bulk order for gas of a day - going to bazzar buying at x2 and selling per order at x2.5 ...

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Hehehe... What a nice little sideline. Now find a weaponsmith willing to make you bulk orders (at a small discount) and watch your profits soar!

I think that the vendor charges something around 25% of your net charge price for maintainance.

Don't try to rip people off if you dont want to lose precious credits.

All i use is NPC vendors for resources for weeks not a single prob.

What skill do you need to get NPC venodors? What do you get with Business IV?

I think you need at least Novice Merchant to get NPC vendors. With Business IV you can get the robobartender vendor, which still has the same maintenance costs as the bulky vendor.

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