I have so much stuff that I don't know what to do with it. Every merchant I find has about 600-700 gold and I am level 35.. I find this ridiculous. I mean.. If I go into a dungeon I find usually over 1k-2k worth of items that are just junk to me anyway.. Does anyone know a merchant that actually can afford to barter with me? Or am I out of luck? By the way, what do I do with Dragon Bones/Dragon Scales?

Answer to topic: No.

You use dragon bones/scales for crafting or selling. Your choice.

This one I can answer. They're used for crafting.

Sell to multiple vendors?

I generally buy ingots, potions, and other crap, so the loot I sell breaks even with the vendor's budget and the stuff I buy. Maybe you should do the same.

The only way to get them to have more gold is perk out the speech tree because you can invest 500g in them and the 100 skill makes them have 1k more

Tonalia in teh thieves guild has 4k for me. But I am guild master ;D

This.

I do half the time.. But sometimes the item I need to sell cannot be sold to a specific vendor. Trading really shouldn't be this annoying.. But I didn't know I could get more gold out of them through a speech perk, thanks other person I am not replying to.

I think their gold increases as you level

Which is why I always encourage my friends to get the Merchant perk under the Speech Tree. It allows you to sell any items to any merchants and this perk more than triples your income. If you've noticed, blacksmiths usually have the most gold among NPCs (1k+), this will accommodate adept lvl and higher robes or ebony-grade weapons. The perk only cost 3 points to get and 50 speech skill, which is relatively cheap for me. I'm not so sure about the usefulness of the Investor perk and Master Trader perk. Just with the Merchant perk, I find myself swimming in gold already, so much so I stopped picking up loot. Other than houses and training, I don't see the point of gold in this game.

Tips for selling loot
Best place to sell loot will be Riften. Other than the standard blacksmith, grocer and apothecary, it features 3 other merchants in their market that carries 500-750 gold ea. I haven't seen any other market merchants that carry more than 20 gold :sadvaultboy:

Another awesome place for high-end loot ie ebony-grade and above armor or any loot that cost more than 2k is the college at winterhold. Every lecturer there provides his own lil shop (500gold) but more importantly, they provide training on specific schools of magic like Destruction, Conjuration, Restoration, Illusion, Alteration. The gold you spent on training will be in their shop where you can trade items back for. Even if you are a warrior, a few lvls in Restoration will be beneficial as well (avoid death perk). Mages will have a lot more options like doing the ritual spell quests and buying master level tomes (1k+ ea) to boost up the vendor's gold.

I don't like that they don't have more gold.

I found a staff that has a 4800 gold sale price, and the traders offer me about 1400 for it, which is fine, except they don't have that much, sigh.

the problem is the more you level speechcraft the more your sell things for, so it really never alleviates the issue. your still going to have valuable things you can never sell because no one has the gold to buy them. why you need a perk to give someone some money i do not know...

Yup, I buy everything I can from a vendor and then sell my stuff. I either break even or clean them out. The Warmaiden in Whiterun (I think that's what it's called) has 1000 gold.

That's how I think most go about it. It helps to have the perk to sell anything to anyone as well. I regularly clean out the potion ladies of ingredients and the general vendors of their ore/gem stones.

I have the merchant perk so I can sell anything to any merchant. Any time I'm near a town I head in and sell everything I possibly can. Getting rid of the more expensive stuff can be hard, but I make most of my money by selling potions, which seems to work out. I buy all of the alchemists' ingredients, then get my money back by selling all of the potions I have made. Still waiting on the perks that let me increase the amount of money the vendors have.

thieves guild lady under riften she has 4k but i think you have to be along in the questline for that

Most normal vendors have 750 gold. A few, however, have 1200.

You can increase a merchant's gold by up to 1500 if you take both the Investor and Master Trader perks in the speech tree.

Yeah, not sure why this wasn't fixed from Ob. There should be at least a few rich merchants. Its gotten to the point where I just remove the "sold" items with the console and just give myself half of what everything was worth.

Isn't there a command to set a vendor's gold amount on the PC?

Yo beth patch in a mudcrab vendor or give everyone 3000 more gold so selling isnt annoying kthxbye

Maybe, damn, I should have been using that then, lol.

If you're on pc there's another option: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=769

A mod! 2 options for it too, 2k/vendor and 10k/vendor.

True, it is a little unrealistic that a [censored] little street vendor would have that much gold...but to each their own

Doing jobs in the respective town will give their merchants more gold. How much? Im not sure but this one lady went from 750 to 1360 with just a few jobs.

Normally a day or two will go by and they'll have gold again.

Ugh. I'm with you guys. I hate how there aren't any wealthy merchants in Skyrim. I don't want to waste perks in the Speech Tree (I like to spend them on things you can never get: you can get money without speech perks), but I have to travel to 4 towns and then wait two days and repeat before I can sell everything from one dungeon dive.

And don't get me started on my potions.... I just made 10 potions that SELL for 910 gold. Hahaha. It's ridiculous.

I can't wait to get this for the computor. I have it for PS3 right now so I can get the perks, but I'm getting it on comp later.

MODS.