*Dismissing merchants (to store them or move them around) seems to have no penalty as long as you remove items and money from them first.
*Selling a merchant contract to another player is not difficult. Just dismiss the merchant and Trade the contract to another player. Again there is no penalty as long as you remember to remove the money and items before dismissing them.
*Traders seem to be willing to buy back merchant contracts at face value, 10 silver. Assuming you can find a Trader with 10 silver spare of course.
To Investigate:
*Not sure if you can Trade a merchant contract without dismissing the merchant first.
* [[List of Markets and Merchants]]
* [[Merchant Prices]]
==Wish List==
* as suggested above, the price and item management for merchants is very tedious
* It would be nice to have a "dump merchant" console command similar to the "dump skills" command, that would write a text file with the details and prices of all the items for sale.
* It would probably be ok to allow "dump merchant [NAME]" as well, since all this information is available for public inspection by anyone.
* And in turn that suggests "dump trader [NAME]".
* But maybe these last too options give '''too much''' information about market prices?
* a "write merchant" command (to read an edited "dump merchant" file and update the merchant would be very useful
* the ~50 item inventory limit, and the 10s contract fee, both discourage sellers of low priced goods from getting in to the marketplace. but perhaps this is intended.