The consignment store is a new lot assignment in The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Gameplay
Sims are able to sell things like inventions, paintings, and sculptures to the shop and put them on display for other Sims to buy. Sims can build a reputation at the store, making sales more profitable. If a Sim's reputation is high, more Sims will buy his or her stuff. The store sells items every day at 5 PM / 17:00. Similar to collections, the consignment store is in a Sim's skill journal and comes with it's own unique challenges to achieve. A chart of all the items sold by the Sim is given. In addition to selling, the Consignment Shop will randomly change it's inventory and includes a variety of items including gems, inventions, paintings, books, music boxes, cameras, incense holders and Magic Gnomes. Objects that can otherwise be found in Buy Mode can often be obtained at a significant discount at the consignment store should they be available. Sims may receive a positive moodlet from making a good sale as well as a negative moodlet for paying too much for an item.
The longer their items are for sale, the more they decrease in price:
- 1 Day at the shop: Selling price = 200%
- 2 Days at the shop: Selling price = 170%
- 3 Days at the shop: Selling price = 130%
- 4 Days at the shop: Selling price = 110%
- 5 Days at the shop: Selling price = 100%
An object that isn't sold by the end of day 5 is returned[1]. Selling the same object frequently will decrease the price and the shop clerk will inform you that customers are getting bored. As a Sim's reputation increases, the percentage that the store will take for having to stock the items decreases;
- 0 Reputation = 15% Taken off
- 200 Reputation = 10% Taken off
- 4,000 Reputation = 5% Taken off
- 8,000 Reputation = 0% Taken off
Sims who have the Born Salesman trait will gain reputation faster. Also, Sims who have the Suave Selling Lifetime Reward will sell their goods for more.
Premade consignment stores
Twinbrook
Twinbrook Buy and Bargain Consignment Shop
Twinbrook Buy and Bargain Consignment Shop
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Twinbrook Buy and Bargain Consignment Shop in Twinbrook.
Twinbrook Buy and Bargain Consignment Shop is the default consignment store lot in Twinbrook.
Lot bin
Landgraab Sell n' Swap
Landgraab Sell n' Swap
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Landgraab Sell n' Swap in the lot bin.
Landgraab Sell n' Swap is automatically placed in the lot bin after a player installs The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Notes
- ↑ Many players are experiencing a bug where the items are never returned and the consignments have to be cancelled manually after 5 days.