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Contents

  • Essentials
    • The Sims 3 Primer
      • Leading a New Life
      • Personality
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • A Day in the Life
      • Mood
      • Mood Boosting Tips and Tricks
      • Wishes
      • Opportunities
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
      • Relationships and Socializing
  • Walkthrough
    • New Simology
      • Introduction
      • Create a Sim
      • Skills
      • New Socials
      • New Opportunities
    • New Venues and Real Estate
      • New Venues
      • Fire Station
      • Salon
      • Junkyard
      • Consignment Store
      • Laundromat
      • Real Estate
    • Tour of Twinbrook
      • City Living
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Parks
      • Fishing Spots
      • Collecting
    • Careers
      • Professions
      • Ghost Hunter
      • Career Progression
      • Investigations
      • Spirit Collecting
      • Firefighter
      • Career Progression
      • Emergencies
      • Investigator
      • Career Progression
      • Tools of the Trade
      • Cases
      • Architectural Designer
      • Career Progression
      • Stylist
      • Career Progression
      • Medical Career
      • Career Progression
      • Skill-Based Careers
    • Traditional Careers
      • Traditional Careers
      • Educator (New Career)
      • Business
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-Time Work
      • School
    • New Objects
      • Ambitious Objects
      • Object Catalog

The Sims 3 Ambitions Guide › Walkthrough › New Venues and Real Estate

Consignment Store

Everybody loves a deal. At the consignment store, Sims can search for bargains on secondhand objects or things produced by creative Sims, such as inventions or paintings.

But the consignment store is not just a place to shop. Sims are encouraged to use it as a secondary source of income, especially if they pursue a lifestyle not aimed at following the traditional career ladder.

Primary Use

The consignment store is mainly a business where Sims can buy and sell goods. The store is loaded with shelves displaying objects.

However, to actually make a transaction, you must approach the register at the rear of the store, which gets the attention of the shop clerk.

The clerk then shows you which objects are available for sale and the prices. Just like any other store, you load up your cart and finalize the transaction.

Buying objects at the consignment store

Tip

You can socialize with the clerk, too, which is a good way to satisfy the Social need for Sims going a little Stir Crazy from being cooped up at home, working on inventions.

Reputation and Deals

Each Sim may have multiple objects for sale at the consignment store. To sell an object, interact with the register and then select the object(s) you wish to put on sale.

Crafted objects may be placed on sale here-sculptures, paintings, inventions, books, and the like-as well as caught fish and grown harvestables.

If you have World Adventures, you may also sell photographs and bottles of nectar At the end of each day, the store will inform you which objects were sold. Objects lose a little value each day they are at the store:

Consignment Values

Days on sale at shop Selling price
1 200%
2 170%
3 130%
4 110%
5 100%

Caution

If you keep selling the same objects over and over, prices drop and the clerk eventually informs you that customers are getting bored with your wares. At the end of the fifth day of non-sale, the object is returned to the owner.

The consignment store offers a hidden skill, as mentioned in New Simology. The more you sell objects at the consignment store, the better your reputation.

When Sims buy your goods and are happy with the sale, you earn a reputation bonus of 50 points. The better your reputation, the smaller the percentage the shop keeps for each sale.

At first, the shop retains 15 percent of the sale price. Here are the reputation levels and their effect on the store percentage:

Reputation Store Fee
200 10%
4,000 5%
8,000 0%

Three additional situations affect your performance at the consignment store:

Sims with the Born Salesperson trait build their reputation faster and sell items for more Simoleons.

Sims who have purchased the Suave Seller Lifetime Reward sell their goods for more at the consignment store.

Satisfying the hidden requirements of consignment store Skill Challenges also increases your Sim's performance.

Selling 150 objects awards the Consignment Store Sales title, giving your Sims an extra 15 percent chance of selling their objects.

Selling §25,000 worth of objects awards the Consignment Profit title, which lowers the store fee by 15 percent.

Earning 8,000 reputation bonus points awards the Consignment Store Reputation title, giving your Sims an extra 15 percent chance of selling their objects.

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