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[[File:Artisan-icon-shop.jpg|left|thumb|75px|Shop!]]
Buying items from the [[NPC]] merchants, the three two [[artisans]], will be a major occupation in Diablo III. How important the actual buying will be isn't yet known; it seems that the [[D3 Team]]'s goal is to keep players down in the dungeons as much of the time as possible, so shopping will probably be a fairly minimal activity.
NPCs will far more often provide item services; [[socketing]], unsocketing, [[crafting]] of various types, and they'll also buy up items from players; what isn't [[salvaged]] in the field, at least.
==Non-Artisan Merchants==
Besides the three two Artisans, there are other merchant [[NPCs]] in the game. It's not known if any of these will be found in [[The Caravan]], but they are confirmed in other locations, spread throughout the acts in order to make buying and selling items more convenient.
Lots of NPCs were seen in the Blizzcon 2008 and 2009 demos, but none were active. The first NPC merchant from whom items could be bought or sold was seen in the Blizzcon 2010 demo, in a small surface area between two large dungeons. He requested assistance with a murder quest, and once it was finished he "rewarded" the player by opening a buy/sell interface, right there in the field.