Making Money on Runescape by Merchanting (F2P)

An extremely easy and effective way to make money on Runescape is by merchanting,which is basically a process in which a player generates an income through buying low and selling high. More specifically, in this guide, I will cover the basic of Shop Surfing, which is essentially the same as merchanting, but less dependant on player-to-player trades.

Shop surfing can be done at several locations, with different results at different times of day. While the process is EXTREMELY easy, it is often a matter of when and where the best opportunities are available. Over time, I have found that the following locations are best for the following type of shop surfing:

Varrock General Store - General Items:

World:Any highly populated world in which players are constantly selling items to the General Store.
Strategy: Impressive profits can be turned here through the buying of various items such as Runes (of all types), Ore (preferably mithril and up), food, limpwurts, potions, and various other player made / gathered items that are generally not sold in other stores. It is highly recommended that you have at least 50,000gp before venturing into this investment. Adament Ore as well as Feathers, for example, can be bought from a general store for a fraction of its market value (causing a great return on your investment).

Varrock Rune Shop - Runes:

World: Any lowly populated world in which their are few players located in the rune shop.
Strategy: When runes are in low demand at the shop, prices for Air, Fire, Water, and Earth Runes can often reach as low as half of the market value (the value at which you can sell an item to another player. Therefore, the more runes that you can purchase at below-market price, the great your profit when you sell to other players.

As simple as it may sound, the process is even easier and exponential more profitable if you are a Member, due to the increased number of rune shops at which you can surf. F2P players on the other hand, will no doubt begin to get frustrated as they find that others, including bots, have already looted the Rune Shops and General Stores.

Using both of these locations, and a little bit of patience, I have managed to easily bring in nearly 150k per hour.

I hope this guide will help you with your Runescape financial woes. If you need any help in the game, my RSN is BNR-Flatline, and I would be more than happy to help.

RS Psycological Trading..a New Way To Look At It

Well, all of you probably do some merchanting, but more likely ...sell/buy/trade. These are common acts of merchanting, but there is
another way to look at it. Psycology, which expains everything. Here are some common phrases that you can use to determine what they are intending to do/think/scam of you. Here are a few examples showing what the person is thinking.


"selling 500 freaking iron bars, just buy please!" This person is anxious and not very smart, because after a while his bars will go down and price, then you jump on him and buy for the low price.

"selling 500 iron bars contact me on private, a/w is 500 each(not accurate prices but who cares) This person is patient, yet it in a hurry. He wants to maximize in cash, yet will take the time however long it takes till he finds a high bidder 400 ea.
This is not the person you want to haggle with, and he is usually in the process of doing something such as alching\fletching. So this is not the right person to buy from.

"500 iron bars for sale 200 each" this person is obviously impatient and is desperate going low price. Just wait a few seconds, because he will get even more impatient as time passes.

These are 3 examples..1 and 3 are the ones you are aiming for on merchanting.


Psycological key words/phrases:

private: in a hurry, desperate and patient

sell to him rather than me: A scammer, don't even trade this person or the other, it just makes it more tempting and you could fall for it.

ex of this: I'll trade you for a nature reed for your dragon med lighthouse. Other guy trades me and puts up 10 mil. Pretty imtimidating, lol i saw ther log out tactic, didn't fool me..psycology ownz!

selling blah blah got 5 min!: desperate person probably(80%) lying, so he is definately gonna admit his disaster in 5 minutes. Well, at least you can psycologically 0wn him. He probably also will be a target said in example 1 and 3, don't say that he is a lier, or he most likely wont sell to you which is not the aim of this.

noob: if he says bank sale no noobs, this refers to no wimpy offers, which makes him want to spend less time, meaning that he has no time..making him a desperate buyer\seller.

not you!: means he has a better buyer, just a little impatient, nothing to be upset on..it just means you will have to take it to the next level if you want to buy it. So just a person trying to make you "bid" higher so its just a temptation, look at it that way if you haven't before.

person isn't (talking or anything): definately and most probably a scam. This means they are really happy just dont wanna show it out or blurt out any clues, yet by saying nothing they are giving out a clue. Also when they say "accept" it means they are impatient and you can say "no, thats a bad deal, but i'll do it for 10k more." And he'll blow his cap and accept.

Merchants' Guide To Making Money

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V. 1 just started.
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V. 1.5 Price updates


Table of Contnts:
I. Updates
II. Table of contents
III. Preperations
IV. Getting better
V. List of Items and prices
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III. Preperations

First of all, the easiest way to start out is to either have a friend smith you a mith 2h, or to get 5k.

If you get a mith 2h, go to a world with a bunch of people in Varrok square. Dont go to world 1 or any other world that is packed. Go to a world that is about 2/3-3/4 full. Go to to the square and just type "selling mith 2h". People always want to buy them cause they go pking and lose them. Always wait to get at least 3 offers. Then choose the highest one, or if they aren't high enough, try to get a price you want. 8-10k is a good price(but you may only get 6-7k witch is good too). Then later after the person leave, buy a m2h for about 2k less than what you sold it for.

That is about the easiest way to start out.

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IV. Getting Better

Now, after you have gotten about 30k with the mith 2h's, go and buy 2 dimond ammies(10k each), and 2 ruby ammies(5k each). now go to the same place as where you sold the mith 2h's. BE strick on the Dimond ammies and sell them 12k each, but if offered better, take it. For the Ruby ones, it doesn't matter as much and can be sold at any price over 5.5k. now keep buying and selling these untill you have about 50k.

Now you can get more money since you have experence and money. Buying and selling rune 2h's!

Rune 2h's are in high demand, and cheep ! First with your 50k, buy a r2h for 40k (if they sell less/more than that tell me someone, the rs economy is horrible these days....). now, sell it for 45k, this is very easy to do since people are always buying and selling them. This is most easily done on world 1. in about an hour you can get 100k if you work hard enough. For further Items to buy/sell, keep reading.

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V. List of Items and their prices

ARMOUR (only vaulable)

Black:
Full Helm~ 2k
Plate~ 4.5k
Plate Legs~ 3.5k
Kite Shield~ 4.5k
Square Sheild~ 3k
Full~ 11k

Mith:
Full Helm~ 3k
Plate~ 5k
Plate Legs~ 5k
Kite Sheild~ 5k
full~ 13k

Addy:
Full Helm~ 3.5k
Plate~ 15k
Plate Legs~ 6.5k
Kite Sheild~ 10k
Square Sheild~ 5k
Full~ 26k

Rune:
Med Helm~ 10k
Full Helm~ 30-35k
Chain~ 50k
Plate~ 70-80k
Plate Legs~ 65k
Square Sheild~ 40k
Kite Sheild~ 60k
Full~ 150k



More to come.

Runescape: Merchanting Tip, steel barz

Ok, well to start off steel bars are 550 each when you sell them. Coal is about 150 each. Iron is 50 each. So, if you buy say 1k coal for 150k, and 500 iron for 25k, then you just spent 175k. Then, smelt those ores into 500 steel bars. Then go and sell them for 550 each. So 500 steel bars at 550 each is 275. And there you have it, a nice 125k profit. Also it gives you a bit of smithing exp.

RS: Merchanting guide

Chapter 1: getting started First 100k
Chapter 1 continued: getting started First 100k
Chapter 2: a little better First 250k
Chapter 3: getting closer First 500k
Chapter 4: mills First 1000k
Chapter 5: Multi Mills First Multi Mill
Chapter 6: Rares
Chapter 7: New quests/Skills

Chapter 1: Getting Started

In this chapter you will learn how to make up to 100k

There are alot of different ways to make cash in rs. In this chapter i will start out with some basic merchanting/skill ideas.

#1
Choc Dust/Bars Method 1

This first way is really simple. There are a few different places that sell choc dust/bars.

First go to the knome village(place with the first agility course). Go inside the big Tree where the king is. Go up to the floor with the new mini game(floor #2).
If you go by where the bank is you will find a guy selling stuuf for the minigame. I believe the choc is 14gp each.

They have dust and bars. What i do is buy all, close out of the store window, then right click on the guy and go to the store part again. There will now be 3 choc bars and dust in stock.

The bank is less than 15 seconds away.
I did this and got 5k choc (dust and bars) in 4 hours.
One of the best choc methods.
Choc dust sells for about 350 each so not bad at all.

Method #2

Another choc bar place is in Nardah (in the desert) make sure you have desert clothes and atleast 2k. They sell choc bars here for 14 gp each. There is a bank very close too. For this method you have to keep changing worlds (thats why I would stick with method #1

#2

Flax

You need 10 crafting

Im not sure if you would call this merchanting or a skilling. First go to Seers any world. Go to the flax field and pick 28 flax. Now go to the little house with the ladder to the west (follow the crowd if you are not sure where this is). Go up the ladder and over to the spinwheel. Go ahead and and spin the 28 flax. Now you have 18 bow string or bs. go ahead and bank this.

Keep doing this untill you have 1k bs. At this point you can go on the forums or stand in seers bank and sell the 1k bs for 150-190 each.





Chapter #1 Continued

Methed 3 for choc bars(ran out of room on last post)

I got this idea from page 12

"you can also do recipe for disaster and you can buy cholate bars for cheap from the cuilmacers chest (the more of the quest you do more bars it stock) and the bank is in the same spot! cuz theres a bank in the cuilmancers chest! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE MOVE but one bad thing you have 2 grind the bars"


#3 Cow Hides

You can buy them in any non-member world in the Al Kharid bank. Buy them for about 100 gp each.
if you dont have the cash feel free to just kill the cows right to the east of Lumbridge. After you think you have enough cow hides you can sell them in the forums or a busy world for a higher price.(im sorry im not sure what a good price is to sell, but my friend told me about this method)
Let me know if you know a good price to sell at.

#4 Chaos Druids

The reason im mentioning chaos druids is unids. They drop unids(un identified herb) almost every kill not to mention they are very weak.
They are located in Edgeville Doungeon if you follow the path. WARNING FOR LOW LEVELS!!! DO NOT TRAVEL/EXPLORE PAST THE DRUIDS OR YOU WILL PROBABLY DIE FOR THERE ARE MANY LEVEL 100 DEMONS.

After you have even 100 unids(i recomend getting 100+) you can sell for 1k each to end up with a even 100k.


Chapter 2: A Little Better

If i were you i would continue the unid methed and the choc method to get to 500k

#1 Bronze Arrows

For this you need some cash (like the 100k you just earned)

Go to varrok If you are a member then log in a members world. Go to the arrows shop and buy all of the bronze arrows in stock. If you are lucky there will be a little over 1000. After the store is sold out, log out, and pick another world. With 100k you can get about 16,000 arrows. Go ahead and get on the forums or a busy world and sell. You can get up to 20 gp each from these.

16,000 x 20 = 320,000 or 320k

In about 5 hours I can get 30k arrows which is a very good profit.

#2 Snape grass

Snape grass is located on the shore by the crafting guild. in keeps respawning there. Fill up your inventory then go bank it in Fally. Repeat.

Some people say you can sell snape grass for 500 each. Not true. You will be lucky to get 250(or more) each for them.

Note: i have had 3 people proove me wrong about the price. They all claim that they have sold snape grass for a higher price.

Note: I got bored after the first 5 minuts and do not recomend this one.


Chapter #3: Getting closer

#1 Runes

You can go to any rune shop but i prefer the one in the wild(lvl 55 wild).This is the mage arena shop. They usually have 200+ nats and laws in stock. The only problem is getting there. Sometimes there is a person at the tele spot waiting to kill you. Go in un-crowded worlds and bring an axe or weapon to cut through the spider web. After you get in there is a bank

Note: You are safe in the store

You can also buy chaos and death

Get out all of your cash and buy all the nats or laws. Its usually a good idea to not buy both but to pick one of the 2. Laws can sell for 300-350 each and nats are 320+. Sell the runes on the forums.

This is a good profit.

#2 Full Rune

If you are lucky you can find a seller of full rune for 180k. The go back and sell it for 210k or so. Sell it on the forums or in world 1 or 2.

Its not the best way but it works



Chapter #4: Mills also known as Cha-Ching

#1 Unids

Like in chapter 1 we are using unids. The only difference is that before you were killing for them. Now you will be buying them. Buy as many unids as you can on the forums. Make sure its 11 stacks. Buy them all for 1k each. After you have bought all of the unids go back and make a post called Selling unids 1.2k each. If you had 500k and spent them all on unids you will have 500 unids. When you go back and sell these for 1.2-1.3k each you will end up with 600k. Thats a good profit. Then repeat. Each time you will have more money which means more unids and then with selling means even more cash.

#2 Super Sets

You can buy super sets on the forums for 8k each. Get about 100 (costs 800k) and then go to world 18. You can sell them there for about 10k each. This is roughly 1 million gold.

#3 Range pots

buy them for 3k each on the forums and sell them for 4k each.


Chapter 5: Multi Millions

#1 Whips

I have been told (on page 4) that you can merchant whips by buying them for 1.8 mill and lower and selling them for 2 mill or higher.

#2 Unids

If I were you i would continue to do unids for the more money have the more money you will make.

#3 Yews

Note: Fill me in on the current price This one may not work if the price has changed to much.

last time i checked you could go to world 1 varrok and buy yews for 220 each. Then you can go and sell them on the forums for 230+ each. This may not seem like a lot of cash but think about this:

5 mill divided by 220 is around 22k yews.
If you then go and sell them for 230 each you will have 5.2 mill

You can do this methed very fast so you will be making mills in no time.

#4 Sharks

I would buy them in world 18 for 900 each and sell them on forums or in the same place for 1k each. 100 gp profit so its not bad.



Rares

Im not very good in rares but have heard ythey are a great way to make money if you can afford them

The best time to buy a rare is around the holiday it was made on (like santa you would buy around christmas)and then you sell it when the price goes back up

Blue masks
you can buy them for 33.6 mill and sell them for 34-34.2 mill

pretty good profit.


New Quests/Skills

For me this means cash

whenever there is a new skill or quest i get busy.

for example. when construction came out i made and easy 1 mill a day for the first week. I would buy limestone from the store for like 20 each and sell it on forums for up to 2k each.

lol i cant wait for hunting(the next new skill)

Runescape: Market - Buying/Selling

Knowing how and when to market an item is important. Read this guide if you like to make money without having to lvl up a trade skill or chance loosing ur armor when you go out to PK someone.

Glossary

1. Rune Ess

2. Big Bones

3. Store Trading

Ok first tip. Know what you want to buy/sell and how much its worth. Here are some things that are very usefull and easy to buy/sell and help boost a new players money reserves.


1. Rune Ess - These can only be mined once you have completed the rune mysteries quest. Once completing the quest you will be able to teleport to the Ess world from either the wizzard tower, varrock south of east bank or somewhere in fally I don't know where that is. Rune Ess can be mined at lvl1 and dont take very long. A dedicated person can mine over 2k per half our but this is incredibally boring so try and do like 500 a day and then do whatever u like.

Rune Ess sell anywhere from 10-50gp ea. This may not seem like much but when you have mined 1,000 rune ess and you find somone willing to buy for 50ea then thats 50k withought lvling up any skill but mining. ( Rune Ess do not lvl up ur mining much so if you are focused on getting mining exp do it on other ores. ) This does take some time and the rewards are pretty nice if you do it alot and any player can do this lvl 3 - whatever lvl u are.

2. Big Bones - Big bones are usually aquired at the cave east of barb village from the lvl 28 hill giants dwelling there. A Key is required to get in the door to the entrance of the cave and can be aquired by killing someone with it, finding someone who dropped one, or buying one from another player. Sometimes the general store will have it but only idiots will sell a key for a low price when new players want them. If you wish to find the key yourself go to the ladder by the yew trees in edgville and walk until just before the hill giants section and their is a room that diverts off to the east. The key is there and is respawning so you can get it mutiple times and hand them out to friends. ( or noobs and watch them die and take their stuff lol ) Big bones can be sold from about 150ea to 350-400ea. So as you can see it is very nice if you are any good at killing a lvl 28 hill giant. *P.S. Bring some food this things hit hard. You may also find some nice items being dropped. Yesterday i got an uncut dimond, but mostely they will drop iron items and limpwort roots. ( used in str pots )

3. Store Trading( example ) Arrows. One thing that is reletively fast is looking in Lowes archery store ( or any other store for that matter ) and finding a type of arrow that is low. I.E. Say the store only has 1 addy arrow left and you can sell for like 200 ea to this store. Go to another world that has like 1000 addy arrows and buy for like 80 ea then go sell for a 20 ea profit. This is very hard to do and takes a long time. I only suggest you do it if you are desprate for money.

Ok one last thing. I suggest that you keep a reserve of money. Like 10k or something that you set that you will never use unless you are out of money and want to make more again. Example. You are pked and lose everything you have. Go to bank and withdraw the 10k you kept and buy ess 20 ea. Go to world 1 and sell for as high as you can ( 40-50 ea ) and repeat the process until you have as much money that you need and keep a reserve again.