The Black Market is where you can buy and sell various products.
Deals
The deals tab is where you buy and sell assets.
Use the drop-down button at the top of the screen to change between stores.
Perks: Any perk bought in the Black Market is non-transferable except for those found in the Daily Special, which are transferable only if your account was created over 30 days ago at the time of purchase.
Money
Daily Specials
This screen gives you the option to purchase one perk from a choice of three random perks. The third choice is only available if you're a Certified Gangster.
There's a fourth option, the "Mystery Perk", which enables you to buy another unknown perk for a fixed price. It will never be one of the existing perks you've seen. The Mystery Perk could turn out to be poor value or good value, so you should only use this option if you're happy to take a gamble.
Changing Perks
You can spend diamonds to view different perks. When you do, any perks you've already seen are removed from the pool and you can't go back to previous choices.
You can do this up to three times, with the cost increasing each time (the rationale being that finding the perk you want improves as the pool of available perks shrinks). The Mystery Perk remains available each time but also becomes more expensive for the same reason.
Firearms
Firearms can be used to equip as your Primary Firearm (for shooting), for Armed Robbery or for Heists.
The firearms available, ordered from worst to best, are:
- Plastic Pellet Gun (Free, default primary firearm)
- Revolver ($100k, available from Level 3)
- Pistol ($150k, available from Level 6)
- Shotgun ($250k, available from Level 9)
- Submachine Gun ($400k, available from Level 12)
- Assault Rifle ($600k, available from Level 15)
You must purchase one of each firearm before being able to buy the next one.
Primary Firearm
You should always upgrade your primary firearm to the best one available in the Black Market, which is always the most expensive one.
When buying a firearm better than your current primary firearm, you'll be prompted to equip the purchased firearm. This gives you a better chance of survival in a shoot out, whether you shoot at someone else first or they shoot at you first.
If you dismiss the prompt, you can always equip the firearm later via the Overview screen (at the top of the menu on desktop, or in the bottom navigation bar on mobile). Just press the icon next to your firearm to equip a different one.
Garage Upgrade
The garage upgrade enables you to increase the maximum amount of vehicles your garage can hold. You can upgrade in 5 car steps with each upgrade costing more than the previous. The largest garage you can have is 100 vehicles.
Vehicle Crusher Upgrade
The vehicle crusher upgrade enables you to increase the maximum amount of vehicles you can crush in your garage each hour. Each upgrade costs $500k. You upgrade once for every 5 levels, up to a maximum limit of 10 vehicles per hour.
Hustle Coins
You gain Hustle Coins with each Accolade you earn.
You can buy perks with Hustle Coins, a description of each one is shown on the screen or you can check the perks page in this guide.
Please note: Some perks here may be unavailable if your gangster is below a certain age and you've created more than one gangster in the week before creating your current gangster. Most players are unaffected by this restriction.
Available perks
| Product | Cost | Timer |
|---|---|---|
| XP Boost | 1 Hustle Coin | 1 Day |
| Respect Refill | 5 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 10 x Scratch Cards | 5 Hustle Coin | 1 Day |
| 1h x Bomb Technician | 10 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Small Crimes Half Timer | 15 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Police Chase Half Timer | 15 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Looting Half Timer | 15 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Bomb Defusal Half Timer | 20 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Prison Busting Half Timer | 20 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 30m x Vehicle Theft Half Timer | 20 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 1h x Double XP | 50 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
| 1h x Half Crime Timers | 100 Hustle Coins | 1 Day |
Prestige Coins
You earn 1 Prestige Coin for each prestige level you reach.
At the moment, there's only one option to spend your Prestige Coins on, which is 30 minutes of Family Double XP, at a cost of 1 Prestige Coin. This is a special perk which gives both yourself and all members of your family Double XP for 30 minutes.
Asset Trade-In
At this store, you can sell your bullets and credits at the market rate. As it's the market rate, the amount you can sell for will change over time depending on demand.
Anything you sell here is distributed back into the game at random times via the Auction House. The quantities may be split up (e.g. 10,000 bullets may be sold in lots of 100 or 1,000 bullets).
Available options
| Item | Timer | Daily limit |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Bullets | 5 minutes | 100 |
| 1,000 Bullets | 15 minutes | 30 |
| 10,000 Bullets | 30 minutes | 10 |
| 1 Credit | 5 minutes | 100 |
| 10 Credits | 15 minutes | 30 |
| 25 Credits | 30 minutes | 10 |
Exchange
On the Exchange tab, you can swap one or more assets for another asset.
The heading of each deal is what you'll receive and the assets listed below are what you need to provide in return.
Each deal has a wait timer limiting how often you can make the exchange.