Runescape - Life as a Trader

Runescape allows you to define your own goals. You can simply want to go around killing people, in which case your needs are pretty basic - good weapons, armor and a stock of runes. You can decide to excel at a particular trade - such as fishing or crafting - and at the upper levels can make a lot of cash. Or, if you prefer you can go the route of the trader.

Trading is a little different to all the other paths to walk - because it doesn't rely on ingame mechanics, but rather your personal abilities. When you strip away everything else - trading requires you to be able to buy low and sell high. And the way to sell high is to gather the items in bulk.

The first thing a trader needs is a little capital to invest. There are two ways to start out - feathers - which will raise your combat level a little as you slaughter all the chickens, and rune ore - which I personally recommend.

To start on rune ore you need to complete the ore quest. It's quite a simple one which will help you gain a passable knowledge of the world map as the most time consuming part of it is the walking around. You'll be told how and where to mine rune, then take your axe and start digging. Like all mining there's a rather annoying time of digging and running back to the bank. That will be frustrating at first because it's boring, but the trick is to soak up that boredom - because boredom is the key to your trader making a lot of money. you see it's no real problem for anyone in the game to mine 50 or even 100 ore essense, but 1000 gets quite dull, and 10,000 is even worse! And that's how you make your money. Find things that are dull to do, but necessary for success, and figure out how to do them. With essence it's easy. You'll find these guys standing around hacking at a rock - offer to buy their essense off them and set a price. Then buy all they can sell you.

You'll learn the prices for things pretty early - but don't assume others know them. To a new player 10gc per essense is a small fortune - and if you have four or five running for you at a time you can build up your stock very quickly - especially if you are mining yourself at the same time.

The trick then is to keep this flow of cheap ore coming to you the entire time you are online. Offer a few bonusses - upgrade their axes for free as they reach certain levels of supply, offer them a 10% bonus if they deliver in quantities over 1000(This will keep them mining for you while you are offline). Then sell what they give you in bulk lots for a much higher price.

Trading is fun, because it involves interaction, bargaining and gets you the monies you need to get on with whatever else you want to be doing. And like all things, the more organised your endeavours, the more successful you will be.

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