[i already have a blog, but due to being inactive for a few weeks, I decided to make a thread here]

 

 

 

Hope you take the time to read and enjoy, thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

~ Background Information ~

 

 

 

Hello. As some of you may know already, I'm a pure non member. (By pure I mean never member before). My forum account is vapour, and my Runescape account is sina j. I live in Canada and am currently in grade 10. I'm 15 years old. I respect and appreciate everybody, and love to get to know more people.

 

 

 

 

 

~ History ~

 

 

 

During the year in which I was in grade 6, I kept searching for exciting online games to play. I was just a cub back then, and knew nothing about the online world. Something was about to change my life forever. One day in school, two of my friends were talking about a game and told me the website to start playing. I remember the day like it was just yesterday. They pronounced it ru-in-scape instead of rune-scape. And at first I thought it was run-escape. Anyways, I typed in ruinscape.com and at that time the link had "inappropriate" ads. While I was sleeping my dad woke me up, brought me to the computer and asked me what site it was. (Seriously, wtf, couldn't it have waited lol? :P ). I just told him it was a typo and went back to sleep. I got the correct link from my friend the following day, and here is when the adventure begun.

 

 

 

I started in RuneScape "Classic" (RS1). I started after all the RS1 drops had occurred. Basically, RS2 came out like 6 months later. I was just a noob, didn't know anything, and was very happy when I had received free iron armour. I found a skull on the ground and thought it was rare. I had bought an anti-dragon shield from the general store for 20gp, and also thought it was rare. I remember both the kite shields and square shields looked the same. In my opinion, RS1 was a much better experience. I got scammed for the first time when I offered everything I had (like 1k) for a mask. He added like 10 other items removed mask quickly and we both accepted. I was so happy and danced around, but came to find no mask in my inventory.

 

 

 

Then when RS2 came out, it was a new and exciting experience. All my friends and I thought it was so cool, everything. The new items, the music, etc.

 

 

 

I started to learn more about money making. I bought my first rare (mask) for 700k. I also wanted god armour, and I used to believe that god armour kept on rising, because the value kept rising the first few months it was out. So I sold my mask and bought off god armour parts slowly. At the end, I payed 5.2M for Full Saradomin Armour.

 

 

 

Helmet - 700k

 

Legs - 1.25M

 

Kite - 1.25M

 

Plate - 2M

 

 

 

Then they started to drop and rares kept rising. Here is when I realized I should get a rare first. So I sold everything, and started merchanting santas. I bought them at around 1.5-1.6M and sold them for 1.65-1.7M.

 

 

 

Once I had 17.6M, I got my friend to post for me for a Purple Phat. Somebody said 17.8M, but I told him it was all I had. I had offered every single thing I had of value, and he accepted! I couldn't believe it! My first Purple Phat, thanks to Wolfpack558.

 

 

 

I was so happy with it, never took it off my head. Then after a while I bought santa + full sara. I believed that I had accomplished everything I'd ever want. I made the mistake of lending someone I didn't know in real life my santa, and he took it. We were friends for a while, so I was depressed.

 

 

 

Then I thought to myself. What if I'm able to make more money? I spent an entire 2 month summer like 10 hours a day merchanting yew logs with my left over money after selling full sara. By the end of the summer, I had a few M + Red Phat + Purple Phat. Then I had gotten addicted to merchanting. I merchanted every single item I could. Lets say I wanted rune armour to get 2 strength levels. I bought it 180k, used it, then sold it 200k.

 

 

 

Then, for some reason, I fell in love with Christmas Crackers. I overpayed 15M for one. I got it for around 235M value from Enipeus (Used the account Aitolos at the time) when it was worth around 220M (Around 2-5M less than Blue Phat). My offer was Purple Phat + White Phat + 5.6M. I felt it was worth overpaying as there weren't many sellers. I was right. Within a few months it surpassed the value of Blue Phats by a lot.

 

 

 

I got 99 cooking last summer, which is when I moved to my new house. I had a Red Phat + Cracker + 2 eggs + 5M at the time. Around this time is when Zoidnerd got hacked, which was very depressing. So I started to be more safe, not giving my rsn out. But after a while I felt it was lame to hide my rsn, so I started posting it and adding it to my profile.

 

 

 

On January, I had reached my all time high, Green Phat + Purple Phat + Santa + Christmas Cracker + 56.4M cash! (Around 1.2B at the time!!) All of this was accomplished in non-members, and you can bet I was proud of myself. On Friday (January 5th), one day before my Christmas Holidays were over and school was about to start again, I was hacked. All my hard work and effort, 3-4 years of it, all gone. All of it. I only had 6k law runes left, that's all. You bet I felt sick to my stomach and was depressed and sad for a while. I felt like I was missing a kidney. The hard part was telling my friends about it. When school started they would all be like hey rich boy, what's up billionaire, etc. That made me more sad than finding out I had been hacked.

 

 

 

I had so many friends, and some of them basically considered me no more than a noob after this incident. There you have it, my legacy had died. 3-4 years of playing, all gone on January 5th, 2007... or was it?

 

 

 

On July 25 during the summer, I was bored. Then I had a sudden urge to see all my RS friends again, so I dug up through my closet and found the paper with my password. To my surprise, it worked! I changed the password and went online, and started adding my friends back to my list. (Yes, the hacker even deleted my entire friends list) In my bank I had 6k law runes + my random event stuff/useless junk. I sold all the laws, got around 2M, borrowed 1M from Ignafel and 2.5M from I Steele I for around 1-2 weeks to merchant.

 

 

 

I had it going good for me, around 1-2M a day. Then the market I merchanted with died. So basically, I've been merchanting a lot and training woodcutting since my return. My plan was to get 99 woodcutting, get 1 month members just to wield woodcutting cape. But at 90 it started getting boring.

 

 

 

 

 

It's been over 3 months since I returned. But I haven't been playing the past few weeks. So basically, I have been merchanting/skilling for approximately:

 

 

 

70 days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are all my level ups since my return:

 

 

 

80 -> 90 Woodcutting (+10)

 

54 -> 57 Prayer (+3)

 

57 -> 59 Crafting (+2)

 

69 -> 70 Defence (+1)

 

53 -> 54 Ranged (+1)

 

 

 

 

 

July 25 - Total level: 1031

 

November 5 - Total level: 1048

 

Days of skilling (while merchanting): 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my new bank since my return:

 

 

 

July 25 - Bank value: 2M

 

November 5 - Bank value: 135M

 

Days of merchanting: 70

 

 

 

(The cash is 43M now)

 

 

 

Wow, compelling story and you have got back on your feet so well.

 

 

 

Glad to seey our back up and running and i look forward to see your future achievments :)

 

 

 

10/10 :D

ouch...well nice acount and bank especialy for f2p i hope you get back on track

Looks like you took a long of time creating this thread. I loved that story :D . Cant wait till you get back on again so we can talk :)

wow inspiring. One of the best merchants of all time

thats some bad luck you got there. good luck on getting the rares back, you had multiple and ive never even had 1. =(

I remember when you got that cracker off me :D

 

 

 

anyways youre doing great good luck on getting back to purple partyhat. 8-)

Hey buddy, that PHAT is so close now I can feel it ;)

 

 

 

Haven't seen you online in ages! :lol:

Very nice story! \ good luck with your merchanting lol this story makes me want to go merch again :anxious: lol

 

10/10 :thumbsup:

What do you merchant these days to make that much money on f2p? Once I get a break from school I might try to start merchanting on f2p since I don't have time for p2p.

Nice story! I'm sorry to hear that you got hacked, but its good that you're back up! Good luck, and make more geepee's!

keep up the good work my friend =D>

Very interesting story, I know what you felt during the hack as I have experienced the same thing. I also have total respect for merchants because, despite my profound understanding of their value in our society, I am unable to be a merchant myself.

 

 

 

10/10 for everything you said.

Amazing Story Sir =D>

Amazing story and Amazing bank =D>

I don't know what else to say than:

 

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10/10 There's no doubt you're a first class merchant. Very mind-invoking story tbh :boohoo:

O,o teach me how too merchant plox? <3 gtg for school

I really felt sorry after that story. ;S Can't even imagine how bad it would have felt. So much work gone for nothing. Good to see that you're getting back on your feet, hope you gain back everything you lost. :)

wow :shock:

nice story and keep it going :thumbsup:

That.... was an amazing story; u truly are a fantastic rs player, especially for F2p. I can't even begin to fathom how it must have felt to get hacked with a bank such as urs. I truly admire how u picked urself back up after such a mental wound (kinda physical as well) and am still a great merchant, I rate u a 10/10! :D

donno if you will ever look at this again, but do you merc in w1? how do you merc while skilling in f2p? with no forums?

 

thanks

Great story :D any pics of your old riches?

donno if you will ever look at this again, but do you merc in w1? how do you merc while skilling in f2p? with no forums?

 

thanks

 

 

 

Heh, are you kidding me? I love you all, and I read every reply. I can't say how I merch and skill at the same time, but I don't use W1. I use random worlds like World 141, depends which has the least amount of players. And I can still view forums.

 

 

 

And I think I have a few old pictures from my ancient Photobucket account.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the only old bank image I have, taken in around August 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my old tip.it avatar I made using my rares and wore it proudly.