Trading Post & the market

The economy centres on the Lumbridge courtyard market - every essential vendor stands in two shop rows by the castle, so you never hunt for a shop. This page explains how the market works; for the full stock-and-price reference see the shops directory, and for the route to every rare see Path to end game.

Shops open instantly - no dialogue

Clicking Trade (or Talk-to on a pure shopkeeper) opens the store directly - no chat menus. Vendors that run several stores show a tab strip along the bottom of the shop window; click a tab to switch store instantly:

Quartermaster - Weapons / Armour / Accessories / Barrows / Crystal / Charged / Relics / Buy Tickets tabs.
Emblem Trader - Supplies / Spec weapons / Wildy sets / Revenant / Buy Blood Money tabs.
Melee Shop (Horvik) - Weapons / Rank armour tabs.
Herblore Shop (Jatix) - all four seed stores, herbs, secondaries, unfinished potions and farm tools as tabs.
Skilling, Fishing and Rewards shops - Tools/Materials, Supplies/Fish and Boss/Vote reward tabs.

The odd vendor with something to say still talks on Talk-to (Zaff can still lift you to the rune altar; the Quartermaster still takes war-supply hand-ins) - but Trade always goes straight to the wares.

Selling to shops

Every coin shop buys back what it stocks at 70% of value - with the shop window open, right-click an item in your inventory and pick Sell 1/5/10 (or Sell X). Runes go back to Zaff, fish to Gerrant, herbs and seeds to Jatix, armour to the Apprentice, and so on. The general store by the bridge buys almost any tradeable (up to 5,000 gp value) at the same 70%, and the Trading Post (::market) takes anything - including valuables the general store refuses - also at 70%. Reward and ticket shops (Quartermaster, Emblem Trader, Valaine, the currency desks) never buy back.

Every NPC pays the same 70%. Want more? Sell to players: list it on the [Grand Exchange](#the-grand-exchange), where commodities trade between 70% and 100% of value and gear floats free - the extra margin comes from a real buyer, not the coin printer.

The Trading Post

::market opens the Trading Post - a player marketplace with an NPC backstop so trading works even at low population:

Buying: pay full item value.
Selling: receive 70% of value (the same rate as every shop; the margin is a deliberate gold sink).
Nothing is house stock: everything on the shelf is something a player sold, waiting to be bought back - if the shelf is empty, nobody has sold anything yet.
It accepts almost any tradeable, including the valuables the general store refuses - it's the sell-anything counter, not the best price. The best price is the [Grand Exchange](#the-grand-exchange).

Bonds are never bought by the post - they only move player-to-player. See Bonds & membership.

The Grand Exchange

The Trading Post is growing into a full Grand Exchange - the classic OSRS offer book, where you post buy and sell orders for coins and they fill against other players. It's being wired up now; here's how it works:

Post an offer: pick an item (the same search box you already know), set a quantity and a price per item, and confirm. Buy offers hold your coins, sell offers hold your items - both wait safely until they fill or you cancel, then the proceeds land in your collection box.
Stores set the minimums: everyday commodities (runes, bars, ores, logs, food, herbs, mats) are backed by the shops - the Exchange won't let them trade below 70% or above 100% of value, so those markets stay tight. Gear, megarares and the special currencies have no backstop: their price floats on what players will pay.
Special currencies trade here too: Blood Money, Boss Tickets and Vote Tickets are tradeable items you can sell for coins - a PKer can cash out Blood Money to a PvMer, a bosser can sell tickets - so gold and grind flow between playstyles.

Buy currency for coins (live now): the Quartermaster sells Boss Tickets at 1,000 gp, the Emblem Trader sells Blood Money at 800 gp, and Valaine sells Vote Tickets at 2,000 gp - one-way (they never buy back). This is the top price on the gear those vendors sell: you can always grind the currency, or buy your way in with gold. Rates rise as the realm's economy grows.

The market rows

General stores & supply vendors - food, tools, runes, gear up to the adamant cap (dragon and rune-plus come from drops, the Forge and war loot; better food and potions are gated behind skilling).
Armoury - heavier armour unlocks with your feudal rank.
Loot Chest - claim your wilderness loot keys.
Emblem Trader - the PK Rewards vendor (Blood Money): PK supplies, spec weapons, the wilderness sets (Vesta's/Statius's/Morrigan's/Zuriel's) and revenant weapons. The PvP gear chase lives here.
Quartermaster - the Warlord's Armoury - the PvM gear chase, paid in Boss Tickets: GWD bases (they feed the Royal Smith's war-forge), Justiciar/Inquisitor/Void, crystal gear, charged weapons (blowpipe, tridents), BIS accessories, the megarares (twisted bow, scythe, shadow) at career prices, and the Relics wing - 3rd age antiques (now a pity-path: the real source is the war, and Lord+ can sell pieces back here). His Barrows wing sells for coins - the mid-game gp sink. War-forged Torva/Masori/Ancestral are never sold: the Smith makes them, nobody else.
Bond Merchant - redeem bonds.
Donor Store (::donorstore) - cosmetic rares (partyhats, santa, h'ween masks) for Donor Points; tradeable, stat-less flex.
Commander's Regalia (::prestigeshop) - the sanguine regalia set for Prestige (commanders only earn it).
Gambling Host - house dice at the south end.
Reward shops - spend Boss tickets and Vote tickets (tradeable, stackable ticket items earned from bossing and voting).
The Grand Exchange stand - on the old fountain site at the north end of the aisle: click it to open the Exchange (the clerk and ::ge work too). The Altar of the Occult now stands on the north exit path just past the teleport portal and switches your spellbook; the church altar just east of the market recharges prayer points - bones offered on it earn boosted Prayer xp.

Player trading

Direct player-to-player trading works everywhere with the standard two-screen trade interface. Check your net worth with ::wealth, or see the richest players online with ::wealthtop.