Template:Bond info

Uses
When purchased using real life currency, bonds are tradeable. Once traded to another player for an in-game sum of money or items, they become untradeable. Bonds can be made tradeable again for a payment of 10% of their Grand Exchange value (10% currently being ).

Right click options for the untradeable bond in inventory are: Redeem, Convert, Deposit, Use, Drop, Examine. Redeem allows you to spend the bond. Convert allows you to make the bond tradeable again (at a cost in GPs). Deposit places the bond (or bonds) in your bond pouch.

Redeeming
At any time, whether tradeable or untradeable, bonds can be redeemed for one of the following:
 * Membership:
 * 14 days for 1 bond
 * 29 days for 2 bonds (1 day extra compared to 2 bonds separately redeemed)
 * 45 days for 3 bonds (3 days extra compared to 3 bonds separately redeemed)
 * 15 Treasure Hunter keys
 * 195 RuneCoins
 * 1 Character Name Change (if redeemed on a members server)

If the player has both tradeable and untradeable bonds, the latter will be used first.

Other uses
Bonds can be:
 * Traded with other players
 * Sold for in-game money
 * Rent or buy up to five additional preset slots from the Gear interface (3 bonds each - note, you can alternatively buy 585 runecoins with 3 bonds, use 480 to buy the slot, and have 105 left over)
 * Used to buy RuneFest tickets (when tickets are eligible to be purchased during the year)
 * Donated towards charity via the Well of Goodwill when it is active (currently inactive)
 * Used to buy Premier Club membership (when eligible to be purchased during the year)
 * Used to buy Top Trumps
 * Used to change your character name more than once a month
 * Used to rent/buy the Wealth Evaluator (3 bonds to buy - note, you can alternatively buy 585 runecoins with 3 bonds, use 480 to buy the slot, and have 105 left over)
 * Used to buy a ' ' key

Charitable donations
Jagex donated approximately $4.70 per bond put into the Well of Goodwill, over a dollar less than the purchase price. A selection of charities have benefited from the donations.

Price changes
On 2 March 2015, along with membership, the price of a bond increased, as well as the number of keys and runecoins awarded when redeemed. Prior to this, bonds could be redeemed for 12 keys or 160 runecoins, and cost:

Controversy
A section of the RuneScape community found the introduction of bonds hypocritical and destructive to the integrity of the game, claiming that it was real world trading in the form of gold selling. This is due to the fact that the bonds can be bought with real-life money and sold for in-game gold.

Jagex has said that despite the controversies, bonds did reduce the amount of real world trading that occurred on non-legitimate sites; within one week of the introduction of bonds, the amount of real-world trading dropped by 61%, and the amount of coins that was brought in by real world trading was down by 81%.