I totally agree; this problem is out of control. I feel like the G.E in controled by a small minority of people that happen to know what to do and when to do it; and what they're doing is making items very hard to buy, very hard to sell, and either well over-priced or under-priced as it crashes insanely. The G.E used to be my new form of merchanting where I used to sit there alching or fletching or i'm off doing a quest while I'll sell X items for top and buy lowest, this didn't last long as the merch clans came in :( I don't miss it too much although it was a nice little bonus to my bank; I still think that the regular runescapers and solo merch's should have the ability to actually buy or sell something with relative ease and have the price be constant.