PFS2 - Bargain hunter feat


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Hi guys,

I need some clarification on this feat ( related to PFS! ):

BARGAIN HUNTER | FEAT 1 | General Skill

"You can Earn Income using Diplomacy, spending your days hunting for bargains and reselling at a profit. You can also spend time specifically sniffing out a great bargain on an item; this works as if you were using Earn Income with Diplomacy, except instead of gaining money, you purchase the item at a discount equal to the money you would have gained, gaining the item for free if your earned income equals or exceeds its cost. Finally, if you select Bargain Hunter during character creation at 1st level, you start play with an additional 2 gp.

Im tyring to figure my option:
1. "You can Earn Income using Diplomacy".

Reading "Earn income" rules i could already use Diplomacy to Earn Income ( like i could use Religion or Acrobatics ), so this part add nothing to me.

"In some cases, the GM might let you use a different skill to Earn Income through specialized work. Usually, this is scholarly work, such as using Religion in a monastery to study old texts—but giving sermons at a church would still fall under Performance instead of Religion. You also might be able to use physical skills to make money, such as using Acrobatics to perform feats in a circus or Thievery to pick pockets. "

2. "You can also spend time specifically sniffing out a great bargain on an item; this works as if you were using Earn Income with Diplomacy, except instead of gaining money, you purchase the item at a discount equal to the money you would have gained, gaining the item for free if your earned income equals or exceeds its cost. "

This is the less clear part, cause i don't see any advantage of using this option ( point at the "you can also" ).

8 days of downtime| 5cp x day | I wanna buy a 30 cp item
- Earn Income (diplomacy): 40 cp --> After 8 day, got item and 10 cp more
- Discount on item : -40 cp --> After 8 day, got item and loose 10 cp

In the worst scenario, i've lost 10 cp.
In the best, it's still useless as option cause i could have get the item with "earn money" option.

Sorry for the wall of text!

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