The letter I for freeplay

I have been away over the Christmas period due to an inordinate amount of work all over the place, but this is a continuation of my freeplay list.

There is not much of any note here but a lot of iron product is flatlined and as such isn't a good idea to trade for the most part.

I suppose you could buy a load of armour parts cheap and then sell the sets but due to the ridiculously low quantity limits would you really be rewarded for your time?

Incomplete pizza ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Incomplete stew ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Incomplete stew ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Iron 2h sword ... Buy price 84 ~ Sell price 84(Flatlined)
Iron armour set (l) ... Buy price 425 ~ Sell price 480
Iron armour set (sk) ... Buy price 460 ~ Sell price 500
Iron bar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Iron battleaxe ... Buy price 54 ~ Sell price 54(Flatlined)
Iron chainbody ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Iron dagger ... Buy price 10 ~ Sell price 10
Iron full helm ... Buy price 96 ~ Sell price 108
Iron hatchet ... Buy price 33 ~ Sell price 33
Iron kiteshield ... Buy price 71 ~ Sell price 72
Iron longsword ... Buy price 42 ~ Sell price 42
Iron mace ... Buy price 18 ~ Sell price 18
Iron med helm ... Buy price 25 ~ Sell price 25
Iron ore ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Iron pickaxe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Iron platebody ... Buy price 170 ~ Sell price 170+
Iron platelegs ... Buy price 82 ~ Sell price 82+
Iron plateskirt ... Buy price 112 ~ Sell price 112+
Iron scimitar ... Buy price 33 ~ Sell price 33
Iron sq shield ... Buy price 50 ~ Sell price 50
Iron sword ... Buy price 27 ~ Sell price 27
Iron warhammer ... Buy price 67 ~ Sell price 67

Buy and Sell prices for Grand Exchange ~ H

Half a meat pie ... Buy price 120 ~ Sell price 130
Half a redberry pie ... Buy price 275 ~ Sell price 310
Half an apple pie ... Buy price 120 ~ Sell price 120(Flatlined)
Half full wine jug ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Hammer ... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20
Hard leather ... Buy price 235 ~ Sell price 260
Hardleather body ... Buy price 51 ~ Sell price 51(Flatlined)
Harpoon ... Buy price 145 ~ Sell price 145(Flatlined)
Herring ... Buy price 9 ~ Sell price 9(Avoid)
Holy mould ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Holy symbol ... Buy price 90 ~ Sell price 100

What do you want to see?

When I have finally finished my A-Z I will need something else to take a look at, what would you like to see for the future as pertains to money making?

Freeplay ~ G

Garlic ... Buy price 9 ~ Sell price 9+
Gloves (Grey)... Buy price 750 ~ Sell price 750+
Gloves (Red)... Buy price 750 ~ Sell price 750+(Very early)
Gloves (Yellow)... Buy price 750 ~ Sell price 750+
Gloves (Turquoise)... Buy price 750 ~ Sell price 760+
Gloves (Purple)... Buy price 750 ~ Sell price 750+
Goblin mail ... Buy price 15 ~ Sell price 15+
Gold amulet ... Buy price 140 ~ Sell price 140+
Gold amulet (strung) ... Buy price 140 ~ Sell price 140+
Gold bar ... Buy price 130 ~ Sell price 130+
Gold necklace ... Buy price 160 ~ Sell price 160+
Gold ore ... Buy price 365 ~ Sell price 400
Gold ring ... Buy price 170 ~ Sell price 170+
Gold-trimmed blue wizard set ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Gold-trimmed leather armour set ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Grain ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Grapes ... Buy price 200 ~ Sell price 200+
Green d'hide body 4500 ~ Sell price 4600
Green d'hide chaps ... Buy price 2300 ~ Sell price 2450
Green d'hide coif 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Green d'hide gold-trimmed set ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Green d'hide trimmed set ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Green d'hide vambraces ... Buy price 1390 ~ Sell price 1440
Green dragonhide set ... Buy price 8300 ~ Sell price 8500
Green dye ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Green h'ween mask ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Green party hat ... Buy price 57 ~ Sell price 65
Guthix armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix full helm ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix kiteshield ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix platebody ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix platelegs ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Guthix plateskirt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

No post today

I will continue my A-Z tomorrow, but I just wanted to mention that I am now the proud owner of www.sparhawke.com!

It is simply a landing page for the registrar right now...

I have yet to wait until after the holiday season to get full hosting and will be working on it then with full forums but it feels great, especially as I got my first choice of name lol

Freeplay A to F all in one place.

Be aware that prices here are my own observations, they could fall further, rise higher or stick to the same level for ages.

What you buy you also have to sell.

Treasure for the most part hasn't got a price because they keep rising for now.


Adam kiteshield (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam kiteshield (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam platebody (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam platebody (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam platelegs (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam platelegs (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam plateskirt (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam plateskirt (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant 2h Sword ... Buy price 3600 ~ Sell price 3800
Adamant armour set (l) ... Buy price 18.4k ~ Sell price 18.8k
Adamant armour set (sk) ... Buy price 18.3k ~ Sell price 18.6k
Adamant arrow ... Buy price 145 ~ Sell price 154
Adamant Battleaxe ... Buy price 2260 ~ Sell price 2360
Adamant berserker shield 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant Chainbody ... Buy price 2650 ~ Sell price 2820
Adamant dagger ... Buy price 275 ~ Sell price 300
Adamant full helm ... Buy price 1850 ~ Sell price 2000
Adamant gold-trimmed armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant gold-trimmed armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant hatchet ... Buy price 575 ~ Sell price 640 (unstable)
Adamant helm (h1) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant helm (h2) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant helm (h3) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant helm (h4) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant helm (h5) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adam kiteshield ... Buy price 3000 ~ Sell price 3250
Adamant longsword ... Buy price 1680 ~ Sell price 1775
Adamant mace ... Buy price 650 ~ Sell price 680
Adamant med helm ... Buy price 920 ~ Sell price 990
Adamant pickaxe ... Buy price 1750 ~ Sell price 1820
Adamant platebody ... Buy price 9700 ~ Sell price 9900
Adamant platelegs ... Buy price 3600 ~ Sell price 3800
Adamant plateskirt ... Buy price 3600 ~ Sell price 3800
Adamant scimitar ... Buy price 1950 ~ Sell price 2200 (Very Unstable)
Adamant shield (h1) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant shield (h2) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant shield (h3) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant shield (h4) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant shield (h5) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant spikeshield 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant sq shield ... Buy price 2100 ~ Sell price 2200
Adamant sword ... Buy price 1030 ~ Sell price 1060
Adamant trimmed armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant trimmed armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamant warhammer ... Buy price 2925 ~ Sell price 3010
Adamantite bar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Adamantite ore ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Air rune ... Buy price 12 ~ Sell price 15
Air talisman ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Air tiara ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Amulet mould ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Amulet of accuracy ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Amulet of defence ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Amulet of magic ... Buy price 460 ~ Sell price 550
Amulet of magic (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Amulet of power ... Buy price 2800 ~ Sell price 2900
Amulet of strength ... Buy price 2050 ~ Sell price 2150
Anchovies ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Anchovy pizza ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Anti-dragon shield ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Apple pie ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ---- (Flatlined at 240 max)
Asgarnian ale ... Buy price 95 ~ Sell price 102
Ashes ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

Ball of Wool ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Banana ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bear Fur ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Beer ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Beer Glass ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Big Bones ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black 2h sword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black Armour Set (L) ... Buy price 8050 ~ Sell price 8300
Black armour set (sk) ... Buy price 8100 ~ Sell price 8250
Black Battleaxe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black Bead ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black chainbody ... Buy price 1470 ~ Sell price 1520
Black dagger ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black full helm ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black full helm (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black full helm (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black gold-trimmed armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black gold-trimmed armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black Hatchet ... Buy price 930 ~ Sell price 1030
Black helm (h1) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black helm (h2) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black helm (h3) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black helm (h4) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black helm (h5) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black kiteshield ... Buy price 1100 ~ Sell price 1250
Black kiteshield (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black kiteshield (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black longsword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black Mace ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black med helm ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platebody ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platebody (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platebody (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platelegs ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platelegs (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black platelegs (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black plateskirt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black plateskirt (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black plateskirt (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black robe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black scimitar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black shield (h1) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black shield (h2) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black shield (h3) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black shield (h4) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black shield (h5) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black skirt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black sq shield ... Buy price 500 ~ Sell price 550
Black sword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black trimmed armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black trimmed armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Black warhammer ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue Dye ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue h'ween mask ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue partyhat ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue skirt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue skirt (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Blue skirt (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Body rune ... Buy price 9 ~ Sell price 11
Body talisman ... Buy price 510 ~ Sell price 600
Body tiara ... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Bones... Buy price 110 ~ Sell price 117
Bowl ... Buy price 4 ~ Sell price 4+
Bowl of water ... Buy price 5 ~ Sell price 5+
Brass Key ... Buy price 150 ~ Sell price 150+
Brass necklace ... Buy price 6 ~ Sell price 6+
Bread ... Buy price 28 ~ Sell price 34
Bread dough ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze sword ... Buy price 24 ~ Sell price 26
Bronze armour set (l) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze armour set (sk) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze arrow ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze bar ... Buy price 265 ~ Sell price 265+
Bronze battleaxe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze bolts ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze chainbody ... Buy price 18 ~ Sell price 20
Bronze dagger ... Buy price 16 ~ Sell price 19
Bronze full helm ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze hatchet ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze kiteshield ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze longsword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze mace ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze med helm ... Buy price 7 ~ Sell price 8
Bronze pickaxe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze platebody ... Buy price 48 ~ Sell price 50
Bronze platelegs ... Buy price 57 ~ Sell price 63
Bronze plateskirt ... Buy price 80 ~ Sell price 80+
Bronze scimitar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze sq shield ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze sword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bronze warhammer ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Brown apron ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bucket ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Bucket of milk ... Buy price 107 ~ Sell price 112
Bucket of water ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Burnt bones ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

Cabbage ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cadava berries ... Buy price 1 ~ Sell price 1+ (If they hit 1gp just keep buying)
Cake ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cake tin ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cape (Red)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Black)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Blue)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Yellow)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Green)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Purple)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Cape (Brown)... Buy price 20 ~ Sell price 20+
Chaos rune ... Buy price 90 ~ Sell price 90+ (Seems to be at its lowest point for about 6 months, could it go lower?)
Charcoal ... Buy price 135 ~ Sell price 145
Cheese ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ---- (Flatlined at cieling cap of 108gp)
Chefs hat ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Chisel ... Buy price 22 ~ Sell price 24
Chocolate bar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Chocolate cake ... Buy price 275 ~ Sell price 315
Chocolate dust ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Chocolate slice ... Buy price 92 ~ Sell price 104
Christmas cracker ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Clay ... Buy price 125 ~ Sell price 140
Coal ... Buy price 195 ~ Sell price 195+
Coif ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----(Flatlined at 60gp, stay away)
Combat hood 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Combat robe bottom 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Combat robe top 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cooked chicken ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cooked meat ... Buy price 44 ~ Sell price 49
Cooking apple ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Copper ore ... Buy price 73 ~ Sell price 73+
Corrupt dragon battleaxe ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon chainbody ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon dagger ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon longsword ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon mace ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon med helm ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon platelegs ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----[/url
Corrupt dragon plateskirt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon scimitar ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon spear ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Corrupt dragon sq shield ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cosmic rune ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Cowhide ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Crayfish ... Buy price 3 ~ Sell price 3+
Crayfish cage ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----(Lowest point it has been in months)
Crossbow ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

D'hide body (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
D'hide body (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
D'hide chaps (g) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
D'hide chaps (t) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Death Rune ... Buy price 390 ~ Sell price 425(May need to watch this one further before committing)
Diamond ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Diamond amulet ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Diamond amulet (strung) ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Diamond necklace ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Diamond ring ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Disk of returning ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Druidic mage bottom 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Druidic mage hood 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Druidic mage top 0 ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Dwarfen stout ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

Earth rune ... Buy price 28 ~ Sell price 30
Earth talisman ... Buy price 2150 ~ Sell price 2150 (This is risky, it could soar 200% or it could fall off the face of the earth...pun intended)
Earth tiara ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Easter egg ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Egg ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Emerald (cut)... Buy price 1000 ~ Sell price 1250
Emerald amulet... Buy price 1050 ~ Sell price 1150
Emerald amulet (strung)... Buy price 1050 ~ Sell price 1150
Emerald necklace ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Emerald ring ... Buy price 1285 ~ Sell price 1385
Empty pot ... Buy price 1 ~ Sell price 2(Don't waste your time)
Eye of newt ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----

Feather ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----(Flatlined at 16)
Fire rune ... Buy price 6 ~ Sell price 7
Fire talisman ... Buy price ---- ~ Sell price ----
Fire tiara ... Buy price 700 ~ Sell price 900
Fishing bait ... Buy price 2 ~ Sell price 3
Fishing rod ... Buy price 25 ~ Sell price 35
Fly fishing rod ... Buy price 80 ~ Sell price 100
Fur ... Buy price 57 ~ Sell price 65

Merch Gwyar got me wondering the other day, obviously the GE thing cannot last forever lest it simply turn into a load of boring posts where I tell people what to buy and sell each day...

How about PMing me either on Sals, Tip it, Zybez or HQ your daily money routines whether they be for 10k, or 100k per day and I will publish them here along with your name and link to your blog if you have one?...though it would be better if they were little known, or used little tricks to get more efficiency.

Anyways, here is my little effort and it comprises of simply running to your kingdom everyday, and picking up empty and water filled vials along the way in Relekka...for an investment of 7.5M at a 100% approval rating you will usually get back a return of 150k-250k profit.

All you need do is put 75k a day into your kingdom and then I personally do 100% farm, and 50% herb since prices for those are very high relatively right now...when a construction update comes out putting it to 100% mahogany might be worthwhile :)

Not to toot my own horn or anything...

As that would be patently be a physical impossibility but some of the readers here will remember me wondering whether to buy any dragonhides a few days ago.

They went up and are now selling very nicely for 1860 :D

My prediction for this morning turned out well too, gold ores and red chinchompa are both up, +11 and +23 respectively...

But secondary to that I was chatting in Merch Gwyars clanchat and mentioned gold rings, that they seemed to be very low...I wonder if anyone followed my advice and bought any? :)

Unfortunately, dragon bones and blue dragonhide are sinking, but I wonder if they will jump up later after the Grand Exchange has weeded out all the panickers?

Anyways, on a different note some may like to note that adamant arrowtips buy for min+1-2gp but sell middle price so if you buy 10-20k per night you can make yourself a fairly easy 70-150k, beats me why anyone would wish to know this but there you go, now't as strange as folk :p

To Buy or Not to Buy?

That's a very good question...

There have been a lot of questions in the past about when you should update your offers and how...

The simple answer is as soon as the GE database updates, because if you are queued for minimum, middle or maximum price you are obviously first in line.

Imagine if you will a system update, lets call it a prayer update for arguments sake and you are taking your time reading the documentation and take 30 minutes to get back to your game, if 50,000 people are already in the game then at least 30% of those have already scanned the important information and will have gotten their offers in.

Take prayer for instance, whenever there is an update requiring prayer you can almost be sure dragon bones will rise at least 5-10% so make sure you get them first.

If smithing is getting the treatment, gold ores will go up since it is again the fastest way to train.

Construction = oak planks (and maybe the occasional nail)

Slayer = black mask (non charged only)

Herblore = water filled vials (though with shop update this has less of an impact probably)

Crafting = green dragonhide, and to a lesser extent other colours

High level ranging = red chinchompa

Every single skill has its corresponding super training item that everyone descends upon, all you need to do is be ready and know what they are.

There have been rumours afoot lately of an upcoming smithing update, will you spend 4 hours asking everyone whether to buy gold ores cheap, waste your time and miss out or will you be one of the first to log back into the server and make a lot of money?

This goes for natural GE updates too, if you do some research and recognise what is going to be good the day after to buy without hardly looking you will have a distinct advantage. When I am choosing items to trade I will generally look 1-2 days in the future, I know what price they are likely to hit so can simply run into the Grand Exchange and make a lot of money due to being there first.

Make a list of your commonly traded items and bookmark them in your favourite browser, when update comes along all you need do then is load them all up and see what has risen and fallen. Simples.

Anyways, on that note I have just noticed that both gold ore and red chinchompa are nicely underpriced and should be due a rise sometime...Chinchompa being at its lowest point for 3 and a half months and gold ore being at a low it hasn't seen for months, possibly years.

Red Chinchompa

Gold ore

What is this post about??!

I may write a new post later about the importance of speed when an update arrives or the GE updates itself, then again I may leave it until tomorrow, lol

I am also thinking about changing the background to my blog, as the greyish text on white can be awkward to see, so any recommendations will be noted and acted upon :)

I was just sort of wondering how the people I told about maple seeds did, I told various people to buy at mid+120 for 33k a day or two ago, I am just in the process now of selling for 35k, 5,347 of them making 10.6M

I also note that gold rings appear to be massively undervalued compared to the previous 6 months...I have bought myself about 20,000 of them upto now and am hoping for them to rise to 220-240 at least :)

I have not got any of these but I used to trade them regularly as when they find a general price range they tend to be very stable...teletabs, today more specifically Lumbridge ones for around 1040-1050, I don't know how close you will get to the minimum price but they are certainly worth the punt, 5k per four hours is the limit :)

This is one to watch not for this week, but in about 8-11 days when the price hits 5400gp, when black dragonhide chaps hit that price make sure you fall upon them like a pack of rabid guinea pigs as they will bounce back up into the stratosphere again, or at least to 5800.

Why prices in Runescape must rise

Why are all items in Runescape going up in price?

One word.

Deflation and money debasement. Actually thats three but maths was never really my strong point.

But this is not the only reason, for that we have to go way back to the beginning, to a beginning I can only surmise at and guess due to not being there. When Runescape was new it was a happy time, so many people were running around plucking chickens and fisting goblins and selling their ill-gotton gains to shops that there wasn't a problem. So many people were poor that it didn't really matter but even in these early days there was trouble brewing, staking you see had the potential to double ones money constantly and most have seen what happens when you start with the number 2 and keep doubling...

If you started at 2x2 and carried on, by the 19th time you would have 1M

By 30 strokes you have that magical 2.147B number

But normal people do not stake 2gp to start off do they? ;)

Within a short while it became obvious that somehow people would have to be able to carry items of great wealth in order to get around the 2.147bil limit and Jagex delivered in fine form.

They invented party hats which were finite by their very nature and some got many and some got none, but most got one.

What one man has another must want...

Anyway, back in the day you could probably pick up a party hat for 50k, which meant some hours chopping trees or killing cows but something happened a year or so later...someone did the seemingly impossible and got 99 smithing. And the whole world rejoiced.

What happened then can only be described as mass happiness on an epic scale, for merchants who had a rune platebody was had his ticket to billions because see, when everyone else is stuck on adamant, he who is harder to hit is he who has an advantage in staking. People would allegedly swap party hats for these early plates that gave them a distinct advantage in battle.

After a few weeks of this another would get 99 smithing due to seeing how well it worked for the other unnamed guy, and then another and yet another and in time the price for plate bodies has been done but now no one but a few rich merchants hold all the party hats...and much lamenting was going on with stakers who could see their plates were of little value really because anyone could make them.

But people would die to black dragons and demons and that wealth would disappear and they would need food and goods and other sundries....wealth came into the game for sure, but it was taken out in equal measure.

Jump forward a year or two and now partyhats are being traded for millions of gold pieces due to traders only allowing them to be sold for that price and no one wanting to spend millions on a hat just to turn around again and sell for 10gp so the price was kept high.

This worked well for a long time as stakers could now stake party hats which had an intrinsic value of only pennies that cost millions and that would help with the 2.147bil limit.

Roll forward another five years and now you have many hundreds of high class merchants who buy out everything, double the price and then sell it off but with millions more people to buy and sell to the issue has been compounded a hundred-fold, they need to be able to do something about this problematic issue of money and it is not easy now to get hold of party hats, in the beginning when clans first started out you could get an easter egg for 4M but as they became "rarer" the price quadrupled as more and more needed to exchange money.

But there is a problem, whereas before players could be relied upon to do the monumentally stupid and kill themselves we got gravestones, which cut the risk of loss by 95% if you ran fast or got a friend to bless your grave...



PvP made a comeback with items costing upto 5M each suddenly appearing from thin air for next to no risk with 76k tricking.

Now that hats are finite, they then turn to other high ticket items such as rune bars, logs, essense...pretty much anything they can get thier hands on except for spirit shards because they are not something that can be sold easily.

And the money keeps flowing in with nowhere to go...

There are a few things that can be done to stop this flow or at least curtail and divert it:

*Jagex could simply step in, cap all the prices but that has been tried with the GE previously and patently did not work and mass whining ensued. (check partyhat whine)

*Jagex could ban all trading completely and they game will die as not very many can be bothered collecting absolutely everything themselves.

*Bring in a new skill that costs a lot of money so only the very rich or those that can be bothered to collect 500,000 wines of Zamorak/ 2,000,000 oak planks can ever have a hope to be the best in, but they did that twice with construction and summoning didn't they?

Increase the price cap somehow or at least get around it, maybe make some kind of bearer bond which can be bought from an NPC for set prices of 10M to 100M (without having to speak to him multiple times) and sold back for the exact same value.

So there you are, what can be done to get around this inflation, as it is hard for us all to trade well or safely with items costing more and more all the time, if it carries on we could have the real life equivilent of hyperinflation some say.

Thoughts?

Comments?

*This post is a summation of what went on, since I was not here for the most part, and compes mentis for even less of it events may have worked out differently in some cases.

Poll at top of forum

I have added a small poll to the top of this blog, for reasons that may become clearer later.

When you buy items in the GE what system do you use?

Do you buy in round numbers such as 1800, 1900, 10k

Or do you randomise it by choosing prices such as 1876, 1937, 10834?

Or do you simply choose the highest or lowest and hope for the best and you don't pay too much?

Dragonhide or Not?

I am facing a difficult decision today, whether to buy dragonhide or not and it vexes me. I am vexed.

On the surface it should be an easy decision, the prices are primed to be able to make a predictive offer of min+5 at 1715 just in time for them to rise right back up to 1800-1830 for green dragonhide and get some early for when they jump up but people are hunting dragons en-mass for bones, what if they continue to drop?

This is the problem, right now people are hunting the dragons but what is happening to their hides, are they simply dropping them on the floor as worthless junk in order to get bones or are they still putting them in the bank?

Will they go to 1715 tomorrow then go back up as people buy or will there be a glut in the market? If there is, will they continue to slide down past 1650?

http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Green_dragonhide/viewitem.ws?obj=1753&scale=2

On the surface 3 things could happen:

Nothing at all and the price continues to flit as it has done for months bewteen two points.

Dragonhides fall as everyone panic sells in order to get bones. Even if this happens there will be a scarcity on them, as they are a primary resource in crafting, alching and freeplay rangers.

Dragonhides go to their usual price of 1750 tomorrow they shoot back up again.

Either way, having done the maths and seeing as I would only risk about 5M I will give it a shot...to buy dragonhides and have basically cornered the market for 1715 is too good an opportunity to miss! lol

On the plus side, whatever happens maple seeds are excellent to buy at mid+120...they should rise well tomorrow or the day after in their perpetual cycle :)

Making Easy Money In Runescape

The biggest problem people have with trading is first deciding how much they need, you can start with any amount usually but for beginners I would tend to say about 1M which can probably be claimed in a short while. This is in no way a definate sum, but just makes it easier to think about.



Even without the lines it just be fairly easy to see what is going on here, since the guide price has not dropped to the absolute minimum in 3 months it is not recomendded getting into a bidding war for 5gp as you will be queued for weeks, simply buy at mid price and then they should sell slowly off for the next few days as people are naturally impatient, even for the most common stuff and will place in an offer for maximum since it is only an extra 1k for 1000

This way does work and there is no risk unless Jagex again decide to drop the price caps and it falls further yet I doubt that will happen, they have the opportunity to go to 5gp yet they don't.

Much better instead is to go for something like adamant plates, legs, scimitars, kites and helms, there are a fair few up and coming pures now that PvP has made a come back and you will always be able to supply these with gear, lets just look at adamant chains:



The reason why chains are so much better here is because they are 3x as cheap and have 5x the movement of adamant platebodies in the GE. We could of course use the plates, but we would not nearly be as effective though the more people who do this, they slower chains will get as they find their equilibrium and something else will take its place as being the best.

So, we are limited to roughly 100 per four hours if we buy ourselves (more to follow to get around this later...someone remind me please lol), which means about 300/400 per 12/16 hours which is a nights trading while in bed and at school the following day depending on what price you actually pick them up for.

Lets say our sell price is 2800 for arguments sake, obviously it may be higher than that depending on the demand or lower but round numbers are always easier (more on this later)

Now, we have bought 400 adamant chains for 2700, and selling for 2800

You are crying to yourself that this is only 40k, but this is 40k you didn't have a day ago and it is 4% profit which is about as good as it gets with solo trading, you obviously do not have the buying power to manipulate prices on your own, and if you join such a clan there is next to no hope of you getting stock at the lowest price in order to make it worthwhile.

All you do now with your 1.04M is reinvest it back into something else or the chains again, predicting the price they will likely fall to and being there first to buy, this becomes 1.09M, 1.15M and it keeps rising in a geometric scale.

If you continue for a week or two you will have doubled your money with next to no effort and can concentrate on leveling your woodcutting skills :)

Once you have enough money such as 2.3M you can start on green d'hide chaps which I believe have a very high buying limit of 10,000 meaning this is almost the very pinnacle of freeplay trading:



Once you have done this a few times, then you can take those profits and move it onto jewelry, gems, scimitars...just because you may be freeplay it doesn't mean you cannot play with the big boys :D

To slide or not to slide when swinging should be better?

Basically the whole idea of sliding as opposed to flipping or swinging (snigger) is that instead of simply doing one trade once at the top and bottom, the price will rise and fall only a few gold pieces each day over the course of the week.

What this means is if you solely rely on buying for minimum and selling at max you will have a problem while you wait ages for the conditions to be met...sliding is the alternative.

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Imagine a nature rune starting at 200 gold and it rises 3 gp each day to 220 yet its max price is generally 10% over this...we can buy our nature rune for 203 (since we already know the most common buy price previously) and get them fairly fast and then simply sell at max-3 since because everyone now had to match your offer they have to offer more to buy...you simply sell it back to them.

So what you have is a system such as:

mid 200 buy 203 sell 220
mid 203 buy 206 sell 220
mid 206 buy 209 sell 220
mid 209 buy 212 sell 225
mid 212 buy 215 sell 223
mid 215 buy 218 sell 221

When the price starts to drop simply reverse it, buying at min and selling just under mid...this allows fantastic profits over time

Say you can buy 4x25k per day

Thats 100,000 x 17gp profit just on the first day for 1.7M profit!! 

Continue that over the week and though it is likely you will get shorter odds it will start to tell you when it is going to reverse simply due to this mechanism.

Of course the higher the price goes over time the shorter your profits will be as a result due to that line that everyone carries in their head telling them the price of a rune...however if you time and price it well you can get around this quite easily...all you need is luck at choosing the exact price to buy and sell at...

Of course the nature rune is simply an example, it works well with lower priced items that flow up and down regularly rather than those that bounce everywhere like a constipated camel on vindaloo...if you have the spare cash and can identify good buy and sell prices for a certain product, try it, you will not be disappointed :)

Explanation of flipping in Runescape

Basically flipping is quite possibly the easiest method of Grand Exchange trading there is, and the one that has been around the longest period of time in some form or another.

Simply put you buy a product such as feathers in the old day for 6gp, and quickly put up for sale at 7gp.

Contrary to popular believe this is not a bad form of reselling whereby youbring prices down or drive them up, all you do is maintain an equilibrium that has been settled upon over many months between supply and demand.

A couple of years ago I did it to great effect with fire runes, buying at 10gp at the afternoon GMT and selling at 11gp during the night, the reason this worked is because the vast majority of players did not have any or were just about to produce them. What happens in the case of that is that at the end of the night more will get put into the GE simply because it is needed which didn't exist earlier. However it happened, buying in one timeslot and selling at another is a great trick, not too many can stay on the computer 12 hours and there are too many people simply buying in one world and selling in another for it to work effectively.

Fire runes are good for something like this for a beginner, yet they will not bring in vast sums of money, simply buy for minimum price or middle and sell maximum.

Reading the Grand Exchange Charts

Welcome to the first of many tutorials I will be writing, mainly...how to profit from the GE easily with the minimum of risk to your pile of cash :)

Basically, how this works is we look at charts mostly, we find stable items that flit up and down and yet don't spike or crash, all we do is buy at a price roughly 25-50% of bottom price and middle and then sell back at middle price, following the natural contours and always making money.

This has two effects, it ensures there is always stock being bought & sold and keeps things steady, it is when one of these crucial systems breaks down you have rapidly rising prices or crashing prices.

This is an example of a good item for our purposes of stable merchanting:



As you can see it has very common high and low points meaning it is possible simply to trade near to those and constantly make money, no matter how slow.

This is also an example of a good item for our purposes of stable merchanting at least before it started rising at the end of November, when it drops down to 5400 it will be good to buy again:



You will see two lines pointed out, the bottom green one is where you buy, and the top red one is where you sell...of course whether you do this is up to you entirely but it is simply meant to illustrate how this decision is reached by identifying the best prices, this also only shows the middle price, often for black chaps for instance the buy and sell price will go beyond this as people buy for minimum and maximum yet the majority trade around the median price. How you choose to price your items is up to you but you will always get more if you choose to cut profits ;)

Right now the price is soaring way out of control for no reason, this is indicative of a clan having gotten hold of it and buying them out, do not buy when this happens, otherwise you stand to simply lose your money. Simply move onto something else for the duration.

If something rises for no reason, such as an update to cause it be very careful...you are already too late to the party, and you will not get any until everyone dumps the whole lot and you will stagger around under the weight of your impending bankrupcy. A good technique however is to notice things rising and buying items that supply those, such as buying ranarr seeds or super restore potions if prayer potions rise.

The best types of items to buy are high volume and low priced goods, a whip may very well jump 25k in a day, but all you need are 25,000 iron knifes bought at minimum and then sold one coin piece higher to make the same effect, which far greater safety to your bank balance; trade low, trade many is the key to great wealth ;)

Other examples of good items are those that get burnt out often, such as duel rings...they are very cheap, supremely useful and you can get about 10k easily within 4 hours...the general price range to buy is 1600-1650 and to sell you should be looking at 1750-1800.

Tomorrow I will start my list on what will be good to buy and sell through the GE, based on quantity, quality and best of all profit margin but try this just as a starter, if you take a look around at adamant items such as the normal armours you will see some things hitting a floor price, when this happens start buying, the adamant platelegs would be a very good thing to place an order in for before they drop at 3600 :)

Try this just as an example, various adamant armours can be bought easily by freeplay as in the next day or two at 3600, don't miss out on your chance to buy as they will go up...they are great for those with little money as you can buy upto 600 per day and that will only cost you a 2.16M, but you stand to make about 35k per 100 traded when you sell at mid price a day or two later...then simply switch to a new item.

It does not sound like much, but I started with 30k once and now have 450M+

It all adds up :)

By the way, my ingame Runescape name is "Cookies_Spam" and my clanchat is always open for you to take a look in and sometimes we even discuss trading though we never advocate buying for maximum price, if you follow the simple rules that will be outlined here over the next few weeks you won't need to use manipulation clans :)

There is one other thing I wish to note, most of the time I will not be doing the same item as other people, it makes no sense for me to buy a maximum of 600 adamant plate bodies a day for 2.3M when I have 200x that money...I usually do higher value items such as onyx bolts (8k each), high level seeds (30-45k each) or various food items or jewelry. This is not to say sometimes we wont do the same items if they are good, I just wish to make it clear from the outset that I have nothing to gain in the game from you making money, except the knowledge that you are another I have helped :)

Our usual profit margin is generally 3-8% every day, it sounds like a tiny amount when you think you will only make 30k-50k from 1M investment, but change that into 100M over time and you will be regularly seeing an 8M+ return :)

An item I recently spotted dropped from 6200 to 5300, at which point we all fell upon it like a pack of rabid wolves as we had been watching it fall, it shot back up in price to 5900-6000 which is what we sold at...I personally made 18M from that and people had similar success, just on smaller scales lol

Anyways, there is no pressure, come to my clanchat, have a talk with me or one of my friends, get a hint, noodles, don't noodles...why be so concerned with what was and what will be? ;)

~Sparhawke