Bob Barter (herbs)

Bob Barter is one of the Market Price Guides located in the southwest corner of the Grand Exchange. He has little use in free player worlds (only to decant strength potions), as herbs can only be used by members.

Bob appears to be poor, garbed in unwashed clothing. However, he is actually a wealthy merchant from East Ardougne. By pretending to be poor, he is able to more easily manipulate the businesses and individuals he trades and deals with.

With the update of 9 September 2008, players can now talk to him and he will combine any 3-dose, 2-dose and 1-dose potions in your inventory into vials containing 4 doses. He will also combine barbarian potions, olive oil, sacred oil and calquat kegs. With the update of 24 November 2010, players can now take potions in note form to be combined as well as un-noted potions.

If right clicked he can show you the current market price of popular herbs. The herbs listed are:


 * Clean guam
 * Clean marrentill
 * Clean tarromin
 * Clean harralander
 * Clean ranarr
 * Clean toadflax
 * Clean irit
 * Clean spirit weed
 * Clean avantoe
 * Clean kwuarm
 * Clean snapdragon
 * Clean cadantine
 * Clean lantadyme
 * Clean dwarf weed
 * Clean torstol
 * Clean wergali

Trivia

 * Bob's name is a play on the name Bob Barker, who was the host of "The Price is Right", and barter, a type of trading.
 * Bob will also decant noted potions, and will automatically note the decanted potion and empty vials. This way he can decant a very large number of potions in one go (2,147,483,647 per type of potion, up to 27 types).
 * Zahur in Nardah will decant 4-dose potions into 3-dose potions, for a small fee of 50 coins per inventory converted (regardless of how many potions are in inventory).

Bob Barter