Appraisal: joining, inspecting and avoiding rejected estimates

Bring the fee in cash

Wikily places the membership offer on day 8, or day 5 with Skip Intro. The fee is 85 Credits in Cozy or Normal, 170 in Hard and 255 in Challenge. The Join choice only appears when you hold enough cash. If it is missing, compare your cash with your difficulty’s fee before assuming the storyline failed to unlock.

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Postpone deliberately; do not decline by mistake

Asking the board member to return brings them back 7 days later with the same choice, according to Wikily. Declining sends them away for good. After joining, display the Junior Certificate to attract appraisal customers; simply owning it is not the documented condition. Membership also supplies the Cybernetic Hand Appraisal Guide and Magnifying Glass, so check those tools before the next appraisal.

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Inspect each item before sending an estimate

Appraisal customers bring 2 to 4 items of one kind. Use the Magnifying Glass on each item: Wikily identifies it as the only tool that opens the Inspection Tray, and says it works on customers’ items without being consumed. Send an estimate after inspection. This is a service transaction, so do not confuse an accepted estimate’s fee with acquiring inventory for resale.

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Avoid repeated guesses

Wikily defines a Perfect estimate as 95% to 105% of true value, and the customer leaves after the third refusal. Inspect again before another guess. The fee formula and item examples below follow Wikily’s appraisal documentation; they are not an independently tested price calculator.

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Calculate the fee, then check your rank

Wikily’s documented fee table specifies: fee = submitted estimate × the grade percentage + the rank’s base fee. Junior, Appraiser, Senior and Master base fees are 20, 40, 60 and 100 Credits; their Perfect percentages are 15%, 18%, 21% and 25%. For the source’s Junior example, a Perfect estimate of 320 earns 48 + 20 = 68 Credits. The percentage applies to the estimate you submit, not automatically to the item’s true value.

Higher rank also tightens acceptance. Wikily says Appraiser refuses Awful; Senior refuses Mediocre and Awful; Master refuses Good, Mediocre and Awful. Estimates below 50% or above 150% of true value are always refused. An accepted estimate prints a slip showing your estimate, the true value, grade and fee: use that record to check your inspection rather than repeatedly guessing until the customer leaves.

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Prepare for the promotion visit

On Normal, Wikily lists promotion progress thresholds of 100, 150 and 250, with a Perfect estimate adding 10: 10, 15 and 25 Perfect estimates respectively if nothing subtracts progress. Difficulty changes gains and losses, so these counts are not universal. At full progress, the board member can visit from the next day. You still need to accept and pay; postponing brings another visit in 7 days, while declining ends the offer permanently but leaves the certificate valid.

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Use the item-specific checks

For Cybernetic Hand, Wikily adds material, interface, condition and eligible add-ons to a 100-Credit base, with a floor of 50. Its worn Carbon Composite hand with EMG+ is 100 + 50 - 35 + 45 = 160 Credits. Check the entire item: Tactical and Deluxe combinations have extra bonuses, so this example is not a universal hand value.

For Ribwich, check the barcode date and facility, logo, wrapper and visible filling before adding rarity bonuses. Wikily gives opened or counterfeit examples an exact value of 40 Credits. A Deluxe requires both sesame bun and extra pickles; having only one makes it counterfeit. For Plasma Cartridge, a maker bonus applies only when every stated condition matches. Heavy Wear, Exposed Screws and Low-Grade color calculate to 300 - 90 - 30 - 150 = 30, but the 90-Credit minimum applies. These examples illustrate inspection order; use the item guide for the other combinations.

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