verb, noun Gaming Slang

merch

· verb, noun · gaming

Buying low and selling high on items to turn a profit — merchanting.

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Definitions

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Buying an item cheap and offloading it higher, often holding over days or weeks while the price climbs. The long game of making gold without swinging a sword.

“I'm merching dragon bones, bought a thousand last week and they're already up.”
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Organised 'merch clans' take it further — coordinating to buy up an item en masse and spike the price, then dump on the buyers chasing it.

“That price spike was a merch clan, don't buy the hype.”
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merch In A Sentence

I'm merching dragon bones, bought a thousand last week and they're already up.
That price spike was a merch clan, don't buy the hype.

Origin & Usage

Short for 'merchanting' in RuneScape — trading items for profit on the Grand Exchange.

People Also Ask

What's the difference between merching and flipping?

Flipping is short-term, profiting off the buy/sell spread in minutes. Merching means holding items over days or weeks to ride a longer price trend.

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