On November 26, 2007, Jagex released a new way to trade your items without having to worry if you are getting the raw end of the deal and without having to waste your time trying to get into crowded worlds where you can barely understand what people are saying. May we present to you, The Grand Exchange!

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction into the Grand Exchange
2. Getting Started in the Grand Exchange
3. The Basics of Trading Items
- Selling and Buying Items
- Armor Sets
4. Your Trade History

Introduction:

Welcome one and all The Grand Exchange of RuneScape! Located to the West of Varrock Castle, the Grand Exchange is a way for players, F2p and P2p alike, to trade their wears in a safe and fair environment. The use of having to go to over populated worlds like world 2 is now a thing of the past as the Grand Exchange makes it to were users can submit their items for a predetermined price, set by Jagex, in any world and any user looking to buy the items submitted can then buy without the hassle of being scammed.

Getting Started in the Grand Exchange:

Before you can start all of your trading with the Grand Exchange you must first go through a tutorial to see how everything works out. You can learn this tutorial by speaking to either the Grand Exchange Tutor or Brugsen Bursen, both of whom are to the south of the Grand exchange. We shall go over how to use the Grand exchange later in this guide.

Brugsen Bursen:


Grand Exchange Tutor:

All around the outside of the exchange building you will notice some other people who you can talk with. These people are the expert traders and know all about the prices of their area of expertise. Meaning each person can tell you of the ever changing prices of their corresponding area. The traders are as follow:

Hofuthand - Weapons and Armour Prices



Bob Barter - Herb Prices



Relobo Blinyo - Log Prices



Farid Morrisane - Ore Prices



Murky Matt - Rune Prices

* Note: The prices for any item able to be sold here always changes, so the pictures prices are not necessarily correct!

In the center of the Grand Exchange are a number of people - those in blue are the Grand Exchange clerks, and those in grey are bankers.

Basics of Trading Items:

Trading items through the Grand Exchange quite simpler then you first think. All you have to do is have those items you wish to sell, or the cash you wish to spend. Even if you do not have them, don?¡¯t worry there is a bank right next to the Exchangers. You can do up to 6 trades at a time if you are P2p and up to 2 trades if you are F2p.

Selling/ Buying Items:

To sell/buy your items at the Exchange you can simply talk to an Exchanger, the people with the blue coats on in the center of the building, and click on the option called ?¡°Exchange.?¡± This will then bring up a menu with six little boxes inside. These boxes will be like your trading screen for when you normally trade someone.

First, click on one of the boxes to choose if you want to ?¡°Buy?¡± items (box on the left) or ?¡°Sell?¡± your items (box on the right). Now from there you will be brought to another screen where you can choose an item from you inventory to sell, or offer cash for an item you wish to buy.

If you are choosing to sell items, click on the item(s) on one kind you wish to sell. You may sell only one type of item per Exchange box but you may offer as many of them as you wish.

A picture of the item will be shown in the top left and directly under it will show how many of the item(s) you are choosing to sell. By clicking the buttons under the ?¡°Quantity?¡± you can add any amount of that items ranging from 1, 10, 100, 500, or a custom number you select.

To the right of the Quantity you will see the ?¡°Price per Item?¡± box. This is the price of each individual item you are selling is plus a 5% increase/decrease from the starting price. That means you may choose any number from that price range to sell your items for. You can either set your price to the minimum amount, market price, maximum price, or set the price yourself but using the buttons found under the price box.

* On the sides of both boxes are a plus and a minus sign, this means if you click them the quality or price will either raise by one or lower by one.

After you have set your price and quantity hit the ?¡°Confirm Offer?¡± button on the bottom of the screen. This then brings you to the initial screen with the 6 exchange boxes. When you have a trade set in one of these boxes, you can see if you have sold/bought anything buy just looking at the bar under your item. If the bar is green you know you have sold/bought something.

You will also receive a message in game saying that you have sold something in the Exchange, so that way even if you are doing something else, like skilling or questing, you will know if you have a trade.

If you have bought something or sold something and you would like to claim your item(s)/cash just talk with any of the Exchangers, or any banker in game and select ?¡°Collect?¡± to go to your collection box. Here you can collect your cash from selling items, or your items that you have bought.

Now buying items is pretty much the same principal as selling items, with a few changes. When you select the ?¡°Buy?¡± box in your Exchange boxes you will be brought to a screen that looks similar to the sell screen, but instead of having a picture of the item you wish to sell there is a little magnifying glass. Click on this magnifying glass and then you can type in any item, or key word, you wish to buy. For example if I wanted to search for White Knight armor I could just type in the word ?¡°white?¡± and it would bring up an entire list of items that start with the word white.

After you have found the item you wish to buy, click on it and set the price you wish to buy it for. Click ?¡°Confirm Offer?¡± and just wait till you get a seller.

Now at any time you wish to cancel an offer, just click the Exchange box with the offer you wish to stop, which brings you to another screen where you can see your offer, and click the ?¡°X?¡± button which them takes your offer off the market. This causes the bar under your order to turn red, which means the offer was aborted. But to get your items back you must click your items in the bottom right corner, other wise they will just sit there.

Armor Sets:

Now if you are wanting to sell a full set of a type of armor, like some Barrows for example, you can have them all grouped into one set which makes it only take up one Exchange box of your 6, or 2. To make an armor set, you must first have all of the pieces of that armor that are required for the set, then you talk to an Exchanger and select the option ?¡°Sets?¡±. You will then see a screen with all kinds of different set boxes so just find the one you want and your armor will then convert into it.

Trade History:

The Trade History is where the history of your last 5 trades is kept. It records the type of offer (bought or sold), the item, the quantity, and the price (what you paid or received). Trades will only show up on your history if you have collected your items/cash. This also includes trades you have aborted. To access your trade histories just talk with an Exchanger and select ?¡°History.?¡±

We hope you enjoyed this guide and we hope it helped you out in what to do at the Grand Exchange! Now go out there and make some great deals!