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Happens especially in web-based Flash Games: You may be the chosen one, they may plead with you to save their village/island/country/''world'' from destruction, but unless you rustle up an incredible amount of money (from behind the [[Insurmountable Waist Height Fence]] maybe?), you'll never get the best armor and weapons that you would need to do it with.
See also [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]], which is where shop prices steadily rise regardless of how much sense this makes, and [[Karl Marx Hates Your Guts]], where prices stay the same, again, regardless of logic. Also see [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]. This is averted with [[Hospitality for Heroes]].
Note: non-[[Video Game]] examples appear at the end of the page.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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** ''[[Final Fantasy Adventure]]'' Watts distills this trope to its essence. He accompanies you through a dungeon to get some silver he needs. Despite the fact that you're accompanying him on ''his'' quest so that he can get what he needs without dying, he ''still'' charges you full price for more items in the middle of said dungeon.
** It gets worse. After you finish the dungeon and Watts gets the silver, he goes back to the Dwarf Cave to forge equipment with it. Does he give you any for free? Of course not, he charges you full price for the sword and armor. You even have to get the silver helmet from a ''different shop''.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' can get rather silly about this. ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Radiant Dawn]]'' is especially bad near the end. {{spoiler|All of humanity is frozen in stone by an evil god. The only people still alive are your party, the enemies (brought back to life by the god to stop you) and a group of merchants following you.}} They STILL don't offer you a discount. The kicker? In a few cutscenes, they outright '''give''' you the [[Infinity
** It gets even sillier when you realize that they DID give your army a discount for one chapter earlier in the game, before {{spoiler|everyone was turned to stone.}} Why they didn't think to do so again is anyone's guess.
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' Completely [[Averted Trope|Averted]], once you encounter the Order. They give you the best ship in the game at that point for 1100 credits, when other ships are in the hundreds of thousands.
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' Huey, Dewey and Louie don't give a damn that their [[Donald Duck|uncle]] is buying and saving the world as we know it, as long as he keeps on coughing up the munny.
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|358/2 Days]]'', the Organization Moogle admits that you're the only one who will buy his wares. In fact, he follows you when you run away ''just so he can continue to charge you.'' Still, he's useful before that final battle...
* ''[[Lands of Lore]] The Throne of Chaos'' Justified, in which the player starts with a writ identifying him as on official business for the king, which can be presented for free services. However, the writ is stolen, leaving him with no proof that he works for the king and justifying why he must pay for things like everyone else.
* Averted in ''[[Lunar]] The Silver Star'' and its remakes, in which your old childhood buddy Ramus actually ''does'' recognize that you're about to go save the world and give you unlimited free items from his store just before the final battle.
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