Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by Terry

In reply to Arilou.

If you have time there's the advantage of being able to sell to town militias and local big men looking to fit their own troops, but you still run into the problem of having to offload a relatively hard to sell good to people who will only need it a half dozen times in their lives, as a near maximum. If you don't have a stable place to store your stuff, this is a problem.

Realistically soldiers almost always had to offload anything not premium or easily portable quickly, meaning they had to sell to one of the camp followers whom specifically traded in loot and hence had sharply depressed prices.