Leoo Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Are they're any good tips in terms of making money with free trade? I know you sell the item(s) you brought for a higher cost, but the whole new concept of the G.E is somewhat confusing by finding the prices the items buy and sell for. I'm just generally insteaded as person have seem to make millions within hours. Thanks in advance,Leoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LitterBug Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Check the runescape ge prices. Look for items that have gone up in price - and buy those. Then you have to hope that they'll actually go up in price. However, most trends are continual - but you also have to be wise about what to buy.Don't go buying 1000000000000 waterskins that went up 100%, buy stuff that people would buy on a regular basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quyneax Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 The most common method is buying an item and seeing how much you pay for it to get it instantly. Then you check how low you have to go to instantly sell an item. That gives you two boundaries. You want to lower the first and up the second until you profit from buying and selling. Supporter of Zaros | Quest Cape owner since 22 may 2010 | No skills below 99 | Total level 2595 | Completionist Cape owner since 17th June 2013 | Suggestions 99 summoning (18th June 2011, previously untrimmed) | 99 farming (14th July 2011) | 99 prayer (8th September 2011) | 99 constitution (10th September 2011) | 99 dungeoneering (15th November 2011) 99 ranged (28th November 2011) | 99 attack, 99 defence, 99 strength (11th December 2011) | 99 slayer (18th December 2011) | 99 magic (22nd December 2011) | 99 construction (16th March 2012) 99 herblore (22nd March 2012) | 99 firemaking (26th March 2012) | 99 cooking (2nd July 2012) | 99 runecrafting (12th March 2012) | 99 crafting (26th August 2012) | 99 agility (19th November 2012) 99 woodcutting (22nd November 2012) | 99 fletching (31st December 2012) | 99 thieving (3rd January 2013) | 99 hunter (11th January 2013) | 99 mining (21st January 2013) | 99 fishing (21st January 2013) 99 smithing (21st January 2013) | 120 dungeoneering (17th June 2013) | 99 divination (24th November 2013) Tormented demon drops: twenty effigies, nine pairs of claws, two dragon armour slices and one elite clue | Dagannoth king drops: two dragon hatchets, two elite clues, one archer ring and one warrior ring Glacor drops: four pairs of ragefire boots, one pair of steadfast boots, six effigies, two hundred lots of Armadyl shards, three elite clues | Nex split: Torva boots | Kalphite King split: off-hand drygore mace 30/30 Shattered Heart statues completed | 16/16 Court Cases completed | 25/25 Choc Chimp Ices delivered | 500/500 Vyrewatch burned | 584/584 tasks completed | 4000/4000 chompies hunted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What do you suggest as far as everything crashing goes? All of the more obvious items don't seem viable at the moment. SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Squab Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What do you suggest as far as everything crashing goes? All of the more obvious items don't seem viable at the moment. Alas, pretty much every single solitary post I've seen about merching always comes down to "this is the general principle on how to merch, but people won't tell you their item because they need it to be a secret to profit off of it" Squab unleashes Megiddo! Completed all quests and hard diaries. 75+ Skiller. (At one point.) 2000+ total. 99 Magic.[spoiler=The rest of my sig. You know you wanna see it.]my difinition of noob is i dont like u, either u are better then me or u are worst them meBuying spins make you a bad person...don't do it. It's like buying nukes for North Korea.Well if it bothers you that the game is more fun now, then you can go cry in a corner. :shame:your article was the equivalent of a circumcized porcupineThe only thing wrong with it is the lack of a percentage for when you need to stroke it. Poignant Purple to Lokie's Ravishing Red and Alg's Brilliant Blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReapMe Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What do you suggest as far as everything crashing goes? All of the more obvious items don't seem viable at the moment. Crashing items can also be flipped. What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What do you suggest as far as everything crashing goes? All of the more obvious items don't seem viable at the moment. Alas, pretty much every single solitary post I've seen about merching always comes down to "this is the general principle on how to merch, but people won't tell you their item because they need it to be a secret to profit off of it" I guess I'm beating around the bush here. What I'm really asking for is a link to a flip-merchanting guide that a TIFer made. I can't remember his name or else I'd look it up myself. He basically showed what kind of graphs you would look for in the GE database and showed the optimal points for when to buy items. I'm asking this because I'd like to make money off others via the Grand Exchange while I wait for my new PC to come in. Right now less than 1GB RAM on a [cabbage]tty, old laptop isn't enough for me to camp World 2 all day doing old-style merchanting. Now, not sure if you were intending this or not, but I didn't make that post expecting some smartass reply about how good items for merchanting are usually kept secret and that the basic gist of merchanting is to "buy low, sell high". SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovecuttingyews Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 What I'm really asking for is a link to a flip-merchanting guide that a TIFer made. I can't remember his name or else I'd look it up myself. He basically showed what kind of graphs you would look for in the GE database and showed the optimal points for when to buy items.I don't know for sure, but perhaps you're refering to this?http://forum.tip.it/topic/279816-ge-flipping-for-dummies-5m-to-200m/It's a pretty good beginers guide and some great points. Except for the part for deriving the spread it should be up to date(ish). Since the free trade update, you no longer have the 4 hour buy/sell restriction so you can buy say 25k logs, sell them then buy 25k more in the span of seconds, so deriving the spread is super easy, just follow Quyneax's advice on that.That being said, I've personally handled over 1 million [secret item]'s in the span of 24 hours and with a spread of 5 gp each, that's 5M gp (I'm good at math :shades: ). It's by far not the best, but it is litterally 0 risk so I don't mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Thanks. :smile: SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Say I found a crashing item with a spread of 2 coins, how much of my money should I put in at a time? Should I put in a lot of money to buy a huge amount of items or just buy a moderate amount at a time and sell then repeat? SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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