Best Items to Merchant On The Grand Exchange

This post may seem similar to the previous one asking what the best items to merchant on Runescape were, but it's subtly different, because the post is geared more towards the re arrival of free trade, whereas this is with regards to merchanting on the Grand Exchange since it's inception as well as the removal of free trade and the wilderness.

This may be surprising to hear, but I've often found the best items to merchant on the Grand Exchange are in fact the ones that get merchanted the most by merchanting clans.  This means that if you were to look at their GE graphs on the front page the lines indicating their average price would vary a lot meaning instead of being horizontal based it's vertical based with a lot of drops and rises.  This may not seem like a good idea, because unless you're in a clan you have no idea whether it's going to go up and down.  The trick however, is to find an item which is massed merchanted a lot, such as abyssal whips, dark bows and so fourth.  This type of item will be rising and lowering in price constantly, so if you buy it when the prices are averagely low then you'll only have to wait a few days maybe a week to ten days before a clans decides to merchant it again.  At this point, if you have lets say 100 dark bows already bought it means you don't have to buy them at max price which means you're saving a day or two's worth of price rising.  If you have 100 of this item at (for simplicity) 1million gp which has a lower limit of 900k and a higher value of 1.1million, then as soon as a clan starts buying it out you're already making 100k x 100 items which is 10 million right away.  After that it's almost guaranteed to rise for several days, and it wouldn't be unreasonable at all for the middle price to rise to 1.2 million with an upward boundary of 1.35million after two days.  At this point it's still very likely to be bought out, and hence would be a good time to sell for the maximum amount.  You can make around 100 items x 350k which equals a profit of 35 million gold after just a few short days!

This type of item merchanting is good because it relies on the power of grand exchange clans, without relying on their biased selling dates.  It also means you are in a position of power, similar to that of the clan leaders because you can buy the items at the middle price just as they do.  Seeing as you're buying it earlier you can definitely sell it much earlier and still take a good amount of profit.  The longer you leave it, the greater the chance of losing everything, it's best to have lots of smaller consistent gains as opposed to fewer and larger ones.

The best items for this type of merchanting method are:

1.  Dark Bows
2.  Abyysal Whips
3.  Dharok's Armour Sets - or individual parts
4.  Torag's Armour Sets - or individual parts
5.  Karil's Armour Sets - or individual parts
6.  Rares - such as Halloween masks, Partyhats and Santa hats
7.  Bandos items
8.  Armadyl items
9.  All godswords

For more details on Runescape Merchanting, you can visit Runescape Merchanting Guide for more details and information, tips and tricks!