tip.it merchanting section

[Loffelicious]

Ok, I've been with tip.it for years - on and off as I have with Runescape. I'm also using another Runescape related forum. I originally started using that because that forum could offer something this forum does not, which is merchanting help.

 

What is merchanting?

 

The general term for merchanting is buying an item at a low price, to at some point resell it for profit.

There are several different types of merchanting which I will not mention here. But if there is interest for it I might write up a guide on it.

 

Myths

 

There are a lot of myths about merchanting. I will start off by crushing a couple of commonly known myths.

 

"Jagex dislikes merchanting"

 

- Jagex does not dislike merchanting. What they did dislike, was clan merchanting, which made a lot of commonly used items unavailable to the regular Runescape player.

 

"Merchanting hurts the economy"

 

- No. Merchanting is healthy for the economy as it keeps items flowing. Without merchanting, buying and selling things in the grand exchange would be slower.

 

"More people merchanting makes it less profitable"

 

- In some, very few cases, this may be true. But that is not the kind of merchanting the regular scaper will get into anyway, because that only applies to more risky and complicated forms of merchanting.

Generally, more people merchanting won't affect things much, apart from maybe moving the price a little. This will not remove the profit margin though.

 

"You need to have a lot of money to merchant"

 

- Although you can make more money if you already have a lot of it, you do not need hundreds of millions to do this efficiently. You can make a lot of money by sticking to low cost resource items.

I know this because I have tested and confirmed it, turning 100k into 10m without that character leaving the grand exchange.

 

"Merchanting is too risky for me"

 

- Some types of merchanting involve risk. People that are not confident about merchanting should not attempt these methods anyway, as there are safe and easy ways to merchant that will still make a lot of money.

 

 

Why does tip.it need a merchanting section?

 

Tip.it is a really great site for those who need help with or want to discuss Runescape. There are a lot competent and helpful people here.

What it is missing though, is a section for merchanting. Merchanting is a great way to make money that requires little effort. It is good for the economy and gives a new side to enjoying Runescape for a lot of people.

In some cases, particularly aimed at a site I think a lot of you know about, merchanting and rwt go hand in hand.

I do not support or like rwt at all, and that is why tip.it is a good place to have a merchanting section.

 

 

What would this section contain?

 

A merchanting section would contain general guides on different merchanting techniques, a discussion and merchanting help part and a part for posting "hot items".

Hot items can be an item that is currently at a very low price or that for any other reason should rise soon.

 

What does a merchanting section require?

 

- One or more moderators that know a fair bit about merchanting.

 

- Being able to post graphs using grand exchange-tags

 

 

Additions are welcome either by posting here or by pm'ing me. Any other feedback for that matter.

[Hegelstad]

Really, please don't post items in public, it usually ruins potential.

 

Nevertheless; I can back up all the facts, as I went from 10mil to 130mil in a matter of weeks, playing as little as 1 hour a day. This was done 100% by safe merchanting.

[Bows]

I had a reply to the topic, but it seems it wasn't posted. I'll edit this with it when I get a chance, or I'll simply reply again.

[tripsis]

Questions about merchanting may be posted in Help & Advice. Guides about merchanting may be posted in General Guides ;)

[Loffelicious]

Questions about merchanting may be posted in Help & Advice. Guides about merchanting may be posted in General Guides ;)

 

I'm aware of that. But I feel like merchanting gets very little attention on tip.it. If a merchanting section was created, I think more people would get involved in it.

A merchanting guide in the general guides section would disappear in the other guides posted. And the same goes for help & advice. Questions about merchanting would be better answered in a sub-forum for merchanting.

This is simply because people would go to a merchanting section to talk about merchanting, knowing there are other people there that share that interest. People with knowledge about merchanting would go to it, people that might not go to the help and advice forum at all.

I see a lot of the same people answering posts in help & advice, and by all means - props to them for doing that, but I think more people and other people would be active in such a sub-forum.

[tripsis]

But the same can be said for many categories (dunegoneering, boss hunting, general money-making, etc.). If we make an exception for one (merchanting) we'd have to make exceptions for others and it's not practical to create a forum for every single category.

 

Good guides that are high in demand don't get lost amongst the masses. There are plenty of extremely successful guides in the General Guides forum. If it does get lost, it would simply be because there's not enough demand for such a topic, which would then further prove our reasoning to not have a subforum.

 

And of course if the guide is good enough, it could potentially be moved to the Archive of Wisdom, where it definitely wouldn't get lost.

[Loffelicious]

Although I agree with what you said, most of the things you mentioned have guides on the front page. All the skills, boss hunting, activities etc.

 

If not a sub-forum, maybe it would be an idea to put a merchanting guide on the front page? In my opinion, more merchanting talk is the only thing this site is missing :)

 

You have everything else on this site, why not offer a guide to this aspect of the game?

[tripsis]

The only reason that merchanting doesn't have a guide on the front page is because no one has made one ;) Creating a subforum wouldn't suddenly create more activity than there already is, it would simply separate that category from everything else. But there is nothing stopping you or anyone else from creating a merchanting guide in the General Guide board. And if it's well received, it should have no problem staying on the first page :)

[Danqazmlp]

Also, to ass to what Tripsis said, a topic on merchanting in General discussion may fill all the needs of a merchanting section. If somebody then wants to write a good guide, it would be linked from that topic, creating traffic for it. I can't say there is no audience for a merchanting forum, but if it cannot sustain a single thread, there are not enough.

[Hegelstad]

I'd rank merchanting at the same level as staking to be honest.

[Bows]

Do you think it'd be possible to create a sub-forum inside the Marketplace board strictly for discussing merchanting? It would at the very least draw more attention to that board as a whole.

[Dadoffour]

This is a funny subject,

 

1 who is going to sit there and update the prices all the time ( if your going to merch this will be a big part of what you buy )

2 you will need a flow of price for items like past 30 and 60 days ( no reasone to buy things if they doint move )

3 then you have times of year when more people have time off , like school vacations this will also have a big factor in the merch prices

as much as it sounds like a fine idea it also has a lot of work involed in mantaing all that we or you will need to folo a price of an item to see if its worth the buy or not,

i feel that if you want to do this it should be something you do on your own, cause iam sure no one will like it if tips dose not have the correct pricing info for items

 

sorry just my thoughts :rolleyes:

[Hegelstad]

This is a funny subject,

 

1 who is going to sit there and update the prices all the time ( if your going to merch this will be a big part of what you buy )

2 you will need a flow of price for items like past 30 and 60 days ( no reasone to buy things if they doint move )

3 then you have times of year when more people have time off , like school vacations this will also have a big factor in the merch prices

as much as it sounds like a fine idea it also has a lot of work involed in mantaing all that we or you will need to folo a price of an item to see if its worth the buy or not,

i feel that if you want to do this it should be something you do on your own, cause iam sure no one will like it if tips dose not have the correct pricing info for items

 

sorry just my thoughts :rolleyes:

 

I don't think you understand how merchanting works. Nobody gives away their items and prices, releasing them on a public board would ruin the possible income from the item easily. What this forum could be about is advice and tips on how to find such items to start with, and general guides on how to flip.

[Kimberly]

I thought old style merchanting of buying & selling (prior to wildy removal) has now become known as flipping? Nowadays when you say merchanting, people only think of a group of people all buying out an item and then dumping it later on.

 

and general guides on how to flip.

 

Wouldn't that be perfect for the General Guides section that has existed for...years? XD

 

Also, to ass to what Tripsis said

 

BEST. TYPO. THIS WEEK.

[Dadoffour]

I thought old style merchanting of buying & selling (prior to wildy removal) has now become known as flipping? Nowadays when you say merchanting, people only think of a group of people all buying out an item and then dumping it later on.

 

and general guides on how to flip.

 

Wouldn't that be perfect for the General Guides section that has existed for...years? XD

 

Also, to ass to what Tripsis said

 

BEST. TYPO. THIS WEEK.

You are correct in your toughts ,but its a little more involed then just buying and selling if u see my above comments on this subjuct , there are many factors involved you must be able to folo the pricing of items and when people buy items, and i speek for only me not the merch clan i was involved with for 3 years which i bought 9 of my friends full dragon and zammy god swords with the gold i made you have to know when to sell and u can do that only by following price's its fun do do but remeber this " it will always and i mean alwasy bit u in the butt " u may gain alot but that just sets you up for loseing even more trust me when i say its not worth it, sure if u need some gp and need to make it without the work ok try it " but let it go fast " cause loosing hurts more its best to work for what u got i know alot of people who stii merch and they can tell u some bad stories about the lose but remember this merching messes it up for the people who cant afford the price 's that merching sets fon items. :shame:

[Dadoffour]

This is a funny subject,

 

1 who is going to sit there and update the prices all the time ( if your going to merch this will be a big part of what you buy )

2 you will need a flow of price for items like past 30 and 60 days ( no reasone to buy things if they doint move )

3 then you have times of year when more people have time off , like school vacations this will also have a big factor in the merch prices

as much as it sounds like a fine idea it also has a lot of work involed in mantaing all that we or you will need to folo a price of an item to see if its worth the buy or not,

i feel that if you want to do this it should be something you do on your own, cause iam sure no one will like it if tips dose not have the correct pricing info for items

 

sorry just my thoughts :rolleyes:

 

I don't think you understand how merchanting works. Nobody gives away their items and prices, releasing them on a public board would ruin the possible income from the item easily. What this forum could be about is advice and tips on how to find such items to start with, and general guides on how to flip.

o i understand meching 3 years involved in it and did some good for friends see comments above

[Hegelstad]

This is a funny subject,

 

1 who is going to sit there and update the prices all the time ( if your going to merch this will be a big part of what you buy )

2 you will need a flow of price for items like past 30 and 60 days ( no reasone to buy things if they doint move )

3 then you have times of year when more people have time off , like school vacations this will also have a big factor in the merch prices

as much as it sounds like a fine idea it also has a lot of work involed in mantaing all that we or you will need to folo a price of an item to see if its worth the buy or not,

i feel that if you want to do this it should be something you do on your own, cause iam sure no one will like it if tips dose not have the correct pricing info for items

 

sorry just my thoughts :rolleyes:

 

I don't think you understand how merchanting works. Nobody gives away their items and prices, releasing them on a public board would ruin the possible income from the item easily. What this forum could be about is advice and tips on how to find such items to start with, and general guides on how to flip.

o i understand meching 3 years involved in it and did some good for friends see comments above

Could you please word yourself different, i have trouble understanding what you mean. This forum has a rule that says you have to speak proper english.

[Dadoffour]

This is a funny subject,

 

1 who is going to sit there and update the prices all the time ( if your going to merch this will be a big part of what you buy )

2 you will need a flow of price for items like past 30 and 60 days ( no reasone to buy things if they doint move )

3 then you have times of year when more people have time off , like school vacations this will also have a big factor in the merch prices

as much as it sounds like a fine idea it also has a lot of work involed in mantaing all that we or you will need to folo a price of an item to see if its worth the buy or not,

i feel that if you want to do this it should be something you do on your own, cause iam sure no one will like it if tips dose not have the correct pricing info for items

 

sorry just my thoughts :rolleyes:

 

I don't think you understand how merchanting works. Nobody gives away their items and prices, releasing them on a public board would ruin the possible income from the item easily. What this forum could be about is advice and tips on how to find such items to start with, and general guides on how to flip.

o i understand meching 3 years involved in it and did some good for friends see comments above

Could you please word yourself different, i have trouble understanding what you mean. This forum has a rule that says you have to speak proper english.

 

Then maybe u need to report me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Loffelicious]

I'm obviously not trying to make a tip.it manipulation clan for a large number of reasons.

 

What I'm talking about is flipping, investing and the such. Which I've made hundreds of millions from..

[Dadoffour]

I'm obviously not trying to make a tip.it manipulation clan for a large number of reasons.

 

What I'm talking about is flipping, investing and the such. Which I've made hundreds of millions from..

I grabed your link for rune tips i joined so lets see what they got ?

[Zaaps1]

I don't really have an opinion on making a separate forum for merchanting. It could really go either way imo.

 

However, GE graph tags are a great idea.

[Loffelicious]

:thumbsup:

[Dadoffour]

I don't really have an opinion on making a separate forum for merchanting. It could really go either way imo.

 

However, GE graph tags are a great idea.

Fantastic idea :thumbup:

[Loffelicious]

Ye.. Those are very, very handy :)