Low Risk Merchanting (Passively earn up to 1b+/month)

Here's a guide for those who would like to turn some acorns into oak trees.
Nothing in this guide breaks any RuneScape rules.
This guide does not require membership, it is more efficient without it!

Overhead

29.4m OSRS GP
70 Minutes of Startup Playtime
1 Mule/Main Account
5 Minutes of Playtime per Day

Background

Mind runes, body runes, water runes, earth runes, fire runes, air runes
rune essence, willow logs, maple logs, feathers

All of these items have a median guide price of 4-6 gp.
All of them instabuy at median guide price.
All of them instasell at 1 gp under guide price.

My preferred items are willow logs, maple logs, and feathers.
Your offers collect ~150k of these combined every 24 hours.
You profit 1 gp on every item, for a total of 150k gp profit per 24 hours.

You have 3 offer slots.
4.2m GP split between these 3 slots is enough to last 7 days.
1.4m dedicated to each item.

Steps

Create 7 accounts.
I average 10 mins from the start of tutorial island until I reach the Grand Exchange.
70 minutes > 7 accounts at the Grand Exchange.

Trade each account 4.2m from your main/mule.
7 accounts > 29.4m

Initiate offers for your 3 chosen items at 1 gp under it's median guide price.
1.4m into each offer so it lasts 7 days.

Take 5 minutes each day to check one account and trade the items to your main.
You have an account for Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun.
Trade the account 4.2m for new offers, and trade your remaining GP and items purchased back to your main/mule.
Sell the items on your main/mule for 1 gp over your purchased price.

Since you're checking each account once every 7 days, your profit from each day will have accumulated.
150k (x) 7 days = 1050k.
1050k every five minutes you check the account.
1050k for five minutes of play every day, since you have an account for all 7 days.
7350k each cycle, 29.4m every 28 days


Scale

14 accounts (10 mins/day)
140 minutes of startup time
58.8m OSRS GP
1 main/mule
10 minutes of playtime per day
Profit = 2100k/day, 14.7m each cycle, 58.8m every 28 days
(Check 2 accounts per day)

28 accounts (20 mins/day)
280 minutes of startup time
117.6m OSRS GP
1 main/mule
20 minutes of playtime per day
Profit = 4200k/day, 29.4m each cycle, 107.6m every 28 days
(Check 4 accounts per day)

84 accounts (1 hour/day)
840 minutes of startup time
352.8m OSRS GP
60 minutes of playtime per day
Profit = 12600k/day, 88.2m each cycle, 352.8m every 28 days.
(Check 12 accounts per day)

The possibilities are endless, for those who have the time and energy.

Note: You can start small and grow over time by just adding 1 account to your merchanting army every day, rather than grind out tutorial island like a drone for many hours.

Secondly, you may need to invest more into your offers if they fill up more quickly, depending on which low-risk item you choose to purchase. These numbers are based on items that you will buy for 4 gp and sell for 5 gp.

Lastly, this is not against the RuneScape rules. It is on the Rules page that a user can have as many accounts as they like, as long as they aren't collaborating to control the outcome of minigames, for example.


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I've always found merching takes too much time and effort for such a low return in investment. Might help some though, thanks

 

I see where you're coming from, it sucks checking your offers and making sure they haven't been cut constantly.

That's why I started doing this, and I don't know if many other people are doing it, but it doesn't seem to be greatly discussed. I've done it for about 4 months now and made ~500m. I don't have the time to do it on a larger scale, so I figured I'd share it with some people that might have the capability!

There are some users on Sythe who will make the accounts for you! After that this method is just a few minutes a day

 

Great guide! Thanks for the info

 

Best guide ive seen! What is the most profitable items? Wouldnt it be 5gp items since 20% profit?

 

The profit is the same, but yes the ROI % will technically be higher as you find items with lower prices. The good thing about these items as that they dont fluctuate, which is effectively why doing it on a large scale, passively, is possible.

 

A few guys have contacted me and are doing this with success already! Hope you guys prosper and glad I could help. Post your screenies once you accumulate some

 

Neat idea
Since you'd need 300/400 accounts to make 1b per month, you're basically making $1000 off of ~3 hours work right?

Do it for 8 hours a day like a real job and that's like $35,000 a year

 

Definitely going to be doing this on the side during summer, not sure how many accounts I want to do yet. This money from basically doing nothing will go a long way

 

Is it possible to do this method with the same results on like 10 accounts (maybe member) higher valued items to achieve 5% consistently everyday? Like 1B starting investment to make 50m per day consistently?

 

Yes, but this method is low risk, that method is not.

 

So it would be possible to make 100M profit per day consistently with a big enough capital (2B) and like 95 accounts per day? Or do you think that wud saturate this too much. Would be about 4-5hrs a day for 95 accounts?

 

The items that youll be flipping with this method are heavily traded items. It would be very difficult to saturate. Also, you're holding the median ge value on the sales, only buying for 1 gp less than median.

 

Do you think you can average a consistent 1M per hour flipping mems items on 10 accounts with like 100M start on each account I know you said its high risk but how would you go about doing this? Loggin in all 10 accs multiple times per day? Which items and what margins? Below medium and sell for medium it wud be less work than your method?

 

The right items to flip are constantly changing. I would say that it is possible but would in the end take more daily effort and time than this method. You can score big with anticipation merches, but its a whole nother ballgame.

 

Finally I can put my 30 accounts to use.

Going to look for some other heavily traded items that meet the same criteria. Will get back to you with updates.

Great idea.

 

How many accounts have you been doing this with? @Xour

 

I've been doing this for quite some time now it's a great idea in theory but it's not as smooth as you think but definitely fun to experiment with

 

Vert intense guide has anyone tried it?

 

I was using 35 accounts for a few months, I made ~500m. It can be scaled as high as you want, I didn't have the time to put it to it's full potential.