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* Averted in ''[[Baldur's Gate]]''. Shops won't buy non-magical projectiles, (they probably get arrows the same way everybody else does - off bandits' corpses), Cursed Scrolls, or pathetic weapons like Quarterstaffs or Slings. Not all shops buy weapons or books either. And if you sell them an unidentified magic weapon, they'll buy at the price of a regular weapon, identifying it at the same time, while you stare and say, "I just sold a +2 Long Sword for 37gp?!" Also, different shops offer different prices on items and after ten game days they'll sell what you sold them, unless it's an item vital for game completion, in which case you'll just have to buy it back.
** Both ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' games also had an amusing "supply and demand" mechanic : if you kept selling the same kind of item to a vendor over and over, the buying price would go down. Meaning eventually, merchants could offer you less gold for the ubiquitous +1 Longsword then for a regular Longsword. Equally amusing, the prices would only go down after a completed trade, so hogging hundreds of +1 Longswords in a Bag of Holding and selling them in bulk was much, much more profitable than selling them one by one. Oh, and of course, even if you drove one merchant's prices down to ridiculous levels, the merchant 5 feet away would still be more than happy to offer you the full price.
* In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' it depends on the merchant. Some (like Fell and Marta the Seamstress) won't buy ''anything''. Others will only buy certain objects; for instance, Tylero, the first truly useful merchant you come across, will buy Armor, Bracelets, Charms, Earrings, and Weapons, but not Rings or Scrolls. Still others, like Vrischika, will buy almost anything.
* In ''[[Crystalis]]'', you can only sell your items in specially-marked pawn shops that will take any unwanted armor or items off your hands.
* Quasi-inverted in ''Great Greed'' for the [[Game Boy]], a JRPG with an environmental slant, where shops ''recycle'' (it's still [[Lost Forever]]) your equipment and any of the useless flavor items (like that [[Pimped-Out Dress|fancy dress]]). This is also the '''''only''''' way for you to get rid of any [[Stuck Items|TRASH]] you picked up in a [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests|random chest]], and thus free up your very limited inventory for something useful. All you have to do is pay a sizable fee. (Since you don't have a portable [[Bag of Holding|garbage dimension]], you cannot leave Trash alongside a road—unlike your heal potion or dentures. It also comes off as ''[[Greed|the stores are penalizing you for recycling]]''.)
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