Flipping

[Richie]

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in all srsness i used to flip drag scims and they were very reliable

[JoeyK.]

I really hate to say it, but it's hard to flip without having a large amount of GP to put in. Waiting a day for a 100k profit on a piece of barrows won't get you very far. You can always buy instant at GE price and get a little profit selling in W2, but it's still not worth your time. Gold is extremely cheap IRL at this point, obviously I cannot mention specific sites, but it makes far more sense to take a part-time job and get it that way.

Even the lower rares are bad for merch lately - you might make 500k in a day off a santa, but compared to its price it's a pretty low profit margin. I haven't traded since around December, but if it hasn't changed very much, you really don't stand to make much unless you have the gold to flip phats (incredibly easy as long as you don't deal in unpredictable purples (Way too many of them, they're the only truly overpriced phat)) ; there was a constant cycle in prices in the last half of 2011 and it was pretty easy to make 200m or so every week logging on once a day.

The fastest rares to make money on are edibles, but you could lose a LOT on these; Pumpkins went from 300m to a little less than 200m street in less than a week, so be careful. They're not always in demand, and merch clans are very good at making people holding them feel desperate to sell (and make a quick 50 mil.)

Not saying all of this to scare anyone off merching, but I was a member of several different 'merch clans' for a while that required at least 4B gold to join. They have a lot more influence on prices than the rs 'economy' does, and are very good at manipulating the system - both in the GE and W2 Street. Just for perspective, I sold a blue phat for 4.2b, and was able to buy it back for almost 1b less 2 weeks later. Supply and demand in RS is entirely non-existent, so try and read between the lines before you invest in anything and expect an improvement.

In fact, one of my accounts is still a member of one of the major clans, and I no longer have any stake in Runescape (Sold off pretty much everything to help myself out IRL), so let me know if anyone wants the information. It's not all that hard to make a hell of a lot of gold without much effort.

[Zelda]

I really hate to say it, but it's hard to flip without having a large amount of GP to put in. Waiting a day for a 100k profit on a piece of barrows won't get you very far. You can always buy instant at GE price and get a little profit selling in W2, but it's still not worth your time. Gold is extremely cheap IRL at this point, obviously I cannot mention specific sites, but it makes far more sense to take a part-time job and get it that way.

Even the lower rares are bad for merch lately - you might make 500k in a day off a santa, but compared to its price it's a pretty low profit margin. I haven't traded since around December, but if it hasn't changed very much, you really don't stand to make much unless you have the gold to flip phats (incredibly easy as long as you don't deal in unpredictable purples (Way too many of them, they're the only truly overpriced phat)) ; there was a constant cycle in prices in the last half of 2011 and it was pretty easy to make 200m or so every week logging on once a day.

The fastest rares to make money on are edibles, but you could lose a LOT on these; Pumpkins went from 300m to a little less than 200m street in less than a week, so be careful. They're not always in demand, and merch clans are very good at making people holding them feel desperate to sell (and make a quick 50 mil.)

Not saying all of this to scare anyone off merching, but I was a member of several different 'merch clans' for a while that required at least 4B gold to join. They have a lot more influence on prices than the rs 'economy' does, and are very good at manipulating the system - both in the GE and W2 Street. Just for perspective, I sold a blue phat for 4.2b, and was able to buy it back for almost 1b less 2 weeks later. Supply and demand in RS is entirely non-existent, so try and read between the lines before you invest in anything and expect an improvement.

In fact, one of my accounts is still a member of one of the major clans, and I no longer have any stake in Runescape (Sold off pretty much everything to help myself out IRL), so let me know if anyone wants the information. It's not all that hard to make a hell of a lot of gold without much effort.

Think ur overstating slightly, I used to even manage an ok side Profit on top of my normal money making when only had like 5mil, its just that I really can't find anything good to flip anymore. (Used to do coal but really don't work for me no more)

Tbh it weren't much at all but still makes some money even st that which all builds up.

[Ashley]

I'm quite a regular merchanter and I hate to say it, but with last week's GE update Jagex has essentially ruined flipping and made it very hard to make huge profits from it. The main thing about flipping was having a large cache of the items you're flipping - bypassing the GE limit - but apparently this was a glitch and has now been fixed. At one point I was buying and selling my 200k cache of an item every 20 minutes.

If you're in the 100-200m range, then you can still make a decent amount of money. If you'd like help then feel free to PM me, I'm not going to list merchanting items publicly.