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I have a few questions about merchants:

1. what do merchants do? I know they sell stuff but...

2. Is being a Merchant a good job?

3. I have heard Merchants can have shops i this is true how do i get one?

4. What are the benefits of being a merchant?

I hope you can answer my questions thanks a lot.

merchant is for some a main profession for others a side cart to get a shop you need to have buisness three at at the least a small house you put a vendor in there and you can charge money for the items you put in there if you want it for a main career you will need to have friends or contacts that craft items and are willoing to givwe you large orders for a percentage off you then sell those items at a markup at you shop through your vendor

What?

1. You are right merhants sell stuff. Thats about it. There are some nice features to selling the stuff though! One thing i like about the proffession is that maintenance fees are less. Good for our PA hall.

2. Depend what good is to you. I like it because its not really a hard proffesion. You may spend 3 hours when you first start then all you have to do is pay your maintanace and make sure you have your vendor stocked and you will be making xp. It really a money making professon. And I think merchant will eventuall make alot of money in the future when ppl stop using the bazaar.

3. You need to place a small house (any size will do but i suggest starting with a small house) and once you have reached business 3, in the building options you will be able to place a vendor. A vendor is very similar to the bazaar but there isnt a 3k cap (making it more suitable for droid engineers, armorsmiths, weaponsmiths, and arcthitects to sell there items).

4. There are many benifits. I suggest you hit Cntl S and go to merchant ansd read over all the stuff it gives you. You gont gain many skills and new items, but if you leave the mouse on each skill for a few second a discription of what you can do will pop up.

I hope i helped. And before you start working on Merchant you should know this isnt a very good main profession. I am going to be a smuggler and I am doing Merchant on the side (however I am working more towards merchant atm..lol)

Actually I added up all the skill points and I have enough to become master Merchant and master Smuggler...Then become novice Architect and go all the way up any branch. I chose building homes. You could swith out architect and replace it with: Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, or droid engineer as you will still only need engineering 4 as a pre req and go up 1 branch in there.

OR

You dont have to even start with engineering, you could pick up tailor or chef inDomestic arts. Depending on what other professions you have, if you have saymaster pistol you could go up the pistoleer tre a bit.

Anyways I have gotten completely off topic so you can figure it out. Good luck!

Merchant isn't a good main profession? Since when? I'm a pure merchant, I have no combat skills, and I'm loving it. I spend 5 hours every night selling, fielding requests, and buying gear from my suppliers.

can some one please tell me were on tatooine i can find a merchent trainer please , thanxs

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Hi,

My holocron told me to becom a Master Merchant. I previously only had batte skills, so this is a new experience too me. But I have a few questions I hope someone know theanswer too :-)

1: What makes Merchant XP? ( Someone told me it was no way of speeding the xp, it only depended of how many vendors I got ??)

2: If the rumour is true. D a m n, but willmy vendors create more merchant XP if they are placed apart for eatch other ? (Different planets)

Plz reply !

Read the guide....

Hi guys

have had a vendor up and running for 24 hours now and only gotten 150 xp, any ideas? maintenance is paid and vendor is initilised.

Thanks for your help

I'm having trouble getting my xp too. I've had two vendors forever for my weaponsmith business, and was at 4-0-0-4. I decided to go ahead and master merchant before I become a holo whore. Put down my other 4 vendors and i still only get the 300 xp for my original two. I hope they fix this soon.

Well you can only get like 250xp per visit every 15minutes. No matter if its different vendor