Thanks Jagex :)

[Unitedite]

Jesus this is a longer post than i thought. Sorry :P

 

 

 

--Before i start, i know that the profit i made wasn't as much as many make, i don't consider myself to eb a good merchanter, and i could probably have made more money doing things slightly differently. I'm just happy with what i did--

 

 

 

The carpenter was the last straw for me. With all the info that had been leaked and all the hints Jagex was putting into the game, i was sure they were introducing Construction. Soon.

 

I decided to think logically about how i coudl give myself a headstartm, and set about collecting a few things i thought coudl be useful. I made steel nails, mined granite and sandstone. I even collected an invent of planks, before deciding that if planks were going to be used Jagex would introduce quicker ways to get them than we had (either the spawn under Miscelania, or trekking thru the wildy).

 

 

 

Then, today, it was released. Like everyone else in teh game i rushed to the estate agents, but then i gave myself 5 minutes and sat back to read the construction guide in the kownledge base. not everything, just giving myself a quick idea of what i'd need to do.

 

I saw that saws were esssential, so i went to the lumber yard and grabbed 5, then went down to the portal.

 

 

 

It was still very easy after the update, and there weren't many people around. I decided to offload my extra 4 saws, so tentatively started with a "selling saws, 20k ea". I quickly realised this was a bit too high, and lowered it to 10k ea. I wasn't particuarly there to sell and wasn't too bothered about the money; if people were interested, great, if not then i'd just drop the saws.

 

 

 

Fortunately for me, everyone wanted one :) I got rid of the first 4 and noticed that people were looking for hammers as well. I'd taken my hammers (seemed like commen sense) and after a quick deliberation decided there was money to be made from lazy people, so i offloaded it with the last saw for 20k.

 

 

 

Cue a quick tele to Varrock, to run up and get a few more saws. I think i bought 10 saws, then headed to the general store for some hammers. I'd noticed all the nails had sold out already at the lumber yard, so i picked up 500 i'd made earlier in the week too. Back to the portal and i started with "selling hammer and saw sets, 20k" A few people had cottonned on to the selling saw business, but i was still getting a lot of trades because i'd moved on and was offering the two most important items at once - saving people time. The important thing to remember is that the oprice of an item is goverened by supply and demand - and i knew that more people were going to start selling too, and that demand would slowly drop as the high-payers who were desperate to geet high skills got their items. The majority of the game won't pay 20k for a hammer and saw, even when a new skill's released. With this in mind, i lowered my price to 10k a set and kept up a steady flow of the trades. The lag was immense and it took a while while to get trades thru, but most people were understanding.

 

 

 

I had 8 sets, and sold them all off quite easily. Then i turned to my nails. A few people had been shouting that they wanted to buy, the only question was what price? I knew i had two things on my side - a) i had quite a lot of nails (meaning less time wasted buying nails for skillers) and i was the only person selling them at the time. Having worked otu what the nails cost me in steel, i worked out what i thougth woudl be a reasonable profit. then i doubled it ;) I knew that i could always lower my price if noone was interested, but by starting high i might get lucky.

 

 

 

"Selling 500 steel nails, 100k"

 

 

 

I got a trade almost instantly, which surprised me. The guy offered 75k, which i thought about, but i figured he'd probably still be there in a couple of minutes if noone else bought, so i turned it down. he came back with the full amount :) Then i headed back to the bank, picking up my other 500 nails and 15 of my planks. Saws had already fallen to 2-3k and loads of people were selling, so i didnt bother going back for more of those. I sold my second load of nails pretty quickly, altho this time the guy offered 90k and i was lagging too much to argue. I decided to sell the planks in blocks of 5 - it'd be easier to sell them all at once, but i didnt think people would have that many free invent spaces. There were already some peopel selling planks, so i aimed fairly low (well, compared to the last sales) and offloaded three sets of 5 pretty quickly, for 10k each.

 

 

 

Now, i'd noticed the stonemason in the kb, and i thought that may be a decent place to make a quick deal, as he had very low stocks of the best items. My idea was to spend all the profit i'd made on the top stone, then in a coupel of days as people started to get their level high enough to want it, i figured the stonemason would probably be sold out fast and it'd be much harder to get a large amount of it. When i got there and saw the stone cost 1m, i changed my plans :P

 

 

 

At this stage, i decided i was bored of merchanting (ive never been that rich because i dont have the patience :P) and that i might as well invest my profit in the new skill. So far i've bought about 200 limestone bars (for later)

 

and made 100 planks, and i'll move onto buying some metal bars soon.

 

 

 

In the end, i made about 400k in under an hour. And all by having a little foresight, and being in the right place at the right time :)

 

 

 

p.s. Some people dislike this kind of merchanting for some reason. I've no idea what their problem is. I didn't stop people getting their items just like i did, i merely offered a fast service if people wanted to pay for it. Opportunist? Yes, but why is that a bad thing?

[ssamriga]

lol thats cool, I have always been just too lazy to profit on any new skill release I've witnessed :)

[SLOWSTORM]

You go, man, smart job. :D

[i123i]

very nice man, I don't see this as any wrong doing. If people want to pay the price then let them, no one is forcing them to buy items already put into the game(minus saws) already which they know only costs like 3gp...I remember seeing the posts with ppl having like 8k-10k hammers as a joke collection, hopefully they jumped on the oppurtunist band wagon and sold them.

[TheLeader]

I did the same thing, i had about 280 planks that i flog for d slayer on the forums. I sold the lot about 10 mins ago for 2.4m! Owned

[hmmsk]

A smart person can use his head :D . Good deals you made.

[watch444]

i did about the same =) but i didn't think about the saws and hammers =/ but i sold 360 steel nails for 750 ea and around 1.5k iron nails for 500 ea wich made me quite happy =)

[ixfd64]

Heh, Jagex Interior Designer 1.0.

 

 

 

Just like those "Homes & gardens" programs. :P

[TWIKK89]

pretty sweet

[Esper_Jones]

I made the same 400k in a much easier fashion than you ;)

 

 

 

What I did was right after the update, I took a woodcutting axe, cut down 200 oaks, made planks out of them, then sold all 200 at once for 400k.

[Nero]

I had about 1k oak logs in my bank, so I just made them all into planks and sold them for 2k each.

 

 

 

1mil per hour of work :):)

[Mirror]

But it will go down so dont get your hopes up to keep using this method. Well good job in exploiting the system. :wink: Well enjoy the extra 400k.

[Nero]

Ya i know 8-)

 

 

 

Im trying to get all my exploiting in today, currently making another 400 planks :twisted:

[jwrm22]

i sold 5k oak logs for 100 each an hour ago :D

[AniseCookies]

Heh, I still remember for that one quest, I made 250k selling lemons :) Little did people realise, you could buy them for 1gp :lol:

 

 

 

Nice going 8-)