RuneScape:Requests for deletion/RuneScape:Market

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After I closed the last RfD as no consensus, I was keen to see what improvements, if any, would come to this page. I was disappointed, though not surprised, to see that no changed had occured. This page remains perpetually underused, unacknowledged, and obsolete. In fact, I don't think it's advertised anywhere, so one would need advance knowledge of the page in order to find it and use it. There are many offers from 2009, and most of the buy/sell offers are time sensitive and several months old.

I hold no doubt that they have not been fulfilled.

To make a point, let me use a few examples... Axeman folly (m) buy offer from August? The highest quest woodcutting requirement is at most 75, so by now chances are Idria had gained the needed levels.

Mint cake sell offer from May for 200k each? In case no one noticed, they're worth about 2k now.

The only offers there that can still be considered somewhat valid are the item lending offers, though there is a good chance the owners already sold the items offered. The page is so obsolete that Stelercus's Halloween mask lending offer says that he's training Dungeoneering in 2009. The date of release was in 2010.

Now, one might ask, why does having this page negatively impact the wiki?

The answer is quite simple. Without constant updates and an active buyer/seller base, the market becomes a "storeroom" of sorts. The most negative impact is found for the sellers. To list their products here, they would have to forgo putting it up for sale in the GE so that the product is available for the wiki buyers who want it. The problem is, there usually aren't any wiki buyers. So, the products will be stuck in the bank ad infinitum until the seller finally loses patience and removes the offer. That's a lot of time wasted when a simple GE offer overnight may have sufficed.

The lack of updates also has a great potential for offers that cannot be honored. The mint cake offer mentioned above is an example, though the problem arises when prices shift the other way. If a seller offered an abyssal whip two years ago for 2 million coins, when they were worth around 1.7 million, and forgot about it until someone came along today and wanted to buy it for the same price, what will the seller say? Sorry, I changed my mind? Same thing with the buy offers. If someone offered to buy 10000 energy potions when they weren't dirt cheap finally got an answer today, what would he say? Sorry, they're now useless?

There is a thing called a "credit rating" that tests one's ability to honor financial agreements. The market page offers are an agreement of sorts, and if the only ones on that page are ones that can't be honored, then what is it good for?

Thus, to spare everyone headaches, I propose that this project be ended.

Support - As nominator. 00:51, January 23, 2011 (UTC)