I created my first account back around February 14(ish) 2002 because my friend told me I should. I didn't do much on this account, other than walk aimlessly around, using the library computers and talk with my brother. I remember when my brother got a brown shield and I was jealous and a lot of my friends had santa hats. Haha. Well, nothing much happened on this account. I quit for a couple years, then returned for Christmas in 2004 to claim a yo yo from santa in Varrock. Then I quit for another year and came back in 2005. My friend had long since given up so I asked him for his account and he let me have it. I log on to find a lvl 55 cb char with a r2h. Wow I thought, this is crazy! Well, my family decided to get faster internet other than dial up at home so then I started to play RS a lot more. I always thought guthix armor was cool so for about a week i coal mined every day and right after 6 days or so I got the 1.2m worth of coal and bought it, that was a good day! Ever since I first started I always had wanted a Santa Hat. When they were around 5m, I always tried to get up there, but never could. Eventually, I learned some decent merchanting methods because I knew that mining coal wouldn't be able to get me there... So I get members, and by this time the Santa hat is around 19m (2 summers ago). I work all summer and finally near the end of it, I have enough to buy a santa hat. YAY. that was a great day. I keep this santa for awhile, and last december, after the trade updates, I log on to see people selling santas for way cheaper due to the trade updates. I just thought, ok, i'll hold onto it, because they will rise very fast right after christmas. wrong. I sold after christmas for about 14m, a 5m loss. Due to the instability of the rares markets, I haven't purchased one since... Well, i didn't play much until the summer when I got membership again, and I managed to go from 14m to 23m during that summer. Since then, not much has happened, and I have since quit membership and continue my everyday life. Losses of Money 1. Pro__Farme Scam - i get a random pm from some Pro__Farme saying he will give me a santa, full dragon, and a red phat, if i managed to find an eye of gnome and trade it to him. He said it was urgent and he needed it RIGHT now. I thought, wow, i better get this fast i don't wanna pass up this deal! So i'm in the bank and i quickly see someone yelling "selling eye of gnome!" i quickly trade him and I say how much, he says what you got, stupidly, i say that I have full guthix and 1m... So he insists that I must give him all of it. I make the deal and trade, thinking, i can buy all this stuff back once i trade the other guy for my phat. I make the deal, and pm the pro__farme on where to meet. He says edgeville. I quickly run to edgeville, only to find no green dots. Dismayed and hurt and dissapointed, i pace around in circles in the edgeville bank, hoping somehow he would come. He never did, I think i cried that day, I had worked so hard for it... 2. lost about 4m because of a big bone/regular bone scam. Favorite merchanting methods. -I would buy air runes at the air altar on world 16 for for 15 gp each, and then sell in world 1 varrock for 20 gp each. I went from 1m to 5m that way. -Got members, and merched everything in world 2. mage books, wands, furies, robins, rangers, d chains, d longs, glories, infinity, (lil bit of barrows), d legs.