I know for certain that there's very little profit to be made by paying a merchant to identify an item and then selling it. There's a little bit of profit, but most of that is eaten up by the cost to have the merchant identify it.

Since merchants tend to sell things at a higher price than they buy them, there's unlikely to be much profit in buying an unidentified item, identifying it (yourself) and selling it.

Last edited by Stabbey; 04/04/14 08:08 PM. Reason: clarity