Post by basti on Mar 23, 2009 9:48:00 GMT -5
Hiho, i know this forum from Glaskrone, we're in the same german community.
My ingame nick is Big Basti, I'm playing Runescape for more than 4 years (bot the first 2 years were senseless noobing-around >.<).
My combat-level is 129 and i got a total-level of 1955.
I think i can call myself the german GE-Merchanter with the most success:
I started merchanting about 1 year ago with a Bank worth ~80m (mainly drops from GWD and DK, thanks to the clan i'm council in, BnB). I used about 50m of this to start merchanting, after getting some tips on bulk merchanting from a clanmate. I immediately started to develop my own tactics on how to find profitable items to merchant, but the merchanting itself stayed fairly easy: buying for mid price plus a few GP and selling for max price minus a few GP. Mainly used barrows items, in those days there wasnt the sad limit of 10 Items, and many barrows items hat quite nice sinus-graphs. Easy, but highly profitable: within 3 Months I archieved a Bank worth more than 350m GP while only spending about 30 Minutes of time a day.
But things got worse, more and more people knew how to do this way of bulk merchanting and profit was shrinking. The main reasons were the rising amount of merchants and the changes Jagex made. After a really bad week with more time spent for merchanting than ever before, but with nearly no profit I decided to stop merchanting and enjoying my money ;-)
I bought bandos, arma, dfs and the godswords and then decided to push my skills. I trained (and train) slayer always with cannon, I barraged mage to nearly 99 and spent Money for anything I just liked ^^
After a while I decided to fulfill one of my dreams and bought a red phat along with full dragon which is in my opinion the hottest Gear ingame.
Sold it 3 Months ago.
At the moment i'm taking a "nearly-pause" from Runescape because I'm writing my Abitur in about 2 months and don't have the time to do any activities with my clan BnB, or skill. So i sold nearly everything i have and started merchanting again. In these last 2 months i put my bank/cash from ~250m back to ~320. Atm I'm mainly investing, but it doesnt really work the way i want it to. Overall im making quite nice profit, but thats just overall, i got many investments i dont make any profit with >.<
So this is finally the reason I decided to join this forum. I'd like to discuss possible investments with some other quite experienced merchants. What i kinda miss in here are investments in the right price class for me, i don't like buying things worth ~300gp... But this might be because of many F2Ps in here atm. Maybe I can change this situation a little bit and i find someone to discuss the items worth 500k+ =)
So, I'm looking forward to get y'all to know. As i said, I'm not too active atm but i should be able too look in here about 2 times a day ;-)
My ingame nick is Big Basti, I'm playing Runescape for more than 4 years (bot the first 2 years were senseless noobing-around >.<).
My combat-level is 129 and i got a total-level of 1955.
I think i can call myself the german GE-Merchanter with the most success:
I started merchanting about 1 year ago with a Bank worth ~80m (mainly drops from GWD and DK, thanks to the clan i'm council in, BnB). I used about 50m of this to start merchanting, after getting some tips on bulk merchanting from a clanmate. I immediately started to develop my own tactics on how to find profitable items to merchant, but the merchanting itself stayed fairly easy: buying for mid price plus a few GP and selling for max price minus a few GP. Mainly used barrows items, in those days there wasnt the sad limit of 10 Items, and many barrows items hat quite nice sinus-graphs. Easy, but highly profitable: within 3 Months I archieved a Bank worth more than 350m GP while only spending about 30 Minutes of time a day.
But things got worse, more and more people knew how to do this way of bulk merchanting and profit was shrinking. The main reasons were the rising amount of merchants and the changes Jagex made. After a really bad week with more time spent for merchanting than ever before, but with nearly no profit I decided to stop merchanting and enjoying my money ;-)
I bought bandos, arma, dfs and the godswords and then decided to push my skills. I trained (and train) slayer always with cannon, I barraged mage to nearly 99 and spent Money for anything I just liked ^^
After a while I decided to fulfill one of my dreams and bought a red phat along with full dragon which is in my opinion the hottest Gear ingame.
Sold it 3 Months ago.
At the moment i'm taking a "nearly-pause" from Runescape because I'm writing my Abitur in about 2 months and don't have the time to do any activities with my clan BnB, or skill. So i sold nearly everything i have and started merchanting again. In these last 2 months i put my bank/cash from ~250m back to ~320. Atm I'm mainly investing, but it doesnt really work the way i want it to. Overall im making quite nice profit, but thats just overall, i got many investments i dont make any profit with >.<
So this is finally the reason I decided to join this forum. I'd like to discuss possible investments with some other quite experienced merchants. What i kinda miss in here are investments in the right price class for me, i don't like buying things worth ~300gp... But this might be because of many F2Ps in here atm. Maybe I can change this situation a little bit and i find someone to discuss the items worth 500k+ =)
So, I'm looking forward to get y'all to know. As i said, I'm not too active atm but i should be able too look in here about 2 times a day ;-)
You seem like a great guy, and I hope you could add some suggestions if you could. 
Have fun on the forum!
