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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4571416" data-attributes="member: 29398">That right there is the biggest underlying mistake of this whole affair: that you'll always be selling magic items to a merchant.  It makes far more sense to think you'll most often be selling them direct to other adventurers, via contacts made through guilds, taverns, and so forth...and when selling direct like this, you'll get far more than 20%, too. (unless, of course, your DM is willoing to let you *buy* from other adventurers at 20% also; it has to work both ways...)Again, solved if you're instead selling (usually) to other adventurers, at close to full price; or as close as the DM is willing to let you buy items at when you're on the other end of the transaction.The corollary here, of course, is that the items for sale at any given time are going to be (and have to be!) RANDOM.  If a character is looking for a specific thing - let's say a longbow +2 - then you as DM quickly determine the chance of one being for sale right now, and roll.  If players simply ask "what's for sale" then you'll have to generate a shopping list - this takes time and is something that desperately needs a computer program to help with - of some random stuff that other adventurers are trying to part with.Lanefan</blockquote>