How to sell runescape account
How Much Is A RuneScape Account Worth? (OSRS)
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before I get started this video does
discuss aspects of real-world trading if
Yuri Royal trade you will get banned
almost as long as runescape has existed
players have bought and sold gold and
accounts on underground markets some
players work over hundreds even
thousands of dollars for some of the
most valuable accounts kind of ironic
how they just want to skip the whole
actually playing the game part anyway in
today's video we're going to evaluate
some of these accounts and try and learn
how the prices are calculated and just
how much these people actually make so
in the account selling section there's
four different categories the first one
I want to look at is main accounts
levels 3 through 79 at first I was
assuming these were going to be mostly
peak hang builds but it looks like I was
wrong as there's quite a few scholars
and pvm based accounts unfortunately for
us a lot of them don't actually list a
price so we can only really look at the
accounts that do so this first account
is a 90 hunter main the auto win price
meaning the price you can buy it for
right now is $75 so what I want to do is
calculate how much time this should have
taken in theory and calculate out how
much he made per hour training this
account from what I've seen most players
can get from 1 to 60 hunter in about 12
hours give or take a couple if they're
doing the most efficient methods 60 to
69 takes about five more hours and 69 to
90 at red Chin's would take about 36
hours now these are very rough
calculations but 75 divided by all of
that would equal one dollar and forty
cents an hour now the red Chin's it
would take from 69 to 90 would earn you
another 27 mill each mill is worth about
90 cents on the market so in total the
seller would have earned about $100 give
or take a couple depending on current
gold prices a hundred dollars for almost
60 hours of work is kind of really bad
you could work a minimum-wage job for
about 15 hours and make the same amount
and just come home and play runescape
normally for the other 45 let's take a
look at a few other accounts because a
90 hunter pure is
Miche the same seller has a derrick
spear with a fire cape bears gloves and
ice barrage and is about 1,400 total so
a pretty standard mid-level account
price they've listed it for is $500
someone out there might be willing to
pay $500 to literally skip the majority
of the game I get it if you want to go
Peking or do raids or whatever but
what's the point in accomplishing
anything in those areas if your account
could really just be taken back at any
second this is something I'm going to
get into later but for now we're gonna
look at a couple more accounts in these
different sections a popular account I'm
seeing is a nightmare zone ready account
typically of 60 to 70 in all of the
melee combats
and five or more quests done so they can
actually access nightmare zone again
you're paying money to literally not
play the game keep in mind these
accounts are about $40 but you're still
paying someone so you can stand a
nightmare zone and not interact with the
screen for 20 minutes keep in mind these
stats are really easy you can get them
in an hour or two of actively playing
and less than a dozen hours of afk at
Sam Krabs though generally speaking if
you're a main account with at least 70
in your combats your account is worth
$40 oddly enough if you're a more PK
specific build it really depends it's
difficult to come up with a baseline
price for this as each build ranges
anywhere from a hundred to two hundred
dollars this applies to things like
Mahler's and zhurko's the final account
I'm going to talk about is an account
that I'd never really expected to see on
here a maxed account with the inferno
completed and in a Vernick hilt
the price is 1650 US dollars imagine
paying that much money to literally skip
the entire game at this point that
account is really completed everything
or has the stats to complete the last
couple things
imagine the cellar though investing
thousands of hours into this account
only for their work to amount to about a
dollar to an hour at the end of it
excluding any gold sold so how much is
your account really worth I guess
whatever someone's willing to pay for it
every account is so different it's
impossible to set a standard
good way to think about it is assuming
it's a standard account the closer it is
to max the more it's worse and Iron Man
and hardcore Ironman probably would be
worth significantly more now to some
people this whole market may seem really
appealing but there is a lot of scamming
at anytime it's possible for the
original owner to recover these accounts
that they sell to you many sellers try
to give you things like account recovery
details as a sort of good gesture to
show that they won't recover the account
from you but what is there to stop them
from giving you fake details really
nothing you can't just call up mod mark
and tell them hey Mark I just want to
check if all my account recovery details
are correct so let me just read them all
off to you real quick I didn't buy the
account I'm just double-checking I often
do a recovery test and recover the
account before buying it but even so a
pin thread says this isn't enough to
keep your account safe it's still
possible for the seller to recover the
account and sometimes even lock it to
their specific IP somehow so let's say
the account does get recovered if you
paid with something like Bitcoin or
runescape gold you're just entirely
screwed you will never see that money
again even things like PayPal aren't are
we safe either you still have a huge
possibility of never seeing that money
the sellers are at risk too because
let's say the seller gives the buyer all
of the recovery details the buyer files
a charge back and gets their money back
and because they have all the recovery
details the seller might not be able to
get their account back he can try but in
the past jacket says locked accounts
with multiple people trying to recover
them they know what they're doing and
can usually figure out if an account has
been bought or sold fairly easily
improve how common a recovery scam is
take a look at this thread it's a list
of 665 accounts that have been recovered
by the buyer or seller and this thread
was just started about four or five
years ago making it more than a hundred
accounts per year and that's all in the
accounts to get reported to end this out
this is a very risky market and so much
can go wrong I barely brushed on the
fact that your account could end up
getting banned and you'd be out of all
the money you either spent on the
account or received for selling it this
is just one big reminder that you
shouldn't sell your account because
chances are it's not going to work out
in your favor
I wouldn't recommend buying one either
and if you've watched all this video you
probably understand why
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