Not really a 'Help & Advice' question but more to understand what is going on with the market right now. The update has given the chance of people to get double loot from the Barrow's chest and there are so many players doing Barrows at the moment which would probably remain the same up to the end of the week. I thought this would meant that the supply would overtake the demand of Barrow items but the Grand Exchange shows they are in fact increasing in price still. Why is this?

 

Thanks in advance!

New items (albeit they are very old but with a redesign) always go up in price because of the demand, but quickly they will drop off faster than you know it because of increase supply due to the event and knowledge that they don't really offer any differences will bring them back down plus to a lower price than when it first began. Just have to wait for the novelty to fade out.

A few misguided merchants bulk buying to try and profit and the natural demand for new shiny stuff pushes value up; but real value will plummet far below GE value probably before we even hit the weekend as the demand will fizzle and the supply will boom.

 

Always worth remembering on the current 'it' item(s) relating to a new update GE value rarely reflects the value they actually trade at. Real value can shift much more fluidly than GE value which takes time to catch up.

Some people think they should be going up. Other people think they should be going down. Right now, they're going up because the first group outnumbers the second group.

Because there's a high demand for them because of the re-design.