Sell high at shops
Description
Sell-High is a support ability in Final Fantasy VIII that does not need to be equipped to be of use. When learned, shops will pay more for items when the player sells their goods. It is the counterpart to the Haggle ability, which needs to be be learned first.
Obtained[]
The Guardian Force Tonberry learns Sell-High for 150 AP after mastering Haggle. Tonberry is recruited by defeating Tonberry King at Centra Ruins after felling his subjects in great enough numbers. Though late in the GF roster, the player can get the Tonberry GF as soon as they have the mobile Garden. If the player removes Sell-High with Amnesia Greens, there is no way to get it back.
Mechanics[]
When Sell-High is learned, its effects are automatically applied whenever the player enters a shop's sell menu, giving 50% more money on top of the normal sell price: i.e. a Potion usually sells for 50 gil, but with Sell-High, sells for 75 gil. With both Haggle and Sell-High, the player can sell back goods for the same price they bought them.
Use[]
Sell-High is not needed in a casual playthrough, as gil is plentiful in Final Fantasy VIII and its uses are few; by the time the player can recruit Tonberry, they should have plenty of funds. However, having both Haggle and Sell-High lets the player grind gil in the menu faster: the player can purchase 100 Tents and refine them into 25 Mega-Potions with Carbuncle's' Recov Med-RF, which will sell for more than the Tents cost, giving a net profit of 180,000 gil per iteration over the normal 125,000 gil without Sell-High and Sell-High. Doing this with Cottages (purchased from Johnny's Shop in Esthar City) can yield an even greater total of 240,000 gil.