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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1088817" data-attributes="member: 3051">Archer: see the "ugly threshold" part of the process.The concept is like this: if an item is worth 100, the merchant's opening price is 150.  It's the sticker price.As you haggle, he slowly decreases his price while your offer raises, until the two meet.  How fast they decrease/raise depends on your CHA; at CHA 10 you give ground equally and meet at a price of 125, but if you had a CHA of 20 he might be far more willing to drop his price quickly, resulting in a price of 112.5.When selling an item, it's the same in reverse; his initial offer will be 50% before you even start haggling.With CHA 5, he doesn't budge from his initial prices (X=50).  If your CHA was less than 5, you're always paying sticker price, assuming he even talks to you at all.Part of the reason to cap it is that many of the factors I mentioned in step 2 (race, especially) actually are added/subtracted from your CHA in step 1, so it's actually possible to end up with a negative CHA.  That's bad for math, so I cap it at a minimum.</blockquote>