If you know how to sell from your house vault, read no further. You won’t find anything useful contained herein. If you’ve never done it, you’ll probably find some value.

I’m writing this because it took me several hours to figure out how to sell offline. Things that seem obvious to veterans aren’t as obvious to absolute newcomers as one might think.

The patch notes proclaimed:

-Characters can now list items for sale out that are located in their house vault. These items will remain for sale even when they leave their house or exit the game. You can now sell items while your character is offline!

-When you open your store by interacting with your Market Bulletin Board, your store window now shows the contents of your house vault in a separate tab. You can set prices for these items just as you would items in your inventory.

-While you are in your house and your store is open, items in your vault and items in your inventory that are flagged as being for sale will be listed on the city market. Other players can enter your home and buy items from your house vault and your inventory, just as they normally would.

-If your character logs out or leaves your house, items in the house vault tab of your store window will still be for sale. Items in your character’s inventory will no longer be listed for sale on the market, but items flagged for sale in the house vault will be available for purchase through city brokers and fences. These items will show only the seller’s name, not location, since the goods can only be purchased through the brokers.

Wow great! I can sell my stuff and not be in my room. Doesn’t everyone want to unload those extra hunks of chewy meats you’ve got clogging up your bank vault? Furthermore, where’s the broker? Furthermore, what’s the broker? Ah well, it can’t be that hard!

So you trudge back to your room and look for your bulletin board. I mean, it says “YOUR MARKET BULLETIN BOARD”. Hmm, it’s not here. Perhaps your inn room is bugged? You check the bank, you enter another guy’s house, and Ahah! He’s got my store and my bulletin board! What the heck? Didn’t it just say “Other players can enter your home and buy items from your house vault”. Yet here you are, in another guy’s home and you see your stuff in his inventory and it’s all free! Wow, that’s really confusing.

The point I’m trying to make, is that reading the patch notes as they stand sound absolutely consistent to someone who knows how to do offline selling. I actually did follow the chain of events listed above and with more thrashing before I figured it out.

Here’s the steps, simple as I can make them:

Step1: Purchase a Bulletin board. These are less than a silver piece. They will be found on a vender in your home district at the top of his list.

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Step 2. Enter your house. You have to be in good standing, so pay up your rent if you’re behind. Hang the bulletin board on the wall. Right click on it in inventory and place it on the wall.

Step 3. To access your house vault, you can type /house or right click on your door and click access. In the lower right of that window is a button “house vault”. Inns have two house vault slots, but better housing has more. It is possible to list more items than just one item for each slot.

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Step 4. Place items into the vault, anything you wish, even if you won’t be selling it. These slots can hold containers. My advice, buy some cheap 6 slot bags to start with and place one in each slot. I’ve seen containers with 24 slots on the broker(extremely expensive), so you could potentially list up to 48 items or much more if you upgrade housing. You cannot sell “No Trade” items.

Step 5. Once you’ve filled your vault with the hunk of chewy meat and skeleton bones that you intend to sell, you can close the vault and house windows. Open your Market Bulletin board. DBL-click on it or right click “access my store”.

Step 6. At the top of the board windows is a Tab labeled “Vault Merchandise”. Click on that tab and it will have listed items you placed in the house vault. If you wish to sell something, click on “set price”. Setting the price is simply clicking the numbers, the denomination (Top to bottom, Plat, Gold, Silver, Copper) and then OK. It will automatically list the item for sale when you set the price. Note, price is per item, if you have a stack of items, you are setting the per-unit cost, not the stack cost.

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Step 7. Click on the browse market button and search for an item you just listed. If you find it on the market with your name listed as the seller, you’re good to go. Go off, slay some more beasts!

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To actually buy something off the market you either need to visit someone’s room/house or visit the broker. You pay a 20% commission to the broker. The brokers are found where your class does its crafting and a few other places. In Freeport, for warrior types it’s “The War Hagglers” across from the Inn in the Scale Yard. If the item you’d like to buy has a name and location on the list, you can go to that person’s location, buy it directly and pay no commission. This is definitely something to do on big ticket items. If only the seller’s name is listed and not his/her location, you can only buy that item from the broker.

Some additional notes: You will need to use the Vault Merchandise tab if you wish to take something off the market or out of the bags in the house vault. Underneath where you set the price, there is a button to list/unlist item for sale. If the item is listed, it must be unlisted before it can be removed from the house vault.

Also, I generally check the going rate on something before I list it on the market. Some items won’t move for more than what the vendor will pay. To save space, I just go sell those to a vendor.

If all goes well, you’ll come back to rest your weary bones in your house, and have a couple of notes tacked to the door! “Selmack bought 2 chunks chewy meats for 8 copper each”. Woohoo free money!

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Good luck!