The Marketplace

[FooK-A-Ji]

Seeing as trading will return to what it once was with exception of the GE still being around.

Would it not be a good idea to bring back some of the old forum sections of the tip.it Marketplace?

 

I can't see the future but I can imagine alot of people will be holding auctions of various items and/or items in mass quantities i.e ore/bar sales like the good ol' times :)

It would avoid alot of confusion in the current Marketplace.

 

 

 

Below is a suggestion for what the sectors could be divided into, leaving room for suggestions.

 

• Armour/Weapons
  
• Ores/Bars/Fletching
  
• Farming/Herblore
  
• Cooking
  
• Miscellaneous (Bank Sales, Rares, Odds & Ends)
  
• Runners/Slaves/Other services.
  

 

Happy gaming!

[Bladewing]

no, the marketplace will become 100% useless. it should be removed

 

at least right now it is useful for trading items that are bought out or crashing

[tripsis]

Pre-GE advertising on forums was the only way to sell items, which is why The Marketplace was once so popular and active and had many subforums. But even when free trade returns the GE will still exist which makes advertising on forums still almost pointless ;)

 

In any case, we'd probably only consider such an update if there was a sudden HUGE spike in activity that caused threads to be kicked off the first page rather quickly. We wouldn't bring them back because of *suspected* increase in activity. We want to see it happen first! (and personally I don't think it will :P)

[stevepole]

I remember the market place in it's entirety was still very slow back in the day, it was only really got for shops and rares if for some reason you couldn't find a buyer in Falador or Seers. However I did vote yes but more so under the context Tripsis mentioned.

[Gandorf61]

I'm not sure if it needs to be split up that much again but if activity does start to pick up once more then perhaps making the Marketplace a main forum with "Buying" "Selling" and "Item Lending" as subforums would be a good idea.

 

With the GE in place having no restrictions I don't think we'll ever see the marketplace back to the activity it had pre-2008.

[FooK-A-Ji]

All good and valid points.

Perhaps the only real necessity if any at all, would be an "Auction" section.. I dunno I just love auctions. Everybody does :D

 

Starting at 1 pot and 3 banana's and ending at 100 million, you can't beat that feeling!

[obfuscator]

Like Tripsis, I think it's a good idea - but I'd prefer to see the activity first. I don't see them being nearly as active as they once were even with this update.