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cMurray

Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:02 pm

ok well is the best way to set up a vendor, put a LOT of items for 1 cred on it, then go on my 2nd account and buy them all?

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kayxfour

Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:22 pm

#2

Read the sticky

You can't grind merchant and you don't get exp for sales.

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Strikke

Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:20 pm

#3

Here it is:

Get Business III and place 1st vendor.

Get Business IV.

Get Novice Merchant and place 2nd vendor.

Get Management I through IV and place vendors each time you get one.

At Management IV, with all 6 vendors placed, you should be pulling over 18k of Merchant XP per day, without doing anything else.

Train other skills in Merchant as appropriate until you reach Master Merchant.

While you are waiting for Merchant XP, go grind another profession, since Merchant is a Holoprofession, mastering it won't open your FSCS, so you will be mastering at least one more profession after it anyway.

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Faellyn

Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:42 am

#4

cMurray wrote:

ok well is the best way to set up a vendor, put a LOT of items for 1 cred on it, then go on my 2nd account and buy them all?

Not only that, but you get more xp per each sale based on the resources that went into the item being purchased. So we all suggest that you load up your vendor with PA halls selling for 1 credit each. No need to read the FAQ or anything beforehand; we know how busy you are holo-grinding and all.

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jbeck

Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:44 pm

#5

Faellyn wrote:

cMurray wrote:

ok well is the best way to set up a vendor, put a LOT of items for 1 cred on it, then go on my 2nd account and buy them all?

Not only that, but you get more xp per each sale based on the resources that went into the item being purchased. So we all suggest that you load up your vendor with PA halls selling for 1 credit each. No need to read the FAQ or anything beforehand; we know how busy you are holo-grinding and all.

/sarcasm

And apparently your should tell Faellyn the location of your vendors. Because I'm sure he would be willing to view your vendor to give you extra merchant exp.

/end_sarcasm

You get NO merchant experience for sales.

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Doomstalker

Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:20 am

#6

Actually you CAN grind Merchant, Place 5 Small houses put access fee on them and get your friends to visit often.

If your rich and organised you can do this:

Place 5 houses, set access fee.

Get you mates (10+ works well) to visit the first house.

They leave and go to the second house.

You redeed the first house then place it again (this resets the Access fee timer) then set the access fee again.

By now you mate have moved on to the third house so you do the same to the second house.

Rinse Repeat.

Very expensive since you waste money every time you re-deed but if you want to grind then it IS possible.

testify4

Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:37 am

#7

I wouldn't dread Merchant as a holo grind, unless you are hating the fact that it would take about a month to do.

I have been levelling up Merchant, just letting the experience flow in as it may. As the others said, get Management I-IV and stash your vendors in the basement of your (public) structure. I am just goofing off and hunting with my friends now, and letting the Merchant experience work on autopilot. It's great since your vendors do all of your work for you.

In my case, I wanted to actually try the profession out, so I started mining resources and putting all of my loot together. I put a second house in a high traffic area by Theed and put two vendors in there (one for resources, one for loot). I am actually making money (I now have the best bank balance I have had since release ) and having fun with this profession. If I had more time to play and dedicate to crafting, I would look in to becoming a crafter and maintaining the business.

If you are adverse to waiting the month for the experience, you can try some of the entrance fee tricks to minimize your wait. I have talked to people that have mastered in days by setting up "merchant experience farms" of 10 homes with access fees, and paying people to run through them. I was considering that, but decided to enjoy the ride instead.

I am half-enclined to get Master Artisan and continue selling some low end stuff.

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