Hello Everyone.

My character is now an expert at haggle. The manual says "merchants will buy anything, even things they normally would not.", but I still cannot sell most of my junk to merchants?

Is this a bug? Is there a limit to what items each merchant buys? Is this fixed by the Unofficial patch?

Many Thanks.

You can't sell every piece of junk you can find. For example you'll be never able to sell metal shavings, charcoal or rags, but you can sell railroad spikes, mufflers or flintrock and revolver parts, etc. Obviously not all merchants want to buy these low-value items. Best places to try would be: tech smith, gunsmith, inventor or healer (Gaylin in Shrouded Hills is a good example).

More annoying is that you can't sell Molotov cocktails - they should pay at least 5GP each - damn, they're surely worth more than a railroad spike! :)

different merchants buy different things, generally if you just want to dump stuff a junk vendor is the best place to go (as the generally buy anything)
edit: they generally pay the second lowest, only place you will sell for a worse price is a fence.
Junk such as charchoal, engine muffler, rags etc will never be able to be sold, as its generally viewed as something you just want to get ridd of.

The barter skill does NOT increase chance that someone will be interesed in an item, but generally increase the price their willing to pay for an item they're allready intereseted in.

Ah - one more merchant type that is willing to buy low-value junk is... tailor. :o

Thanks a lot for the help.

I guess that means the manual has an error. Oh well, I better dump all the junk I have been carrying around.

The statement "merchants will buy anything, even things they normally would not." means only that, that merchants don't restrict buying stuff to a certain class of things, but they buy things from any class (weapons, armour, clothes, magickal items, tech components, etc.). It doesn't mean they buy EVERY thing, but things from EVERY class.

BTW - the only completely useless thing is metal shavings (you can use charcoal to make bullets and rags for Molotov cocktails), although I think I've seen a mod somwhere that makes them usable for something, but I didn't care enough to try it out. :)