Buying things with dubloons

[bgryph]

Question about buying things in the shops on Krawk Island: do you have to pay with one large coin, or can you pay with several smaller ones? (ie, for a 150 dubloon item, do you need a 200 dubloon coin, or would 3 50 dubloon coins work?

Also, how reliably does the dubloon-o-matic work?

[matchbow]

You can pay with any coins, as long as it totals right. and the dubloon-o-matic works pretty well, as far as i know. just select the coin you want and have the proper smaller coins and it should fuse them

[Blk Mage]

Just a general rule of thumb when doing any activities dealing with dubloons of sorts is that they don't always give out exact change there is always a chance of things going awry. So don't get mad/angry when you don't get the exact change when buying items cause pirates are just evil like that.

[Kess]

Yeah, also large-denomination dubloons aren't worth as much per dubloon as the smaller denominations. It's really not worth it to make a bunch of one- or two- dubloon coins into say, a twenty-dubloon coin. If you're buying something expensive though, it might save you some NP to buy the larger dubloon coin and sell off the change, assuming you get the correct change. I've never been shorted there, but I do believe it happens.

[Duke of Earl]

As a rule of thumb for training on Krawk Island, buy 2 dubloon coins. When you need 1 dubloon to pay, take a 2 (and no other dubloons) and buy a 1 dubloon appetizer at the Golden Dubloon. It's usually a couple hundred NP cheaper. Same goes for 5 dubloon coin, buy three 2 dubloons and spend half of one and then combine the 2, 2, 1 into a 5.

Nothing groundbreaking there

[bgryph]

Essentially the reason I'm interested is that I want to buy an unbuyable Pirate petpet and I'm sick to death of making offers on lots on the Trading Post that are never either accepted or rejected (the people who have posted the trades simply haven't logged back on.)

Then someone suggested to me I should just buy the thing with dubloons (which actually turns out to be quite reasonable, cheaper than what most people on the trading post are asking.)

But now I'm having the same difficulty with 200 dubloon coins (not to mention, the asking price on the TP appears to often be higher than the component coins).

I hate buying unbuyables, and I especially hate buying them on the Trading Post, with all the offers and counteroffers (I don't actually enjoy haggling) so the fairly small loss I'd take by buying exact change off the Wiz over buying a 200 dubloon coin and selling the change may be worth it to avoid the hassle. Besides, it will be a new experience on the site. :-)