Merchanting or skills to make money?

Lord Zamorak · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 9:36 am

What do you peoples do to make money?

I use skills, because if you die with the stuff you got from skills, it's not a waste of time because you got XP while making the money.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 9:36 am

amorous101 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 9:51 am

I tend to agree with lord zammorak. The main point of the game is to raise your skills, in my opinion, so that takes priority. However, I can't see a problem with making a quick mil while you are tediously chopping yews are cooking some lobbies. In other words, while you are raising your skills, surf sites like tip.it and RSBandB for merchanting opportunities. That way your efforts yield both money and xp.

My Vote: Both skills, merchanting and skills (mining mainly).

zobbey89 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 11:30 am

i dont go out of my wau to make money if i get it thats cool but i really dont make any of it i just train

sonicblam · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 11:51 am

usually i just train skills to make money however if i see someone selling a glory for 50k or something like that i'll buy it and sell it later for 75k-80k...but that doesnt happen too often.

i also watch people die when i'm training combat sometimes :lol:

sneak1230 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 12:08 pm

i make my money by skills...runecrafting mainly because it's really easy...you just have to watch out for pkers while useing the abyss....my rc lvl is 62 so that obviously says i love runecrafting....anyways i can make about 300k in an hour so thats easy money and its more fun than merchanting :roll:

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 12:11 pm

I don't merchant and never will. Taking advantage of others stupidity, using bully boy tactics to try and force people to sell there stuff and ripping people off is stupid in my book and a cheap way to play the game.

Work hard. Skills for lifeee, gp comes n goes.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 12:11 pm

jordan 2006 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 12:48 pm

most of the time i use skills, i might of used merchanting oced but it didint work for me, so all i use is skills.

pureworroir2 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 1:33 pm

i usually do all skills, crafting mainly, but when it comes to millions i just sell unids

Slaughter17 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 1:40 pm

I don't like merchanters. They're usually greedy. (Remember when they said that those Cat Amulets were a rare and discontinued item? Was all over the rants for months...) I'm no good at it, I just use my crappy skils.

sundayunion2 · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 1:59 pm

I do both. Merchanting gives nice cash, making it easier to raise skills such as herblore and farming. Or rc..

czskrazzi · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 3:06 pm

creepybacon wrote:

I don't merchant and never will. Taking advantage of others stupidity, using bully boy tactics to try and force people to sell there stuff and ripping people off is stupid in my book and a cheap way to play the game.

Work hard. Skills for lifeee, gp comes n goes.

hell yes.. exactly how i feel.. But i only feel that way towards people that spend more time merchanting than anything else.

Or those who do the bully tactics thing.. If im bored and decide i wanna see if there are any good deals on the official forums. I go around and buy whatever is fairly cheap. I dont use bully tactics, lie and say like omgz0rs its not worth that its worth this etc..

In most cases if someone sells something cheap, i will tell them what its really worth.. I feel overall its more respectful, more prideful when you work hard for your own stuff and dont scam, or treat people like crap.

Skillz fo lyf!.

TheMothAssassin · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 7:04 pm

I don't have a very competitive style of play, but I do sell certain items that I acquire, and occasionally I'll get a large stock of runes or other commodities to sell.

Hellfire010 · **Posted:** March 19th, 2006, 12:24 am

most people i talk to do merchanting and say its an excellent way of making money... well that may be so but not for me, i prefer skills

Anubis · **Posted:** March 19th, 2006, 5:06 am

Skills, since I dont see the point in meching, what are you going to do with money if you have no skills? And besides, if you only merch, and you get haxxed, what hapens then? your still a low level in everythign and you'll have to start again, where as with me, if I get hacked I dont care, since I can easily make 300k an hour

Mr Pink · **Posted:** March 19th, 2006, 7:00 am

I used to make money with both, great combination I am tellin you :wink: