Talk:Reynard/@comment-75.139.182.230-20120602222224/@comment-5089387-20120603204147

Actually you have to buy/enhance items a certain number of times before he will ask you to find materials for him. If you're buying anything, they have to be different objects since buying 25 of the same object in one go didn't work for me.

I believe the journals are the final stage of this quest.