QUOTE(gamemaster97 @ Nov 19 2009, 11:31 AM)

when i reached 70 attack i was looking to get a whip when it was like 1.3 mill slowly price went up becasue of 1 teh anamition change 2 i say them clan people (merching people i cant think of there name) but so ill never get that much money :(
Unknown merchanting clan was the one who ended up buying out whips, though since the item is extremely popular and well known, people outside of their clan ended up taking interest in the idea of spiking the prices. :P
Do not buy a whip until they drop! Do not buy Amulet of Fury either, they will drop once the price of Onyx is fixed.
In my home world, we have people who will start forcing the prices of these items to fall drastically, so if you keep checking every so often, you might get lucky and actually catch the item when it falls BELOW its 'normal' price.
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Getting back to the whole idea of becoming a merchant and buying out items~
It's really having to do with picking and choosing..I myself actually HATE the concept of being a buy-out merchant..
I AM one to brag and I can say I have amazing stats, (posted as my signature) that I make amazing money with already. The only thing I could think of that is close to me merchanting is
*base skilling. Either that or joining Clan Chats belonging to 'wefightge' or '2lum' for example and if they are buying out an item I can easily obtain by skilling, I will most likely gather some and hold it until the price spikes. I did it with Willow Branches, but the noobs dropped it, so I am left with 100 somethin' that I actually plan on using for summoning now.. :P
Big waste of time if you aren't maxed in all of your skills..You could actually make money THROUGH skilling or at least getting to the point where everything is able to be equipped. (high combat stats, finishing quests and so on)
That way you can get items you WANT and actually play the game the right way instead of ruining the concept of RuneScape for others.
I strongly nay this for a couple reasons, one being it is a crap way of playing RuneScape, it is too well known, as well as you having to have a lot of money to begin with and also a lot of friends who have money..500m with six people is pretty much 100m per person. (not quite, but pretty damn close..)
Merchanting =/= Good gaming techniques.
Soon everyone who is a merchant is going to screw our economy up so much that having 100m will be considered the average players wealth. I can see it now, whips will be worth 400m and phats would be worth 1.7 Billion :P
Game will be ruined!
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Jacob.