» Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:06 am
There are a number of general traders in Vivec, but the Telvanni canton is kind of sparse, with a couple of petty merchants with very limited stock and cash in the small area below the waistworks balcony.
Try the basemant level (not the Underworks) of the Foreign Quarter, both sections of it (one accessible from each end of the hall), where there's a general merchant plus a bookseller, clothier, etc., and there's also a pair of competing smiths in the plaza (Redguard and Dunmer), where you can sell off some weapons and armor. The one Kajiit petty merchant on the upper waistworks level also has a limited selection and a little cash.
A couple of other general merchants are in the Redoran waistworks and Hlaalu plaza.
For big-ticket items, there are only a handful of options, so the "built-in exploits" Mudcrab Merchant and Creeper, and the one merchant in the Mournhold trade district (Tribunal Expansion) are probably your best bets in terms of cash carried. The one smith in the Vivec FQ has a "reasonable" amount of cash, if you don't mind "priming" his inventory with medium-value items over a couple of days to take in trade when you sell a big-ticket item. Glass Daggers, at 2K and not a lot of weight each, make good "change", and DB armor (if you have Tribunal and have been attacked a time or three) is also expensive yet light enough to use in trade:
Sell medium-value item to merchant, wait until tomorrow when his gold resets.
Sell second medium-value item to merchant, wait again.
Sell high-value item to merchant for gold plus the medium-value items in trade.
You will lose some value on the repeated exchanges, but it's better than selling a 20K value item for 600 Septims. Using the "exploits" of Creeper or Mudcrab, there is no loss in the process, so you get full value for the items.
WARNING, POSSIBLE SPOILER - I won't go into details in the "general" forum about another odd quirk about the "creature" merchants which isn't generally known, because it's more than a bit "spoiler-ish", but it's actually possible to make a small amount of money (< 1%) on each exchange.