I wonder how much merchants make a day

I was once running around an explorable area and saw some merchants with big sacks selling all their vendor trash to monsters.
Monsters have money and probably sentimental attachments to things taken off their killed friends and would pay anything for them back.

I say they melt it down and make counterfeit gold coins to pay people for their trash, err I mean loot.

They pay that loot as tax to the prince ruric.

So a dead guy is collecting taxes?

9001g I'd say

OMG! Dude! Spoiler tags!

*stomps away and throws out Prophecies in anger*

Your fogetting when people accidently sell their golds aswell. darn i sold my req 7 uber sword of uberness....merchant rushes to kamedem spamming WTS

Seriously, lol.... Koss must be so rich by now! And what do heros spend their riches on anyways? It sure isn't equipment...

Ale, he should be max ale hound level by now hrmm.....

I think he spends it on getting high and women.

I salvage 90% of the white/blue drops that i actually pick up, so they dont get alot of stuff from me, other then crap golds with a good merch value.

Merchant economic theory:

1. Buy millions of non-max white weapons
2. ??
3. Profit

Its simple really...make a deal with Material Traders.

1. Buy millions of non-max white weapons.
2. Salvage
3. Sell materials at about 75% of their value to Material Traders.
4. Profit

I have wondered what happens to crafting materials, dyes, runes, etc. that are sold to the merchant instead of their respective traders. The traders sell what we sell to them. Does that mean if 'we' don't sell to traders, they would eventually run out? Or do the merchants do as kazjun asked?

*Maybe sees way to change the supply in the supply and demand scenerio.*

well they should resell the dye to ther proper merchant at player selling price.

Yes. It's even happened occasionally - Minor Vigor runes had a tendency to sell out when a new chapter came out, for instance, and each time it's happened they've been more expensive when they came back on the market.

Oh, the merchants use their super secret Salvage Kits they only keep to themselves, to salvage all the items into Ectos. They then chip in at the Rare Material Trader.

And what does the Rare Material Trader do? Easy! He makes a fortune re-selling them to lazy eBay goldbuyers who want easy FoW!

..........they take negative gains from buying loot etc...

and the nerfs from loot drops compensate for the lost

QQ

interesting question, but probably billions+...++?...+++?.

minus the amount they buy from players....++amount they make from traders(kits etc)....money pretty much recycles. (to us, to them haha...endless)

lol

they only time the mercents make money is when the normal player is says CRAP and sells something they shouldn't have sad but true it is a way for the game to get rid of excess stuff that nobody in there right mind would keep or use