The reasons why the price of rares rose over the years: 1: Hackers: Many people hacked rares and also got banned with it. Making amount of rares decrease and more valuable each year. 2: Merchanting: Everytime people merchant with rares, prices raises, and since it is an item that does not have a set of price, no one knows how much is it. For example, Santa hats is a great merchant product, it raise from 16.5mill to nearly 20 mill now. 3: New skills: Everytime there are new skills appeared on rs, for example construction, people tends to want to become the first one to have a top ten high score for such new skilld. And they tend to sell their rares at high price to get money to raise their levels faster. (slayer is another example) 4: Fakers/jealousy: Alot of people who tries to sell there rares usually rares a rare while doing things. When people say " nice santa, how much is it?" people tends to raise the price.. ... for example, a person who brought a santa for only 15m,... people tend to stretch it to 18m.. since all they really needed to say, when someone denies the price is.. "the price has raised, check (forums,tips, runehq)".....but the price did not really raise, they were just faking it... and people will just believe it 5: Forums: Rs forum is a good way to merchant, since everyone watches the price now.. most rare price raise due to forum .. for example... a conversation i have seen in edveville at the start of the contrucstion feud: a: " Selling my santa for 16.5 mill" b: " Santas arent that much, they are only 14mill" a: " its 16.5mill check the forum" note that when I went to check... someone was selling for 16.5mill.. but no one buys it. 6: the Massacre: Alot of people kill and stole phats during that awfull period of bug abuse... and alot of people at the same time... got banned with it,, bringing the rares banned with it... 7: Retired players: There are alot of retired players in the game carrying tons of rares with them. And yet, they dont want to spend time selling them, therefor, leaving alot of rares becoming more valuable since there arent manny left in the game. 8: Rs famous and humorous wise old: Obviously, he raised the price of blue phat ever since he robbed th bank and once a blue phats price raise, other better looking phats will also raised with them.. followed by other rares.. 9: Holiday Events: Once a new holiday events rise in rs.. people will always try to buy a rare to live with the spirits of holiday.. which also raise the price of rares...