Item Lending

Item Lending is a feature released on 14 July 2008 that allows all players (free and members) to lend their items to friends for up to 24 hours, or until either player logs out. Jagex first announced the development of Item Lending in the State of Play of February 2008.

On 29 July 2008, Item Lending was updated so that players needed to send a trade request to lend an item. Doing this will open the trade interface, where players can right-click on an item and choose to "Lend" it. This update was introduced by Jagex to prevent players from scams via trust trading.

Lending
To lend an item to a player, one player needs to send a trade request to the other. Once the trade interface is open, the item can be lent by right-clicking and choosing the "Lend" option. This will put the item the "Loan" box, showing the item is kept by the player.

The default loan duration is "2 hours", but this can changed by clicking on the button and typing the desired duration (between 1-24 hours) for the loan. If the player wished to lend the item until either player logs off, the duration should be set to "0" (zero) or click until it says "Until Logout".

After setting the duration, both players need to accept the "trade", and the item will be transferred to the other player.

Borrowing
When an item is offered in the trade interface, the lent item will appear in the "Loan" box and the loan duration will be shown just below the item. The borrower may choose to lend another item in return, or offer coins for the loan of the item. However, this is not required, as the item can be borrowed for free. Once both players have accepted the trade, the item will be lent to the borrower.

NOTE: The coins (or other items) used for Item Lending will NOT be refunded when the item being borrowed is returned to its original owner.

WARNING: The item being borrowed will be protected above all other items, even if the item is lower in terms of value compared to other items. If the player is unable to retain any items (i.e skulled), then the item is returned to the lender.

Trade limits
The trade limit will not be affected if the item is lent for free. However, if coins (or other items) are offered in exchange, the trade limit will be affected.

Collecting
Chatting with the banker will enable the collection of borrowed items, similar to the collection from the Grand Exchange. The option to choose is "I'd like to see my Returned Items box." Doing this will bring up an interface that shows the borrowed item which needs to be collected.

With the Item Lending update, items may be collected from wandering bankers such as those outside minigames like Bounty Hunter and Fist of Guthix.

When lending items out for a specific duration of time, you will NOT get your item back under any circumstances until the specified time limit is over. If you choose the "Demand" option on the item in your Returned Items box, you will be told how much time is remaining until you can retrieve your lent item.

If you choose to "Demand" your item while it is lent until logout, then you can regain your item immediately.

Locations
Some of the places the lent items cannot be taken into are:
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Fist of Guthix
 * Barbarian Assault
 * The Chamber of Koschei the Deathless underneath Rellekka

Item symbol
All borrowed items have a red symbol added to the item, to differentiate the borrowed item for other regular items.


 * {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! Borrowed item || Regular item
 * [[Image:Item_Lending_Dragon_boots.png|Notice the red symbol on the Dragon boots.]] || [[Image:Dragon_boots.gif]]
 * }
 * }

Weapons

 * Abyssal whip
 * Ancient Staff
 * Composite bows - willow, yew and magic
 * Dark bow
 * Dragon axe, battleaxe, dagger (including poisoned versions), halberd, longsword, mace, scimitar and two-handed sword
 * Godsword (all types)
 * Granite maul
 * Longbows - maple, yew and magic
 * Rune axe, battleaxe, longsword, pickaxe, scimitar and warhammer
 * Runite crossbow
 * Saradomin sword
 * Seercull
 * Shortbows - maple, yew and magic
 * Zamorakian Spear

Armour

 * Amulet of fury
 * Archer helm
 * Archer ring
 * Armadyl armour - helmet, chestplate and plateskirt
 * Bandos armour - chestplate, boots and tasset
 * Berserker helm
 * Berserker ring
 * Dragon armour - boots, chainbody, full helm, medium helm, platelegs, plateskirt and square shield
 * Dragonhide armour - green, blue, red and black dragonhide body, chaps or vambraces
 * Farseer helm
 * Mage boots
 * Mystic robes - boots, gloves, hat, robe bottom, robe top (including dark and light variants)
 * Obsidian cape
 * Ranger boots
 * Robin Hood hat
 * Rockshell armour - helm, platebody, legs, gloves and boots
 * Rune armour - full helm, kiteshield, platebody, platelegs and plateskirt,
 * Seers' ring
 * Skeletal armour - boots, bottom, gloves, helm and top
 * Spined armour - body, boots, chaps, gloves and helm
 * Splitbark armour - body, boots, gauntlets, helm and legs
 * Third Age helmet, kiteshield, platebody and platelegs
 * Third Age mage hat, amulet, robe top and robe bottom
 * Third Age ranger coif, top, legs and vambraces
 * Warrior helm
 * Warrior ring

Others

 * Santa hat
 * Party hat (all colours)
 * Halloween mask (all colours)

Abuse
There is a common myth that, in the initial hours of release, players found out then when they borrowed any of the godswords, they could dismantle the blade and take the hilt, with only the blade returning to the owner. However this was never the case.

Gallery
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