How to get gold quickly (methods)?

[broderic36]

Any suggestions without doing bug glitches?

[dexter]

Potions. Most foods can be crafted into potions of fatigue which you can sell for lots of money. Farms, bags and barrels will have tons of food.

There's also a quest you can do in the imperial city where you hunt down a vampire and after that you can sell them vampire dust for 250 gold each.

You can do the Arena quests. After you become Grand Champion, you can do a battle once a week for a large amount of gold.

[Trip]

Mercantile 100.

Seriously, sell stuff. Early on you won't get much loot from dungeons. Later on valuable enchanted loot will start selling more then a vendor has.

Two quick methods otherwise.

An early sources of easy fight free loot is to join mages guild and grab all the alchemist tools and sell 'em.

If you are leveling alchemy then join the mages and fighters guild and take all the food. Wander around the black marsh near leyawin grabbing the green mushrooms, there are hundreds. Then combine the mushroom and a food item to make hundreds of restore fatigue potions. Be warned this could over level a non combat skills.

[magne.moe]

Do Mazoga the Orc two quests in Leyawiin castle early. Now you can sell black bows you loot from their locations for 100 gold flat.
Also https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Order_of_the_Virtuous_Blood_(quest) for selling vampire dust. And selling alchemy potions Skingrad in my favorite locations because the grape and tomato farms.

This will get you started, but the real gold is from leveling up so enemies start dropping expensive gear. To optimize this you need spellmaking, make 4-5 feather or better fortify strength spell, have some with some duration while an fortify strenghet only need to last 10 second. Move stuff to the start of dungeon or just outside its tend to be some bodies or containers here. Use all the feather and strength and fast travel to nearest town.
Sell stuff, port back and repeat, repeat until you have more gold than you can use.

[Stop Nakba Denial]

Join the Mages Guild or Fighters Guild. Loot everything that isn't theft. Sell it. Off of just one location, it should net you a cool 1k to start the game. You should get enough Mercantile experience to allow you to make more in the next locations (if you feel you need them, I did not).

[Pestilence]

join the thieves guild and steal EVERYTHING. lol. enchanted items sell for a lot more. and sell sell sell to get your mercantile skill up.

and as a money saving tip, get better at the speech mini game. i spent waaaaay too much on bribing people to get them to like me, lol.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by dexter:

Potions. Most foods can be crafted into potions of fatigue which you can sell for lots of money. Farms, bags and barrels will have tons of food.

Fastest way is to go to the grape field west of skingrad, harvest everything, then go to the tomato field east of skingrad and harvest them.

Reset the plants by waiting 72 hours and repeat.

Make restore fatigue potions and sell them. It will make gold and also level alchemy to 100 extremely quickly.

Once you have 100 alchemy you only need 1 ingredient to make potions which means more than double the amount of gold per hour (there are more grapes than tomatoes).

The only flaw of that method is that Skingrad is horribly buggy and will crash your game quite often upon fast travelling. Still the fastest non glitchy method that I know.

[Marmarmar34]

There's a merchant in the merchant's inn in the market district that has 2k gold on him. You can also craft a fortify mercantile spell with a high magnitude for 1 second to get the best deals.

[sixfeetsouth]

At Wawnet Inn the guy who sells the upgrades for Deepscorn Hollow. You can invest in his shop to get his cap to 3k. He's available day and night except an hour or so a day when he eats and selling to a single merchant can max out your report quickly. Don't forget haggle meter. Invest in enchant/spellcrafting candles for Frostcrag early as possible. Enchant gear/jewelry with your spare soul gems before selling for a huge boost in price. Extra points if you soultrap summons with azura's star.

[Jim]

Originally posted by dexter:

Potions. Most foods can be crafted into potions of fatigue which you can sell for lots of money. Farms, bags and barrels will have tons of food.

There's also a quest you can do in the imperial city where you hunt down a vampire and after that you can sell them vampire dust for 250 gold each.

You can do the Arena quests. After you become Grand Champion, you can do a battle once a week for a large amount of gold.

I'll add to this: find a farm that has a lot of carrots and crops and stuff. Pick all of it, make potions, you're rich (and your alchemy goes through the roof.

[Supernautilus]

early game: crafting/selling potions
mid-late game: mercantile

I see a lot of people say that mercantile is a "throw away skill" but it's actually pretty amazing. You can make TONS of money by selling stuff, especially enchanted items.

Raise your disposition with the merchant. Use the haggle function. When your mercantile skill gets high enough you can invest money into merchants to raise their gold limit. This is where the real money is made in this game.

[Majora]

Alchemy is the easy money maker. You can also use those Sigil Stones to enchant any old item and suddenly make it really valuable. It doesn't matter what effect is given!

[VanGoth]

Just level up a bit. Everyone and their mothers are gonna run around in Ebony-/Daedric-/Glass-gear, making money a non-issue.