GE Merchanting/Flipping

[Blake]

I've been trying to flip in the GE, and keep losing money. I've tried monkfish, green dragonhides, big bones, and a couple other things. I was looking at the 100 most traded items list, at the ones whose graph looked like a sine function, and was at the bottom of the curve, or just starting to rise. Every time I've lost about 2%. I was only using 2m as it was just a trial, I have more to invest after I figure it out. Can anyone give me some pointers? I know nobody will give me their items to do, but any help would be nice. (if you want to pm me an item, that would be great too :rolleyes: )

Thanks!

[Assume Nothing]

Try barrows. (Verac's Plateskirt, Dharok's Platelegs, Torag's platelegs, Archer's Ring, Ahrim's Robetop)

 

If you're trying to flip normally, with buy mid sell max, make sure the item you are buying is actually rising. If this update it rises a higher percentage than the last update, or the same percentage, and it's early in the rise (2 days or so in), then you're pretty safe. Goodluck

[purekilljoy]

Barrows has not worked for me... :) But I always do items that are traded a lot, food items, raw materials and such. Been making a constant 4-6 % on my money, except on the barrows... didnt buy, finally got them, now they wont sell :P.

[Blake]

I looked through the barrows items before and didnt see any that looked like I could make anything on them, but maybe I'm missing something.

 

Purekilljoy, how do you decide what things to buy, anchor much to buy them for?

[Avid43]

I've started doing this like 3 days ago and it's been going ok so far. I've made about 20 transactions so far and made money on every one, apart from nature runes which I sold for the same price I bought them for as they were taking ages to sell and I was starting to panic.

 

Things I have been trading are. Yew longbows strung and un-strung. Cannonballs (only on the first day, they've dropped since). Cut emeralds. Monkfish, cooked and raw. Lobsters, cooked and raw. Cooked Swordfish. Cow hides. There's a couple of other things but I don't remember now. The way I've been choosing what to do is by only choosing items that either didn't change or went up by a couple of gps the day before and by choosing items I think are traded often.

[Blake]

I've started doing this like 3 days ago and it's been going ok so far. I've made about 20 transactions so far and made money on every one, apart from nature runes which I sold for the same price I bought them for as they were taking ages to sell and I was starting to panic.

 

Things I have been trading are. Yew longbows strung and un-strung. Cannonballs (only on the first day, they've dropped since). Cut emeralds. Monkfish, cooked and raw. Lobsters, cooked and raw. Cooked Swordfish. Cow hides. There's a couple of other things but I don't remember now. The way I've been choosing what to do is by only choosing items that either didn't change or went up by a couple of gps the day before and by choosing items I think are traded often.

 

 

Alright, that's exactly what I was trying, just picked the wrong items I guess. So, you looked at the ones dropping, and when they rose by 0 or just a couple gp, you bought and then sold the next day?

[Assume Nothing]

I chose barrows because it's commonly traded, with big profit margins, and that you control a large portion of the market. If you have 10 thousand monkfish, and millions are being traded every day, you're not going to be able to control the prices. If you have say... 30-40 of Barrows items, for that specific moment you hold a large portion of the stock. This gives you more power to control prices than flipping monkfish.

 

Herbs work pretty well for flipping, but they are still crashing from the Xp weekend so that's a little thrown off course.

 

EDIT - I did list the Barrows Items you should try. Just try Verac's Plateskirt/Torag's Platelegs/Dharok's Platelegs (when they are rising sufficiently)

[Avid43]

So far I have only chosen ones that were either 0gp increase from the previous day or a 1 or 2gp increase from the previous day. I have always relisted them as soon as buy them but with the items I have bought large quantities of they never sell for at least 4hrs due to the limit...

 

I will definitely be trying things like Barrows armour once I get a bit more experience in this whole buying and selling game...

[Blake]

It looks like almost all of the barrows stuff is falling, after being at a peak, so it would be hard to do those. Torag's helms did look good though, so I tried them, and 5 bought at mid isntantly <_< It looked like they were gonna rise

[Elf Spice]

I've been trying to flip in the GE, and keep losing money. I've tried monkfish, green dragonhides, big bones, and a couple other things. I was looking at the 100 most traded items list, at the ones whose graph looked like a sine function, and was at the bottom of the curve, or just starting to rise. Every time I've lost about 2%. I was only using 2m as it was just a trial, I have more to invest after I figure it out. Can anyone give me some pointers? I know nobody will give me their items to do, but any help would be nice. (if you want to pm me an item, that would be great too :rolleyes: )

Thanks!

 

Items are the 100 most traded lists are terrible to merch, in general. You will want to merch items with GE volume limits of 2, 10, or 100. A few 10k items are exceptional, though, in my experience.

[MerchantInTheDark]

There's a certain list of items that are usually good to flip, and as a general rule they are higher-end consumables and armor (think Dragon Boots, Monkfish, Barrows, etc). Explore until you find several good items.

[Blake]

I'm trying a few right now, I'll let you know how it goes in the morning. In a trial run, I made a 5% profit on normal logs today :) my first successful flip!

[Blake]

I made 3% on drag scimmys, 3% on logs, and 6% on yew seeds overnight :smile:

[Assume Nothing]

Lol Dragon Scimitars.

[Blake]

They're super easy. The price never changes, you can just buy them at like 97k and sell at 100k

[Blake]

They're super easy. The price never changes, you can just buy them at like 97k and sell at 100k

[Avid43]

Good to see you had some success, I had my second item that I didn't make any money on yesturday and that was Rune Platebodies. Ended up selling them for what I bought them for becasue I got bored waiting for them to sell...

 

I tried buying Dragon Bones at 2% under their mid price yesturday and left it for about 8hrs but didn't get a single one. Today I notice there was no change in their price after the last update and I was expecting them to have risen seeing as though I couldn't get any...

 

Not sure what happened there... :?

[Blake]

I'm doing alright, usually I'm able to sell half of what I bought for 5% profit, but the other half I have to sell what I bought for. Oh well, I'm learning :mrgreen:

[Assume Nothing]

I'm doing alright, usually I'm able to sell half of what I bought for 5% profit, but the other half I have to sell what I bought for. Oh well, I'm learning :mrgreen:

Have you even attempted barrows items yet

[Blake]

I was going to when the graph looks better. To me, none of them look that good... Are there any that look good to you right now?

[crashNburn]

For flipping, whether an item is falling or rising is usually irrelevant, barring incredible curves that seriously [bleep] with supply/demand.

 

Or when you're incredibly close to a theoretical ge update.

[Assume Nothing]

For flipping, whether an item is falling or rising is usually irrelevant, barring incredible curves that seriously [bleep] with supply/demand.

 

Or when you're incredibly close to a theoretical ge update.

Irrelevant? Are you serious....

[crashNburn]

For flipping, whether an item is falling or rising is usually irrelevant, barring incredible curves that seriously [bleep] with supply/demand.

 

Or when you're incredibly close to a theoretical ge update.

Irrelevant? Are you serious....

 

Because?

 

Unless an item is in such high demand that's it's unbuyable, or crashing so hard there's no demand even from bottom feeders, you should have no problem flipping it.

[Assume Nothing]

For flipping, whether an item is falling or rising is usually irrelevant, barring incredible curves that seriously [bleep] with supply/demand.

 

Or when you're incredibly close to a theoretical ge update.

Irrelevant? Are you serious....

 

Because?

 

Unless an item is in such high demand that's it's unbuyable, or crashing so hard there's no demand even from bottom feeders, you should have no problem flipping it.

 

It is still relevant, to know what kind of flipping you should do and when to stop.

[crashNburn]

It is still relevant, to know what kind of flipping you should do and when to stop.

 

What? You gauge both situations the same regardless, you just attempt to buy in different directions.

 

I'm telling him that he shouldn't avoid an item simply because it's falling in price.

 

Edit: and yeah, I guess I was a little vague