Most are open from about 8am to 8pm, but some merchants are available all day. The Master Trader perk increases nearly all merchants' gold by Merchants buy and sell items to the Dragonborn and can be found in almost every city and town in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It is just that they will only pay up to a certain amount of gold for a single item, or a single stack of items. They have theoretically unlimited wealth. Otherwise, your spouse will become a general goods trader. If your spouse is on the list below, then he or she will continue to sell the same type of items. If you are married then your spouse will open a store, whose merchant chest is located inside the home where your spouse lives. If one of the people is listed in parentheses, that person only takes over the store if the first person dies. Therefore, the merchants will always provide the exact same list of items, and share the same merchant gold. Whenever two merchants are listed together in the following tables, it means that the two merchants share the same merchant chest. Hence, while the merchant types listed here can be generally relied upon to determine what a merchant will buy from you, they should be regarded as guidelines, not rules, for what the merchant will sell you - for example, this is why the Skyforge chest contains unique items for sale no other merchant sells, even though it is listed as a 'Blacksmith' below. Most notably, apothecary merchants will sell a dozen ingredients that normally they are unable to sell. They will also sell you any bugged items that are in their merchant chests. All vendors will sell you items from their personal inventory, possibly including food, lockpicks, and gems.

The perk also makes some additional items available for purchase. If the Merchant perk is unlocked, all merchants will purchase all types of items.

However, for most merchants, one of the following categories is provided.

In those cases where merchants are not in a typical category, full details are provided on the specific item types they will buy and sell. The merchandise column provides information on what type of merchandise each merchant will buy and sell. Merchant gold can be increased in several ways. Gold is reset each time the merchant's inventory is reset or every 48 hours. Merchants will generally have gold more than listed, because their personal pocket change is added to the merchant-specific gold. The amount listed under 'Gold' is the base amount of gold that the merchant has available to purchase items from the player.

Skyrim merchant with most gold