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I found a few answers browsing, but I still have a couple. I am only on Business II, but close to III. I already have a house.

1) How much is a vendor actually? It seems like you pay based on what you have in there but I can't tell for sure.

2) Do you just place them for free?

3) Does it cost to put things on your own vendor? Or is it again just maintenance?

4) I'd like to get to Novice Merchant and up the advertising tree some. I don't plan on mastering it (I wish I could though). What advantage is there tothe actual Merchant profession? I'm not sure I totally understand the benefit of the shouts your vendor can do. If my house is out a ways, does it just sit there and spam shouts every 5 or 10 minutes? Or only say something if someone actually comes in?

5) Are there any major "gosh I wish I had known that" issues between Business III and Novice Merchant?

Thanks

It is supposed to be by volume I believe but the NPC merchants that you can get as a Novice merchant are stuck at Maint rate of 1. I don't think it is very high even when packed pretty good on the elec vendors. I am sure that will be fixed sooner or later

There is no charge to create or place the vendor.

There is no posting fee for your vendor.

I can't think of anything that was much of a shock. Except the bugs in the profession. Some of those are fixed but more work remains to be done. The training is expensive and there aren't many merchants in the galaxy so be warned that you will probably be paying a lot for training.