What do you think of my idea, i think its great!

I was pondering about the runescape trade system. Standing around for a while and typing "selling x item x gp ---- x rsn" for hours really takes the fun out of trading.

This is why i use forums. Now, i thought, why not have an ingame trade\sell\buy forum. This could be in the form of a special trade shop. Think: the drop party house in seers, of course, completely different, but thinking along the same idea. You would deposit an item, say an Abbysal whip, and maybe a menu similar to one for the duel arena would ask you some questions, such as allowing lower offers, asking what your price is ect, if your selling noted items, say 4k yew logs, you can set minimum amount allowed to buy, and the price per log you want. So, essentially, you could deposit a whip in the special trade center\store, and have an asking price of say, 5.2m...Other people can look at the store with a right click option, and see what other people are selling, and there should be a clear way to scroll down a listing with the price people are asking.

There should be an option 'Make offer' if you do not want to pay that price, or want to offer items instead, you can offer the items\cash, and then the person with that item in the special shop, will be sent a notice, think about something similiar to the tele-other accept or decline box, where he can accept or decline the offer.

There will have to be some work, tweaking, and lots of thought put into this, but it really could revolutionize trading in runescape. I thougt there should be some stipulations if such an idea were ever implemented. First, your items will only be put up for auction in the store for 24hours, after that the items are automatically put back into your bank when you log on. Also, your items in that shop will have to be hidden while you are logged off, or else the notification about an offer will get complicated. But really, i think this could potentially be something really great, the old trade system should always be in the game, but this could be like an in-game forum to buy and sell, should it catch on, it could be a real time saver in trying to sell items. For instance, and rune smither could put noted rune axes into the shop, and ask 18k per, with a limit of one, options that should be available when you deposit items to be displayed. Also, this just poped into my head, the notifications can't be received while in the wilderness or castlewars, or while in combat.

Anyway, whats your thoughts and suggestions? I realize this would be a huge undertaking, but think, if it is carefully implemented it would be a huge, and i mean huge revolution in runescape item trading.

This idea is not new, its good, excelent.

I just don't understand why in the hell Jagex doesn't changes the current trade system.

I wouldn't say it was your idea, but your obviously seeing sense and realising something similar to this is desperately needed in the game.

It's a constructive post you made there, nice work. :P

Has anyone played Neopets? their trading system is you put something up and everyone offers... and maker gets to pick which to accept. Theres also a auction where you set starting price and everyone gets to bid in set increments. If someone buys, then just a small events icon appears in the corner of the window like the wildy and multicombat icon. If you want to see what has happened, you click the icon and unlike the others, this one works like a link. For rs, it would be better as a right click link with the option to check recent events. Therefore, it is both scammer, wildy, and castlewars proof. AND it works.

Hmmmm, some good ideas here. I like the idea of a new trade system in addition to the current one. It seems so old fashioned to stand around in massive groups where you can't even see what's being said because the text flies by so fast, trying to shout out what you're selling or buying over and over hoping that someone will actually be able to see your words in an ocean of text.