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There got to be a work around-yes?

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Unfortunately none have been discovered yet.

Alternative approaches all involve hand editing the Merchants to change their BarterGold. But then all that happens is that the merchant consistently has the new amount from the mod instead of the old amount from the original. So, one can give the merchants more bartergold ( or alternatively reprice weapons and armour downward ) to make the game a bit easier on the selling side. Or Give Merchants less bartergold ( alternatively reprice weapons and armour and such upwards ) to make the game more difficult on the selling side.
Change one of the GMSTS and the merchant instead of having bartergold replenish every 24 hours will have it every 12 or every 168 or whatever. Change another one and the amount you can haggle a merchant's initial offering upward or downward before you get an "offer refused" message can be increased or decreased.
One can re-evaluate the non playable classes ( where most merchants come from ) and give those bartering classes preferred attributes more inline with their trade, one can hand edit the levels of the merchants, one can arbitrarily up the Merchant's Mercantile and Speechcraft skills, one can modify the skill increase effects of successful bribes and successful barters and of succefful and failed persuasions to either ease or tighten the pace with which PC mercantile increases and the speed with which PC speechcraft increases.
Mod specific merchants can have bartering handled entirely inside dialogue thanks to scripting, message boxes with buttons, and choices; but this approach would be beyond tedious for general merchants.
And none of these is nearly as satisfactory or flexible as would be the ability to access BarterGold by script or dialogue and then modify it.


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