Mercantile: Leveling-Up

If you can get a pearl or an item valued at 100 gold (twenty to fifty might do), then you can aply the mercantile level-up method I see. Sell a high priced item to a merchant with whom you have a relates with you number of 100 (I suppose or so). You'll have it for sale. You will receive a good asking price. top it by one. Every sale to improve mercantile should include asking for one more gold than was offered.

Stay bartering. Whatever you sold, go buy it back but at one gold less than is the presented price.

This back and forth of even one item gains you two gold by the end of one round (sell-buy). You reduce the merchant's gold and should be earning points towards mercantile leveling-up.

Improving Mercantile skill seems to take a while as I go about it.But the idea is to buy in bulk or pricy items. The more involved, the more can be added to or taken off. Mercantile skill /ability is Personallity governed. If you would like to improve Personality consider spending time in shops and Mercantile as a top ten--Major, Minor.