Owning stores

[VIVIX]

In one of the menus it says, "Shops invested in" or something like that. Does that mean you are able to buy a shop and recieve revenue from it? Or does it have something to do with the main quest?

[ashtaroth]

By mastering mercantile skill one should thus be able to invest in shops and probably receive revenues with a either weekly or monthly interval. Know however that mastering the mercantile skill is not the easiest one to highten oneself in. You can by the way only invest in shops not purchase them.
Or so i believe. I have not had the chance to apply these skills since i have yet to reach the level of master in mercantile skill.

[Ashen]

From what I remember from the guide what it means is that for example you invest in a shop 1000 gold, and this merchant had 1000 gold, after the investment he now has 2000 gold for selling and buying ie you can sell your items for higher prices with him which is good considering that the highest I've come up with so far is 1200. The only issue is that I seem to remember being a cap on this, but I am not sure, ie the amount you can invest.

[Foss]

Originally Posted by Ashen

From what I remember from the guide what it means is that for example you invest in a shop 1000 gold, and this merchant had 1000 gold, after the investment he now has 2000 gold for selling and buying ie you can sell your items for higher prices with him which is good considering that the highest I've come up with so far is 1200. The only issue is that I seem to remember being a cap on this, but I am not sure, ie the amount you can invest.

That is correct. Atleast the way I have heard it aswell.
Invest a certain amount of money in a store and that store will now have that certain amount of money extra, forever.

I don't know either about any cap, since I never got that high in that skill.

[ik911]

Mercantile
Governing Attribute: Personality
Get better deals when buying or selling goods
Novice: value of items sold is reduced by the worn condition of the item
Apprentice: value of the items sold is not affected by the worn condition
Journeyman: can buy and sell any object to any vendor, even if he normally doesn't deal in that type of wares
Expert: can invest in a shop, giving the merchant money to permanently increase his shop's available gold by 500
Master: all shops in the world always have 500 more gold available for barter


http://oblivion.ufrealms.net/skills.php

[Ashen]

Thanks a lot!

So ... that means that you can raise it max from 1200 to 2200!

I miss my crab