How to Make Lots of Money in Runescape

This is an easy, free guide on how to make loads of money in Runescape.

So, you want to be rich eh? Well, you must then know how to get money. First off, money won’t just appear in your inventory (except for the random events). You have to earn it yourself. There are many ways to earn money. Such ways include producing your own item and selling it and the other one: merchanting.

At first, before you do anything, put your public chat to hide, as this will help you see trade offers better in crowded areas.

If you like to make your own items, you can sell them for profit. You get all o the money that you earn, unlike in merchanting, which we will talk about later. You simply mine, fish, craft, smith, chop, build, etc. you items and sell them for massive money, all free, just pay with your time. In this case, the best worlds to sell are worlds 1 through 10. Below are some pricing guidelines:

Ores:

  • Coal – 180 to 200 gp each
  • Iron- 100 to 140 gp each
  • Mithril- 200 to 300 gp each
  • Adamant – 300 to 450 gp each
  • Runite- 500 to 1k gp each

Bars:

  • Iron – 150 to 200 each
  • Steel – 300 to 500 each
  • Mithril – 400 to 650 each
  • Adamant – 500 to 650 each
  • Runite – 500 to 1k each

Logs:

  • Regular – 100 ea
  • Oak – 150 ea
  • Willow 200 to 300 ea
  • Maple – 300 to 450 ea
  • Yew – 500 to 1k ea
  • Magic – up to 5k ea

Fish:

  • Lobsters – 250 to 350 ea
  • Swordfish – 300 to 500 ea
  • Tuna – 170 to 250 ea
  • Bass – 240 to 450 ea

These guidelines are not completely accurate, because the price changes depending on the need of the buyer. Just be careful not to overprice it, or else on one will buy it. This way you can make around 300k a week.

However, some of us are very impatient to get the money (say yes). We want that dwarf cannon someone is selling for 400k! How do we get the money? Last, but not least…Merchanting!

Yes, merchanting. The concept is simple; you buy something for a low price, and sell for a high price. Do not be afraid to spend money on the item you are merchanting. That is called INVESTING (yes, I know this is a new word for you.). You put some money in, and you take even more money out.

The easiest to start off with is feathers. First get around 10k from the above money-making method. Then to the Lumbridge chicken farm, which is east of the river Lum, slightly north of the cows. On almost any world there will be people getting feathers from chickens there. Say something like, “Buying feathers”. Probably many people will trade you. Use a calculator when finding the amounts, because this speeds up the trade. Buy feathers for about 2 to 5 gp each. Once your money has run out, go to worlds 1 through 10 and try to sell them for 8 or more gp each. Members will find selling feathers very easy, as there are the Runescape forums and many people willing to buy them on a members world. Repeat the process until you are satisfied with your money.

Another way is merchanting coal, iron, iron bars, and steel bars. Go onto a NOT CROWDED server. Go to the east Falador bank. Say, “Buying [Coal/ iron/ iron bars/ steel bars] for [amount of money] each!” For more crowded worlds add, “——[Your name here]——“ or, “~~~~[Your name here]~~~~”. Remember to use the color effects on your writing to make it more attractive. The buying and selling prices are listed below:

  • Item – Buying Price/Selling Price
  • Coal – 150 to 165 each/175 to 200 ea
  • Iron – 50 to 80 ea/100 to 150 ea
  • Steel bars – 300 and under/400 and up
  • Iron bars – 200 and under/250 and up

Be aware that sometimes you can be scammed, such as thinking that the ore you are buying is coal, buy really is iron. Or, thinking that steel is iron. In both cases, you are paying for an item more than it is worth. Be careful, and get a full list of scams Here.

Once you have enough of your item, go to worlds 1 to 10 and sell it the same way you bought it, just price it higher. Be careful not to be scammed, or that will decrease your money dramatically. This mthod can earn you up to 500k a week. Here is a formula to figure out the profit:

[Money earned from selling item] minus [Money spent on buying item] = Profit earned!

Conclusion:

In conclusion, you can make money very easily; you just have to follow these guidelines. Never be scammed. That is the worst way to lose your money. Always follow the rules of the game. Many people will try to scam you. Try to avoid selling coal to levels under 50, as they will either buy for too little or they will try to scam you (they are low level because they are a trash account: if they are banned, their main is still active).

Always have fun when merchanting, don’t hesitate to sell an item that you are not merchanting to earn some profit if someone is buying it for a high price.

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  1. Xam Tutha
    Posted May 23, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    Please do not make such comments on these articles.

  2. LLoLL
    Posted May 24, 2007 at 6:42 am

    Runite Ores are worth around 12k now, bars are even more, around 24~25K.

  3. Xam Tutha
    Posted May 28, 2007 at 8:55 am

    His scam was not very convincing…he said “THIS IS NOT A SCAM” about 20 times. Begging won’t convince anyone. Arrows dont come in “craploads”, the are actually useful.
    In other words, he probably doesn’t know that no one will give him a password.
    I gave him a throwaway account, and I couldn’t get on it ever again.
    I need to ask someone to remove this first comment.

  4. Pikachu
    Posted May 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    I do believe that your prices Xam Tutha are mostly incorrect. especially with the rune ores and bars worth like 10 times more than what you said it to be. O yea and the person that wrote that scamming article im going to track you down and persecute you so dont be afraid. The word ‘INVESTING’ I’m still struggling to this day to understand that word i guess it has something to do with the words EQUITY and CAPITAL.

  5. MRHC9
    Posted May 30, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    dude i hate to tell you but your guide is way off on some of these prices…..yews are only like 250 to 300 ea. and runite and rune bars sell for like 10k… but uh ……i think it would be a good guide if the prices were up to date…..anyway….i just posted a guide on what not to do on runescape so when it gets done pending look it up man…….hope you guys enjoy!

  6. lol pikachu
    Posted July 22, 2007 at 7:42 am

    skurtle skurtle pika pika skurtle hey wtf am i saying!

  7. nuke811
    Posted July 29, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    i think its dum

  8. nuke811
    Posted July 29, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    use guys suk this is so old news!!!!!11

  9. Cridlol
    Posted September 8, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    roll in the pooh until you foo, little litlle pooh, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……… boring

  10. rune guid
    Posted September 23, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    This website doesn’t make any senses!!

  11. pieisgood
    Posted November 23, 2007 at 11:06 am

    your prices are off

  12. punk to kill
    Posted December 8, 2007 at 8:31 am

    can someone give a level 59 some money, i have only got like 0.4k

    i really need money.

    if you can give me money, can i have 10k or over plz

    thank-you

  13. __fieryjake__
    Posted December 28, 2007 at 5:07 am

    i really hate people who ask for money i have around 60k and i have only been playing for a month so GET IT YOURSELF

  14. D_Marauder1
    Posted January 8, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    wow…no offence fiery jake, but it took you a month to make 60k?I did that in a day.(B bones all the way :)
    pretty good guide here though, but like ever1 else here said, your prices need some modifications.

  15. destin_1158
    Posted January 10, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    a good way to m ake money is to mine and win u get the sapires or something above the sapire sell thim at grand x for lowest price possible and they’ll by it trying to get there gem cutting up good luk

  16. bebo
    Posted January 15, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    why are you people making snarky comments over a game!!!

  17. im rich
    Posted January 25, 2008 at 10:22 am

    People i’ve been playin for a month And i have 2 mil in items and 253k. Its easy to make money.

    just kill dragons and sell their bones. each d bone costs about 2k. dragons are not hard to find. just go to the wild and find them. i make 300k in 2 days playin 3 hours each day.

  18. those prices are off.
    Posted January 25, 2008 at 10:24 am

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    runite costs 6k each

  19. john doe 25
    Posted February 24, 2008 at 12:35 am

    WTF b bones dragon bones r better omfg if u play runescape add john doe 25 I made 2.8mil in 1 day…. I tell u da secret… And rune ores r 12k each… U dumbos… Well u get ur smithing to 99 and sell 1k rune fulls (18mill)

    b

  20. john doe 25
    Posted February 24, 2008 at 12:36 am

    WTF b bones dragon bones r better omfg if u play runescape add john doe 25 I made 2.8mil in 1 day…. I tell u da secret… And rune ores r 12k each… U dumbos… Well u get ur smithing to 99 and sell 1k rune fulls (18mill)

    b

  21. crumpetmaster 2 4 6
    Posted May 17, 2008 at 9:03 am

    this webpage would be decent if the prices were more up to date. please add me as a friend my username is torcherer90

  22. bellydance55
    Posted May 24, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    I make money by selling magic trees. their 1k eack log. I cut 1000 logs and I sold it in the grand exchange and I got 1m, or if you cut down 10,000 logs you can get 1billion.
    I am a billion aair. i have 11billion

  23. blk786
    Posted June 5, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    this is pretty good but your prices are all wrong! u guys got to get into the mining guild! it has such ood money in coal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    man, your all such loosers except for john doe 25

    i hope u guys learn to be smart someday and get your mining and smithig lvl to 99 like me

  24. aksilgood
    Posted June 12, 2008 at 4:21 am

    guys, i got a good way of making money, go and kill hill giants and then, bury the big bones, only take runes, limpwurt roots, or uncut jewelery, NOTHING ELSE, and btw, i got 300k in like 5 days

  25. blesd 0wnag3
    Posted June 30, 2008 at 11:58 am

    use lot man the esiest way to get moeny is dragon and get their
    bones. you need atleast 45+ defence and 65+ attk it makes you 1m in no time.add me blesd 0wnag3

  26. buttnuget
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 12:03 am

    it sucks

  27. getalife
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 12:08 am

    three words get a life ive never even herd of this game

  28. joel
    Posted August 1, 2008 at 9:19 am

    u really think that people r gonna listen to your advice-thats gob smacking runite bars are worth atleast 5k-6k

  29. aksil
    Posted August 7, 2008 at 4:49 am

    u noob runite ores r worth about 11k-13k, u dun even know a shet about runescape

  30. pj
    Posted August 8, 2008 at 7:10 am

    i can make around 3-4m per week if i try hard thanks to mining & fishing.

  31. bob
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    my mining is only 50 and i can make 400k a day. it easy i just mine tons of pure ess and runecraft em into cosmic runes and sell them. otherwise i just mine gems in shilo village and sell them at the G.E.

  32. tight 888
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 1:21 am

    all i gotta say is mems dont give up on killing green drags and they give ya a quite good mount of money sell there bones and d’hides dont give up youll one day be rich plz dont add me my list is full………..

  33. colin1889
    Posted September 14, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    if you whant pie add me to your frends list and i ask for is 90 gold

  34. colin1889
    Posted September 14, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    if you whant pie add me to your frends list and i ask for is 90 gold please

  35. Uhh
    Posted October 7, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Uhh, Add me Ace twz–I can make 4-6mill in 2 hours..

    If you can beat that, let me know.

  36. sonnic666
    Posted October 18, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    add me sonnic666

  37. doomlord283
    Posted December 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    1 RUNE ORE IS 20K!&BAR IS 19K! SO U ARE REALLY WRONG!!! MAGIC LOGS ARE UP TO 1.2K AND YEW LOGS R UP TO 697GP LOL

  38. googledude
    Posted December 24, 2008 at 2:14 am

    uhhhh….. dont forget aboout hillgiant good money too

  39. i8a donut
    Posted December 28, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    omfg!!! update this!!! and btw i can learn more about runescape from a monkey!!! mine pure ess in varrock if u a noob get 181k and hour, but for those who are not noobs… get go in the wildy to the rune rock and world hop until ur invy is full and keep something to teleport with, make at least 1.2M an hour, up to maybe 2.24M lol. 300k a week! lol that sucks! if u have 99 mining u can make 2.24M takes 3 weeks to get but it is soooo worth it, spread out the time if u like but it is the best way to make money. i see all this youtube crap that has like 1M in an hour and it only makes like 400k in a hour. add me, and i got hacked thx to an evil person who uses linux for evil. and if u dont know what linux is, use google.

  40. cccccc
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    My point go wc yew if your 60+wc you can make at least 100k in 2 hours.

  41. bellydance55
    Posted January 17, 2009 at 9:11 am

    I also make money by selling abbysal whips.you can get them by killing abbysal demons. Which are found in the slayer casle thats found east of the dig site. the whips are 1.5m each . right now I have 49mil.

  42. jhon
    Posted February 2, 2009 at 9:11 am

    i have 75mil beacuze i sold cowhides and abysel whips w00t! y dont u have a try?

  43. violinkitty
    Posted February 8, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    i knowhow to make soooooo much money that u can affod bronze! tats th richest u can get i now have 678m thanks to my way!! for mor info add me violinkitty

  44. i8a donut
    Posted February 16, 2009 at 7:19 am

    I was searching google until I found this forum, WITH MY NAME BEING USED! I hate some people. Well I’m sorry for any trouble I have caused by this. This thread is abandoned so, sorry its not getting updated. Also, 2.24M isn’t that bad but, You can make lots more by merching the stuff or joining a merching clan. And finally A monkey is incapable of speaking, therefore you could not learn more from one.

  45. the killer123
    Posted February 28, 2009 at 10:23 am

    your guid sucks i can make 56 mill two min noob you think your rich well no you no i am you noob

  46. i8a donut
    Posted March 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Yo btw, The guy who used my name. are you like 10 or something? you are so stupid.

    add me, and i got hacked thx to an evil person who uses linux for evil. and if u dont know what linux is, use google.

    what… was… that….

    That is just scary. lol seriously… You sound like a retard when you say that…

  47. matbart as flash
    Posted March 23, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    dude the runite is 15k each and runite
    and i can make 7 mill a hour

  48. someone man
    Posted April 29, 2009 at 8:35 am

    wtf runite ore is 16k you are all D U M B

  49. dude guy
    Posted May 3, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    i go 2 god wars dungeon and get full inventory of a amdaryl hilts and earn 920m a day i am lvl 132 and i now have ful dragon full bandos10 of each godsword and much more and 999b

  50. bubba
    Posted May 24, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    i think if you collect a bag full of red spider eggs… you could make about 9k for about 15-20 you could get the red spider eggs at karajama without a membership

  51. goliath
    Posted June 2, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    omg! lol ur prices are off!

    ores:
    coal:110gp
    iron:56gp
    mithril:230gp
    adamantite:1k
    runite:13k

    logs:
    regular:9gp
    oak:17gp
    willow:32gp
    maple:56gp
    yew:300gp
    magic:1.25k

    you really should get R E A L prices… I mean runite ore…, 1k?!
    and magic logs…, 5k?!

    dumb prices dude

  52. bubba
    Posted June 2, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    u r crap…

  53. dude guy
    Posted June 2, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    acctually, I’m lying, ima poor noob trying to impress everyone!
    oh, and the prices are crap…

  54. LLoLL
    Posted June 2, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    runite bars are now 15k!!!

  55. clayton 2oo7
    Posted June 25, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    lol man i know.and runite ore is 13-14k gp

  56. Posted July 4, 2009 at 4:07 am

    yeah like were realy gonna beleve that SO DONT LISTEN 2 HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!u loser

  57. Posted September 26, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    dude i am eastern107 add me i am the beast of all beast brothers out there FOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am a billionaire!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  58. Posted September 26, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    …………………….poop……………………..

  59. blablaman
    Posted October 17, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    dudes jst go kill unicorns and fill up ur inven with unicorn horns and sell at ge highst price u get 42k it doesnt take that long… by the way update dis page prices are wrong!!!!!!

  60. Posted October 22, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    THESE HINTS SSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  61. Posted October 22, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    whatever noob takes this shit, is the most noobiest noob on planet NOOBY!!!!

  62. me
    Posted October 28, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Thats the worst guide ever. The dude that said that he made 2 mil after 1 month of playing is a noob. It’s immpossible to level up to that stage in runescape in a month. I played for about 3 years with full guthix and 2 mil.

  63. lnr30
    Posted November 19, 2009 at 9:42 am

    i can make 1mill plus a day by only killing some unicorns and selling the horns in g.e and im a lvl 82 add me my user name is lnr30

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