I got into a fight with my friend the other day about this. He's hiring noobs to mine him iron for 20gp each, 80gp less than usual. They don't know any better, so do it, and he makes huge profits off them.

 

 

 

 

 

He says it's their responsibility to know what items cost, and he's just being smart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who is right???

i say you pm his employees and tell them what it's worth (make sure you tell them not to reveal the source of the information :P )

why not reveal it? :lol: sounds like a scam to me and I'd love to see the look on his face when you go after his employee's :)

Explain to me how it's scamming. People do this all the time, they call it "creating a company." Ruin his business if you wish, but I don't see how it is scamming. The people he hires are ignorant to the market prices, that's their own problems, if they're happy with 20gp/ore, let them be happy.

While it's not scamming, it si taking advatage of people, which is also wrong. Tell your friend that goldchipmunk says "Shame on you!" :shame:

Not scamming. The newbs agreed to work for him, thus agreeing with the pay. If they are ignorant to check the true price, their fault no?

tell his employees you will buy for 30 ea \

 

 

 

no its not scamming because technically jagex doesnt care about the market price of items

its not scamming

its not scamming... its good money

 

I should try it

 

 

 

i mean sure, they could be making 4 times more... or five... but its better than them standing in lumby or following people around, getting 5k a day

Your meant to look out for new players not take advantage of them.

i had my friends cousin fish me lobs 20gp ea before

According to Jagex, offering inbalanced prices is NOT scamming.

 

 

 

Hope that clears everything up :D

There is nothing wrong with this, and I find it fun to boss over other people and still make a huge profit out of them.

 

 

 

I do this all the time with my "rocks". I have slaves getting me zammy wines, rocks, pots and all that crap that I resell for a higher amount.

 

 

 

It's also known as another type of merchanting, but you don't have to stay in front of the computer doing it.

Sounds to me like you're jealous of your friend for thinking it first.

Nevermind, my content has been removed... \

Once I hired someone to cut me 8k oaks at 20 gp each. :oops:

Dont c a single problem wit it. To a noob 20 gp ea is good, and the dont have the experience yet to save up like 1k iron ore then sell for much higher, when noobs try to merchant they normally sell like 15 iron ore at a time, or something small like that, and most ppl dont waste there time making them trades. I say its a pretty good deal for every1.

Then it would also be scamming when people sell their party hats for 1gp on the general store. It's their fault for not knowing the prices.

If we take this example over to real life - then it's like, stupid people who don't go to school and get poor jobs making clothes, for people who studied hard and made enough money to sell the clothes for 300% more.

i think this is great its better than hearing them say Phr33 st00f pl0x

Sounds like the sweatshops in china. But its not a scam, just a big time rip thats AS BAD as a scam.

 

 

 

Tell his workers the truth, but tell them not to reveal their sources. Like said above :D

Silverchipmunk[/b]":ubrtih5w] Tell your friend that goldchipmunk says "Shame on you!" :shame:

 

:lol: :lol:

 

 

 

Anyways, I dont see a problem with it, unless it bothers you morally dont do it. I do it, not wiht iron, but with another item, and i dont see anything wrong with it..playing the market, right?

 

 

 

~~Byers

Did he say that is what they're worth?

 

If he tried to deceive them, it is scamming.

So basically, he's buying for low, selling for high. Sounds a bit like merchanting to me. Is that scamming?

nothing wrong with that at all. if i wanted to i could stand in world 2 fally park and shout selling rune axe 10M thats not scamming becuase i'm not making out that the item i'm selling is anything but a rune axe. (i woldn' goto fally park world 2 and say selling rune axe 10m btw i do that on world 71 lol)