Talk:Search Party/@comment-3498155-20140306224012

The reward of this quest is a measly sum of coins, a paltry sum of xp and rc, plus three one-shot consumable items of questionable utility. To add injury to insult, you permanently lose access to a vendor for the rest of that playthrough.

Other than for the achievement, I don't know why the hell would anyone bother with completing this quest. Doing the first two stages is fine - from his dialogue you apparently get a discount upon turning in the Scrap Iron and Miasmite. It was also enough to get him to max affinity (blush, chimes).