What should i do to gain some decent cash
By biswesh
@biswesh (53)
China
September 15, 2008 3:33am CST
My skills are : ( Non mem)
Fishing : 59 Cooking 61 Mining:54 Smithing : 44 Woodcutting: 67 Firemaking: 51 Combat: 67 Range : 40 Magic : 51 Runecrafting: 20 And prayer : 31
5 responses
@asdrandomasd (24)
• United States
16 Sep 08
Umm you should raise your woodcutting to 60 and cut yews for big bucks. Another way is to fish raw lobs and sell them (they're worth more than cooked ones i think). An easy (but boring) way to earn money is to buy the ores for steel bars and smelt the steel bars then sell them for a profit. A pretty slow way (but more fun of getting gp) is doing the Fist of Guthix minigame and using the tokens for rune gauntlets and then selling the gauntlets on the grand exchange. I got 500k from this method on 1 char, 150k on another, and i don't remember how much on a third. The final way for you is probably to wait until PVP worlds come out and then own some people with your range and then collect the rewards :P
Hope this helps.
@asdrandomasd (24)
• United States
16 Sep 08
Right now rune gauntlets are depreciating pretty fast. When I first used this method about a week ago, I got 80k for a each pair. Now, they're worth in the upper 60s (ie 68-69k). However, people still buy them for the max price like 73k (you just have to wait a little while longer). I think this method probably rakes in about 20-30k an hour if you're good at Fist of Guthix. What you really need to do is find a strategy that works for you. Personally, I despise the people who run around the entire map and use the portals (even though I run around rocks to avoid the lvl 90s hitting 23s on my lvl 40s--understandable right?). I basically stick around the center gathering up charges and using the appropriate protection prayer to soften their blows. I win about 80-90% of the time. I find that magic is one of the best ways to go in FoG, but range is just as good (and maybe even better at high levels).
@Snoopielyn (66)
• United States
28 Sep 08
There are, of course, many ways to raise money that don't require high skills or a membership. These may not gain you as much money per item as some of the higher level items, but they're easier to obtain in most cases. The money adds up fast. You just have to not think of it as below you. These are ways I've made money on a low level account I have, and have been doing it almost from the time I created the account.
The prices I list for each item are the current price in the grand exchange database.
Cowhides: 111 gp
Leather: 159 gp
Hard Leather: 166 gp
Clay: 99 gp
Soft Clay: 175 gp
Raw Anchovies: 116 gp
Cooked Anchovies: 188 gp
As has already been mentioned, yews, ores, and bars are also a good way to earn money.
@Snoopielyn (66)
• United States
5 Oct 08
You seem to be forgetting that not everyone is willing to take the time to do things themselves. Some people have more money than time. For some, it's worth the cost to buy items to make getting the experience faster.
I started a new account recently, and I've been making money left and right on selling soft clay, leather, and anchovies. I've never had to wait more than 2 minutes for them to sell, no matter how much I put in to sell. So apparently someone is buying these things.
@The_Rocket (77)
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27 Sep 08
Making money on non-members is by no means an easy thing, especially with the balanced trades update, where you are not allowed to trade items that unbalanced e.g, Santa Hat for 10gp. :P, anyway, I think that you should do Air Running. Basically, on World 16, you start at Falador east bank, get an air tiara to go to the altar, and bring rune essences to the altar and people will trade you the ess for 2k. Just repeat this process and you can start raking in some decent cash.
@yoyo65 (39)
• United States
18 Sep 08
u should either mine mith and coal and make mith bars thats basicly good for now until u raise your wcing .
@troy4ever (40)
• Canada
6 Nov 08
you could make steel bar by mining coal and iron ore and then smith then . pretty good cash
