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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5572002" data-attributes="member: 177">It can sell for full value, but you have expenses.  Taxes and the like many have already mentioned, but there's one I think got missed.Security.You're going to have a building loaded with highly useful, highly expensive items?  That sounds like a dungeon, but with fewer monsters - a soft target, easy pickin's as they say - some enterprising adventurers are going to wonder why they should go into the dungeon to find magic items, instead of breaking into your shop for them.  You'll require 24/7 security, of the quality to defeat a party of your power or higher.  And that's going to be a major overhead cost.  And, so while you can sell it for full cost, you have overhead that'll bite into your profits.  As a GM, I'd be happy to just say it all comes out in the wash, and you net 50%, just like you were selling the items normally.  As a GM, I'm not going to let you have your cake and eat it too - if you want to get more money out of those magic items than normal, that means you have to put something into the venture - time (your character tends the shop rather than adventuring), risk (your profits are not assured, or you personally occasionally are threatened) or something along those lines.</blockquote>