To Start:
If you are a noob (no offense), you may want to start fighting… but that is not always the best way to start. I started actually killing cows near lumbridge. They are weak animals, and you will mostly overpower them. The best way to prepare for them is bring a good weapon, a scimitar that is proper for your attack level. You should keep killing cows with aggressive (strength) attacks until you get around 500 or more cow hides (skin of the cow dropped after you killed).
Once you get the 500 or more hides you should be a higher level, and you have some money! To sell these hides, either go to the Runescape Forums, and look under the crafting option for a buyer, or go to the Al-Karid bank in the desert east of lumbridge, and repeatedly say " SELLING C HIDES 120ea". If that doesn't sell, just drop the price as you see fit.
Get Out There:
If you follow the past procedure, you should have around 50k. If not, you can start here. This is a tedious task but can make you a lot of money. Start by going to Varrok east bank. When you get there, repeatedly say “buying ess 15ea” when you use all of your money, go to world 1, or world 2 and repeatedly say “selling ess 30ea”. You just doubled your money! If nobody sells for 15each… buy for 20, but only if nobody sells for 15 each. There you go!! You have some cash!
Look at the Stacks!
By now you might be thinking “ hey I want to go buy some stuff ” and I can relate. Once I got my first 100k I bought a rune pickax, and a rune wood cutting ax, not thinking I couldn't use them. A good way to get money now is to continue merchanting, or buying low, selling high. At this time, go to Varrok or Fallidor. In varrok go to the west bank, and if in Fallidor, go to the East bank.
In both these places, repeatedly say “buying rune scim 20k”. A rune scim is a rune scimitar. This is a popular weapon of nonmembers, along with the rune 2 hander. Now if you have spent all of your money, go to world 1 and look for someone buying rune scimitars for more money than what you bought for. If you couldn't find sellers for 20k, raise it up, but no higher than 25k. Now you should be stacking up your gp!
Getting There:
Now you have a lot of money, or so it seems. At this time, go to fallidor, and go to the west bank. Here you will begin to buy noted coal for 150-180each. Do this by repeatedly saying “buying coal 150each” or buying coal __each” fill in the __ with the amount between 150 and 180. if you don't want to do this, you can repeat the process with the last step. To go along with the coal, when you get around 1k or more coal, go to world 1 and sell it for more than you bought, preferably between 190-200gp each. Now you should be making money in no time.
Last Stretch:
This is the end of my guide. I know I have only touched the tip of what you can do to make money, but I put some variety in it, giving you the choice. I don't want to control your accounts, just give you a choice to make money. My next way to get money repeats the merchanting idea. I'm giving you the choice to make the decisions. I will make a table for what to buy and sell.
| Item | Buy Price | Sell Price |
| Lobsters (Lobbies) | 150-200gp each | 210-230gp each |
| Coal | 150-180gp each | 185-highest found gp each |
| Rune Essence (ESS) | 15-22gp each | 22-40gp each |
| Yew Logs (YEWS) | 200-275gp each | 275-300gp each |
| Rune Scim (Scimitar) | 20k-23kgp each | 23k-35kgp each |
| Full Rune Sets | VARRIES! Check forums | VARRIES! Check forums |
| * Pure Essence (P ESS) | 70-80gp each | 85-100gp each |
| * Bow Strings (BS) | 100-120gp each | 125-175gp each |
| *Dragon Items | VARRIES! Check forums | VARRIES! Check forums |
All of the * items are Members Only. Sorry for not talking about members items before, because I just recently got members again. For the "VARRIES! Check forums" I have put that because I don't sell these, and the prices can change day by day so depending on when you are reading this, the prices could have rose/dropped tremendously.
Go Get `Em:
Now you know how to get cash, go do it! If you ever need help/want to talk, you can pm (private message) my account SYKER123 on Runescape. Thank you for reading my guide, and for all the noobs out there, please don't copy and steal this guide.