Ways to Make Runescape Money: Merchantism

* Merchantism:

This is how a lot of players in runescape make their quick millions.

Question: What is Merchantism?

Answer: Merchantism is the act of making profits, by simply buying items realcheap and selling for higher prices.

* Merchantism tips and tricks:

* Always keep a good amount of cash on hand, Only spend about 1/3rd to1/2 of your current money for the merchandise you're going to sell. You just might see a good deal while you are selling.
* Start out by only merchanting 5 to 6 items at a time.
* Buy in Bulk and sell in bulk. Be sure to buy stuff low and sell high.
* Selling in the game can take a while. For bulk items use the forums for buyers. If you are a member then make a post on the bulk items you are wanting to sell. You usually always get a buyer for ores and bars within 5-10 minutes from a forum posting.
* Avoid scams at all costs. Many merchants get scammed easily. I evengot scammed myself. Be sure to always double check the last trade window before making a trade. If the deal sounds to good to be true thenstay away or approach with caution.
* Be firm on your prices, many players try to talk you into lowering prices. Be firm and walk away a couple steps, there is a 75 percent chance thathe'll give in and buy your items.
* To make quicker cash by merchantism do bulk trades or high priced items over 100k
* Always keep a calculator at hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Hot items and biggest profit items for merchantism:

* One of the biggest profit items is Iron ore. Buy iron ore for around 25 to 50 gold coins each. This is very easy to buy and is very plentiful. ( My dirty little secret: I hire iron miners and pay them 35 each. I currently have 15 iron miners that bring around 25,000-50,000 iron ore per week. I pay them their paychecks each Friday. So If I get 40,000 iron ores that week I end up paying my miners 1.4 million gold coins for 40,000 iron ore at 35 gold coins a piece. I then take all the iron ore and sell it for 100 each to other players. So 40,000 times 100 each equals 4 million gold coins. So I just Profited 2.6 million gold coins from my 15 miners.) Once you get heaps of iron ores, then sell them for 100 gold coins each.
* Steel bars is still hot now. Try to buy these for around 250-350 each and resell these for 500 to 600 gold coins each.
* Coal is also a hot item, and the fallowing ores, iron ore, coal, silver, gold, mith, addy and rune. All these bars are also hot.
* You can also get huge profits from rare holiday drops if you can find good deals.

To get started in merchantism find about 5-6 hot items you would like to buy cheap and resell for higher profits. World 1 market is a good place to sell your items. This place is also full of scammers so be careful. Buy all your items in other worlds, try not to buy items in world 1 due to the heavy amount of scammers. This guide also contains a street price guide on most runescape items.

When I was a low level player about a year ago, I started merchantism once I was able to go to the champions guild. I had purchased rune maces for 14.5 k each and resold them to lvl 30-40 players for 18-25k each. After this I got hooked and started on other items. Use items that you are very familiar with and stay away from items you don't have much knowledge of. Once you get to know the low and high prices of items, then you will start making more and more money and you can add in more items to merchantism. Always sell your items in notes. Weapons and armor will be ok not to sell in notes.

Congratulations!!!! You now know the basics of Merchantism and can now
make your millions in no time.

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.

Runescape: herblore guide

cheap method

1. getting the herbs.
2. obtaining second ingredients
3. conserving money
4. making money from leveling
5. selling potions

fast and expensive method
1. obtaining herbs
2. buying second ingredients
3. faster lvling and techniques
4. making money from higher lvl herblore
5. selling potions & selling potions in bulk

cheap and slow method

1. getting the herbs.
if you do not have much money then you are probably worrying about how hard it will be to lvl up you skills, but what you may have not realised that some skills can repay you with what you spend on you herbs some tips: */ if you have high farming you can try to grow your own herbs while you are making the potions. remember mixing the potions together will take a while, so why not plant some ranarrs and check up on them occasionally? you can buy ranarr seeds 20k each at seers bank ( or 28-30k off forums) you can merchant with this stratagie later on in your gaming. */ if you do not have money for the seeds than you can always rely on al-kharid warriors,druids (lvl33) and chaos druids(lvl 13). the law running world in world 66 is a great place to support transportation when getting herbs from creatures. bring 27 unnoted essence to the law altar and trade them to someone wearing zammy robes and law tiara to recieve 27 noted essence and 27 laws. chaos druids are my best reccomendation they are in the travery dungeon.
2.obtaining second ingredients
second ingredients are usually very expensive. but with the simple task of obtaining them youself you will safe you loads of money and even make you money when you turn around and sell the potions. you can get snape grass behind the crafting guild and then tele to fally with a teletab if you have the time to make some. you can obtain chocolate bars and dust at the grand tree from the drink ingredient seller and the food ingredient seller ( 20 bars and 14 dust i think is maxed out shop) the bars and dust are really cheap like 6gp ea if i am not mistaken and requires quite a bit of world hopping to get large quantities. i think i got around 1k choco dust in about an hour. you can get limpwurt roots from hobgoblins. and you can obtain red spider eggs from varrock sewers near the lvl (??) spiders and the 4 moss giants (near the end of it or near the agiltiy tunnel in edgeville sewers near the slayer taskmaster).
3.conserving money
using this cheap method preserves money because you are not spending mils on the ingredients. if you do not feel like you have the time for getting the ingredients with these slower methods than you can always hire lower lvls who are not fully aware of the market prices. so you can higher a noob to run to the red spider eggs and sell you them for about 50-100 each (they are like 400 ea i think on forums) don't rely on noobs as your source of money, because once they realise the full price of the items they are getting they most likely won't stay loyal to you. if you have friends that are alching and such they can run ingredients to the bank while alching so they can help you out without wasting too much of their time. this saves you time because then you have much more time because you do not have to bank.
4.making money from lvling
you can make money the cheap way because you do not spend money on the ingredients. with this money you can buy ingredients which will make it speed up. you may not be able to buy a lot. so if you like to get snape grass, then use the money on ranarrs so you can get snape grass which you may find easier this way. with this money you can pay noobs more for getting you ingredients or you can pay people to run herbs to bank while you are killing druids and such. what i like to do is get a few trusted friends that like to help you with stuff and have them follow you to druids and they can help get herbs and you can give them some of your herbs if you get a full load first.
5.selling potions
selling potions is the most important and dire part of herblore. it is vital that you know the appropriate locations to sell the potions you mix. here are the best locations to sell your potions: */ selling prayer potions 8k-9k (3 dose) at edgeville. sell super sets at edgeville (un aware of price) but just make sure you get more for them or the equal amount to what you spent on them or what you feel you deserve for your work. selling energy potions and super energy potions at areas where people like to run constantly, such as world 66 draynor bank (law rush world) the people will pay around 1.2k each for the normal energy potions (helps to sell 4 dose energy pots) you can also sell energy pots in areas that people craft runes(usually they prefer super energy to preserve room). selling potions on the forums is usually the best idea then you get a large range of people who need the potions and they may be desperate, but potions such as prayer potions you may get less for on the forums because of the amount of competance of other potion sellers.

fast and expensive method
1.obtaining herbs
you can buy herbs off the forums from merchants or farmers which usually are very expensive, or you could stand in banks such as al-kharid bank and say "effect:effect:buying all ranarrs 6.5k each or best offer. // this way is the best way of getting herbs cheaply, but if you have money you can always get money from sellers for around $3.5 a mil and just buy the herbs for a couple hundred more coins each herb which saves a lot of time.
2.buying second ingredients
if you are willing to spend money on these highly overpriced second ingredients (my opinion)
then you can buy these off the forums or where they are obtained from people who get them therselves. snapes in fally west bank, whiteberries in edgeville or androugne, red spider eggs in varrock east, fungi in mortania or varrock east, limpwurts in varrock, fally or androugne. potato cactus in al-kharid, wine of zammy in fally and janger berries in yanille or seers.
3.faster lvling and techniques
buying ingredients in bulk is the easiest way to lvl up herblore. some tips where to mix the potions are in areas that are popular for the ingredients you want. such as if you are making prayer potions make them in al-kharid or seers bank while typing (auto-or not) "buying all ranarrs 6.5k ea or 7k ea" depends on what you are willing to spend. *// i doubt you will need auto typer because of the new do>x options in the potion mixing so you can type inbetween intervals. if you have all the ingredients you want then i would suggest making the potions in areas where people by them, such as edgeville bank if you are making super sets or pray pots. then you can sell as you make them.
4.making money (from higher lvl herblore)
you used to be able to make loads and loads of cash off of unids, because you could buy herbs 1k each and identify them and turn around and sell the herbs for like 5k each. i really miss unids but there are still ways you can make money. people will pay you for higher lvl potions because they do not have the sufficient lvl so you can make money easy off of a higher lvl herblore from mixing a few potions which is really easy. or what is really cool is you can get free xp from the new assist others. people will be glad to make their potions while supplying you with the experience, who knows they may even tip you.
5. selling potions in bulk
selling potions in bulk is not highly suggested because you will miss out on a lot of money, but if you want to save time and get money to continue herblore then you can sell in bulk to merchants for a little less per potion. they have extra time on their hands so why not. also you can give to a friend that has spare time so you are giving one of your friends the easy merchant instead of it going to some stanger. herblore can get you a lot of friends, you will stand out in a clan when you can make everyone their super sets and super restores and such. making mass friends such as in a clan can make you loads of cash from gifts. say you give someone super sets then they pk a whip with them, they will most likely give you a portion. or in a clan on your birthday everyone will remember to return the favor and supply you with some pretty cool gifts. i got full veracs from a clan member once because i gave him potions a lot.