Put the item on the tray
Use the Magnifying Glass on the item and open its guide beside it, so the reference and the goods sit in view together.
Counter checks
Appraisal Guide
Appraisal covers two jobs that use different tools. A counterfeit check asks whether a product is genuine, and you settle it with the Magnifying Glass and the matching guide. The appraisal service asks what a customer's item is worth, and pays you a fee for a close estimate. Both protect your margin, and this page gives you the tells, the fee tables and the value formulas for each.
85Credits to join the board on Mark Up, 170 on Thin Margins
50–150%of true value is the widest estimate a customer accepts
20–100Credits: base fee from the lowest rank to the highest
10perfect appraisals earn An Eye for Value
Which guide answers which question
Pick the check before you pick the tool. Each item below has its own reference, and a guide for one item tells you nothing about another.
| Item | Use | Question it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Hemingway cigarettes | Hemingway Identification Guide and Color Checker | Is the pack genuine? |
| Food Stamps | Food Stamp Identification Handbook | Is the stamp genuine? |
| Immunivax Injectors | Immunivax Assessment Guide | Is it genuine and still usable? |
| Bionic hands | Cybernetic Hand Appraisal Guide | What is it worth? |
| Plasma cartridges | Plasma Cartridge Appraisal Guide | What is it worth? |
| Ribwich | Ribwich Appraisal Guide | Is it real, and what is it worth? |
| Water | Water Testing Strip or AquaScan | What grade is it? |
Running a counterfeit check
Check one field at a time
Work through lettering, logo, color and seal rather than judging the whole pack. One confirmed issue is enough to call it.
Tick the issue and confront
Choose the matching issue in the Counterfeit Check panel, then press Confront. Pick the issue you can see; a named box issue only fits the one blank pack described below.
Decide what the result is worth
A correct inspection can open a good-inspection discount, which is where the check pays for itself. A bad accusation is a reputation risk.
Fake and stolen are separate questions
A counterfeit pack is not automatically a stolen one, and a genuine pack can still draw Security heat. This check only settles authenticity.
What to look for, and which issue to pick
Read across from what you see on the tray to the verdict and the issue to select.
| What you see | Verdict | Choose |
|---|---|---|
| Hemingway cigarettes5 | ||
| Pack color differs from the official color card | Counterfeit | Color Issues |
| Spelling, alignment, font, print color or lettering is off or missing | Counterfeit | Lettering Issues |
| Logo missing, reshaped or printed upside down | Counterfeit | Logo Issues |
| Security seal missing or broken | Counterfeit | Seal Issues |
| Pale blank pack with no seal, logo or lettering | Counterfeit | Any issue fits |
| Food Stamps5 | ||
| Printed amount is not 40, 80, 120, 160, 200 or 240 Credits | Counterfeit | Value Issues |
| Worth 160 Credits or more with a missing or wrong seal | Counterfeit | Seal Issues |
| Worth under 160 Credits but carrying a seal | Counterfeit | Seal Issues |
| Logo or lettering missing, malformed or off-handbook | Counterfeit | Logo or Lettering Issues |
| Embedded chip missing or damaged | Unusable | Chip Issues |
| Immunivax Injectors7 | ||
| Serial is not seven digits, or sits outside 1250000–4559999 | Counterfeit | Serial Issues |
| First three digits are 250, 251, 301, 355, 385, 386 or 421 | Recalled | Serial Issues |
| Company or product name missing, misspelled or in the wrong font | Counterfeit | Label Issues |
| Main colors differ from the genuine reference | Counterfeit | Color Issues |
| Indicator light is orange | Expired | Indicator Issues |
| Indicator light is red | Unusable | Indicator Issues |
| Cracked or visibly damaged body | Unusable | Body Issues |
A usable injector has an in-range serial, a non-recalled batch, the right label and colors, no crack and a green light.
Working the appraisal service
Join the board
A board member invites you, from day 8 on Mark Up. The entry fee is 85 Credits, or 170 on Thin Margins.
Show the certificate
Put the Appraisal Board Junior Certificate in the display case. It is what brings appraisal customers to your window, so leave it there.
Junior Certificate →Inspect, then send your number
Examine the item, work out its value from the guide and submit the estimate in the Appraisal Service panel.
Stay inside the window
An estimate has to land within 50–150% of true value, and its accuracy grade needs a rate above 0% at your rank. Each rejected number adds 49 impatience, and at 100 the customer walks out.
Collect the fee
An accepted estimate pays the base fee plus a percentage of your estimate, and the game issues an Appraisal Slip recording it. A Perfect 999 on a 1,000-Credit item at rank 0 pays 20 + 149 = 169 Credits.
Take the promotion
Promotion raises your rank by one and swaps your certificate for the new one. Put that in the display case too.
Accuracy
Accuracy grades
How close your estimate sits to true value decides the grade, and the grade decides your cut.
| Grade | Estimate vs true value |
|---|---|
| Perfect | 95–105% |
| Excellent | 91–94% or 106–109% |
| Good | 86–90% or 110–114% |
| Mediocre | 76–85% or 115–124% |
| Awful | 75% or less, 125% or more |
Higher ranks are less forgiving
Rank raises the pay and removes the bottom grades. At rank 3 only Perfect and Excellent estimates qualify.
Fees by rank
The percentage is taken from your estimate, not from true value. A dash means that grade is not accepted at that rank.
| Rank | Base fee | Perfect | Excellent | Good | Mediocre | Awful |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 20 | 15% | 12% | 10% | 8% | 5% |
| 1 | 40 | 18% | 15% | 12% | 10% | — |
| 2 | 60 | 21% | 18% | 15% | — | — |
| 3 | 100 | 25% | 21% | — | — | — |
Working out what an item is worth
Each formula starts from one number and adds every line that matches. The catalog price of the item is not part of the sum.
Bionic hands
Start from the material, then add every other match. The value cannot fall below 50 Credits.
| Line | Credits |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Alloy | 100 |
| Carbon Composite | 150 |
| Gold Plated | 300 |
| Neural Interface | +120 |
| EMG+ interface | +45 |
| Plain EMG interface | +0 |
| Unspecified interface | −60 |
| Wear | −35 |
| Damage | −85 |
| Armored add-on | +50 |
| Blade add-on | +80 |
| Tactical: Carbon, EMG+ or Neural, spotless, both add-ons | +100 |
| Deluxe: Gold Plated, Neural, spotless | +200 |
A spotless Carbon Composite hand with EMG+, Armored and Blade: 150 + 45 + 50 + 80 + 100 = 425 Credits.
Plasma cartridges
Start at 300 Credits and add everything that applies. The value cannot fall below 90 Credits.
| Line | Credits |
|---|---|
| Light Wear | −45 |
| Heavy Wear | −90 |
| Cracked | −150 |
| Exposed Screws | −30 |
| Reinforced | +60 |
| Standard plasma color | +0 |
| High-Grade plasma color | +150 |
| Low-Grade (any other color) | −150 |
| Wild's Rides seal, not High-Grade | +60 |
| Republic Naval Requisition seal, Standard, no cracks | +120 |
| ZhongHua Shipbuilding seal, Standard, no wear, cracks or exposed screws | +120 |
| Ignition Lab seal, High-Grade, no condition at all | +750 |
An untouched High-Grade Ignition Lab cartridge: 300 + 150 + 750 = 1,200 Credits.
Ribwich
Check it is real first. Torn packaging, a bad date, a facility outside 1–35, a wrong Davre logo, or a sticker on a first run all put it at the 40-Credit floor.
| Line | Credits |
|---|---|
| Starting value | 150 |
| First production run, Jan 425–Dec 429 | +80 |
| Boundary month, Jan 425 or Dec 438 | +50 |
| High-quality facility 1, 2, 5, 8, 21 or 34 | +50 |
| Low-quality facility 7, 15, 18, 26 or 31 | −50 |
| Deluxe: sesame bun and extra pickles | +300 |
| Double meat patty | +800 |
A Jan 425 Deluxe from facility 1 with a double patty: 150 + 80 + 50 + 50 + 300 + 800 = 1,430 Credits. Only one of the bun and pickles means it is a fake; second runs need a sticker.
Mistakes at the tray
Pricing from the catalog
A plasma cartridge lists at 300 Credits, yet the right one calculates to 1,200. Use the guide's sum instead.
Accusing on a hunch
A suspicious price is no evidence. Confront only when a visible issue supports your choice.
Reading a grey button as proof
A disabled chemical confrontation button can mean the check is locked or the item is yours. Run the composition scan and compare it with the label.
Using the wrong tool on water
Cigarette, stamp and injector guides say nothing about water. Test it with a strip or AquaScan.
Sources.
- · GameWikiStation identification and appraisal ·.
- · GameWikiStation Hemingway cigarettes ·.
- · GameWikiStation Food Stamps ·.
- · GameWikiStation Immunivax injectors ·.
- · GameWikiStation cybernetic hand appraisal ·.
- · GameWikiStation plasma cartridge appraisal ·.
- · GameWikiStation Ribwich appraisal ·.
- · Bonus Action: all trades and how to unlock them ·.
- · Steam store page ·.