Player Stores
| Permits | Store Permit (Hired Merchant) 100,000 Vesos; Regular Store Permit 30,000 Vesos |
|---|---|
| Where to buy | Fredrick, Free Market Entrance |
| Hired Merchant | Free Market numbered rooms only; sells for 24 hours, even offline |
| Personal store | Anywhere you stand; closes if you walk away or log off |
| Stock | Up to 16 rows, up to 2,000 items per row |
| Price | Up to 2,147,483,647 Vesos per bundle |
| Sale tax | 0% under 100,000 Vesos, up to 3% |
| One store per account | Yes |
Player stores are how players sell to each other without being online at the same moment. You can run a Hired Merchant that sells while you are away, or a personal store that sells while you stand beside it. This page covers both: the permits, setting up, prices and tax, buying, and getting your earnings and unsold goods back from Fredrick.
The two kinds of store
| Hired Merchant | Personal store | |
|---|---|---|
| Permit | Store Permit, 100,000 Vesos | Regular Store Permit, 30,000 Vesos |
| Where | Inside a numbered room of the Free Market (rooms 1 to 22) | Any map where mini-rooms are allowed, including the Free Market |
| Needs you | No. It sells while you are offline. | Yes. It closes when you move more than a short step from the spot, leave the map, die or log out. |
| Duration | 24 hours | As long as you stay with it |
| Appears as | A stall with a shopkeeper on the map | A store sign above your character |
Both permits are bought from Fredrick and are not used up when you open a store, so one permit serves you forever. You can have only one store open at a time.
Opening a store
- Buy the permit you want from Fredrick (choose "Buy a Store Permit (Hired Merchant)" or "Buy a Regular Store Permit"), and have a free slot in your Item window for it.
- For a Hired Merchant, walk into any numbered Free Market room. For a personal store, stand where you want the stall.
- Open your Item window and double-click the permit. If you try this for a Hired Merchant outside a numbered room you are told you can only open a store inside a numbered Free Market room.
- Type a name for the store when asked ("Please enter the name of the store"; up to 30 characters).
- Add stock. Pick an item from your bag; a window titled TO SELL asks for the number of items, the price per item and how many items per bundle. The price you enter per item is multiplied by the bundle size to give the bundle price, and the bundle is the unit a buyer purchases.
- Repeat for up to 16 rows, then confirm to open the store. The items leave your bag when the store opens.
What you can sell
- Almost anything. Official items from a MapleStory Universe wallet and untradeable quest items are refused, exactly as in Trading:
This item cannot be sold in a store. - One bundle row holds at most 2,000 items in total.
- A single piece of equipment is always one bundle of one. Throwing stars and bullets are listed as one whole stack.
- An item sealed with an Item Guard cannot be listed.
Prices and tax
The buyer pays the full bundle price. For a Hired Merchant the seller's takings are the price minus a tax that depends on the size of the sale:
| Sale value | Tax taken |
|---|---|
| Under 100,000 | None |
| 100,000 to 999,999 | 0.4% |
| 1,000,000 to 4,999,999 | 0.9% |
| 5,000,000 to 9,999,999 | 1.5% |
| 10,000,000 to 24,999,999 | 2% |
| 25,000,000 to 99,999,999 | 2.5% |
| 100,000,000 and over | 3% |
For example, a bundle that sells for 1,000,000 Vesos pays you 991,000.
Buying from a store
- Click a stall in the Free Market (or a personal store's sign anywhere), or ask Fredrick to browse all the open stores.
- The store window lists its items with price per bundle. Click Buy on a row and choose how many bundles.
- The Vesos leave you and the items arrive in your bag in one step. If the item is sold out, the store closed or the owner walked away, nothing is taken.
You cannot buy from your own store. You also cannot buy something you cannot hold: if your bag tab is full, or the bundle holds a one-of-a-kind item you already own, the purchase is refused and nothing moves.
Looking after your store
While a Hired Merchant is open
Walk up to your own stall and click it to enter. While you are inside the store is closed to buyers, so nothing can be sold under your hands, and the window renews itself every few minutes while you stay. From the owner's window you can:
- put more items on sale (still 16 rows at most, and sold-out rows still count until you tidy up),
- take an unsold row back into your bag (refused if the bag has no room),
- collect the Vesos your merchant has earned so far (never past the 2,147,483,647 carrying limit),
- tidy up, which collects the takings and removes sold-out rows, and
- close the store.
When you leave, the store reopens, or closes by itself if nothing is left to sell. The cash item Store Remote Controller lets you open this same window from anywhere without walking to the stall.
When it ends
A Hired Merchant closes after 24 hours or when you close it. A personal store closes the moment you leave it. In both cases whatever is left, and the Vesos earned, wait for you with Fredrick.
Collecting from Fredrick
- Talk to Fredrick and choose Collect from Fredrick.
- The Store Bank window shows what he is holding: your net Vesos and the unsold items.
- Confirm. Everything is paid into your character in one go.
- Collect promptly. Fredrick keeps an unattended store's takings but charges 1% of the Vesos for every full day since the store closed. After 100 days he keeps everything: the Vesos and the unsold items are lost. A personal store you close yourself pays out at once with nothing deducted.
- Fredrick will not pay out while a store is still open.
- If your bag is full, or the Vesos would take you past 2,147,483,647, he keeps everything with him and tells you so. Make room and come back; nothing is lost.
Finding things to buy
The cash item Owl of Minerva searches every open store for an item you name and lists the stores selling it, with owner, map, price and bundle size (at most 50 results). It is used up only if it finds something, and it can warp you to the store you pick. It never lists your own store.