Money Making Guide in RS

f2p merchanting
1. no money-10k
2. 10k-100k
3. 100k-500k
4. 500k-1000k
5. 1000k-5000k
6. 5000k-rares
member merchanting
7. no money-10k
8. 10k-100k
9. 100k-1000k
10. 1000k-5000k
11. barrows merchant
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12.holidays (not rares)

f2p:
1.no money-10k. this should be quite easy. best ways on f2p would be: cowhides- cowhides are a very great source of money on any lvl account. cows can be killed at any lvl and a lot of people do not pick up the cowhides anyway. there is a lot of great spots for combating cows in lumbridge. after you get 100 cowhides go to al-kharid bank (near the kebab and tanner), this bank is the best spot to sell cowhides because there is a tanner nearby so people do not have to go far to tan the hides into leather after they purchase them. (i would not reccomend tanning them because there is soft and hard leather and you may not know which one your buyer would want.) so once you sell 100 cowhides you should have a little over 10k depending on current market price for cowhides.
2.10k-100k the more money you have, the more money you can merchant. so now with the 10k merchant small things such as feathers and willows logs. you can buy feathers at the chicken coop in lumbridge for about 2gp each and resell about 5-10 depending on current market prices. willows are also a great thing to begin merchanting on, you can buy willows logs in draynor village for 20gp and resell 35gp each. there are many things that you can merchant those 2 are some of my favorite.
3.100k-500k you are now at around 100k which usually takes a while to get this far but after this the rest seems easy. head over to varrock (world 1 or any low number world) west bank and go on the east side of the bank (outside of bank) and merchant runite items for the following prices ~rune scimitar(buy for 20-23k and try to sell them in edgeville for 28-30k each) ~rune 2h (buy for around 35k-40k and sell at edgeville for around 55k-60k) //those 2 rune items are the best ones to merchant in f2p\\ you can also try to buy: ~rune legs (35k-40k and sell in edgeville or varrock east bank for 50k-60k) ~rune plates (buy 40k-50k and resell 65k-75k) rune full helms are not too great and neither are rune kites, but feel free to expirement.
4.500k-1000k you are now what i would consider well off in runescape. 500k is enough to start merchanting full rune //the trick of merchanting full rune is to find people who are trying to get rid of: rune full helms, rune plates, rune legs and rune kites. take advantage of them lowering the price and trying to sell for a lot cheaper than retail. buy different parts of the set individually for cheaper and resell as a set (rune full helm, plate, legs and kite) for about 25% more than you paid for the pieces in total. this is a great way to merchant although you may have a bit of a struggle considering tons of people do this. if you are having troubles with this try to go to a less crouded world to sell the full rune because it will be less compitition and you may even get higher than the people are getting in world 1 and such.
5. 1000k-5000k this part is very tricky in f2p, but if you can master the arts of piecing together full rune (as described above) you will find with more money you will be able to piece together rune(t), rune(g) and zammy, guthix and saradomin runite sets. this may take a little bit longer because this type of armor is in high demand in f2p, but sometimes you are lucky with members come to sell their clue scroll rewards and have no intention of getting the complete value of the armor. say if a lvl 100 get saradomin legs from a lvl 3 clue scroll he will come to world 1 most likely and sell them for like 100k cheaper than normal because he doesn't want to waste time selling and can make more money in a p2p world than spending an hour getting max value for his armor (which he got for free so he also doesn't care too much about selling under-price.)
this may take some time getting used too, but it is an excellent source of money in f2p. do not buy trimmed skirts, trimmed skirts are not in demand at all via the lack of female players and trimmed armor being intentionally for looks. so trimmed skirts are a lot more cheaper than trimmed legs and very much more troubling to sell.
6.5000k-rares once you have gotten this far you should be able to merchant just about everything, but be careful. and check the price guide in the begining of the post because some items such as charcoal are not even worth a few coins, but can only be obtained in member worlds so noobs try to sell these items for more than they are worth. never fall for the 2-person scam. just because someone is saying "buying (some item you have no clue of value" for 1m" does not mean they will pay 1m. they are just trying to help their friend who is selling the item for a little less for people to buy and think they will make a quik 500k, but this is completely incorrect you will just be buying junk and handing out money.

p2p
7. nothing-10k; members have a lot more items to be merchanted upon. the easiest way to make 10k in f2p would be picking flax and selling it at seers bank for 75gp each (you can also string it on the way to the bank at the spinning wheel near the yew trees upstairs and sell for 180gp. flax has no requirements to pick it and sells for quite a bit. you can also try deep wildy looting, near the mage bank people die all the time and drop good items. the person who gets the kills is usually too occupied picking up the whips and stuff they forget like seers rings and stuff if you are lucky. but sometimes you can get like 4 pray pots (4) with no effort from there.
8.10k-100k tree seeds are an excellent source of money, you can turn virtually nothing into millions with minimum effort. just go to such places as seers bank, draynor bank, catherby bank or any other place where wcers bank theirs logs (prefferably seers bank) then keep typing "tree all tree seeds~(your rsn) use glow3:wave2: and such to make your text stand out and turn private chat to trade so you know right when someone sends you a trade offer. they will show a bunch of tree seeds. look for: maple, yew, magic, banana, orange, curry, pineapple, papaya and palm tree seeds. the following are hard to make any money off so tell them you don't need: acorn, apple and willow (willows are ok but the noobs expect 5k ea usually from them so you gain like 2k for each one only so dont waste time on willows) here is a list of the prices of the seeds. right when you go in trade offer them horrible offers like 10k for palm and papaya and 7500 for pineapple 90k for magic(usually they know the price of magic seeds idk why) and like 30k for yews and 15k for maple. if they reject move your price up gradually but dont go withen like 10k of retail usually. unless it is like pineapple and already low price. merchanting tree seeds is one of the greatest merchanting methods and you can use it with no matter how much cash you have. because of tree seeds merchanting i have about 45m and have given around 30m to my friends.


9.100k-1000k also use the tree seed method on this(above ^) think of it this way, if you buy 100 seeds each one is 10k under retail, you can turn around and sell on forums for 1m profit just from 100 seeds. tree seed merchanting has always been my favorite. although it is slowly slowing down economy wise. i used to be able to buy magic tree seeds 80k and resell 250k very easily, now you are lucky to make 20k off of someone with a magic seed (forums were used less back in the day also) also merchanting d scims (buy 80k and resell 120k made me a couple mil)
10.1000k-5000k merchant items that you recieve from creatures or clue scrolls, seers rings have a very strange price value because so many people 2 item with them, it has convinced the economy that these are worth more than they should be. i merchant these sometime not sure of prices used to buy 550k and resell 700k in like 15 minutes. check the price guide for current price to see the price range if it is far. another good idea would be to merchant veracs armor. the skirt from veracs is a small ammount of around 400k people think the set is like 4m+ so they automatically assume the skirt is 1m in some cases. i have sold skirts from veracs for over 200% its retail value =p not sure if this works too well but give it a shot probably will still pay off.
11.barrows: now that you have reached 5m you can almost afford any barrows set. now. just like in the f2p guide you can buy pieces of the set for very cheap, because the owner who is selling got it from barrows and is most likely trying to make some quik cash to go buy some prayer pots and runes and such. ahrims and karils are not great to merchant (never have tried so i am not 100% sure on that). but say someone gets a dharok great axe, which retail currently is 850k-900k instead of trying to get full price they might go as low as 750k just so they don't waste time by missing barrows. skilled players such as them realise that if they spend an hour to get 150k extra on their item. they could of just as easily gotten over 150k just from earning it. most of them think like this and this way you can take advantage of that. buy parts of sets cheap from high lvls and sell to stakers and pures for full price. easy as that sounds dumb, but it is one of the greatest merchanting secrets.
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12. when it is a holiday, people are usually in a good mood and not caring if they spend a few extra k on some items, but a lot of people also love to dress accordingly like green and red on christmas green on st. patricks, all black on halloween, red white blue on fourth of july(not very famous on a europe game =/), well anyway. my point is, on a holiday head up to freminik trials area and get some colored robes. i personally sold full green sets 40k each on st. patricks day. and i am not lieing when i say i made over 1m an hour doing simple tasks and having fun in the game. use this advice and take advantage of holidays if you are at home and not with your family or relatives.