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Ok, I have NPC vendors at the moment. I split my resources up in my inventory and put them on my vendor. I had the price incorrect however so I cancelled all the sales and tried to retrieve my resources for my stockroom. Now the bug seems to work like this.

Let's say you have 10k steel and you split it into 2k piles to put on your vendor. Now after you place them on your vendor if you cancel the sales so that all the piles go into your stockroom; you will only be able to retrieve 1 of those 5 piles(it is usually the first pile you put up for sale). When you retrieve this pile you will again have 10k steel in your inventory but you will also have 4 piles of 2k steel in your stockroom on your vendor. You can never retrieve that 8k steel in the stockroom because it is now bugged and duped. You can continue to do this over and over and over again thus making it appear that you have a ton of steel on your vendor. You can put this duped resource up for sale but no one will ever be able to retrieve it.

It works this way for every resource because I also tried it with 10k wind power where I split it up into 5k piles. I was only able to retrieve the first pile I put up for sale and in doing so I had 10k power back in my inventory and 5k in my stockroom still.

I just want to know if it is only the NPC vendors that do this or is it all the types that do it. I was wanting to open a resource shop but with the bug it will be impossible. My customers could buy the resources but they would never be able to collect them except for the lucky guy that picked the one I put up for sale first and then he would get the whole lot.

I sent a ticket with regards to this bug as I think it has been around for a while. I too am hoping to open a resource shop and asked if this bug had been fixed yet. The reply I got was "thanks for informing us of this bug and please /bug it giving as many details as possible." I'm gonna be running a few tests on this tomorrow hopefully, I'm thinking that perhaps multiple vendors may be a way of bypassing it. I will also try using the different vendors but if I can find no way around this issue the shop aint gonna happen.

I'm curious. How do you think having multiple vendors is a way to bypass it? By splitting up the resources and putting them on different vendors? I will run some of these tests right now and get back to you.

Ok, after a lot of testing this is what I have found out. The multiple vendor trick does work as long as you don't have more than 1 pile that has been split from the main pile on the vendor. It also seems that it is only the NPC vendors that are bugged this way. I used 2 different types of the droid vendors and they did not dupe any of the resources after many tests with different resources.

Yup that was my plan but having tried different types of vendors and just cancelling trades I found that I could not retrieve split items from my stockroom using NPC vendors but could with no problems using the bazaar terminal type vendors. I'll have to wait until a friend logs on to try this out with the full standard sale but hopefully this might be ok.

Ok, keep me posted on your results.

Yes it is only the NPC Vendors who mess up like this as far as I have been able to tell, I use the Vendor that loks like a Bazaar Machine for my Resources and have no problems with it all.

DONT USE NPC's if your selling resources.