Whips..merchanting them?

[ubermage2000]

I guess im making it a habbit posting in here huh? I guess its better to know than to guess though. :-w

 

 

 

Anyway I sold my torags and guthans chainskirt and a few other items..at a loss I'll add. After all the sales where done i came up with 1.88m. I'm hoping to merchant this into enough money for full veracs and supplies for kqing. I was figuring that I could merchant whips, buy for 1.55, sell for 1.65..but before i go and do this I wanted to make sure my figures correct. And any other ideas are always welcome!

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone whos going to take the time to post. :twisted:

[Elessar3019]

Theoretically it works.... But have you seen whip prices in the last few weeks? Up and down more than a roller coaster in the rockies (hehe). Be very careful merchanting whips, because one wrong guess could mean a loss of up to 100k. Also, simple supply and demand has made them go down in price, and they will continue this way until Jagex decreases the drop rate of whips. I suppose eventually they'll level out, but I wonder when?

[Myweponsg00d]

You know what works better than merchanting whips? Almost anything. Train a skill, more specifically Hunter or Runecrafting. Both of those are easy ways to make money, and they give you good experience points too, instead of zero experience points from merchanting.

 

 

 

If you ever get hacked and lose everything, you'll have to start all over again if you merchant. If you use skills, you'll have something that no hacker can steal from you.

[Klugsi]

Theoretically it works.... But have you seen whip prices in the last few weeks? Up and down more than a roller coaster in the rockies (hehe). Be very careful merchanting whips, because one wrong guess could mean a loss of up to 100k. Also, simple supply and demand has made them go down in price, and they will continue this way until Jagex decreases the drop rate of whips. I suppose eventually they'll level out, but I wonder when?

 

 

 

They allready decreased them a lot, but way too many people got 85 slayer in the last few weeks - and also most of them camp there now

 

 

 

so prices will drop more and campers wonder why :wall: #-o

[transcript80]

It's difficult to merchant a product that is going down in price. Risky as well. As said before, one wrong deal could end up in losing 100k or more!

 

 

 

You better start merching raw materials: buy in bulk/from noobs, sell higher. Coal and iron are suitable for that. You have too little money to merchant with rares, or barrows armour sets.

[ubermage2000]

Alright..i suppose i need to train smithing anyway..is it a decent idea to buy iron/coal..and sell steel bars? Or cannonballs..

[curmudgeony]

In terms of smithing for cash, steel bars beat cannonballs. While a lot of guides say that cannonballs are a good moneymaker (along with iron throwing knives). The markets themselves are pretty dry. It is easier to find smelters buying the bars (even iron bars) then a buyer of finished products. Most smelters pay less then market rates or a token amount of cash and raw materials (70-100 gp per bar plus 2 coal, 1 iron ore). This can be a plus if you are more hungry for exp then cash.

 

 

 

My suggestion would be to hang around nonmembers buying iron for 90 each and invest in some forging rings, then roll that ore into iron bars for 200 each or possibly sell to a smelter for 2 iron ore.

 

 

 

Is it a rocket-ride to cash? Nope. But the combo of money and exp can't be beat. Plus, iron smelts faster then steel.