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I'm slogging my way thru act 2, and have entered Battlefield 2. The merchants seem to be rather strangely selective with regard to what items they will purchase. I've taken to "balancing' the funds on offer after each item I select to sell. Often, merchants will offer only a portion of the item I select to sell; sometimes they will offer nothing for a fairly valuable item. I've tried to ensure that I'm selling the correct item to the proper merchant (ie. armour to the armour specialist, etc) but that still doesn't seem to get a reasonable price after a unspecified point.
What am I missing?

The merchants have a limited amount of gold (which is shown in their inventory list), so will not necessarily be able to completely match the value of your goods. Either trade for charms or other low weight expensive stuff you can use to barter with later (at a bit of a loss) or sell what you can, then exit and re-enter the BF to reset the merchants' inventories (assuming you have the patch installed), including their gold reserves.

In any case, I never noticed a difference between what BF merchants offer for the same stuff. AFAIK the potion dealer should give you as much for armour as the armour dealer.

Unique or quest items, as well as equipment worn by the non-lead characters, will not show up in the inventory list to be sold. There are also miscellaneous items, like non-plant alchemy supplies, which can not be sold.