Merchanting, as many of you know, is the most effective moneymaking method. It is quite easy for members to merchant, but rather difficult for nonmembers to do it. In my 3 years of playing Runescape, I have found a couple of different ways for nonmembers to merchant. They have made me a very successful Runescape player and have since acquired many rares.
The only kind of merchanting I will discuss is a very profitable one of runes. When you log in to World 1 and walk around Varrock, you might see people yelling out, “Selling 6k deaths 290 each.” You might ask yourself as to how they have acquired all those runes. It really is simple: either buying them from other players at lower prices or buying them straight from shops. Buying them from other players can sometimes be fruitful, but constantly dealing with noobs and scammers can get annoying. That's why I have opted to go for the shops.
There are two rune-selling shops in the F2P world: south of Falador and mid-Varrock. Each stocks 250 each of death runes and chaos runes. That is, if nobody has already bought them yet. That's where you come in! The most effective way to buy the runes is set up a noob account or an account you've previously had and drop trade 1/3-1/2 of your money to them.
Yes, I know this is against the rules, but as a nonmember you're gonna need every advantage you can get. Have the noob account go to the Varrock shop and have your main stop in the Falador shop. Now the fun part:
- Go on late at night or very early in the morning
- Click on a very un-busy world (not the most un-busy) and log in to your main
- Buy all the chaos and death runes in the Falador shop
- Log out
- In the same world, log in to your noob account
- Buy all the chaos and death the shop has
- Log out and choose a new world
- Repeat
Do this until you run out of money. Your main and noob should run out of money at around the same time. Then, drop trade all runes and remaining money to your main. This way is most effective since you don't need to mess with the “You have just logged out of another world…” kind of crap, which doubles your speed of buying. Once you have all your runes, go to Varrock World 1 and sell all your runes at 5-10 gp than the other guy. The best is to stand right next to him and yell it.
To be most effective, yell “Selling ____ Chaos ___ each. (Name).” Depending on how much you started with and how much you sold the runes for, you usually end up with a 130-150% yield of your money. This may not seem like much, but consider this: Starting out with 500k, you get 750k. Do it again, you get 1125k. And so on.
This strategy helped me make millions and used to own a mask set + green mask + Santa. (But then I sold them and I am sad because they are worth so much more now).
Hope I helped!
