Well this is how i got rich.

1. get a weapon that has absorb health on it
2. disenchant that weapon
3. get a bunch of petty, lesser, and common soul gems (filled with souls of course)
4. get a lot of iron
5. make iron daggers
6. enchant the iron daggers with absorb health on them
7. SELL

They sell for about 500-900 gold each.

Also dragon bones & scales sell for a bit, if you're willing to part with them.

The blue flower (abundant) and blue butterfly (two per nab) potion is really overpriced. Make some. You don't need to perk alchemy at all to get rich off this one potion.

I agree 100% completely with the OP.

Here's the issue with most of these replies:

-"get a weapon with x enchant"
-"enchant everything before you sell it"

"Get" a certain enchant?? It's not that easy to just 'get' something. I know because my level 33 has been looking for a banish enchant forever. I only fast travel about half the time, and I do sell everything.
And to just simply "enchant everything", you have to use these things called soul gems, which aren't cheap (well the petty ones are). That said, I do enchant everything I sell, and I'm still not rich.

I still have no clue how people are so rich. I recently started using the , just to get some sort of edge on the game.
And with all that, I still only have about 5,000. Because I'm constantly buying soul gems, etc.

I can only think that people must be spending hours and hours of real time to purely level money. I don't have that kind of patience to loot and sell for 6 hours straight. I prefer to play the game I guess.

play the game and ull have a decent supply of money

i made 1500 bucks chopping wood for 15 minutes...

I usually loot like crazy in dungeons or anyone dead carry it all or load it onto my companion. I sometimes use a Srength spell to carry more.

Funnily enough even then I struggle to make 5000 gold cos I`m always buying other stuff.

Incidentally, i`m glad it`s not that easy to get rich and that my companion actually has a weight-carry limit. I hate it when it gets too easy to carry everything.

I wish there was a weight limit on gold too. Just carry 20 ￡1 coins in your pocket and that starts to feel heavy. I actually have my Oblivion Septim coin and that`s quite weighty, almost the same as a pound coin. No way would I carry a thousand of that without feeling it!

I didn't realise until later that chopping wood in riften on a rince & repeat cycle gives you enough fast enough to bump up that gold to levels where you can do some buying and selling.

Ive played 2 characters and played now for around 1 week in worth of hours (8hrs a day) and I have only ever massed around 7000 in one go, I really need to start working on my money making

My problem wasn't finding stuff to sell but finding someone with enough money to buy it. Going up the left side of the speech tree helped.

Tha

That's what I did with my level 43 warrior character and about 100 hrs in, I found an item with a banish enchant. Sells for 4x more than absorb health! Damn, I wish I found it sooner, haha. That's ok though, 'cuz I barely bought anything with my warrior and had about 40k with 3 houses bought and upgraded by then anyway.

With my mage character, I was able to find it about 30 hrs in at the fletcher shop in solitude. Thank God! A mage is soooooooooooo much more expensive than a warrior, especially if you delve in 4 schools of magic and want to become expert/master level and get all those super expensive spell tomes. I clean out merchants more frequently and even delve in alchemy for a little extra cash, but I definitely find it harder to come by gold. Currently at level 29 with 10k and living in the archmage quarters.

I make enough money to buy a house but I can't say it's easy to roll in money, what I find is that I struggle to sell what I pick up as no vendors seem to have enough coin. For example a good enchanted item may be worth 2,000 selling value but I never find a vendor who has that much. I do ok, I have bought a house in Whiterun and have 6000 gold again now but I can't say I find it easy to make money, usually vendors run out of money before I've sold all my potions!

I know what you mean. I'm level 44, make all my own stuff, and loot whenever possible and I can't seem to break 50k. If your looking for the easy way out check out Achievement Hunter's invisible chest(I know it works, but I've never exploited it.). Other than that, everyone else gave a pretty solid answer.

Alchemy,looting and quest pay... though I have been known to swing an ax and chop wood ( works when I'm on the phone with my hubby, he'll talk for an hr at a time 3 or 4 times a day )

I sell everything I don't think I'm going to need and put the rest in breezehome ( I try to buy that asap I hoard books any book any value...when I get a duplicate it get's sold.)

I just watch the alchemy so I don't level to fast, I don't take any perks for that though. I make things "I" will need plus higher selling potions.

I'm not as rich as some.... but I'll save(loot money) and make more potions when I decide IF I want another house.

by playing ...

I'm level 20 and have 10.000-15.000 gold

Simply, after you have all the equipment you want, start selling the loot you get from dungeons, go on a few radiant quests and bam, your loaded. I cant get bellow 40k at a time. Currently most quests from radiant ai render me 1500 septims per quest. Heck with all the loot I get for spelunking and dungeon crawling I easily make close to 10k per quest by selling the useless (to me) loot. Most of it goes to crafting supplies and potions, not to mention horses. (At least once it was horses, now that I have Shadowmere it means very little to buy horses lol. I used to grow through horses like a fat guy does to taco's, it was getting pricey.)

you can earn a lot of money by crafting jewellery also

Get investor perk(level 70 speech) and Venders will have a lot more to barter with itl

Cheers

As others have said, there is not much to it. Just loot everything of any significant value, and remember that at higher levels loot becomes better too. I went through a dungeon on my lv 44 Argonian and found 10 ebony weapons, with a value of 1500 septims each. Money loot increases too; I encounter more than enough Forsworn that carry 200 septims a person with them. There are also some perks in the Lockpicking perk tree that enhance the amount of septims you earn from chests and gives you a higher chance to earn rare loot.

You can make decent money just using K/L/S (kill, loot, sell). I'm not sure what you're spending your money on, but I only buy healing potions on most of my characters. For everything else, I either use found or crafted gear, depending on the character. I've never bought ANY gear off a merchant (except to get an enchant).

To make money using enchanting, the key is to use soul trap- either the spell or enchanting you or your follower's weapon with it, and only buy empty gems, then fill then while adventuring. You aren't going to make a lot by buying filled gems, they are too expensive. With some enchants, you actually lose money that way.

Another way is to get the transmute spell (google if you want to find where), and go mine iron ore. The transmute spell allows you to turn iron ore into silver, and silver into gold. With that and the gems you find adventuring, you can make jewelry that will make huge amounts of money. You can also just craft gold rings, but using you'll make tons more money by using gems.

Get married and the wife or husband will get bored at home and open a virtual store that generates 250-750 gold per day, or more, depending on the inventory. My level 40 has 37K gold and wife has 11K gold, and I own four homes. Haven't bought the one in Riften yet. It really isn't hard once you learn some dynamics. But in all fairness, I do fast travel back and forth until I've cleared out all valuable loot, which some people are against for immersion reasons.

Mages have a bit of a harder time because they have to buy spells. But on the other hand, they don't need a house (if you do the obvious quest line). If you're doing Enchanting as a mage, just always look at blacksmiths for something with Banish, and buy it even if it is expensive. Then pick up every Draugr or Bandit weapon and enchant it. Just one of those will clean out a smith, fletcher, or misc. merchant with one item.

Go to an inkeeper or steward and accept a bounty. At high level it's almost always a dragon or giant.

If it's a giant, kill him, take his cash (~150 septims) and his toe, mix his toe with wheat (will sell for about ~300), and collect the bounty of 100, so that nets you 5-600.

If it's a dragon, kill it, take its cash (~300), his scales and bones (~5-800), his chest full of loot if they have respawned (~600), and collect the bounty of 500, so that's anywhere from 1300 to 2000 per dragon.

Yup, can't be said enough.

Alchemy! and to some extent Enchanting, to boost the price on those choice items you sell off after spelunking.
And never buy what you can craft.

The merchant perk is really convenient aswell, cleaning out a whole towns gold just by selling potions

I am level 26 and have about 25K. I bought the house in Whiterun, and I usually buy ingots for smithing. I also buy the best arrows. I have done a lot of misc quests. Many of which pay between 500, 800, and 1000. Figure you do 10 misc quests, at 800 a pop, there is 8000. I also do all of the bountys in each hold. Now the bountys only pay 100 gold, the loot yout get form then is good. I dont make money with smithing, or alchemy, but i got some good ideas here. lol

Pickpocketing tree is ur friend

Make an Iron Dagger, Enchant it with Banish or a similar higher level Enchant.

Sell to vendor. 2500+ gold a pop.