Stores/Markets/Brokers Guide : EverQuest 2 Nerfed Info

Stores/Markets/Brokers Guide

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.

Stores/Markets/Brokers Guide

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.

. Better highlighting of the Broker Fee in the Broker Window. The prices in the Results list of the broker window reflect the fee, but the selected item panel does not. If the item is purchased from the broker, the Broker will charge the higher of the two prices which includes the broker fee (20%). The buyer can save the broker fee by going to the seller's house and buying directly from the seller.

• In the Market and Broker windows, items in the Find Results list will include a more precise seller's address. Currently it lists just the seller's name along with the name of the zone that contains the house from which they are selling. More precise info will be provided soon that will make it easier to find seller's selling from their own house as well as seller's selling from a house where they have trustee access.

• Set multiple item prices and list multiple items for sale with multi-select.

• Item prices and listed for sale status will save—more convenient than having to set prices each time you return to your house, which is how it works now.
• Adding examine item buttons to the Broker and Market windows. For now, right-click on the item and select "Examine".

• The Sales log will list items as they are purchased.

• Fences charge 40% more coin but currently provide access only to the local market. For this fee, they will provide access to items listed in all markets.
Known Issues

• The Store Merchandise list re-sorts when for sale status or item price is changed. This Stores/Markets/Brokers Guide might be confusing, so be aware of this. This should be fixed in next week’s update.

• In the Results of the Broker window, when an item is purchased it is not removed from the list. Note that it cannot be purchased again once it has been purchased. Currently refreshing the status of these items requires pressing the Find Items button.

• Stacked items show up as a single item.

Old useless info, moving to Nerfed Info Board.