I agree with the OP.
It makes no sense to give merchants money just like this.
reality check:
Imagine you make a deal with a merchant next door.
You give him 1000 Euro now and for that you can buy everything for half the money and sell everything for double the money from now until forever, including buying a huge car from him or selling every random junk you find to him. Once you got everything you need and you sold him all the junk in the world ( the streets are so clean now ;-) you kill him, you take everything you have ever sold him from his corpse and then you repeat this with the next merchant.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Mad S. Tist
World leading expert of artificial stupidity.
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