Grand Exchange Conspiracy Theory

[Hell_Shadow]

How many of you have bought or sold discontinued items to the Grand Exchange? Was it easy to sell but you never can buy? Maybe this is a way for Jagex to rid the game of the discontinued items. It pays fair price to anyone selling them, but not to an actual buyer. Jagex deletes the item.

[Master_Smither]

That would just ruin the economy by driving up the prices. -.-

[Hell_Shadow]

The GE controls the prices now. Yeah, they say it's affected by the buy price, but how are we to know that.

[jessy87]

theory? yes. thats all.

[deep_pain]

lol that's like most things on the exchange.

 

 

 

If something sells fast it means there are a lot of people trying to buy it...

 

 

 

Thus if you try and buy you will be placed in a queue, you wont get one until everyone in front of you in that queue has got theirs. So it will be hard to buy.

 

 

 

There are some exceptions that are both easy to buy and sell.

 

 

 

but that is the nature of "rares" they are rare, not many sellers lots of buyers = easy to sell hard to buy.. end of conspiracy me thinks.

[wild_goat_14]

Wow. Did I miss some kind of convention where everyone on TIF got high and decided to post tonight? It sure seems it...

 

 

 

My responce to this topic: Idiot.

[meili]

Um nope, why would Jagex "buy" up the rares on the sly? That would make rares that much rarer and ruin the market even more.

 

 

 

If there was a conspiracy, they would do the opposite, in other words they would sell more rares and flood the market with them but they wouldn't really do that either.

[Atroxide]

How many of you have bought or sold discontinued items to the Grand Exchange? Was it easy to sell but you never can buy? Maybe this is a way for Jagex to rid the game of the discontinued items. It pays fair price to anyone selling them, but not to an actual buyer. Jagex deletes the item.

 

Wow, common sense please?

 

 

 

Every 1 is trying to buy discontinued items, that is why prices go up, small supply, big demand. Therefor, you can easily sell a rare if you want to.

[Capone_Sabre]

Why do so many people think Jagex hates discontinued items?

 

 

 

Have they made them untradeable? No

 

 

 

Have they ever put a price cap on them? No

 

 

 

Have they ever discouraged people from buying them? No

 

 

 

Have they ever released more of them? No

 

 

 

Have they made future holiday items similar, as to make them redundant? No

 

 

 

 

 

SO WHY WOULD THEY SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY HATE RARES AND WANT TO GET RID OF THEM NOW?!

[nine naked men]

How many of you have bought or sold discontinued items to the Grand Exchange? Was it easy to sell but you never can buy? Maybe this is a way for Jagex to rid the game of the discontinued items. It pays fair price to anyone selling them, but not to an actual buyer. Jagex deletes the item.

 

 

 

Please, go back to hunting UFO's and trying to prove Elvis is alive. Why would Jagex do that? Do you have any proof that this could even be considered as a theory? So what if stuff's easy to sell and harder to buy. Please, take your crackpot 'theories' and take them somewhere else. :roll:

[qeltar]

 

SO WHY WOULD THEY SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY HATE RARES AND WANT TO GET RID OF THEM NOW?!

 

 

 

Because they've shown in the last month that they are tired of the money orientation in the game. And that will never end until these items are fixed once and for all.

 

 

 

If they do it, though, it won't be with silly conspiracy games on the GE. They will just exchange them for gold or make them untradeable or make a shop where they can be traded in.

 

 

 

One way or the other, they are eventually going to have to stop avoiding this problem and deal with it.

[warren211]

Umm... what if the item you want just happens to not be available? and when you sell the item, there happens to be a buyer? I mean, lets say your buying a certain item, well call it a dragon warhammer just so that noobs dont scream "omg x item is in demand you fat lard"... (of course now theyre gonna scream that d warhammers dont exist either. I am well aware of it, its just for the sake of an example). Supply is pretty low to vurtually nothing. There are tons of buyers. So you are a seller and put up the d warhammer and its instantly traded because supply is low and demand is high. Now lets say you were a buyer. there are many many buyers of the same item, so naturally while sellers get their deals fast, you might have to wait a bit. I think your theory is forgetting some facts.

[Darkluniux]

:ohnoes: The illuminati control the Grand Exchange! :ohnoes:

[Omali]

How many of you have bought or sold discontinued items to the Grand Exchange? Was it easy to sell but you never can buy? Maybe this is a way for Jagex to rid the game of the discontinued items. It pays fair price to anyone selling them, but not to an actual buyer. Jagex deletes the item.

 

 

 

Please, go back to hunting UFO's and trying to prove Elvis is alive. Why would Jagex do that? Do you have any proof that this could even be considered as a theory? So what if stuff's easy to sell and harder to buy. Please, take your crackpot 'theories' and take them somewhere else. :roll:

 

 

 

Elvis is alive, and tbh needs to stop going through my refrigerator at 2 in the morning. Or at least put on some pants.

[FooK-A-Ji]

 

SO WHY WOULD THEY SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY HATE RARES AND WANT TO GET RID OF THEM NOW?!

 

 

 

Because they've shown in the last month that they are tired of the money orientation in the game. And that will never end until these items are fixed once and for all.

 

 

 

If they do it, though, it won't be with silly conspiracy games on the GE. They will just exchange them for gold or make them untradeable or make a shop where they can be traded in.

 

 

 

One way or the other, they are eventually going to have to stop avoiding this problem and deal with it.

 

 

 

What problem? The problem that you can't obtain a p hat?

[icecube]

In general, people don't sell rare or expensive items in the Grand Exchange.

 

 

 

Use the forums or W2 if you want to buy something expensive.

[Capone_Sabre]

 

SO WHY WOULD THEY SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY HATE RARES AND WANT TO GET RID OF THEM NOW?!

 

 

 

Because they've shown in the last month that they are tired of the money orientation in the game. And that will never end until these items are fixed once and for all.

 

 

 

If they do it, though, it won't be with silly conspiracy games on the GE. They will just exchange them for gold or make them untradeable or make a shop where they can be traded in.

 

 

 

One way or the other, they are eventually going to have to stop avoiding this problem and deal with it.

 

 

 

No they haven't. They've shown they are sick of real world traders and want to put a stop to it. They have done nothing at all to harm rares in any way.

 

 

 

Discontinued items cause no problems, they just add to the enjoyment of the game for some.

 

 

 

I have had rares for over 6 years now and not a month has gone by without some prophet of doom like yourself predicting they will become untradeable or jagex will replace them all with gold. Well, they haven't and almost certainly never will.

[FooK-A-Ji]

 

I have had rares for over 6 years now and not a month has gone by without some prophet of doom like yourself predicting they will become untradeable or jagex will replace them all with gold. Well, they haven't and almost certainly never will.

 

 

 

u speaks da tr00th!!

[nine naked men]

How many of you have bought or sold discontinued items to the Grand Exchange? Was it easy to sell but you never can buy? Maybe this is a way for Jagex to rid the game of the discontinued items. It pays fair price to anyone selling them, but not to an actual buyer. Jagex deletes the item.

 

 

 

Please, go back to hunting UFO's and trying to prove Elvis is alive. Why would Jagex do that? Do you have any proof that this could even be considered as a theory? So what if stuff's easy to sell and harder to buy. Please, take your crackpot 'theories' and take them somewhere else. :roll:

 

 

 

Elvis is alive, and tbh needs to stop going through my refrigerator at 2 in the morning. Or at least put on some pants.

 

 

 

No, that's me. Sorry to disappoint you. :lol:

[Solidus_77]

The GE controls the prices now. Yeah, they say it's affected by the buy price, but how are we to know that.

 

 

 

It certainly does not, I was able to buy some yew longs for a price that was OUTSIDE the GE's price range. Also, if the price range for an item is off, the item will simply not be sold at GE. :roll: Economics > you

[hohto]

Because they've shown in the last month that they are tired of the money orientation in the game. And that will never end until these items are fixed once and for all.

 

 

 

One way or the other, they are eventually going to have to stop avoiding this problem and deal with it.

 

 

 

Could you lighten us up here? What's the problem with items that many people dream about and keep the raw material prices stable? On every damn topic at these forums I've seen you flaming rares, merchants and almost everything that doesn't fit into your tight mind, no matter how good counter arguements you get.

 

 

 

Also if Jagex were to stop this money orientation, GE wouldn't work the way it does now: first of all it works pretty much in the same way as street prices (supply and demand actually affect to the GE price) and as the oversupply of certain items has made their prices to dive. I for example would now buy rares instead of skilling materials as the huge oversupply of ending productions has made the prices to go below the critical point by a lot.

[Solidus_77]

Because they've shown in the last month that they are tired of the money orientation in the game. And that will never end until these items are fixed once and for all.

 

 

 

Incorrect, they are preventing Real world traders, not discontinued items.

 

 

 

If they do it, though, it won't be with silly conspiracy games on the GE. They will just exchange them for gold or make them untradeable or make a shop where they can be traded in.

 

 

 

Ineffective, that will only increase the value of rare items exponentially as their supply gets closer and closer to 0. To destroy the value you have to give everyone phats for a cheap price

 

 

 

One way or the other, they are eventually going to have to stop avoiding this problem and deal with it.

 

 

 

That's assuming that they want to stop this problem. where is the evidence?

[qeltar]

On every damn topic at these forums I've seen you flaming rares, merchants and almost everything that doesn't fit into your tight mind, no matter how good counter arguements you get.

 

 

I didn't flame anyone. I gave my opinion about a problem in the game.

 

 

 

Saying I have a "tight mind" and accusing me of nonsense is flaming. And I get a lot more flaming around here than I dish out, I assure you; most of it I don't even reply to.

 

 

Also if Jagex were to stop this money orientation, GE wouldn't work the way it does now

 

 

Has nothing to do with the GE.

 

 

Incorrect, they are preventing Real world traders, not discontinued items.

 

 

Discontinued items are one fairly significant motivation for real world trading and gold buying.

 

 

 

I also believe that updates such as the killing off of staking were about more than RWT, since anyone can see that they didn't need to drop the limit to 3k just for that reason.

[highlanders]

Maybe nobody would be talking about conspiracy theories if Jagex hadn't proven themselves to be fond of conspiracies.

 

 

 

First, they slyly destroyed staking. Then, they started adding price manipulation in the Grand Exchange. Don't do the "Omgz conspiracies don't exist!" thing, Jagex put it right in your face.

[FooK-A-Ji]

Maybe nobody would be talking about conspiracy theories if Jagex hadn't proven themselves to be fond of conspiracies.

 

 

 

First, they slyly destroyed staking. Then, they started adding price manipulation in the Grand Exchange. Don't do the "Omgz conspiracies don't exist!" thing, Jagex put it right in your face.

 

 

 

Plz pass whatever you're smoking.