OK I am firstly just like to say that this guide is far from a comprehensive guide to making money in Runescape, it is just a couple of the things I do to make money. I have written about my best fives ways to make money:

1. Kill chickens and collect their feathers ?this is a great one for those players out there that have a combat below 30. One of the biggest benefits is you get combat experience as well. After you have collected a fair few (at least 500) go to world one, if you are a Free to Play member, and sell them just to the East of the West Bank in Varrock. If you are a Pay to Play member, the best place to sell them is just North of the East Falador Bank. They sell for 10-20 gold each in member's worlds. You can also buy feathers from fishing shops; if you buy them in big enough quantities (at least 1000) you can make a good profit.

2. Save up 200k then go to world one, for Free to Play members, or world 2 for Pay to Play members, and buy stuff that is selling lower than its market price, and then try and find a buyer that is willing to pay what it is worth or more. This is called merchanting. To do this well you need to keep up to date with market prices, this is possibly the best way to make money in Runescape.

3. This tip is members only. Save 50k-300k then go to West Ardougne, behind castle there is a lever in the small shack pull it, you will see it say you will be teleported into level 45 wild, so do not bring anything with you but a weapon with slash. Then go North, cut the web, then go west. You will see a shack with two webs, cut both, then inside pull lever. Once you are inside talk to the banker get some money and trade the man in the east corner. You can buy laws for 210-299 gold each, basic runes sell for 3-5gp each. Then head to world one and sell them in Varrock.

4. This tip is members only. Make arrows, keeping in mind bronze arrows sell for 10 each, so do not make them. Iron sell for 20 gold each on world one; steel sell for 40 gold each, mithril 100 gold each, adamite 200 gold each and rune 400 gold each on world two.

5. A way for any member to make good XP and money is to go to the Rock Crabs in Relica and kill Rock Crabs. They are only level 13 and are super easy to kill and they drop unidentified herbs and level one clues. Sounds basic but it is a great way of making money. You get quick XP but you also you can sell unidentified herbs for 1k each in any world and 2k each when you are selling in bulk on world 2.That is my little Runescape Money Making Guide.

Well for many players of Runescape there are two main desires; one is to be very skilled; two is to be very rich. Now developing skills takes time but becoming wealthy in the game of Runescape doesn’t necessarily require you to be a high level. So how do the majority of players go about gaining Runescape Gold?

Well for most it is a method of playing the game and working out how to make money by developing skills that can earn good amounts of Runescape money in comparison to the time invested. For others they have developed a keen sense of the Runescape markets and managed to provide a service of buying and selling major raw and processed materials that are in high demand and supply. This means of making Runescape gold is referred to as merchanting and loads of information about how to go about earning gold in this way can be found in free Runescape gold guides that are on many Runescape fan sites and forums. Even with the availability of free Runescape gold guides there are also many Runescape gold guides for sale on the internet, though from my experience none are really worth the money if you have been playing for a couple of months and have reviewed a few of the free guides to making Runescape gold on Runescape fan sites and forums.

Buying Cheap Runescape Gold
The increasing alternative that many Runescape players appear to be opting for is buying cheap Runescape gold from online gold selling stores. These Runescape gold sellers sell millions of Runescape gold for real world money. Whilst this is in breach of Jagex’s terms of use it hasn’t stopped the sale of Runescape gold from such stores continuing. According to many this industry of MMO gold selling, including games like Runescape, is now a multi-million dollar industry with an estimated half a billion dollars worth of sales for the 2005/2006 financial year.

Whilst I don’t support players buying Runescape gold, it is obviously a growing option but the big question of whether it is worth it is dependant on your position within life and in Runescape. I mean if you have a full or part time job and are looking to really start enjoying Runescape without spending the first few weeks of your Runescape career scrapping together a few thousand Runescape gold pieces to buy yourself iron amour; then for as little as $10 you could get yourself a million Runescape gold pieces and be well onto your way to really leveling some of those skills and building your own ability to earn Runescape gold via playing the game.

Alternatively if you are already a fairly experience player with a 100k in your bank, you might be well advise to look into some of the free Runescape gold making guides available to turn that 100k into a few million. Either way I’d probably properly research the ways of making Runescape gold from free fan sites and guide sites before I headed off to buy a Runescape millions guide or one like it.

Can You Make Runescape Gold by Buying Runescape Gold?
Now again whilst buying Runescape Gold is against Jagex’s terms of service, the are a number of individuals that I know of personally that have benefited greatly from investments in purchasing Runescape Gold for real world money. How? Well not so long ago they purchased a few million Runescape gold from a gold seller and purchased all the rares that they could afford then sat on their rares for a few months and sold them 9 months later for a HUGE real world money profit. There are little industries anywhere in the world that you can almost be certain of 300 – 400% return on your investment every passing year, but Runescape rare items are such an industry, without fail every year Runescape rare items have increased in value and with that increase so has there real world value, and with each Runescape million gold pieces being worth $5 - $10 in the real world market there have been people that I have literally made $1000’s from selling their Runescape items when they quit the game. You can’t get those sorts of returns on the stock market. So as some have already proved spending a little money in an investment is a great way to make a little money.

Please note that we don’t recommend doing this and there are some inherent uncertainties involved not to mention is against Runescape’s rules but that hasn’t stopped other from trying and actually making large amounts of Runescape Gold and real world dollars doing it.

Now, if you do this properly, you can make quite a bit. Notice I’m not saying hundreds of thousands or millions. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re selling sharks or lobsters outside the Wilderness then you probably will be able to hit those targets, but not if your just selling good, standard, wholesome foods like you would if you were a low level cook, your much less likely to hit those types of numbers.

Selling food this way is actually a lot more fun than mining coal, or chopping wood. I’ve always found cooking much more variable and enjoyable than hitting rocks and trees; so maybe you’ll like it a lot, and make some nice cash out of it.

I’m now going to speak a bit about Runescape Gold Merchants, and how you can have a headstart when trying to make money through techniques such as merchanting. Now, if you don’t have the initial investment for merchanting, a good idea which you might want to take on is to buy the GP to start off your merchanting career. Buy GP you say? Yes, buy gold pieces, for real money. A lot of sites offer GP for sale, just go to Google and type in “Buying Runescape Gold” and you’ll be bombarded with a list of sites that do this. You could probably buy your first million for pretty cheap, and then use that million in merchanting to make much, much more.
If you really want to, once you make a lot, (millions), you might want to sell it back to one of these sites (most of the time these sites also buy GP off people) and make real cash out of it. There’s a whole article on that on this blog already, so find it, and check it out -:)

There are a lot of people out there, who have no idea how to make money, and how to become filthy rich in Runescape; but with anything, it takes time and effort, there is no quick-fire way of making millions in Runescape; it’s not the lottery after all! Finally, I’m going to speak about fletching, I’ve left this till last as it is a members-only skill, and so not all of you can benefit from it. Fletching is a basic skill at first. You just run around forests, cutting down trees, and making them into arrow shafts; wow-wee, so exciting, but then once you hit a few more levels up, it suddenly gets interesting -:)