Selling and Buying Rules
| NPC shops pay | 60% of an item's listed price, at least 1 Veso |
|---|---|
| Cannot be sold to NPCs | Items with no listed price, items marked not for sale, VX Prepaid and Game Cards |
| Buyback | Anything you sell can be bought back for the same Vesos for 24 hours (last 100 sales), and lost drops for 24 hours |
| Sell All | One click sells the plain loot of the tab you are viewing |
| Trade / stores / Item Trading Center | Everything except untradeable quest items and official MSU items |
| Fees | Trade: 0.8% to 6% for the receiver. Store sales: 0.4% to 3%. Item Trading Center: 100 VX + 10% for the buyer |
This page collects the rules for turning items into Vesos (or VX) and back. For the shops themselves see NPC Shops, Player Stores, Trading and the Item Trading Center.
Selling to NPC shops
- Throwing stars and bullets sell as a whole stack, for the stack's listed price plus its per-piece value.
- An item with no listed price sells for nothing and cannot be sold. So do items marked not for sale, and the daily VX Prepaid Cards.
- An item sealed with an Item Guard cannot be sold until the seal ends.
- A shop's buying price is never lower than what it would pay you back, so you can never make Vesos by buying from a shop and selling back.
Sell All
The shop window's Sell All sells, in one go, the tab you are looking at:
- ETC and other tabs: plain monster loot only. It keeps quest items, untradeable items, crafting and Maker materials, items any NPC exchange or travel NPC asks for, throwing star and bullet stacks, timed items, starred (favourite) slots and anything worth 1 Veso or less.
- Equip tab: every equip that is not starred, except quest items, MSU items, sealed items and gear with no price.
You see the total and what is kept before you confirm.
Buyback
Every sale (including each Sell All line) is kept on your character's buyback list for 24 hours. Buy it back for exactly what the shop paid you, as long as it fits your bag. The list holds your 100 most recent sales.
Items you drop that nobody picks up before they disappear from the ground also wait in the Buyback tab of any shop for 24 hours, at the shop's sell price (at least 1 Veso). An item another player picked up never comes back. See NPC Shops.
Buying from NPC shops
You pay the shop's price. Rechargeable ammunition is bought as a full stack. A shop refuses a purchase if you are short of Vesos or have no room.
Between players
- What can change hands: everything except untradeable quest items (the ones a quest needs) and official MSU items. Cash items, scrolls, chairs, medals and reward gear can all be traded, sold in stores and listed in the Item Trading Center. Dropping items on the ground follows stricter rules.
- Trades: the player who receives Vesos pays a fee: none under 100,000, 0.8% from 100,000, 1.8% from 1,000,000, 3% from 5,000,000, 4% from 10,000,000, 5% from 25,000,000 and 6% from 100,000,000. Under level 15 a character may trade at most 1,000,000 Vesos a day. See Trading.
- Player stores: a Store Permit (Hired Merchant) costs 100,000 Vesos and a Regular Store Permit 30,000, from Fredrick. Each sale is taxed: none under 100,000, 0.4% from 100,000, 0.9% from 1,000,000, 1.5% from 5,000,000, 2% from 10,000,000, 2.5% from 25,000,000, 3% from 100,000,000. Money and goods left with Fredrick after a store closes lose 1% for each full day, and are gone after 100 days. See Player Stores.
- Item Trading Center: prices are in VX, at least 110. Listing costs 5,000 Vesos and lasts 7 days (10 listings at a time); the buyer pays the price plus 100 VX plus 10%, the seller gets the full price. See Item Trading Center.
Common problems
- "The shop pays less than the item's price." That is the 60% rule above.
- "Sell All left items behind." On purpose: quest items, materials and starred items are kept. The confirm lists what was kept.
- "I sold the wrong thing." Use the buyback list within 24 hours.
- "I dropped an item and it vanished." If nobody picked it up, it is in any shop's Buyback tab for 24 hours.