Cheap F2P Merch Guide

Requirements:

 * 10k (Minimum)
 * Basic Math Skills
 * Calculator
 * Basic Logic

Table of Contents:

 * 1) Introduction to Merching
 * 2) How to Merch
 * 3) Reap the Rewards

Introduction to Merching
I usually don't like long explanations so let's get right to it. Merching is a great way to turn your hard-earned cash into more cash. You probably wonder how people get so much money, and they'll probably say something like Green Dragons. Yes, Green Dragons makes money, but merching with that money will earn you the real money. You can make 10k turn into several million GP. It is possible, although that's a lot of time. Merching is done over days, sometimes weeks, maybe a month. The longer you wait, the more money you make. It's good to have something else to do besides Runescape sometimes. You can make money while you merch though, or train your skills. Training crafting is useful because many other methods for F2P moneymaking involve crafting. Let's get to the basics of Merching.

How to Merch
There is no such thing as fast money. There are no hacks, only private servers with crazy viral YouTube videos. You probably now that paying for Runescape will get you more money faster. I won't lie, it's true. But F2P requires much more skill, and that's why you are better than them.

The first thing you need to do is go to Runescape.com. Scroll over to "Game Guide" in the navigation bar, and click "Grand Exchange". You will see two lists of high price increases and low price increases. Let's check out the price drops. Depending on how much money you have, you might want to buy into one of these depending on what it is. This week, clay is at 54 GP. That sounds interesting to me because I can buy 185 clay with 10k. I go to click on it and it shows me a chart with two lines, yellow and blue. The yellow is the daily average and the blue is the 30-day average. At the bottom right, you will see 3 small tabs. 30 days, 90 days, and 180 days. Click on 180 days. I see now that it lost value after a huge spike, probably because of a merching clan. Merching clans tell people to buy a huge amount of a certain items for a high price, and then sell for very low. However, it is hard to determine when to sell, and the leaders tend to get the best profit because they stock up on the item before they tell the clan to buy it. I am not interested in buying clay

Here are some other items you should always be looking at: I see that cowhides are at almost a 180-day low today! Plus, the price is rising slightly in the past day or two. The price is 113 GP. I can buy 88 cowhides with 10k. You can do this math easily by plugging in the following equation:
 * 1) Uncut Gems
 * 2) Cowhides
 * Ore

Amount of Money you are Spending / Price of Item

(/ is the computer division symbol)

Now for determining how much money you want to make, and how much risk you want to take. If I buy 88 cowhides, and the next day cowhides are worth 118 GP, a rise of 5 GP, I will make 384 GP. I know, that's nothing. But, I could wait for cowhides to rise to 150 GP and make 3200 GP. The chances of this happening are small, and if you see them dip after you buy them, sell immediately. You will want to check your item every day at the Grand Exchange. Now let me get this clear, 3200 GP is NOT a whole lot of money. In fact, it can buy you nothing very useful. However, this is when you are using 10k. And 10k isn't a whole lot to go on. Still, if you put it into statistical terms, you have made 32% on your money, which is huge. In the next example let's assume you have 100k.

If you buy the same item at the same price with 100k, you can buy 1001 cowhides. If I sell those for 118 GP the next day, you will make 18k. Thats pretty nice for sleeping and waking up the next day. If you wait the week or two for it to go to possibly 150, you will make 50k. I'll get to making that to more money in a second, in Reap the Rewards, part 3.

WARNING!
As profitable as I make this look, this can also be a loss if you don't pay attention to your merch! If you come back a week later and you find out cowhides are worth 60 GP, and you put in 100k, you are out 50k. This is what you do when that happens. You keep the cowhides. DO NOT FREAK OUT! The only thing that happens is you have to wait more. A good idea would be to make another 50k, in another way you want.

No matter what happens, cowhides will ALWAYS bounce back. They are used for training crafting which is extremely important, especially to F2P. What I would do if they fell to 60 GP, is go kill a bunch a cows and get more cowhides. You can look up cow locations on the internet, dont be a noob and use the Lumbridge cow pasture, everybody goes there. A useful tip with cows:

Cows spawn faster on populated worlds.

Find a small cow pasture on a populated world and you will do better than the massive pasture in Lumbridge by yourself.

Making More Money
You sold your cowhides, but you still need more money. Of course, we are only human and we only want more. After you sell your cowhides, the next step is basically repeat, merch something else. Now that you have more money, try going for something a little bit more expensive, or wait longer if you only waited a couple days. The important part is to sell ALL your cowhides and move to something else. After you finish merching your new item, you can go back to cowhides, except this time you can buy even more.

I just showed you that the more money you have the more money you make. Even if you only have 10k, over 3 months you can turn that into 1 Mill. 3 months? Thats too long! That's just an estimate. Plus, check out these merching statistics with buying the cowhides:

Price of Cowhide = 113GP   Total Amount of Money being Risked = 1,000,000 GP

Total of 8850 Cowhides

And you repeat until your friends think you are a hacker.