These are the easy steps to do this:
Firstly, you need to be aware of the NPC “Bob Barterâ€, located just southwest of the Grand exchange, where there is a symbol of a herb.
The special thing about this particular NPC is that he has the right-click option ‘decant’. When a play asks Bob to decant their potions, he compacts them into the smallest number of potion-filled vials possible. For example if you click decant when you have 14 potions (2) in your inventory, he will change them into 7 potions (4) and 7 vials, instantly!
This can be used very effectively to a player’s advantage. To do this you must:
1. Buy a large amount of 3-dose potions from the Grand Exchange. You should make sure:
- The potions are rising, if only in 1-5 gp increments.
- You buy the potions a little above med. If the potion costs 8200 gp, buy it for 8250-8300.
- Be patient, the potions may take a couple of minutes to successfully buy.
- If it takes more than 10 minutes, up your price; this is not an issue, in fact if a potion is unable to buy, you will make more profits, as there will be more demand for the 4-dose potion.
- The potions are in demand – Don’t buy super energy potions and such. The ones I usually use are prayer potions, super restore potions, and at its current high price, even super strength potions.
- Consider buying the potions just before you go out somewhere, and when you come back, they will have bought.
2. Run from the Grand exchange bank to Bob with 28 3-dose potions of your choice.
3. Right click decant, and you will have 21 4-dose potions and 7 vials.
4. Run back to the bank, click deposit inventory and withdraw another 28 3-dose potions.
I can perform this is in 10 seconds flat, which means I am able to make 3600 runs an hour.
5. Repeat until you have decanted all your potions.
6. Time to sell your potions. This is the trick to the entire process; people want to have compacted forms of potions, so they don’t use up inventory space. However, when one makes a potion, it is only 3-dose, which creates vast demand for the 4-dose version. Sell your potions for 100-300 above what you bought them for; if you bought them 50 gp above med, sell them 150-350 gp above med. If you’re patient, sell them for 200-300gp before you go out, and when you get back, the potions will have sold!
Now some calculations; how much will you make?
Example super strength potion:
- As of 20th December, they are at 4565 gp, medium price, in their 3 dose form. It is important to note they are also lowered by 29gp today.
- I buy 1000 of these at 4600gp each, totaling 4.6M.
- Each run to Bob and back to the bank takes me 10 seconds.
- You make 100-300 gp per potion, at 21 potions per load.
- 21 x 200 gp is 4,200gp in 10 seconds.
- 10 seconds x 6 = 1 minute
- 1 minute x 60 = 1 hour
- 4,200gp x 6 = 25,200gp per minute
- 21,000gp x 60 = 1,512,000 per hour!
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