Hello, i'm a maple OG. i played since I was literally 7-8 yrs old, now 25. and even back then my highest lvl was a 71 hermit, and the main problem was I had to beg my mom for nx cards and probably managed it spend a measly $20 in the game. while my oldest brother who was working was probably spending thousands... I was so jealous of his high lvl darkknight. enough with the silly story but I just want to know something about royals. So far randomly, i've been scrolling my own stuff. one day I got a cs scroll. i kept losing/spending money just gambling on scrolling. one time I managed to get lucky and get something that sold quickly for 1b. then did it two more times except the item was perfect, nonetheless i still make another 700m each on the items. I decided to try a few other things. lost a quick 400m. then tried the old method, lost literally 1 bill. not im back at 500m again. I think there is a trick here, im also continously buying leech and probably spend another 600m to 1b so far on my lvl 115 f/p mage. my plan is to sell leech for several hours a week while merching on the side. but i feel like MERCHING IS ALL RNG. NO SKILL AND by skill i mean like being smart with spending then flipping. and I felt like its more like you wait for the stars to align or pray to dbz dragon ..
It sounds like you're talking about scrolling, not merching. And yes scrolling tends to be high RNG and often a loss on average. Actual merching (buy low sell high) can make meso but you need to spend a lot of time looking for deals and learning the markets.