I don't know if this topic has been addressed before, but what's your favorite way to make caps in Fallout New Vegas?

I like to get Cass and ED-E and go scavenging in the wasteland. Anything from bent tin-cans and burned books to Pre-War clothing is how I make my dough. Along the way if I encounter any monsters or bad-guys I'll include whatever wares I get from defeating them, into my circulation of goods which will be reimbursed at such locations like the New Vegas Medical Clinic and the T-Rex tourist trap at No-Vac. You can get full price with some of these places, depending on how good terms you have with them.

What's your fave way of doing business?

Prying weapons from the cold dead hands of your enemies and selling for profit

A couple of Fiends usually = a couple of Laser RCWs/Plasma Rifles, or various other absurdly expensive items.

I've overhauled the crafting system in my game, so I pick up pretty much everything not nailed down as almost all of it has uses. As such I no longer sell books or cans, since I can recycle them instead. I still sell a fair amount of miscellaneous items, though.

As far as raising cash goes, I repair stuff I find/loot up to full condition whenever possible and sell it off. I also tend to raise Barter early on, so I often get good value for what I sell.

Finding stuff that costs much and then sell it to the highest bidder.

Sneak killing all the Veteran Rangers at Camp Golf and selling all their gear. I would do this with the Brotherhood aswell, but I am unable to sneak kill them without them all going hostile for some reason.

killing BoS members in their sleep and selling their armor for profit

Gambling and selling weapons.

Lol its sooooo easy to make money in FNV it isnt even funny!!

Hell i could sit on my ass and still make a load of caps doing nothing.

At least in F3 it was actually hard to get even 25k.

Pretty much all of the above although I did choose Prospecting.

I do not need to work for money. I have a gun.

Can you get caps if you give NCR dogtags to that guy at Cottonwood Cove? I've never tried.

Talon Company pays pretty well.

I am mostly self-sustaining thanks to the Jury Rigger perk, courtesy of the BoS and Vault 34 I have a titanic armoury of gear in my Helios ONE fortress. I attack caravans though, doing as the Legion do and hitting supply lines, sneaking into NCR bases and posts before sniping and stabbing the inhabitants. Today, I snuck into the Strip with a Stealth Boy, outside Gomorrah, 4 NCR troopers started dancing around a prosttute, I knew what I had to do; C4 on the women and denator saw them all flying! :chaos:

Definitely gambling. A couple games of Caravan at the Mojave Outpost and Novac get you set for a while.

Many people would call me a legend for what I do for cash in Vegas.
It is so unique that nobody realises that you can easily bleed money from you victims.

This way of godly badassness has got a name...

It is called... Caravan

Jury Rigging is the game's best money-maker. Buy a near-broken Ballistic Fist, fix with a couple of Brass Knuckles, sell it with almost 5000 caps of pure profit. Buy a near-broken Sawn-Off Shotgun, fix with a couple of Silenced .22 pistols or .357 Magnum, sell it. Buy a near-broken Thermic Lance, fix with a couple of Pool Cues, sell. Find Brotherhood Power Armor, fix with a couple of Metal armors, sell. Leather Armor, Reinforced can be fixed with any cheap piece of clothing, Combat Helmets with any headwear or eyewear.

Indeed this is the way. You can do it with 'weapon repair kits' from a very low level but get jury rigging when you can, makes it ridiculously easy.

I have cleaned out all the Casinos but transmuting crap into gold is really profitable. Want to buy a bunch of implants, nice Sub-Dermal armor, perhaps a Monocyte Breeder? Well this the best way.

combination of Scaving, and looting my foes.

Gambling is certainly a fun way to do it.
I am not very good though, win some, lose some.

Someone doesn't understand how currency works. In Fallout 3 you have a hard time making tons of money, but everything was cheaper. I never once ran short on caps to buy whatever I wanted in Fallout 3 (largely because there was nothing worth buying). In New Vegas getting every implant is difficult unless you're level 15+ or have high luck to cheat the casinos.

In FO3 I ran around hitting all the spawn points then would sell the repaired equipment for all the ammo, caps, and medical supplies on a vendor. With my 6 gal companions I was using up so much ammo, that I had to swap them to use weapons that used 5.56 because I could get it in the 10's of thousands from the outcast by turning in all the PA and EW. I broke 2 million caps before I ran out of good mods to mess with and got totally bored with FO3. there was times where I had to simple stop looting because I'd run out of vendors to sell loot too. At one point I had something like 8000 lbs of gear stuffed in my "stuff to sell" vertibird box.

I enjoy using rifles (no scopes) and revolvers so much that I went on a quest one day to blast every single New Vegas raider, fiend, and otherwise non-friendly in the face and sell everything they had on them that I didn't want. After this was done, I waited several game days, did a bunch of gambling and whatnot. Then I did the whole thing again. That was about a week ago, real time. Haven't sold a thing since, and I haven't burned through half of my money yet, despite all my ammo needs and bad luck in the casino. I think I'm sitting on around 20K right now.

God, I wish it were that easy in the real world.

well i dont actually pay i use the cap glitch to get back my money; as well as theirs

WRK is a finite resource. Fiends, on the other hand, are renewable, and provide a just about infinite source of Varmint rifles, Cowboy Repeaters, Brass Knuckles, Pool Cues, Laser rifles and RCWs. Powder Ganger camps are a good source of handguns for repairing Sawn-Off Shotguns, .44 Magnums and the like.

You can often milk a shop for all its money right there, on the spot, using the very stuff it sells to you. Any place that sells a Sawn-Off Shotgun in semi-broken confition and a couple of lower-end pistols is giving you caps for free.

It's actually stupidly easy to make tons of money in FO3, however few people bother recycling the vendors and instead either take heavy losses on a lot of items or let them accumulate in their base. One thing that helps is using the really valuable stuff, like Plasma Rifles, to buy a bunch of broken crap and repair it up; this has the double benefit of letting you unload the stuff they will never have enough caps for and getting another whole bunch of stuff to sell. You can also sell lesser crap for custom weapon parts and sell those off for a ton of cash.

In F:NV, it just gets insane once you have Jury Rigging:

1) repair insanely valuable weapon with repair kits
2) sell it for a ton of beat-up crap plus any ammo you want/need
3) abuse the hell out of Jury Rigging to repair the most valuable busted items to full and sell them for even more items
4) repeat as often as desired
5) rake in massive amounts of $$$$
6) if needed, wait until the next restock day and repeat

Doing this on one character I went from about 15K on hand to over 150K in short order, and was in position to exceed 200K on the next wave of sales when I decide to park the character due to build dissatisfaction. Buying all the implants I wanted barely made a dent, as I was recovering about twice the cost of the Regeneration one (12K) in pure profit per round of sales.