Vendor Prices

Buying and Selling Items
Each item has a list price that you can find in the encyclopedia.  Vendors sell items for a little bit more than this list price, however.  Each vendor has its own markup value.  For example, a hardware vendor marks up goods 12% and so it sells a pick for 1120 currants instead of 1000.

When selling, vendors give a significantly lower price.  Most vendors give 66% of the list price, but one type of vendor (traditionally the Tool Vendor, but we've been told it will move around) gives 75% instead.

These values are rounded to determine the value of each item, then multiplied by the number of items.  So if you sell 100 meat to the special vendor then you will get:

10 * 75% = 7.5, rounded to 8 * 100 = 800 currants
not
10 * 7.5 * 100 = 750 currants.

Upgrades
There are upgrades that increase the amount you can sell items for to a vendor and decrease the amount you have to pay when you buy items from a vendor.  Both of these cap out at 10%.  These upgrades are applied after rounding the final price of the item to the individual items price.  Thus, if you have the "Ultimate Closer" upgrade and you sell 100 meat to the tool vendor you will get:

10 * 75% = 7.5, rounded to 8 * 110% = 800, add another 10% = 880 currants
not

10 * 75% = 7.5, rounded to 8 * 110% = 8.8, rounded to 9 * 100 = 900 currants
and not

10 * 75% * 110% = 8.25, rounded to 8 * 100 = 800 currants

However, there is a bug in the display of the number of currants you will receive.  The amount the vendor tells you it will pay is based on the bottom calculation above, not the top one.  So if you sell 100 meats to the tool vendor the box will tell you you are about to receive 800 currants, but in reality you will receive 880.  (Thanks to commenters below for pointing this out).

Also note that the 10% vendor price reduction multiplies the price by 0.9 rather than dividing it by 1.1.  This is the intuitive meaning of a 10% reduction so there is no surprise, but it's worth noting that a 10% increase followed by a 10% reduction does not get you back where you started.


Markup
Vendor Buys at
Alchemical Tools Vendor
7%
66%
Animal Goods Vendor
9%
66%
Gardening Goods Vendor
8%
66%
Gardening Tools Vendor
5%
66%
Groceries Vendor
13%
66%
Hardware Vendor
12%
66%
Helga
10%
66%
Kitchen Tools Vendor
10%
66%
Meal Vendor
5%
66%
Produce Vendor
11%
66%
Tool Vendor
5%
75%
Toy Vendor
10%
66%
Uncle Friendly
10%
66%

2 comments:

  1. 12% of 1000 is 12?

    --Me, thankful for new mathemaglitch, but unable to let that pass

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  2. While my usual policy is to simply retroactively mean whatever I said when I make a typo, this one probably merits fixing. (For future reference, my example of price markups had the hardware vendor selling for 1012 rather than 1120)

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