Talk: Grand Exchange

The notion of trading

The Grand Exchange is indeed a powerful idea. Global trading and trading whilst playing is a great idea. However, I feel that the heart of trading is missing here. I would suggest the following two changes to bring back competition and bargaining to the world of trading in RuneScape:

1- Offers should be made on any price, without regulation.

2- A trader should be able to see opposite offers. that is if I want to sell Law Runes at 500 each, I should be able to see any existing offers to buy laws. This way if I see that there are no offers, I would give up selling Law Runes at the moment, while if there are many offers, all at the range of 250 to 300, then I will fix my price.

Sadly, I am not a member so I can not offer this directly to Jagex, but doesn't the current way GE works looks like a strong and annoying control over market prices? --Ourip 12:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I am a member, and I have now posted this on the official forums under my RS name of Max Bulldog. If you trust Jagex's word, they will read and consider it in due course. ;-)  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Leevclarke (talk) on 2007-12-18T02:50:53.

Sadly, suggestions very similar to this have been offered since literally the very first day that that Grand Exchange came out. Some modifications to the Grand Exchange have occurred due to complaints by players on the RSOF. Explicitly some of the changes of the interface to buy and sell items has been tweaked based on actual player experience. The price of gold bars (and a few other items) have had their price floors lowered, not to mention the price ceilings (the maximum price possible for that item on the Grand Exchange) raised. When examples of using the Grand Exchange to foster Real-world item trading (it has happened) have been demonstrated, Jagex has certainly acted... usually quite quickly.

This said, the +/- 5% trading range is something Jagex doesn't appear to want to give up. Other price controls are certainly not going to go, and in fact more and exotic types of price controls seem to be what they are looking for (such as the trade volume controls that were introduced in January). I am in favor of some trading range controls, but I do believe that the 5% is not enough for a great many items. Price ceilings and floors make absolutely no sense at all, and I don't even understand why they are in place. But I've vented that spleen quite some time ago and stuff like this just gets me angry about it all over again. --Robert Horning 09:47, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

as of febuary 2012 free trade is back

Grand Exchange replacing genuine merchants

This paragraph in economic effect with this title is awkwardly worded. It uses terms like "genuine merchant" that need further explanation, and some work needs to be done to integrate it further into the rest of the article. Overall, it needs supporting context to be more readable. Skel X 06:48, January 31, 2010 (UTC)Skel X

Am I the only one who thinks all this stuff about 'genuine' merchanting is really silly? I mean, how is it dishonest or anything to predict an item will rise and buy a bunch of it? Or to take the time to find out what prices you can flip an item for profit at? I honestly think this section need a major overhaul because it honestly just sounds silly. 128.210.118.194 17:41, September 13, 2010 (UTC)

WoW link

Is it needed? File:Wintumber tree.PNG Atlandy 21:34, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

No. JalYt-Xil-Vimescarrot 22:02, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, keep it as it is to another wiki, the one for World of Warcraft. We should support other wikis by using links as needed. Chrislee33 23:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

GE is down

It's currently crashed, no-one can abort, people on every world are beginning to riot and argue. Uh oh...

And just like that, it's back. Strange.... I saw some guy near 2 player mods shouting "F*CKING JAGEX GIVE ME MY SH*T BACK YOU MOTHERF*CKERS!" I think he got muted. 70.51.67.218 23:02, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

See Update:Grand Exchange temp offline . Chrislee33 23:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

That update has been taken off the RS main page now that GE is back up. Chrislee33 23:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

My yew logs were subject to that glitch. >.< I came back twice after receiving notifications to find out that my 500 logs for sale had been "aborted". earth_(t)

Servers

Are the items being traded in the Grand Exchange only from the server you are currently on or are they being traded across all the servers? --File:Emerald amulet ms.pngMakemesmile 02:57, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

All, I'm sure. 70.51.67.218 02:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm led to believe it's all servers.As I DK 03:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. This sure is a powerful system. --File:Emerald amulet ms.pngMakemesmile 03:14, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Definitely is a powerful system. Some things need to be tweaked, but otherwise, quite possibly the best update to RS ever. Chissey 03:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Buyers vs. sellers price

The current wiki page says: "If buyers offer more coins for an item than the sellers offer to sell the items for, then the item will sell at the buyers price; so sellers might get more coins than they ask for."

Is this correct? I am asking here because I do not want to change something when I am not 100% sure it is wrong, but according to several postings I have read on RS forums, it is the opposite way around. Ie. the buyer might get an better price than he offered, and I have read no postings saying the opposite.

Can anyone confirm either way?

The KB is being quite ambiguous on the issue: "when your items sell you will always get at least the price you ask for" vs. "You may end up buying from a number of players at different prices, but they will never cost more than you have offered per item.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zredna (talk).

Your correct, I was wrong in my statement I posted. In my case, there was already a buyer offer that when I posted to sell an item at minimum price. I actually got the buyers price. There are two cases::*Buyer already has offer waiting, and a seller puts up an offer equal or lower to the buyer, then the trade occurs at the buyers price.

• Seller already has items for sale, and a buyer offers equal or higher price, then the trade occurs at the sellers price.

I will correct the article. Amaurice ^talk 14:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Buying/Selling when not in-game?

Is it possible to put items up to buy or sell, log out, and still have those items be sold or bought? Or do you have to be playing the game at the time? Also (as a side note) is it possible to sell a cannon as a set or does it have to be the four individual parts that make up the cannon? ^TIRRIAN_GANT ^(TALK) 14:16, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, items will still be sold or bought even when your logged off. As for the cannon, there does not seem to be a way to make a cannon set. Maybe Jagex will fix in a future update. Amaurice ^talk 14:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Prices

I have noticed (today) that i have often a message telling me that something changed on my exchange account. If I ask the clerk, i see no change...Have you noticed the same thing ? I was wondering, can it be due to a modification of the market price ? Are market prices recalculated at the same time once a day ?  Urssaff ^talk 10:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I get this sort of message when I have aborted my own trades and placed up the same item (or another item). The game seems to have set a flag against my character to inform me of the change, and I keep getting the messages until I do a "collect" from an NPC (even though I have nothing to collect). Doing the "collect" clears the flag and stops the messages. Amaurice ^talk 10:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I have to try that ! Anyway, doesn't it sound like a bug to you ? It may also be due to a market price recalculation, the market price of one of my item change, I'am alerted... Urssaff ^talk 11:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I did report it as a bug. I don't know if they have fixed in the latest system update. I also keep forgetting that when I get the messaege I do not have to go back to varrock to check, I can just do a collect at any bank. Amaurice ^talk 12:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

lol, the funny bug(which is fixed now)

That note about the bug where u could talk to non-GE npcs makes me chuckle, cause i talked to Evil bob once there.

1st pic

Is it a KB pic? File:Wintumber tree.PNG Atlandy 21:49, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Initial spading

The price range is +- 5%. The "base price" will change every day to the average price sold on the previous day. (might be a myth it doesnt explain why item prices can vary more than the 5% limit (on the day of the anouncement of personalized stores the price of super energy pots fell over 20%))

For example, if saradomin brews all sell for minimum price of 2500 on tuesday, on wednesday the average price will be 2500 (and the minimum will have decreased to 2250).

Similarly, if rock-shell gloves all sell for maximum 40k, then the following day that will be the average price and a new maximum set at 42k).

If two players put the same object in for the same price, it appears to use a first in-first out queueing system - however this needs more checking because we ran into a bug that stops us testing further (I don't have a big enough sample size to be sure right now). For example, Player1 tries to sell a rune2h for 40k, player2 tries to sell another rune2h for 40k, player3 offers to buy (at any price 40k or above) and will get player1's sword. Therefore, if you are trying to sell for minimum price, be first to put the offer on in the day.

Currently, because of the limitation imposed of a maxmimum price shift of 5% every day, we are going through a period of price-adjustment. The grand exchange has made it easier for high level players to sell their stuff basically, and high level players often have quite a few items that were previously lying in the bank unused (such as full rune) that low-level players want. Full rune has already dropped to around 150k. That said, these prices will even out somewhere just above the high alchemy price.

However, for markets with no base alchemy price to stop the price plummetting (notably farming and herblore), it is entirely conceivable that the prices will drop to almost zero.

For treasure trail items, I would imagine that because each piece is roughly as likely, I can see a zammy platebody selling for the same as a zammy full helm in the near future. With rock-shell and other waterbirth items, I can actually see the price of the gloves and boots going above the price of the main pieces!!!

More later when I do some more spading. --Eucarya ^Talk 17:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

• The "oldest deal first" model as described in the article is not correct. It seems to be based on random selection. With one old sales offer and a newer (lower quantity) sales order at the same price, the most recent order was sold first. Hence, there is another mechanism behind the grand exchange.

Not a Stub

I believe there is enough information in that article that when you read it people can find the key points and the meassage effectively. So, I have removed the "Stub" temeplate at the bottom of the page. (Pking is fun 05:10, 4 December 2007 (UTC))

Some problems about the price

I have read through the guides of GE from runehq , here and Jagex , still, I do not know which price is which. =S

There are two prices in the GE trading window.
One is the market value listed in the adjustable window.
But , will the other one with a range change?

What is the price listed in the GEMW if the market value of an item varies day by day?
What is the difference of the "Street Price" and the "Exchange Price" in item pages ?
Why does the "Exchange Price" sometimes be a range but sometimes be a fixed value? (See Rune platebody and Rune full helm for comparison)

Could someone explain the price system clearly to me? Thanks.

The difference between the street price and the exchange price is not that big a difference. Before the addition of the Grand Exchange, the street price was the price that players would normally buy or sell for. After the balanced trade update, the Grand Exchange price has controlled the street price. There's not much of a difference nowadays. Chiafriend12Loon is best buttlord 10:27, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah. I forgot to answer your last question. The reason some prices are prices and some are ranges is the fact of inconsistency. I think we're supposed to use single prices. Chiafriend12Loon is best buttlord 10:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. XDRAGONAITE + 05:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Tradable item but not available on GE

I recently edited an article on an item that was tradable between players, but not on GE. But I forgot which one it was. Anyone remember which item it could be? Chrislee33 01:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Found it - Spirit shard . Chrislee33 02:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

According to this article, burned fish cannot be traded on the GE. Does this mean that burned non-fish food (such as a burned pie, burned pizza, etc.) can be traded on the GE? Socrates17 06:59, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

No, and thank goodness! Originally all burnt foods were tradable on the GE, but it was pointed out that the burned food items had no practical value at all in the game, and were really only being purchased by junk collectors anyway. Their primary purpose is currently with junk trade, although some Real world trading was going on with them as well. It was to stop the RWT (that did happen via the Grand Exchange and these items) that Jagex finally delisted these items. As a part of junk trading, I guess Jagex still doesn't mind, and it doesn't have nearly the same RWT impact. I still, for the life of me, wonder why people collect this stuff. --Robert Horning 14:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Fishing Price NPC

Wasn't there an NPC who listed the prices of fish? 70.49.207.137 05:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

It would be an outstanding idea, but no, that hasn't ever happened. I even complained about it directly to a J-mod on the very day that the Grand Exchange opened in-game... and all he told me was that I needed to simply look the prices up in the exchange if I really wanted to find the price of the item.

BTW, that was precisely the reason I started the GEMW, as there were gaping holes like this that simply weren't even addressed, even when they were very widely traded items like fish. I do wish that there were some additional NPCs that covered a few more of the commonly traded item categories like fish and jewelry prices... to name a couple of fairly obvious categories --Robert Horning 09:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

GX

Is the Grand Exchange really called the GX by anyone? When it first started I used GXC, but GE was about the only thing anyone else ever called it. I am sure I have never heard anyone use GX though. Leevclarke ^talk http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb290/leevclarke/RuneScape/Max%20Bulldog/Max_logo_mini.png http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb290/leevclarke/RuneScape/bulldog_puppy.png 05:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I would have to admit that GE is the most common term I've heard by others. I still call it the GX from time to time in forums, but I would have to agree that it is a very seldom used term any more. It was much more commonly used right after the software update that introduced the Grand Exchange, and for that reason it was added to this article. I happen to like GX as it is less confusing of a term, but I'm also not going to fight everbody who insists upon something different. --Robert Horning 09:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Well as long as it is being used then it should stay. ;-) I had just never heard it myself. Leevclarke ^talk http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb290/leevclarke/RuneScape/Max%20Bulldog/Max_logo_mini.png http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb290/leevclarke/RuneScape/bulldog_puppy.png 10:10, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to call it the "Grex" but no one would cooperate with that. Seems that GE is the only thing it is called now.Jim The Soundman 10:10, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Trade limits for selling items

I'm going to admit that the Grand Exchange is always something in flux and things change from one update to the next with Jagex tinkering with the inner workings of the system.

A recent (as of July 2008) change to this article suggest that there isn't a selling trade limit in terms of the quantities that you can sell at one time.

I'm suggesting otherwise, but unfortunately I don't know if this is a recent change by Jagex or if it represents something that has always been true in the Grand Exchange. I do know that earlier I had some issues selling some higher priced armors (like Adamant sets) in quantities of more than 100. It did eventually sell, but there was a pause when I got to 100 items being sold.

Perhaps I'm just imagining things here and it didn't really happen. Unfortunately, Jagex explicitly has stated that they will not publish details about how the Grand Exchange works, so appeals to the Knowledge Base doesn't work. I'm just asking if anybody else has encountered this situation before and can provide some more insight into this issue. --Robert Horning 14:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

This paragraph does not make any sense.

It has been theorized that Jagex wants people to play for longer by collecting large quantities of raw materials and then selling them, rather then making large amounts of money from smaller amounts in short periods of time then logging off (this was only made possible through traditional merchanting, and it was easily possible to make large amounts of money this way on non-member worlds).

These sentences have very awkward wording. How does one "[Make] large amounts of money from smaller amounts in short periods of time"? How could doing the same thing for smaller amounts in shorter periods generate more money? And why would Jagex want players to play for longer periods?

I am not sure what the author was attempting to say, so I am unable to fix this. Socrates17 08:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

It seems quite obvious that when you lack resources you need, you will pay higher price for it. Basic Economics. And when people don't sell large quantities you start lack the needed resources and thus it was Easier to make more money with less materials sold in shorter period of time. It would have been possible even now if it was not for price regulations.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 77.50.98.212 (talk).

Whaaaa?

Terrorist groups playing RuneScape? Robert, how'd you find this out? Sir Revan125 17:12, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Jagex themselves. It was mentioned in both some of the interviews of the Jagex staff and some of the police intelligence that is connected to the real-world item trade in general, which includes not just Runescape but World of Warcraft and several other on-line games.

These are some pretty sick people and in some cases pure evil. Certainly the organized crime (aka "the Mafia") is heavily involved with this sort of activity... who are also involved in obtaining the stolen credit card numbers.

Going to some of the websites of the hardcore cheaters/rwt folks (yeah, I've gone to look), these are some people you wouldn't want to have as next-door neighbors to say the least. Getting money for playing these video games is just one possible business, and they have a complete lack of ethics or morals about them.

This isn't to say that all RWT'ers are the most horrible people you could meet, but a great many of them are and unfortunately are taking over from those who were just doing the RWT as a hobby and side income. The sweatshops where the farmers work from is enough to turn my stomach even to think I've done business with some of these folks through in-game balanced (or even in my favor) trade.

If you want some magazine articles about this, I can dig them up. --Robert Horning 11:00, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Edgeville to Varrock path

Were there any complaints from free players that the Grand Exchange blocked off the path from Edgeville and Varrock? You traveled east past the bridge and walked southeast to enter Varrock from from the West Gate, but now you have to walk down to Barbarian's Village to get from Edgeville to Varrock. The old path was blocked off and a member's only shortcut was placed there. 67.169.56.73 02:46, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

As far as I remember, going back more than a couple of years, this "path" has always been blocked off for travel between Edgeville and Varrock. The fence running east and west from the River Lum to the Grand Exchange (which can't be crossed even by members) merely extended all of the way to the city walls of Varrock earlier. The only "shortcut" for F2P besides going through the Barbarian Village was to go north near the wilderness and enter Varrock from the northern gate... near Father Lawence's chapel & the Museum. I'd hardly call that a shortcut.

Is there another path that I'm missing here? The agility shortcut was not always going into the Grand Exchange, but instead connected more directly to the Palace grounds. For an earlier map, see: this map from July 2007 before the Grand Exchange was implemented. --Robert Horning 16:58, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I found an old copy of the world map and you're right, the GE does not really block off anything that was available back then. My memory of the "old" RS is pretty spotty since I haven't played for so long. 67.169.118.32 02:47, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Satisfying the market

It's a Swedish term.... When the market is satisfied it basically means that everyone who wants a particular item has it. Items like harpoon, chisel, moulds, tinderbox's n such. Sell for many hundred percent more then u buy them for at stores and there is usually someone who needs it but few people sell them. I Like helping people by "satisfying the market" and selling like 100 of them bought from stores so that everyone who needs them get them. This also means that it will be hard to sell those items for a few days. The same goes for some low lvl items. Like trouts, steel and iron stuff. You eliminate the demand for an item and change the circumstances for the price changing on the "stockmarket" I think someone should put something about this in the article (someone who can formulate it better then me)  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.189.181.135 (talk).

I think you understand economics far and away better than most of the Jagex staff here. This is one of the reasons I hate, I repeat I hate "price floors" and "price ceilings" (both the "soft" and "hard" variety... read the article to understand these terms). The price controls remove incentives for people to provide these items, and cause wild swings in prices going both higher and lower than would happen without these "price controls". It also causes shortages as those selling items know that they can get a much higher price at a later time if demand is out-stripping supply.

The various fan forums are awash with complaints about "price manipulators", and even whole clans that do nothing but buy items at a low price and re-sell them at a higher price. "Satisfying the market" occurs in both directions.... where sellers need to know that they can move their goods and buyers need to know they can get whatever items they want (for a price). If you want to make some real money... bringing the two kinds of people together (and taking your cut in the process) is how you can earn money... both within the game and in real-life.

This is a good point to make, and something that needs to be added to the article. --Robert Horning 13:57, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Redirect from "Grand Excuse"?

I know, this may be quite an awkward suggestion for me to ask, but can we make a redirect page to the Grand Exchange from Grand Excuse? The reason why I ask this is because, when players have a tendency to criticise the Grand Exchange, one of the most common names they call it is the Grand Excuse, and that is pretty much why I ask if it is permissible to write a redirect link from Grand Excuse to here. It is not a critical suggestion, but one that improves conveince when trying to access the Grand Exchange article.--Pkthis 14:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

If you can think of any combination of letters and numbers that might be entered to find an article, such as Grand Excuse, I don't have a problem with it. Redirects are cheap, simple, and don't take up that much room in the overall wiki database. I would object to having the article renamed to such a page name, and consider that to be vandalism at its finest. Still, a redirect is no big deal, and I've created redirects for mis-spellings and other such article spellings for a great many articles already.

For this example, I'll go ahead and create the redirect. Seriously, it isn't a big deal. --Robert Horning 19:51, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

GE glitch

An anonymous user added this little bit to the main article under Grand Exchange#Trivia:

• There is a glitch when you try to buy items in a member world random people around the Grand Exchange would be on your friend list unfortunately this glitch has not been fixed yet.

This was subsequently removed by somebody else with the comment in the history: (Not a glitch. Its just you misclicking.)

I do quite extensive trading on the Grand Exchange, and I've noticed some users getting added to my "friends" list when I'm involved in these transactions from time to time. In other words, I am asserting this could be a glitch and not just mis-clicking. I can't get it to consistently do something in a repeatable way, but it may end up being a bug that could be reported to Jagex.

I don't see any harm if the bug does show up, as all you have to do is simply remove the player's name from your friend list. It does impact some other minor things such as giving people the ability to enter your player-owned house and chat with you if you are on "friends-only" chat mode. If there is anybody else who may have seen this "bug", feel free to respond here. I haven't given it much thought, but it would be interesting to see if other players have experienced a similar kind of problem. --Robert Horning 00:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Here! Happened a long time ago, but I assumed it was just lag or some sort. Powers38 ^おはようヾ(´･ω･｀) 01:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Possibly related, but the an issue i have is when clicking in item search window that the click gets misinterpreted as a "walk here" click. Having a background in programming I can say with most certainty that this is likely due to what is called a "race condition" where the input processing thread and the window display threads are out of sync. This same race condition could cause the exact behaviour as described with the adding random friends 'glitch'.

1. REDIRECT User:Kytti khat/sig 11:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I also have the "walk here" glitch. Usually after I walk away, I click the G.E. and my character moonwalks, moving as far as the boundary of the G.E. before actually walking towards the designation I wanted. These two glitches seems like it happens when I click on my search result. It gives me one of the two glitches, but they also don't happen all the time, just occasionally. Powers38 ^おはようヾ(´･ω･｀) 23:18, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

GE only in your world

A common myth is that the GE will only look at offers in your world. This really doesn't make much sense, but I need some proof, mainly because my friend keeps bugging me about it.--Armadyl Helm‎Long Live ArmadylArmadyl Helm‎ 15:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Nah, that's ridiculous. How big is the chance that someone in your same world sells what you're looking for? Hapi007 ^{Talk! Sign!} . 15:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Actually, this isn't a huge myth. In the way that the Grand Exchange has been designed by Jagex, any trades that can be filled on that same world will be filled first. In other words, if some player has made an offer to sell coal @ 200 coins that happened to be on the same world, but on a different world there is somebody else also offering to sell coal @ 200 coins, when somebody makes an offer to buy the coal it is the offer on that same world that is filled first.

If, for some really strange reason, you have your own offer for that same item, you will sell to yourself first. Yes, it can happen as well, and it counts against you in terms of volume trade limits.

As far as the "chance that somebody from your same world sells what you are looking for", that is as good of a chance as any... particularly if you are on one of the major trading worlds. The purpose of this exchange behavior is mainly technical, so the Grand Exchange isn't sending so many internet protocol data packets around the world to all of the other servers. If demand can be met locally, the GE will try that first before reaching out to the global market.

For myself, I find this behavior to be a very impressive feat of software engineering myself, and something that is better designed than some of the real-world commodity trading institutions. Price controls on the GE is another matter, but the actual item exchange record keeping is very impressive. --Robert Horning 11:12, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

Where do you get this wisdom from? I find this strategy very unlikely and disturbing as well. If i buy coal @ 200 i would be very upset if i get the coal from someone on my world who is selling @200 when there is a person on another world who is selling at 195. So your logic of less trafic is faulty. It is still needed to send a message to the grand exchange database to find the cheapest price. After that only 1 signal goes back from the database to the player charater database to update the 2 player character files. If they happen to be online they will receive a signal from their server. As for proof, my theorie is just as unfounded but much more logical. -- Ruderion ^(Talk) 11:24, November 8, 2009 (UTC)

This only applies to items from players who have items selling or being purchased at the same price... compared to other worlds. What you are saying here is simply not true. If somebody else on another world is selling @195 and you are trying to make a purchase, you will buy that cheaper coal. It is only if the minimum price that somebody is offering something @200 coins each (or whatever the price is) and there are multiple offers for that same time for the same price, you will buy it from the current world first. This has been demonstrated from multiple sources. You used to be able to "buy" from yourself as well, but that has been changed. --Robert Horning 08:07, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

I question the image...

That demonstrates a "glitch" that supposedly demonstrates accessing the G/E remotely. Firstly, the character is not in the middle of the image. Why? Secondly, there's nothing in the trivia that mentions anything about that bug, so how was it achieved? Can it still be reproduced? Fake image, perhaps? Zenihdrol 03:42, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I've always had doubts about it, but never really cared enough to challenge it. http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu33/Psycho_Robot/Sigs%20and%20Avatars/kitty.pngPsycho Robot talk 04:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

It happened to me a few times:
http://img4.imageshack.us/i/grandexchangeglitchinlu.png/
http://img69.imageshack.us/i/grandexchangeglitchnear.png/
http://img121.imageshack.us/i/grandexchangesearchboxg.png/
--Iiii I I I 23:47, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Hard Price Floors and Ceilings

WHy doesn't runescape adjust store and high alch. prices to reflect the market instead of changing he market to reflect the high alch. and store prices. Really, its impossible to buy a pizza now, impossible to sell iron arrows, and hard to get a good price on some things. I hate people who manipulate the market (its illegal in the real world), and they are basically making money for nothing. This is my law: "For every GP a merchant has made on the Grand Exchange, someone loses a GP.

98.110.153.197 23:28, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Neither pizzas, iron arrows, or most of the things being complained about here have anything to do with the "manipulation" (sometimes called merch) clans. This is mostly due to Jagex mucking up the GE and setting artificial price caps. Nobody is selling pizzas because it isn't worth the effort, and it is impossible to get the ingredients at similarly capped prices. Are there prices being manipulated? Yes, but not on commonly traded items.

BTW, merchanting isn't a zero sum game, as has been implied here. It is possible for everybody to be a "winner", where some people get an item for cheaper than they would otherwise, others sell an item for more coins than they would otherwise, and a merchant to get a few coins in the process, too. A properly operated market can make everybody wealthy... or at least get what folks want when they want it. --Robert Horning 11:55, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Location

I just added a Location section. I'm surprised nobody had considered putting this in there, it is a location in RuneScape after all. I kind of did it a bit fast though, so if there is something that doesn't sound right, well, that'd be why.

Bowler225 21:08, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Confusing & Complicated?

I understand that the GE bears many resemblances and similarities to real-world economics & trading, but I think that all this political and economical jargon and argot should be removed. It looks so messy and complicated, I bet half the people don't even know some of the words. --Fruit.Smoothie 23:36, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Words mean things, including these "messy and complicated" words you are complaining about. The economic jargon is being used because it applies in this situation and resembles how economic activity takes place in other situations.

BTW, what half of the people you are talking about that know or don't know the words used here? Those reading it, or those writing this content? Some of the more recent updates to this article have been quite well written and informative, although I'll admit that the education level needed to comprehend some of the information presented here is perhaps a bit higher than is typical for most of the content on this wiki. Economics is a complex topic that even national leaders seem to fail to grasp the full impact of their decisions on their own countries when they act. If somebody like a Prime Minister or President can screw up in terms of understanding economic ideas, I'll admit that a 12 year old playing Runescape is just as likely to be bewildered by some of this jargon too... and will likely get caught up with some of the scams going on in the GE too. --Robert Horning 07:05, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Fear not, Fruit Smoothie. We can fill each obfuscation full of clarity. After all, isn't runescape wikia for the overall welfare of all twelve year olds? Marfaa 19:37, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

On a somewhat unrelated note, I don't think a 12 year old would be a good example of someone confused by GE jargon. After all, any player under the age of 13 is limited to quick chat, meaning they can only communicate using quick chat and can only read what others say if it's in quick chat. I think this situation might change if the player is a member though. A friend of mine was limited to quick chat until his mom let him have a membership, at which point he could communicate as usual. Basically, what I'm saying is that a 12 year old shouldn't be too conserned with jargon, in game, unless he or she is a member, or a lier.216.201.61.228 20:55, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

2010 Dip was just Winter Crash

The Market dip was just a short winter crash resulting from the return of a lot of players to school, changing both supply and demand for most items. Just like with weekendly prices, the prices of items goes up at the weekend, and down during weekdays when at school, the same happens at Summer and other holiday ends. However, i'm not sure whether to remove this myself from the page, or wait to see if there is other evidential factors, but i'd preferably like a consensus first 88.107.30.193 22:44, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

Rule #1 of the GE (on this article) states:

1. You cannot sell any quantity of the item that you previously purchased using the GE, unless 4 hours has passed.

Does this mean that if I purchase 1 (ONE) Pure essence on the Grand Exchange, (to test at what price people are selling at), and then attempt to sell 1 (ONE) Pure essece on the Grand Exchange, the 1 (ONE) Pure essence will not sell for 4 hours?

• If my above scenario is correct, then we must rewrite Rule #1 of the GE.
• If my above scenario correct, would someone please explain it clearly?

Thank you :-) UNWATCHABLE 07:07, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

yes- if you buy something and then try to sell it within 4 hours your trade will not be made until the time is up. Just like when you buy more of an item then the you are allowed you can set the offer but nothing will happen for at least 4 hours from when you bought it. Hope that helps.

Sentra246 07:56, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

This rule does not apply, there is no way that the game can recognize which item you just bought or what was in ur bank There is NO limit as to how many items you can sell. None at all. If you can dispute this, i'd like sources and videos. I can prove this with a youtube video if you wish but its much simpler to do so yourself. I've bought many things on accident and sold them right away. I've bought 10's of thousands of items and turned around and resold them immediately in GE> This is wrong

Sales to yourself are not calculated in the overall volume and price.

Hey there is an error in this article it claims that you can price manipulate by selling to yourself however this is not true. Items sold to yourself do not count towards the total volume sold and presumable not into the next days price. I tested this by selling 10m triangle sandwichs to myself one day. They did not appear on that days most traded item list.

The Death of Merchanting

The Grand Exchange ruined merchanting.

That's all I have to say...

File:Questicon.PNG Karspider File:Quest cape.png

18:36, February 22, 2010 (UTC)

Well I guess it ruined merchanting the way you loved it. I have never played RS without GE, but merchanting has still earned me hundreds of millions. So the trade isn't exactly ruined, however changed. Delapaco

this is the chapter that currently exists:

Before the Grand Exchange

Before the Grand Exchange, players used to buy items that they needed from the General Store. Also, before the Grand Exchange, you could sell items for very low prices, such as the Dark cavalier for 50 coins. You can now sell them for 51,000 coins.

while the reality is that people bought items they needed from the market place, park in falador, world 2.

Dark cavaliers might have been 50 coins at the general store; however that doesn't mean anyone sold them that way. On the street (trading to another player) they easily fetched 100-200k, even when they first came out. I remember owning a tan cavalier around the year 2005, its street value at that time was 300k, and the Black Cavaliers went for 700-800k. Santas were around 400k. Even before "market value", items still had instrinsic values that were commonly accepted by the community. -Me

Criminal activity

"Some of these organizations were allegedly using real-world trading for money laundering or as a fund-raiser for some other criminal activities. "

I took this out for the following reasons

1. Money laundering - "dirty money in - clean money out" for example: I rob a bank in Draynor, "dirty money" - I put the money into my bakery stall till in Ardougne, 100 gold coins per week, "clean money" is paid into Draynor Bank. In the case of RWT there is no money in (in FTP worlds), there is (mildly) "dirty money" out.
2. The idea that, for example, drug dealing, needs "funding" is very odd - of course it is possible that someone was RWTing to fund their drug consumption, but that is not what was meant.

Rich Farmbrough, 08:49 21 March 2010 (GMT).

where to add and needs improvement

where to add this:

File:Ge sections.png

image? it also needs transperancy. It is about the sections in world 2 where which items are sold. JOEYTJE50TALK pull my finger 23:40, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the image. It seems the area has 17 trees, excluding the spirit tree. We will need a discussion on the exact number of trees in the Yew Grove forum. Marfaa 07:35, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Weekly trade limits

Can someone add a section or provide more information about the weekly trade limits? If you've been buying an item at maximum for a whole week you cannot buy any more of that item (even after 4 hours) --Poiuytreza2 09:31, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Recent changes to seeds' and bones' buying limits

Recently (along with Dungeoneering Resources Dungeons) Jagex changed the buying limits for seeds. They simply divided the limit by 10, so before the update you could buy up to 5,000 allotment, 5,000 bushes and 1,000 herb seeds each 4 hours. After the update they divided that limit by 10, so now it's 500, 500 and 100, respectively. I'm 100% sure of this information because I was merching them myself (allotment ones) and I've seen that i was unable to get more than 501, even if they were on their minimum price on GE. Jagex made this change mainly to stop merchers, i belive, since many of them were making millions from mainly bush seeds (jangerberries, cadavaberries and so on - just watch their 180-days chart and you'll see). You can also notice that many (almost all of them, but some of the trees) seeds crashed since so, due to obvious reasons. So, I've went to this article to update the numbers, and someone changed them back to the original. Why?

About the bones limit, they used to be 10k and now seems to be 1k (according to the same table). I'm not sure about this info, but I don't doubt it's true, because Jagex want that dragon bones crash in price. That's why they added new 8 blue dragons to the dungeoneering resources dungeon (in multi combat area): to make dragon bones' prices crash. Making the limit 10x lower also helps a lot on making the item crash. Althought, I haven't checked this by myself, and want to know if anyone have already checked it by yourself :)

Thanks,

20b

• I can confirm that the limit on buying bones is still 10,000. I just bought 2000 dragon bones instantly.

Buying items for max price buys item at which price?

It doesn't say in this article and I feel it's important, so just to confirm, when buying an item for maximum price in GE, it purchases the item at the cheapest price in the GE currently? If not, which price does it buy the item at? Thanks UNWATCHABLE

Anybody know what's going on?

I logged on today and went to the grand exhange and boom. [1]

Davey2k10 22:36, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

See Environment glitches#Graphics Options and 'Take Item' Changes. Evil1888 ^{Talk A's L} 22:56, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

Buying Limit for Spirit Shields?

Hi - any1 knows wether the spirit shields have a buy limit lower then gwd items? I just bought 2 spectrals, but the 3rd wont buy. last buy is like 2hrs ago - could they also have a limit of 2 per 4hrs? Regards - Col

Yup - the buying limit on spirit shields is 2.

Saradomin brews' buying limit nerfed

Hi, just to inform you guys, Jagex has changed the buying limit on all doses of Saradomin Brew to 100. This was probably because they were merchanted quite successfully for a so common item not-so-long ago.

It appears that they have done a hidden update on quantity limits

I think Jagex has done a hidden update and lowered the max buy quantities of several items, logs, runes, etc. I'm still checking to see if this is definitely the case but since I do a lot of merchanting, I'm definitely noticing a difference. Items that used to stop at 5000, now are stopping at 2000. Items that used to stop at 25,000 are now stopping at 10,000. This may just be a coincidence, but I don't think so. Can someone verify or discredit me please?

Jim The Soundman 10:27, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

The time of Grand Exchange is over

As so-called "Free Trade" which is actually "Real World Trade" returns and RuneScape once again become a botters and scammers paradise. It has been confirmed that this is a rant.--Atheist723 09:03, January 19, 2011 (UTC)

I agree. I liked the Grand Exchange before they changed it. 122.62.148.13 08:40, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

Changes to Buy Limits with Free Trade?

With the recent Free Trade update, the GE buy limits seem to be erratic, if not entirely absent. In one 30-minute period I sold 100,000 steel arrows, then turned around and bought 80,000 more (buy limit should be 10,000 per 4 hours). Just recently, I bought 35,000 iron bars in less than 15 minutes (again, buy limit is 10,000 per 4 hours). On the other hand, most of my other goods (including, now, steel arrows) seem to be bought according to their old limits. Either the GE is extremely buggy, or there are new rules of which I am not aware. The article should be updated to reflect this change, on way or another. 174.109.118.231 03:59, February 13, 2011 (UTC)

Yup, it seems they've changed it. On the day of release I sold a load of rings of recoil, and just moments later decided that I needed them after all, and bought them all back again. So it would appear that the restriction of having to wait 4 hours after selling something before you can buy it again has been removed. User:Robinjam/Signature 10:57, February 14, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I can vouch for this as well. They seem to have been either liberally relaxed or completely removed. User:Triforce 14

Spirit shards

Spirit shards are restricted to a 10,0000 buy/sell limit every four hours. This info used to be in the article but is now gone. I just confirmed on the GE that the 10,000 limit is still in force. However, trying to edit the buy/sell with all those colspans and such is too intimidating for me. Can some more adept at this add this info? Thanks! Inelcirc 22:35, April 5, 2011 (UTC)

We need to split this into parts.

It is way too big.

Ulmuchiha 23:18, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

Factual correction

Believe this fact point is incorect, which is under the 'trading tips' section.

• When a new account sells its first item on the GE, the item is instantly converted to coins. This doesn't apply if the selling price is outside of the +/- 5% range.

118.138.193.244 16:33, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

Sounds unbelievable... Blasty ^Talk 23:34, May 17, 2011 (UTC)

I want to add 100 calquat seeds and 500 impling jars to the 4 hour limits but I don't know how to change the table. Can someone edit it in? Thanks Adzclough 21:28, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

... and 10 dragon daggers... looks like we need a much more extensive table. Rich Farmbrough, 11:59 26 September 2011 (UTC).

Impling jars are on there, and so are dragon daggers (under Weapons & Armour). As for Calquat seeds, I'll see what I can do. Maybe just group it with fruit tree seeds/tree seeds.

Updated it. Grouped Bush/Tree/Fruit Tree Seeds 100 together.

Under Dog 16:21, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Onyx trade limits?

Any info on the limits of Uncut onyx, Onyx, Onyx based jewelry, bolt tips or bolts, either unenchanted, or enchanted? Search the page and this discussion page for "Onyx", nothing. Warp9pnt9 14:53, October 25, 2011 (UTC)

Corners or squeezes

I believe the two paragraphs discussing corner sales should at least mention that a (true) market corner isn't obtainable in Runescape, for two main reasons. First, all resources and skills in Runescape are publicly available (at least in P2P), making it impossible to own all known instances of a particular item. The one exception to this would be discontinued items, but obtaining a corner on a discontinued item would require an unrealistically large investment. Second, there are a number of ways a player could easily obtain an item for an alternative price. One would be trading with another player through the trade system, another would be buying the item from an in-game store or NPC. These, combined with the trade volume limitations Jagex placed on items trading on the GE, effectively prevent this from happening, at least by definition. 71.229.160.3 09:51, November 23, 2011 (UTC)