Merching 101 and getting your returns cheaply

[Chip Dump]

Thought I'd make a really basic guide to how to buy your PK supplies cheaply.

 

Quick 101 on merching (I know a fair few of you know this - it's intended for those who don't). 

 

Say you're just joining Foe and you need to buy yourself 1k team-30 capes, 1k hats, and a bunch of returns for your app. 

 

If you insta buy a bunch you're losing money to a guy merching them, but you can get them cheaper. This guide will show you how in buying just 3 items you can spend 4.8m instead of 5.5m - 13% less.

 

Here's how:

 

Buy one cape (for, say, 50% more than the price). 

Sell that cape back to the GE (for, say, 50% below the price). 

We just need to know the current prices for the cape (you can see these in the history option in the GE)

 

 

So we buy the cape for 500ea, but the GE is buying them for 260-ea. 

 

We can now "snipe" this person buying out the team-30 capes (and most likely selling them for almost double) by putting in an offer for our capes at 261ea. Sorry, EP, your hustle is over.

 

In buying 1k, you spend 261k, instead of 500k. 

 

This obviously works for all your supplies. It only takes a second but you can pick up stuff for a hell of a lot cheaper than you would otherwise.

 

If you're short money, make it a habit and you can get your returns for a huge amount less than you would otherwise and it literally takes 5 seconds to check the prices. If you click the low offer (the 260 above, it immediately sends you to the buy screen in the GE - just bump it up by 1gp and buy however many supplies you need).

 

Items are straightforward, but potions you can get a big saving from if you know how. 

 

(3) pots sell for less than (4) pots do, and the guy south west of the GE will decant them into (4) doses for you at no cost (takes 2 seconds).

 

 

Take range pots, for example: 

 

 

 

 Insta buy 1k range pot (4)s and you're spending 506k.

 

The margins aren't really worth it to bother buying them at 503, but you can instead by the (3)s and decant them. 

 

You need 1333 range pot(3)s, at 314ea, to make 1k range pot (4)s. That's 418k, a saving of 90k (or about 20% cheaper).

 

If you're lazy, even insta-buying them at 338ea will turn you a profit/saving: it costs 450k to insta-buy the (3)s and you can sell them instantly for 502ea (50k for less than a minute's work - and you shaft the merchers!) For those of you wanting to turn a profit this way, the buy limit every 4 hours is 2k pots. I easily made 10m an hour previously doing this, including with blood runes and scales, etc.

 

It works for basically all pots. As another example, anti-venoms: 

 

1.333k (3)s cost 4.15m, while 1k (4)s cost 4.476m - a difference of 300k. 

 

 

 

So just in 3 examples, instead of spending 5.5ish mil on 3 lots of items, we will have spent 4.8m. If you leave these offers in your bank while doing something else, that's a tidy 700k made with literally 3 minutes worth of work at the GE (assuming your prices aren't sniped also!)

 

This is the very basics of merching. I don't really do this nowadays but when I first started back in OSRS I was sick of being broke and spun up 5m into 350m in literally 2-3 weeks, just trading in these items, and things like teleports.

 

PK supplies are the items with the best margins. Merchers basically prey on us for quick profits because pures normally don't give a fuck or are in a rush.

 

So if you're short cash or just want to get better profit/h doing shit like Zulrah, it's well worth buying at the proper price, rather than being rinsed for everything you buy for a few seconds' laziness. 

 

If you've got this far, thanks! Give me a shout if you'd be interested in an hour long video trying to flip 10m into 20m. 

Edited April 8, 2020 by Chip Dump

[Penguin]

damn man you're really going in atm

+respect

[FRAZEE1]

dam my dood nice info thanks

[WeedRolledUp]

thanks

[loud]

interesting

[Some God]

ty

[Lawi]

yup

[Utc]

cool

[Out Of Ctrl]

I’ve never made money buying or selling anything lol

[Zack]

decanting potions bots pre-eoc used to make me 200m/hr lol

[Scott|Fear]

Valuable information for new people

[Chip Dump]

4 hours ago, Out Of Ctrl said:

I’ve never made money buying or selling anything lol

Check it out - it's actually a ton of fun

[Forced]

good guide old man

[Safe]

L00l gf EP!

[dan]

nice

[Brap]

money

[Fake Smile]

oldest in the books but thanks!

[RanqeKid2020]

good old merching, love it

 

[Tropic]

Very good guide 

[Jordai]

jheeezz

[Ethabix]

thanks