Opening a Store, Selling on the Market, and Buying from Brok : EverQuest 2 General Discussions

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In anticipation of questions on how to use the market, here's an explanation of how things work
Place a Market Bulletin Board inside your House
Once you own a house of any type including an Inn Room or Small Apartment, you can open a store from there to sell items. To open a store, you must purchase a market bulletin board from a furniture merchant in East Freeport or North Qeynos. Place this on the wall inside your house. Once placed, right click on the market bulletin board and select "Access my store". This opens the store window.

The Store Window
Use the Store Window to set item prices, list items for sale, and start selling.

The store window has two tabs: Merchandise and Sales Log. Unequipped items and empty bags on your person appear in the Merchandise tab. Each item has a price and a for sale status. Select an item and set the price by pressing the "Set Item Price" button. Enter the price by typing the number and the coin type and then press OK. List the item for sale by pressing the "List Item for Sale" button. Similarly, to unlist an item select the item and press the "Unlist Item for Sale" button. The same functionality can be accessed from the right-click context menu.

The cities of Qeynos and Freeport each have their own market. Press the "Browse the Market" button to browse items that other people have for sale in your Market. This opens the Market Window.

When you are ready to make your items available for others to purchase, press the "Start Selling" button. You become a merchant at this point, with the title "Merchant" in front of your name. The default access level for your house is increased to "Visitor" to allow people to enter and buy items from you. The items you offer for sale are listed in your local market (Qeynos or Freeport).

Others can find your items through their own Market window or by visiting Brokers in your city. People can buy your items from the Brokers for an additional broker fee which is a percentage of the item price. People can save the broker fee by coming to your house and buying it from you directly. While selling in your house, other players can interact with you as a merchant. They can right click on you, select "Buy from Merchant" and the Merchant window will appear with your listed items for sale.

When you are done selling, press the "Stop Selling" button. If the default access level of your house was increased, it is decreased to its previous level.

The Market Window
You can use the Market Window to search the market.

Find items in the market by setting the Search values and pressing the Find Items button. Using the default Search values will find everything in the market. The Reset button resets the search values to their defaults. The Find Items button sends your Search to the market and the results of your search appear in the Results panel on the right.

Page through the results with the "Next" and "Previous" buttons. Jump to the first and last page with the "First" and "Last" buttons. The Search results list the item, the price, and the Seller Name and Location.

The Broker Window
The Broker window is used to buy items from other players through a broker. For this service, the broker charges the the buyer an additional 20% markup.

Several brokers can be found in your city. Right click on a Broker and select "Buy from Broker". The Broker window appears. Enter your Search and press Find Items. Similar to the Market window, Items in the Broker’s Market matching your Search filter appear in the Results panel. Select an item from the Results panel. Press the "Buy from Broker" button to buy the item through the broker.

The Black-Market
In addition to purchasing items for sale in your own city, you may choose to go with the more seedy black-market brokers. Certain underground brokers will allow you to purchase items from the opposing city (for a price, of course).

Ryan "Blackguard" Shwayder

Any hints on where to find black market peoples in FP?

East Freeport - off the docks behind the temple thing in the middle of the water.

how bout in qeynos

Does my merchandise stay up for sale while I'm not in game?

No

there is a guy with the first name "fence" in quenos harbor, he is a bit tricky to find thogh. You haev to swim under the floor where the actual piers of the harbor start and the stone of the city ends. Don't worry there is an air pocket.about in the middle on the bottem is a crack in the wall swim in there and up and you will find him, i think this is also where you get the betrayer quest

The fence, whom you buy stuff from the opposing city from, charges 40% extra, but he is NOT where you get the Betrayal quest, at least for Qeynos...
But the guy who DOES give you it is also in Qeynos Harbor...