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[Angel of fire]

How is it that I can mark four butchered horses and several butchered groundhogs for trade in exchange for a bronze breastplate and the shopkeeper still says, "Perhaps if you throw in more goods I can make you an offer."

[UltraValican]

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Sorry for double post

[UltraValican]

Do you have a broker? If so check the trader loss/ profit on the left bottom corner, if it says loss then they won't trade

I thought this was fortmode, but the trader is still making a loss on the deal.

[StreetPizza]

Two things could be causing this:

First of all, horse and groundhog meat aren't very valuable. A quick look at the "Item Value" page on the wiki can help you infer that horse and groundhog meat both have a value multiplier of 1 (they're not listed as having a multiplier on the "Material Multipliers - Animals" table, so I'm assuming that means they're nothing special in terms of value). For better results, try megabeast meat.

Secondly, how valuable is the breastplate? If it has a lot of value-enhancing symbols around it, that generally means that it's worth a good deal more than an unadorned, no-quality one--a +bronze breastplate+, for example, is already worth three times as much as a no-quality one. Again, look at the item value multipliers to see what's what.

[Shmo]

Try offering the minimum amount of currency for the breastplate and trade. The shopkeeper should make a counteroffer asking for the breastplate's value. Similary, you can ask for all the shopkeeper's money for you various meats and he will make a counteroffer offering the meats' worth in coin. That way you can quantitatively appraise the shortfall in value.

[Angel of fire]

The value if the breastplate was 21r or whatever that character is.

Thanks you all, I was able to buy it off of him for a Iron war hammer (I am a swordsman, so I have no need for it). I had thought that maybe I had hit some sort of glitch. 

[RAKninja]

Iron war hammer (I am a swordsman, so I have no need for it)

you could throw it.... for great justice.

[Doro]

The value if the breastplate was 21r or whatever that character is.

thats not value. thats the weight of an item

[CriticallyAshamed]

Yeah that's an important one to notice. I assumed the weight was value when I started out and was severely disappointed when my ogre corpses sold for 1 Dorf buck. Typically meat and most other animal products are not worth much. Ivory might be an exception, but I don't typically hunt for monies.

For the record the best loot typically looks like:
Silk (Giant Cave) >= Gems >= Currency (Including foreign) > Quality Decorated Iron stuff > Normal Iron stuff > Other metals in descending order > Leather or plant cloth clothing >= wood crap (bloody elves) > Animal products (not including exotics)

That should get you the most profit/weight.