Cutting yews is just one of the many ways of making some serious GP in Runescape. You’ve also got the commonly used merchanting.
Merchanting is about arbitrage; buying low, and selling high. All you really have to do is again, identify an item with demand, and play with that demand a little; taking your profit from the difference between how much you bought the time for, and how much you sold it for later on.
Let me give you a good example of an item that is commonly merchanted for cash.
Coal is an ore that is needed in all high-level metal smelting, from steel onwards. That’s what makes it’s demand so huge, and thus, it makes it a good item to merchandise in. Here is an example of what you could do with coal:
Buy 1000 coal for 120,000GP (people don’t usually sell coal in bulk for that cheap, so it may be a good idea to buy coal in small groups of numerous people instead of trying to buy it cheap, in bulk, off one person).
Sell 1000 coal for 170,000GP (it would sell fast at that rate, if your looking for a little more, you could probably push it to 180,000GP).
You’re left with 50,000GP profit -:)
Yea, I know, I’ve made it sound so simple, but the fact of the matter is, once you get the buying and selling prices right, you can just keep repeating the process and just keep making GP!
Another major way of making money is through our good old friend: mining. Mining is a skill that takes quite a lot of time and effort to level up, especially once you hit around level 60 mining. Then, it turns into a real slog to get higher and higher. Now, like I said before, coal has MASSIVE demand, and if you want to directly supply this demand instead of playing around with it like in merchanting, then this is the one for you. Get to around level 50 mining, coal will become a little easier for you then. It’s always actually best to do this at around level 60 mining because then you can go to the miners’ guild where coal mining gets a lot easier.
If your level 50, then find a good mining spot for coal (there are quite a few, check the world...
(Continued in Part Three)
