Hopefully they give you an answer - I agree, we've found a few things that make the game broken pretty easily (with at least two free money bugs). I like how they only let you purchase 5 training total per level.

I'm generally keeping to the merchant restrictions now, give or take a thou, despite the fact that the game isn't doing it for me. Sometimes you gotta sell that expensive item though, and there isn't a creeper or mudcrab to leverage your sales on.

The way a merchants gold is handled is not a bug. A merchant with an $800 gold limit will not buy anything worth more than $800. Well they will buy it but will not pay full price.

Every merchant I've sold to have unlimited gold, but will not pay more than thier "cash limit" for an item. I have seen this happen with an item that i accidently sold that was worth at least twice what i recieved for it. The merchant gave as much gold as his "cash limit" when i sold that item.

Earlier posts (unless I'm misunderstanding them) have said that they actually will pay more than their limit.

We're going to have to take this to the designers, aren't we

LOL axebane. You're not paying much attention but I'll repeat myself. I play a 360 - don't know if you do. Last night I sold another expensive object (a $6000 ring). The merchant PAID me that much for it, despite a limited max of 800. I watched it happen. It is a bug. For sure. No kidding. No sell limit on my box.

OK, that's a bug, but I don't think the fact that you can sell as many items as you want to for a lower price than it's limit is a bug. Maybe the bug is only on X-box, or? (I play on PC)

this is happening to me aswell. I sell my stolen goods to a fence and he has, what, 800? his gold supply doesn't go down.

Edit: I'm on the pc btw

This post has been edited by Soulseeker3.0: Mar 29 2006, 04:15 AM

Resurrecting the thread to see if this is still happening to any 'boxers out there.
I tested it at the time just to be sure it was happening, and observed it numerous times ( I even sold a $1200 item for that amount to a $50 innkeeper).
As of about Thurs/Fri last week, the merchants started paying their max only for any single item/sale, but continued allowing multiple sales. Yes, I do log into Xbox live every time I play.
Interesting.

This post has been edited by Furious_George: Apr 3 2006, 03:56 PM

OK, on PC, they don't deplete their gold resources per item sold....ie. sell 50G item to 200G merch, and they still have 800, this isn't/shouldn't be a bug. I tried to sell a 1200G item to a 800G merch and he said he couldn't buy it, so mine is working as it is supposed to, sorry about lack of immersion for you 'boxer's out there.

btw I like this system better b/c I wasn't prone to dropping 20,000 gold items either. And waiting for a day just to sell more got really old.

So you think that Bethesda is doing automatic patching on Xbox Live? Interesting.

I am playing IV on a 360 and I have to say that I am not having your problem. The merchant's money never goes down (I think this was intended.) But unlike some, on my game, if the merchant has an $800 sell limit and I have $900 sword, the most I can get for it is $800. I think this is how it is supposed to be, but I could be wrong. So I guess your problem isn't global. Your merchants don't have a sell limit and mine do. This is quite odd.

I've had a few others make the same comment. I have no other evidence for it except that for the first 5 or so days after release merchants paid over the maximum for items. I have no other way to explain it....
and as several others have stated, it was never a problem for PC.

I'm not on live, never have been, so I can test you theory tonigh when i get home, though i think I tried selling a coat of tounges or something like that which is worth 2800 to a merchant and only got 800 for it, their total gold amount, i will try again and see what happens

I dont have this glitch, i can only sell for what the merchant has in gold, so i only get 800 for a 3000 item