After getting scammed and seeing my friends getting scammed, I searched for a guide that teaches you the current famous trade scams. Unable to find one, I planned to write my own, with the experience I have with World 1/The Wall Street of Runescape II.

This is guide is not intended to teach people 'how to scam' but it teaches you 'how to not-get scammed' in a day-to-day marcket place.



Marcket Place Scams



1.0 The Basic Stuff

There are things that matter in evey trade. However, majority of the responsibility is on you.

Negligible behviour can be caused by lack of patience, lack of vision, lack of knowledge and state of mind at the moment.

For example, refer to common mistakes:

2.0 Common Mistakes

Common Mistakes are result of Negligible Behaviour. In this section we will look into some of them.


2.1 Not knowing the price

Mistake:

This mistake is caused by lack of knowledge. You might have heard a friend buying a Rune Plate for 200,000 coins or overpaying. This can be reversed too; such as someone selling their Rune Plate for far less money than that it is worth of.


Solution:

Well, there is tons of price guides in every RS2 related forums. Its upto someone's responsibility to know the price of the product they want to buy/sell.

Ben's Prince Guide - Most Trusted and Updated.

You may use the above link to find the correct prices of the items. The prices may be little lower or higher, than the guide price, but it doesn't fail you/get scammed.


2.2 First Window Scams




Mistake:

Although second window plays a major role in trading, people get scammed in first window of their trade screen sometimes.

The scammer sells something extremely cheap. For an example, lets say yew logs are worth 250gps each.

- Then, you approach them with the intention of trading or getting a deal before someone else.
- When you first trade and the first trade window opens, the trader puts up 1k yews and you put up 150 000 coins.
- If the trader is a first trade window scammer, then he will most likely decline the trade and will ask for 5,000 coins more.
- You, most likely will agree with him since its a bargain for u still.
- However, when you start up the first trade window, he will have 1k oak logs instead of yews and most people fall for this.


Solution:

This decline-accept style scamming is the latest in marcket. All the trades can be caught in the first window if you are careful or second window. Then again, this guide is intended to instruct you of the new scam styles in the market. Getting scammed/not is up to you.




- The trade is balanced [like you are paying the correct amount/the trader paying the correct ammount]


Dictionary

Trader: The person with whom you are trading with.
Scammer: Someone who try to trade you/traded you where the result of the trade is loss to you.

More Coming Up:

Here's a scam that I've fallen ofr quite a few times. When peopel try to sell big bones, they put it in notes, except they look very similar in the pic. Then you offer a low price(say 100) they accept, you hurry to accpet before they decline and BANG! You've been scammed.

In fact I have written the common scams in paper but it will take some time to type out. Thats y i closed the topic. After my part of guide is finished i will add ppl's experience.