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Dark_Arbron posted...

Its possible the money was on the ship and he would have had it delivered after the transaction was confirmed.

Or more likely, its just another one of the prequel trilogys many mistakes (albeit a very minor one).

I wouldn't call it a mistake at all.

Just because we don't see Qui-Gon haul around crates full of credits doesn't mean shit. The credits could be onboard the ship and they didn't want to risk hauling that much currency around in to Mos Espa when they could have been robbed. It makes sense to locate the desired parts, strike a deal, then come back with the credits.

It'd be pretty dumb to haul that much around. It's begging for conflict.

And that is assuming they weren't carrying some sort of credit card or other way to pay digitally.