[Question] Selling the Highest Quantity of Items in the Flea Market?

[JeebyDesus]

Hi there. This is my first post here, but I've been trying to do research on what exact mechanics come into play with how often villagers will visit Re-Tail in a day, and with that, purchase items. I haven't found anything thus-far though, which is why I'm posting here. But if a thread about this already exists please let me know. Anyways, on to the main topic...

So, one of my pet peeves is selling items directly to Reese when they might have a high value in the flea market (Gems, superb coffee beans, etc.) and I've been wondering if there's any knowledge on the game mechanics for how often villagers will come in to Re-tail, because I have quite a few items stockpiled and would prefer to sell as many as I can as quickly as possible. I already know about the best value you can get for items (4x-1<10000), and how to get a villager to buy something once they are in the building, but I don't know if there are any ways to accelerate how often they come in, or if there's a limit on the amount of items you can sell to villagers via the flea market.

Does anyone have any information on this? I'd be happy to undergo research on this topic if we can develop a solid structure of how to test any of this stuff and get concrete results.

 

[piske]

Hi! Welcome! I'm really new here too :>

I found this...It doesn't fully answer your question, but it does say how much villagers will be willing to spend over Reese's prices.

Flea Market Spaces: Putting Items on Display
Rather than sell items directly to Reese, you have the option to put an item on display for sale in the flea market spaces throughout the shop. You can set your own price. Then, if a villager comes into Re-Tail while you are there, the villager might notice one of the items on display and walk up to it. When this happens, you can talk to the villager, to convince him or her to buy the item.

When you put an item on display, Reese will ask what price to set, and there is a suggested Re-Tail price as the default. Generally, villagers are willing to pay a little over four times Reese's suggested price. So, for example, if the default price is 200, try selling it for 800 or a little more. Your yellow feng shui probably influences how high a price your villagers are willing to pay for your flea market items. If the price is too high, the villager will refuse to buy the item when you ask them to.

Here is a link to the full page! Good luck! :>

 

[JeebyDesus]

Yeah, I know how much I can sell items for on the flea market, the problem is it's hard to sell items on the flea market when nobody is visiting, which is what I'm curious about manipulating (or at least researching to some degree). But thank you for trying to help!

 

[piske]

Yeah, I know how much I can sell items for on the flea market, the problem is it's hard to sell items on the flea market when nobody is visiting, which is what I'm curious about manipulating (or at least researching to some degree). But thank you for trying to help!

Ah, ok! Sorry!

 

[CainWolf]

I find villagers will often walk in if I run around in circles around Retail for a bit. If I've already sold to a villager then I find the villager leaves if I run back into my house and then go back to Retail but I can't guarantee anything because I've never pushed the limit on how well it works. Typically I just stop in when I need to sell things and run in circles for a bit afterwards until I either give up or a villager appears.

I don't even know if running in circles does anything, I've tried going afk in Retail before without having a villager appear so I'm just telling you what works for me but it could just be random luck.