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My holocron said I need to Master Merchant to continue on my path of enlightenment. Any good tips for a new merchant?

Here's the fastest route to Master Merchant, assuming that you have access to credits, Steel, Aluminum, Ore and asmall amount of Chemical:

1) Novice Artisan
2) Get a block of 2500 metal (any kind) and make survey devices.
3) After making 10 survey devices, train in Engineering I
4) After making 15 more survey devices, train in Engineering II
5) After making 25 more survey devices, train in Engineering III
6) Get, or make, 3 Structure Crafting tools
7) Get a block of 3600 Steel, 900 Aluminum, 900 Non-Ferrous Metal, 3000 Metal, 1500 Ore
8) Stand in front of an Artisan Trainer (or an artisan buddy)
9) Craft 2 Personal Mineral Extractors (use Practice!), train in Business I
10) Craft 2 Personal Mineral Extractors, train in Business II
11) Craft 6 Personal Mineral Extractors, train in Business III
12) Talk to someone who runs a "Mall", and get permission to place your first droid vendor. Keeping your vendor in a high-traffic area is the best thing you can do. Place a droid, give it some maintenance, and initialize it.
13) Craft more Personal Mineral Extractors to Get Business IV and Novice Merchant.
14) Sell the remaining resources on your vendor
15) Wait
16) Train up the "Additional Vendors" tree first - as soon as you can, place each new vendor you get in the same area.
15) Wait
17) Randomly train up the other skill trees - they really do not matter that much.
15) Wait

Steps 1-14 can take as little as an hour, if you have everything that you need on hand.

Thanks for the info. I made bone armor to get business 4 Just trying to find a mall to put my vendor in now.

Go up management first. More vendors = more exp.

Wow..I hope the day I get a holocron it tells me Master Merchant. I got it on monday.

Looks like we will be getting some fresh blood. Now others will get to experience our joy. :-)

Yea mastering merchant is easy just takes some time is all hehe

Kamayyk

Master Artisan

DE 4-3-4-4

My second holocron said Master Merchant so joining the fun with ya bro! I enjoy bartering of goods though.

Igoaf

i found a holocron and it told me to master merchant

i am a master marksman, master smuggler, flame4 (commando), dead-eye + quickdraw (pistoleer)

Add another one to the list.. just got the holo to tell me to master this profession. I'm not even an artisan yet so this is a good thread.

Thankfully my buddy is already a master architect and somewhere in the DE tree. I get to go sell his wares for him and don't even have to do the crafting part.

In the same boat as you guys...I was told to master merchant as well...good info here...I was 2 boxes from master BH...but i'll probably end up retraining all of it when i finish this master merchant business...lol...

Add me to the 'Oh God, Master Merchant? You suck Holocron' list

I to have had the Holocron tell me to become a Master Merchant.

I was reading the post above saying put the vendors in the same area. Is this true?

I have 3 vendors. 1-Corellia, 1-Tatooine, 1-Naboo. The tat and naboo ones are in my own home. The corellia one is at a friend's home.

Here's my problem. I'm supposed to get 150xp/hr for each of them, right? (450xp/hr total) Well, I ONLY get 150xp total an hour for all three of them. Basically, I'm missing 300xp.

Is there something I need to do here? All of them have something to sell, and have actually sold at least one item on each.