If you want to make some good quick money early on in the game. This is one of the best methods : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcW7NTFy7ow

Up to 500 coins every 3 minutes if you have a wife.

kill easy dragons and sell their stuff works too

I work for Hulda, at the Bannered Mare. ( Hope I spelled that right... )

Early on though it is hard to kill them and dragon loot doesnt sell great with low speech skill and you dont have any enchanted items

regular dragons are kinda weak, even on master, you sell their bones for 200+ and scales for 140+ each

Where do you get those prices from? I thought it was more like 100 to 150

from my playthrough, but maybe i'm not remembering them right

I have about 3500 now @lvl 7 completing quests, looting every body I've found, chest, urn, and so forth... As well as selling any enchanted item I come across, using Steel ingots I find to upgrade my heavy armors and weapons, and selling the upgraded ones I don't use....

The video is too much work, and the guy almost died. Cave bears are hard when you are at low levels, and you have to go through all the marriage quests to get Aela. (also, the guy had the Solitude house which is 25,000 gold and you cannot get early in the game without doing some dangerous quests).
Alchemy is much easier. Ingredients are mostly free and you can buy some at an alchemist and use their table to level alchemy and make potions to sell also leveling speech.

Obviously you dont need Proudspire Manor, Breezehome is fine. You dont even need a house or a wife they are just add ons. Plus combat is funner than alchemy.

Plus he wasnt near to dying as he used magic so the bear couldnt get a hit

It depends on Speechcraft. If it's somewhat over 50, you'll get the 200+ price without perks; more if you invest in the Haggling perk. Also, if the merchant likes you (like a spouse), you get slightly better prices.

Go to dawnstar, talk to kitty on left, go to left of mine and find her hidden chest, talk all her stuff and go sell it for 4k, come back and repeat.

OMFG that video is nearly four minutes of staring at loading screens and corrupted textures. Can you please just summarize it for us?!

Ask Aela for a job and she will give you a hunting job, then do it and you get 300 coins and it takes 3 minutes

Yeah I've got to agree with you there, you can get some serious cash legitimately early on and thereafter with some concoctions and it's fun hunting down the ingredients.

Chop wood and sell it to Hod.

Banish daggers > any potion ( unless you have max alchemy tree)

There's nothing quick or early about this trick...you have to first beat the companions questline to get aela to marry you and work for the dibella priest before you can marry anyone. Then you need to buy a home to live in with aela because she doesn't have one.

I was hoping you had a fast money method for real "early" in the game when you're poor and homeless as thats the most tedious part of starting a new game

U can go to dawnstar chest at lvl 1 is that early enough?

whats the dawnstar chest?

You don't have to do any quests to get the Amulet of Mara. You can just buy off of the male priest for $200.

One of my favorite early money grabs is to go to the mine just outside of Marcath and get the "clear out the forsworn from Kolskeggr mine" It's a gold mine and you can come out with enough ore to make around 25 ingots. Smith these into necklaces and sell them.

Gotta go with alchemy and chopping wood. If you can stand 5 minutes real time of chopping wood, you can get hundreds of gold by selling them to Hod (Riverwood) or Hulda (Whiterun) with absolutely no risk or difficulty whatsoever.

I like the alchemy route too. Some of the best ingredients are tough to find/catch (such as hawk beaks/feathers, the dragonflies and fish, bees, and such).

What I would have done, had I known, is buy up all iron ignots/ore I could.

Then I would have just made daggers, to raise smithing.

Then I would have enchanted them with ANY enchant I had at the time.

THEN sold them to npcs, until they ran out of money.

That way you raise both smithing and enchanting ( and levels) I discovered that too late.


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I tried both chopping wood and catching alchemy stuff in the wild; Both were mind numbingly boring.
I was much less bored pumping out daggers and enchanting them.

ALchemy. Anything with giants toe that produces a "fortify health" effect will be worth MUCH more than you paid for the ingrdients, even if you alchemy skill stinks. Only "drawback" is that alchemy skill goes up based on the value of the recipes you mix, so if you you may gain a few skill points towards leveling that you had not anticipated. For most folks that not a drawback though - its a selling point!

Here's a list of http://209.46.18.232/wiers.us/skyalc/workbench.php?recipes_tab&show=results&11 I'm partial got GT, Wheat, and Swamp Fungal Pod. Easy stuff to get, and actually a useful potion in a pinch, assuming you aren't casting spells or already have 0 magicka from casting.

And yeah, the smith / enchant route works well too. May be a bit tougher to turn a profit at low levels of enchanting, unless you pick up the soul gems for free.

ALL the crafting methods allow you to turn stolen goods (alchemy ingredients, iron ingots, leather, soul gems, etc) into "clean" items you can sell to any appropriate merchant, meaning you won't need a fence. That can be a HUGE help, depending on your play style.

^Exactly