What would RS be without merchants?

[999134]

I love how merchants are blamed for both raising and lowering prices. You want everything cheap except the things that you sell for profit.

 

 

 

"Omg why are furies still 2.8m noob merchants!!111!"

 

"Why can I only sell sara swords for 6m ffs noob merchants lower price"

 

 

 

Merchants can't turn the price of an item or keep it steady on their own, only slow down the correct change (excluding hoarding by clan chats). Thus preventing dfs from being under 10m right now.

 

 

 

junk merchants are the really enemy

 

If you lost 140mil becasue u sold in ge i dont care!

 

to get that item you would have bought ge or got it free from a clue anyway!

 

junk should be destoryed (i mean wtf why is maple longbow worth that much!)

 

would have to be careful though (zgs anyone?)

 

oh yeah and price maniulators because its annoying paying 10k or something for a dragonfire shield

 

 

 

This is a perfect example of an ignorant post. You don't care about 140m gp? I'll take it from ya! No, the only 3a is sold in the Grand Exchange is the pieces achieved by newb clue hunters. Almost all 3a is traded with junk in w2 and clan chats.

 

 

 

Some people use pouches as junk. Does that mean all pouches should be worth 0 gp? Of course not...And like I said, price manipulators can't alter the direction an item is moving, only *slightly* slow the process.

 

i sorta lost my trail of thought it that thread :anxious:

 

i mean if 3rd age prices where put up half was between junk and ge price then it should be near fair

 

because junk price is more than a old world 2 price!becasue junk itself is a currency and not just worthless

[jettrider]

 

i sorta lost my trail of thought it that thread :anxious:

 

i mean if 3rd age prices where put up half was between junk and ge price then it should be near fair

 

because junk price is more than a old world 2 price!becasue junk itself is a currency and not just worthless

 

 

 

Well that is one point I'll agree with you on. The reason that partyhats sell for all junk and 3a amulets sell for 150m is that they are much harder to trade. Junk doesn't come easy. I do believe that if the GE looked at seldom traded items and adjusted based on where the offers are, the price would settle at a price less inflated than current junk prices.

[onuasdad]

What would happen if Jagex cancels Runescape in the next update lolololololololololololllollol.

 

 

 

ftw

 

 

 

Ty fo a new quote for my sig.

[Yomyth105]

merchanting will always be alive unless jagex takes out trading, shops and every player to player interaction with items or makes it 1player game.

 

 

 

why?

 

 

 

because there will always be merchants. there would always be that one person who would merchant because he is alone he will be making so much more profit than anyone else. why? because he has control of the price. watever he says the item costs is the price of the item. why? because nobody else is selling it out there so he has no competition. he can go his merry way and sell anything for any price the buyer also must agree upon.

 

 

 

right now. if u try to sell an item for 5k more than wat it should be u will fail only because the guy next to u is selling it for lower so ppl will buy his item. there is competition and however sells for lowest price wins. unless they agree to make the prices higher ;) and i am gonna stop there.

[onuasdad]

merchanting will always be alive unless jagex takes out trading, shops and every player to player interaction with items or makes it 1player game.

 

 

 

why?

 

 

 

because there will always be merchants. there would always be that one person who would merchant because he is alone he will be making so much more profit than anyone else. why? because he has control of the price. watever he says the item costs is the price of the item. why? because nobody else is selling it out there so he has no competition. he can go his merry way and sell anything for any price the buyer also must agree upon.

 

 

 

right now. if u try to sell an item for 5k more than wat it should be u will fail only because the guy next to u is selling it for lower so ppl will buy his item. there is competition and however sells for lowest price wins. unless they agree to make the prices higher ;) and i am gonna stop there.

 

great eplenation. now this thread's nswered basically.

[Verie__Bad]

merchanters will allways exist, thats just the way the market works

 

 

 

even if people do not merchant on purpose

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

Merchants are keeping godsword rices steady, not good if you can not afford one, but good if you have one...

 

Really? Well what the heck happened with the AGS? Did the Bank of Varrock get robbed or something?

 

 

 

What is a merchant, well if we ask Merriam-Webster, it says a merchant is

a buyer and seller of commodities for profit

 

 

 

so it was clearly not merchants who killed the price of the ags, because they themselves are taking a loss

 

I'm not sure whether I find it amazing or sickening that you totally missed the point of my response. You claimed that merchants were keeping the prices steady - I asked what happened with it. That's as canonical as it gets.

 

 

 

If merchants didn't kill the price of the AGS, as you claim, and merchants are maintaining the price for the AGS, as you claim, then what the hell happened?!