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What exactly do you mean by that? I think what he means is that if one can buy the grimy torstol at 11k ea they can transfer that to another account which can clean it and sell it for 20k ea, thus doubling their money. Mind you its almost impossible to buy grimy torstols at the moment. Back on topic, I think the only reason mint cakes are so expensive is because stakers are using it extensively. When mints were under 30k, the price was ~ 4m each. Since the most you can stake is 60k, stakers could stake a max of 2 mints, which would be ~ 8m. Now that mints are over 30k, the price has suddenly shot up from 4m to 10m! Anyone else see a correlation between the number of stakeable mints and the increased price?

Well, recently I have gotten burned on a couple investments involving merchanting clans, and have paid for this mistake dearly in a loss of about 3m. I am now staying well away from merchanting clans and trusting my own judgement , but I guess my question is, has anyone actually made any money from merchanting clans? Often these clans will have an amazingly unrealistic view of how high an item will rise, and from what I can see 99% of the time the item never actually reaches its targeted price. For example, one merchanting clan was trying to jack up the price of bolt racks to 340gp each, which was absurd seeing how bolt racks have never gone past 250 in the past 6 months. I decided this item would be a terrible investment, and as I predicted, the investment totally failed. From what I have heard, what these clans are about is one person(usually the original creator of the clan) who had jumped in on the price rise early, who gets other people to jump on the bandwagon, and what the leader does is sell out early, leaving everyone else to bite the dust and get stuck with their somewhat hard to sell item, which is exactly what happened to me. Have any of you had any success with these clans / what are your thoughts on them?

Just wondering, well how about all the players on the highscores, aren't they kinda similar to this person? I'm sure a lot of people look up to their accomplishments and try to imitate them, despite the fact it takes an enormous amount of playing time. And people try to break useless records all the time, just look at all the people who train past lvl 99 to get 200m xp or whatever.

Not saying I can tell the future or anything but if you look at a lot of the armor/weapons e.g Godswords, DFS, Bandos etc. they are all certainly dropping in price quite a bit. What I think is that the speculation about this major update could be a factor in a lot of these items dropping in price. That, my friend, is called price manipulating, GWD armor, along with DFS and many other items have been on a rollercoaster of price ups and downs, due to the manipulators, besides, JaGeX wouldn't release a major update on the beginning of the year, it makes no sense, what would they have for the rest of the year? Other than the new skill Well supposedly what some people have said is that in the past, Jagex has started each new year with a major update. I do not have any sources or information to back this up so i could be totally wrong about that.

Not saying I can tell the future or anything but if you look at a lot of the armor/weapons e.g Godswords, DFS, Bandos etc. they are all certainly dropping in price quite a bit. What I think is that the speculation about this major update could be a factor in a lot of these items dropping in price.

Well, a lot of people are talking about it in game and on the forums: quick find code: 17-18-684-60148391 and heres a quote from that thread: 01-Jan-2010 19:45:40 What update what !?!?! ********************************************** Apparently Jagex has said they are releasing an update on the 11th. However, they have not said, how big or small it is, nor have they mentioned anything at all about it. Everyone is panicking because they think that everything Jagex said in their new years message, such as, "new quests, new skill, new equipment and rewards" is all coming out on the 11th. Basically what they said was that these are some of the things that will be coming out in the year of 2010.

Not sure if its true but is the speculation leading up to the jan.11 update making many items crash? I heard many people are panic selling armor/weapons because they fear it will become obselete due to this update. Is this speculation the cause of many items crashing?

Hi everyone I was just wondering, why are all the rares rising so quickly? I mean are people actually trading easter eggs for around 200m(with junk) ? Correct me if i'm wrong but when has a pumpkin/easter ever been more expensive than a santa hat/mask? What is causing this sudden surge in price? Like I know there is inflation and everything but the rares' prices are getting pretty crazy!