Selling pelts and skins is how you can make money inRed Dead Redemption—at least one of the key ways. There are various community-curated guides on money glitches, but they can be a hit or a miss. Fortunately, selling fur, hide, pelts, and skins is one of the steadfast methods that you can opt for, and it’s as easy as can be.

Red Dead Redemptionis one of themost dynamic open-world gamesout there, and you’ll come across various animals and plants in it time and again. Killing and skinning them won’t take effort either, and you’ll be well-rewarded for your efforts. Once you have some pelts, skins, and other items, you can easily sell them at the various in-game stores.

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Selling all the animal and bird parts inRed Dead Redemption—whether pelts, skins, fur, meat, or anything else—is rather easy.All you need to do is find a store to sell your haul.If you’re far from the nearest town, you canset up a Campsite to fast travelto a certain destination.

Among the various shops available, you can reliablysell your loot at the General Store, Gunsmith, Doctor’s Office, and Tailor. They also have items on sale that are more or less specific to their business. For example, you can buy Survivalist Maps and Horse Deeds from the General Store, weapons from the Gunsmith, Medicine from the Doctor’s Office, and Outfit Scraps from the Tailor.

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While other shopkeepers buy every sellable item you have, the Tailor will buy only relevant materials. So, they will buy furs, hides, pelts, and skins inRed Dead Redemption, but not feathers, claws, meat, etc.

Honor is an important mechanic, and it has a deep influence on every interaction in the game. So, before you travel to a town to sell off your pelts and skins inRed Dead Redemption,check how much Honor you have. This will play an important part in how much money you can get from your loot.

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If you have low Honor, selling items at Thieves’ Landing will fetch you more coins than at “civilized” towns like Armadillo and Black Water. Likewise, you will have to spend less when making a purchase. In case you’re on alow-Honor run inRed Dead Redemption, Thieves’ Landing is a crucial town for you. In that vein, the Bandana can be really helpful in protecting from Honor and Fame fall-off or rise.

All the shops in a town purchase or sell items at the same rate. As such, having high or low Honor will not matter across shopkeepers in the same town, and you won’t get an increased price even if you sell relevant items to particular stores—like feathers at the General Store or pelts at the Tailor.

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Geography matters a lot when it comes to earning money inRed Dead Redemption. The game is filled with various animals and plants, but their spawns are rather specific. Similar to the real world’s import-export mechanic, location is important when you want to turn a profit.

Sell off items in towns that are far from where you got them. For example, if at neutral Honor, sell Grizzly Fur, Heart, Meat, etc., in Escalera and Chuparosa rather than Blackwater and Manzanita Post.This will net you double the money inRed Dead Redemption.

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Follow this strategy for all the flora and fauna you come across to get a tidy sum every time. The amount may not seem much in the short run, but it can quickly stack up. This will also help you go afterRed Dead Redemption’s animals that are hard to killbut pay out much more, like Grizzlies and Cougars.

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