Oblivion Remastered: Best Merchants To Sell Items To
Making money in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and its Remaster starts a bit rough, with bad prices, low availability of high-value items, and minimal ability to haul loot. Even so, if you know the right merchants to sell to, you can start building a bank account early. Luckily, you don't have to look far or do much.
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PostsA lot of the best merchants are exactly where you think they'd be: at the heart of Cyrodiil's commerce lines. However, there are a few particularities we'll cover here to give you the best set of merchants to offload your goods with.
The Best Merchants To Sell Loot To
There are dozens of merchants in Oblivion, and all of them are more than happy to buy items you don't need. And in most cases, the best place to do that is in the Imperial City Market District. However, you'll encounter two limitations. The first is the type of merchant you're talking to.
For the first hours of an Oblivion playthrough, you'll need to pick and choose where you sell your goods. Vendors typically only buy and sell items related to their trade. Alchemist shops, for instance, only deal in alchemy items.
General Stores, like the Copious Coinpurse, will buy just about anything that isn't stolen. When shopping there, you'll encounter the second limitation: the gold limit. That limit is the absolute maximum they will pay for any one item, regardless of its actual value.
Every vendor in Oblivion has an upper limit to the prices they'll pay for your loot items. That value can vary wildly depending on the type of vendor, what they sell, and where. An innkeeper, for instance, usually has a meager 50 gold limit, whereas a city merchant might have a limit as high as 800-1,000.
The best merchants to sell to have a limit of 1,200-2,000 gold, and they're few and far between. Here's a list of all of them:
Merchant
Location
Gold Limit
Item Type
Do they buy stolen goods (Fence)?
Orrin
Anvil Castle
1,200
Any
Yes, only after completing the Thieves' Guild quest, Taking Care of Lex.
Varel Morvayn
Anvil (Morvayn's Peacemakers)
1,200
Weapons and armor
No
Mach-Na
Cheydinhal (Mach-Na's Books)
1,200
Books
No
Rasheda
Chorrol (Fire and Steel)
1,200
Weapons and Armor
No
Rohssan
Imperial City (Fighting Chance)
1,200
Weapons and Armor
No
Palonirya
Imperial City Market District (Divine Elegance)
1,200
Non-armor clothing and robes
No
Phintias
Imperial City Market District (First Edition)
1,200
Books
No
Aurelinwae
Imperial City Market District (Mystic Emporium)
2,000
Magic and Alchemy supplies
No
Claudette Perrick
Imperial City Market District (The Gilded Carafe)
1,200
Alchemy ingredients, supplies, and potions
No
Nilphas Omellian
Imperial City Market District (The Merchant's Inn)
2,000
Any
No
Agnete the Pickled
Skingrad (Hammer and Tongs)
1,200
Weapons and Armor
No
Fathis Ules
Imperial City Elven Gardens District or Chorrol (The Oak and Crosier)
1,500
Any
Yes, only after completing the Thieves' Guild quest.
One additional note: when you reach level 50 in the Mercantile Skill, you can sell any item to any merchant, regardless of their stock type. Their prices don't get better, but the only limitation to selling is their gold cap.
How To Haggle
While all merchants have a gold cap, there's no limit to the number of items they can buy. Better yet, you can Haggle to get better prices up to the cap.
Haggling compares the merchant's current Disposition with the Sell Value percentage they use to price what they buy from you. The higher their Disposition, the better their purchase price.
For instance, if you have 100 Disposition with a merchant, you'll almost always be able to sell loot to them between 73-77 percent of an item's total value.
You can extend that ratio to other merchants at other Dispositions. On average, a merchant will always buy items from you for around 25 percent less than their base value.
Take time to adjust the Haggle slider up as high as you think you can push it. If the merchant accepts the selling price, you can go to town. The instant they refuse, start reducing the bar by one percent at a time until they start buying again.
How To Increase Merchant’s Gold Limit
While it's impossible to completely remove a merchant's gold limit, you can increase it significantly. The catch is, you'll need to invest a lot of time in leveling the Mercantile Skill.
When you reach Mercantile level 75, Expert, you can invest your own gold in their inventory to permanently increase their gold limit by 500. At Master Mercantile, level 100, every vendor will immediately and permanently have another 500 added to their gold limit.
These increases are based on the merchant's default gold cap, so if they could only buy up to 800 gold, you can increase that value to 1,800, and so on.
Lastly, increasing Mercantile is a laborious process, but also very straightforward: the more items you sell, the more the skill levels. Note that you don't gain any additional skill experience for selling stacks of items. It's best practice to sell items individually for optimal progress.
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