Shop
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A Shop is any establishment which allows the trading of currency for an item or service, or vice versa. Shop prices may be lower or higher than the equivalent item's price on the Grand Exchange, however, due to their fixed prices, shops cannot be susceptible to the market trends of the Grand Exchange.
Stock
Each shop has a maximum quantity of items in stock, which differs per item and per shop. Items can only be purchased in batches of 1, 5, 10 and 50. Whenever a shop has less of a certain item than their maximum capacity of that item, the shop will start to restock on that item. The time to restock varies between items. Only a single item will be re-added to the shop per restock, except in the case of Ore seller which restocks items in batches. Items that aren't part of the shop's regular stock, or exceed their maximum capacity, will slowly be removed from the shop. Some shops, such as The Flaming Arrow pub, have infinite stock.
Many shops have separate stock between Main accounts and Ironmen, and stock can be further separated between group, ultimate, and regular ironmen. For example, if an ultimate ironman buys ores from the Ore seller, the shop's stock will not decrease for main accounts, group ironmen, or regular ironmen. However, if an ironman sells an item to the Pollnivneach general store, all other account types will see the shop's stock increase.
Any shop that sells a Cape of Accomplishment has separate stock for players with and without level 99 in the respective skill, and further separate stock for players with that skill as their first 99, who can purchase an untrimmed cape.
Stock at any given shop always varies between worlds, which some players use to their advantage by hopping worlds in order to trade items at the best prices through many small transactions. Multiple shops sometimes share the same stock; for example, buying an item at the Void Knight General Store decreases that item's stock at Jennifer's General Supplies in Shayzien.
Pricing
Players may sell any tradeable item to a general store for a fixed value (usually its low alchemy value), or to specialty shops that specifically stock the item for a fixed higher value (usually its high alchemy value). These values will diminish by a fixed percentage that varies between shops for each stock increase. Regardless of how overstocked they are, all shops will buy the player's items for a minimum of 10% of the item's value. Players may buy any item in stock from a shop for a fixed value. This value will increase by the same fixed percentage mentioned previously for each stock decrease. Specialty shops use their maximum stock quantities as their fixed reference.
For example, a steel axe has a value of 200 coins. It can be sold to most general stores for 80 coins (40% of its value), should the shop not have any steel axes in stock. If the player were to sell it to an axe shop such as Bob's Brilliant Axes, then it would sell for 120 coins (60% of its value), should Bob have his default quantity of 3 steel axes in stock. Since Bob has a fixed percentage change of 2% per sale, then selling a steel axe to him with 4 already in stock would yield 116 coins (58% of its value). If a player were to buy a steel axe from Bob with 3 in stock, it would cost 200 coins. If 4 steel axes were in stock, the price would be 196 coins (98% of its value).
Types of shops
Changes
| Date | Changes |
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| [[{{#explode:10 September 2015| |0}} {{#explode:10 September 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:10 September 2015| |2}}]] (update | poll) |
A sell-50 option has been added when selling to shops. |
| [[{{#explode:30 October 2014| |0}} {{#explode:30 October 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:30 October 2014| |2}}]] (update) |
Some shops now have separate stocks for Ironman and standard accounts. |
