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I came from EQ, & was very entrenched in the ways of dumping lewt on npc's everywhere for the quick, if lower, plat.

Now that I'm on the ground here in SWG, I'm accumulating random things that I don't feel a need to keep.

The bazaar seems very intimidating and not particularly easy to use. Much of SWG seems quite un-intuitive for the eq player of many years. I suppose this will ease up in time, but in the mean time, I'm kind of stuck on a number of things.

I'd love to be able to dump items on an npc vendor, knowing the return would be lower, but easier in the short run. Despite this, I can't find any such vendors. The only thing I've ever gotten a junk dealer to buy was during the tutorial. Since then, every single one I talk to, I get no option for selling anything, it defaults to me not having anything they're interested in. I have some apparently nice items, space stuff from battles won. But my inventory is full & I have no where to dump this stuff.

Can someone please offer me a clue? Thanks in advance!

Achernar of Intrepid

Achernar
Alliance Pilot of Intrepid

It depends on what you've got.

Looted ship components can be sold to chassis dealers (there's one in every starport). You get 1k per RE/certification level, so a Level 7 engine will net you 7k. The exception is level 10 looted items, these only sell for 500 credits. We're not sure if this is a bug, or if these "experimental" components just aren't desired by the dealers.

Junk dealers will also buy an assorted list of stuff. Not all junk dealers will buy all types of items. Some only want weapons (heck, the one in the Lucky Despot only wants melee weapons), others only clothing/jewlery. I think most dealers will take the true "junk" (broken datapads, the creature loots from Kash, etc). The prices aren't anything to write home about (20-50 credits for clothing, 50-100 for weapons IIRC) but cash is cash.

You can also occasionally loot components that replace parts for crafted items (usually weapons and armor). Things like "blaster power handlers", "advanced sword core", "basic battle armor core", etc. In my experience these are almost always worse than one made by a crafter with decent resources. I recall seeing a post over on the armorsmith board comparing looted cores, I'm not sure if there's one for weaponsmiths. Junk dealers won't buy these (or I haven't found one who will), so unless you know a weapon/armor smith willing to take them off your hands, you might as well delete them. Although maybe you should double check with someone who knows that business better than me.

There are loot components that can be used as optional enhancements; not replacing a craftable component. Those are generally off of high-end creatures (Krayt dragons, Gorax, Ackley, etc) so you probably haven't come across those yet.

Probably the best way to tell whether somethings worth anything is to do a search on your galaxy's trade forum for similar items, or see if you can find some for sale on the bazaar search or vendor search. If nothing else, if you see someone selling items that you've got, see if they're interested in taking them off your hands.

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Achernar
Alliance Pilot of Intrepid

Neghtasro Flywalker- The oldest newbie on Starsider.
Emise Flywalker- Whiniest person on Starsider (Just ask Serifin)

you can dump most of the loots on kashyyyk on junk dealers.

Other junk dealers are specialized, some only buy looted weapons, stuff like that.