A new, nearly FREE way to Runecraft?

I was just thinking while I was Fletching, what I do is I trade in Yew Longbows for 1K Bowstrings and 1K Yew Logs.

Why can't this be done for Runecrafting? Let's take it from one perspective. You have 1K Pure Essence, you craft them into Nature runes. Now instead of going and mining more, you trade those 1K Nature runes for 1K Pure Essence. Thus, free Runecrafting experience.

The other perspective is in the eyes of the person who is trading the 1K pure essence. Now all people who High Alchemize have to do is mine 1K Pure essence (which isn't hard at all) and they have 1K quick High Alchs. They can also sell the Nature runes when they trade for them for a much higher price than if they were to sell Pure Essence.

If alot of people use this method already...sorry! I've never heard of anyone using it and you have my apolgies for spamming the forums.

Edit: Hmm, Bib has a good point, you would be losing potential money on this because you can sell Nature runes for about 320 each while Pure Essence is around 100 each. The other method benefits High Alchers greatly though. I guess it goes both ways.

Yes I have thought of this to myself for a money making skill but as you see I dont have anybody that I know is RS that is currently Runecrafting. Well If you were gonna go Runecraft I would go get you 1k pure ess and you could trade me. Also this is a good idea.

well it is more profitable to sell your nature runes than to trade them for essence. since they cost around 100 each you would lose 200 gp each

In theory it would work great, but the price diff is just way to high.

Actually this isn't a bad idea at all...that is exactly what the Law company does in world 66. If you want to get up your runecrafting. The only thing is that if you are going to do it...you might as well do laws instead of nats as they are close to a bank (making it easier for people to run to you), they give you more xp per ess, and the company/method is already established. A nat running society might work though because they are worth more and if you have decent agility it isn't that far to the nearest town.

It won't work unless it's at a ratio of 3:1.

He's saying that if you traded 3 Pure Essence per Nature Rune, it would work.

Sorry to the topic creator, but this wasn't really thought out. You could apply this to basically any skill(Why not trade Iron Ores for Iron Bars?).

The point is money. When making those nature runes, you tripple the price which you bought the essence at, so trading that for equal amounts of essense just makes you lose money. Sure, you'll be getting 'free' exp, but at the loss of profit.

It would never work unless Essense and Nature Runes were relatively the same price.

As Meesekiller said, the only time this would work is in tiny amounts, and when the customer comes to the place where you make them.