# Refugee Center merchant is very distrusting for some reason and refuses to sell anything
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/refugee-center-merchant-is-very-distrusting-for-some-reason-and-refuses-to-sell-anything/27991
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/refugee-center-merchant-is-very-distrusting-for-some-reason-and-refuses-to-sell-anything/27991 "2022-07-05T16:46:20Z")
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### Author:  [@bouchacha](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/bouchacha)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/refugee-center-merchant-is-very-distrusting-for-some-reason-and-refuses-to-sell-anything/27991/1 "2022-07-05T16:46:20Z")
In this current run, I bee-lined it to the refugee center and got a decent boost in teching up by doing missions for everyone. I was getting along with the lobby merchant (named Smokes) just fine, but I think sometime around the mission where you have to find the infiltrator inside the guards (can’t remember the exact name) I had to unfortunately discharge my shotgun inside the refugee center to finish the mission. For whatever reason, even though I kept doing missions for Smokes, my value to him is 25, anger is -4, but trust is at 0 and therefore he refuses to sell me ANYTHING. Because of all the missions I’ve done for him, I’ve built up like $4100 in store credit that I can’t use.
I have no idea what caused this but I edited the save game to make trust 5, but it seems that editing the trust level doesn’t change the “do not sell” flag on his current inventory. So maybe I just need to wait for a refresh? (Manually editing the save game is kind of a pain given the enormous amount of variables).
So does anyone know why his trust would crater like this? How can I raise it? Does it make sense for someone to remain distrustful even though he considers you Best Friends Forever based on the Value stat? How can I fix this issue?
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### Author:  [@Eren\_Rager](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Eren_Rager)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/refugee-center-merchant-is-very-distrusting-for-some-reason-and-refuses-to-sell-anything/27991/2 "2022-07-09T09:33:15Z")
Did you try to debug their trust?
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### Author:  [@bouchacha](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/bouchacha)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/refugee-center-merchant-is-very-distrusting-for-some-reason-and-refuses-to-sell-anything/27991/3 "2022-07-09T17:58:19Z")
After some digging around, I realized that the sale inventory isn’t governed by individual trust, but rather _faction_ trust. I edited the save game to add trust to the Free Merchant faction and that fixed the issue.
Still though, I have no idea why it went down in the first place.