Merchants buy back at full price until you close the Store window

Bhryaen

BG's merchant system was corrected in later games by allowing you to toss items you've tentatively bought back into the merchant's inventory without losing anything- at least so long as you're still in the same Store session as when you "bought" it. BG, well... goes by the rule- "You touch it, you buy it."

The merchant system should also be corrected contrarily so that if you sell something that you later (during that Store session) decide you'd rather keep, you can buy it back at the same price.

The "all sales final" moment should happen when one closes the Store, not during the shopping... :-)

Bhryaen

Oh, for the hell of it I'll mention that adding this would require some scripting to keep from counting every resale as a sale- i.e., the way selling a single item reduces its price at the next time you sell it to that merchant. If you buy, say, a composite bow and decide to resell back before closing the Store, it shouldn't cause any drop in price for the sell price of composite bows you bring later. Just trying to preclude bugs... :-P

HeroicSpur

Very sensible suggestion. Accidental purchases can be really irritating.

Tanthalas

Its actually pretty funny that a lot of games come with a buyback option from merchants, but no sellback option.

Razor

I hardly bought anything in the merchants... too expensive. (only potions and arrows!)
Anyway Bhryaen more than a buyback the best is a confirm button. First move the items, check and press confirm, sold.
Both for sell and buy.

Bhryaen

@Tanthalas
True- I thought of that later and forgot to add it to the request. I better fix it in case they implement it halfway! hehe

Bhryaen

@Razor
The problem with that is that I can be finicky in stores, and sometimes I'll buy something before I recognize how much it was. Even with a "confirm" button I'd do that since only after doing it would I end up recognizing what I'd just done to my finances, or that I'd rather have the Scroll of Mirror Image than the Scroll of Fear, that sort of thing. Adding a "Confirm" prompt would only help if the problem was that I tend to accidentally buy things... which never happens. >:-)