its probably because jagex want to ruin the merchanters, since thats not the goal of the game, but skilling is It ruined bad merchants, but the good merchants have made an obundent amount because of pohs. On Topic: I've spent around a mil, when i went to world 1 to uy oaks bought 35k of them kept 5k and sold the rest for profit :) . Oh, the selling oaks paid for all the stuff i paid for construction.