MMORPG.com Runescape Correspondent Fasail Baig writes this look at the Grand Exchange, a new buying and selling feature in the game.

Are you a merchant that is tired of typing: "selling (item name)" 500 times over just to sell an item? Do you think world switching several times over to find a buyer is ridiculus? Try a new update to Runescape, the Grand Exchange. The Runescape Grand Exchange is a great way of making some quick and easy cash. It is a very useful new aspect of the game, and it helps traders and merchants greatly, as it speeds up the buying and selling world. Instead of trying to find a buyer/seller at a bank or populated are, you simply put in a buy order and as soon as one becomes available for the price you set, you will have it!

Read the Grand Exchange Overview

This is just teasing players.

Why do players have to go to a single location at all? 

Why can't they purcahse a magical bag or some other contrived device, and use that to sell and purchase items?

Use the bag, and an interface pops up where you can drag and drop items you wish to sell, and set prices for the sale for each one from anywhere in the world.All the stuff goes into the infinite bag and out of your inventory.

A potential customer has another magical device that they use, and are presented with an interface where they can select the items that they wish to buy from an item list, or search for an item they want from a list of items that are already on sale. They can set a price range for the items they want to buy as well and lodge that request.

When they click to buy an item, or when their request is fulfilled, the item is delivered to their magic trading bag (Or perhaps their mailbox).

In a world of magic, this is how trading and transferring items should work :)

Originally posted by Gel214th

This is just teasing players.

Why do players have to go to a single location at all? 

Why can't they purcahse a magical bag or some other contrived device, and use that to sell and purchase items?

Use the bag, and an interface pops up where you can drag and drop items you wish to sell, and set prices for the sale for each one from anywhere in the world.All the stuff goes into the infinite bag and out of your inventory.

A potential customer has another magical device that they use, and are presented with an interface where they can select the items that they wish to buy from an item list, or search for an item they want from a list of items that are already on sale. They can set a price range for the items they want to buy as well and lodge that request.

When they click to buy an item, or when their request is fulfilled, the item is delivered to their magic trading bag (Or perhaps their mailbox).

In a world of magic, this is how trading and transferring items should work :)

 

They wouldnt do that because that would basically be a mobile bank and fixed banks is what makes skill training, in rs,  the way it is.

As I recall, you get half of what you have in mind...

While you have to go to the exchange to list the items or bid on them, if you list an item that doesn't sell or bid for something not currently available, later on you can pick up the results of your transaction at any bank.