Junk

[1101]

The forums are flooded with people buying items with junk. My question is, what's junk?

[Spindrift]

If you mean the official RS forums, I think junk is a term used for items. i.e. Buying Purple Party Hat, will accept junk, probably means that they will trade the hat for Multiple runes, food, and other stuff as long as it equals out to the gp they would have normaly accecpted.

[1101]

why the change in terminology? Why not use items like they used to?

[Draxis]

probably because of a new generation of Rs players.

[Duke Nukem]

Because "junk" has 4 letters, whereas "logs, food, arrows, runes, armour, weapons, rares" has approximately 49 keystrokes, depending on how illiterate the person is.

[1101]

items has 5 junk has 4. Big difference.

[Katslover]

One letter IS a big difference.

Take your name for example, "Duckman17." One wrong letter and it spells "F*ckman17." I don't think you want people making that mistake, do you?

[Scerro]

and the d is right next to the f....

Of course, I think its stupid to not specify exactly what you want.

[Dan]

Grammar is important too. It's the difference between "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse" and "I helped my uncle jack of a horse".

Besides, items is a collective term as it refers to the x million items listed on the GE. Junk is a commonly accepted term referring to large quantities of regular items such as food and runes. It saves time really.

[Ford Mustang]

That and Party Hats don't sell as they do anymore, as the Grand Exchange f*cked up the economy. With the whim of Jagex, Party Hats could be worthless tomorrow, while whips could go up to 15M. I doubt that will happen, but that's basically what they said with the Grand Exchange, right?

People will rather trade junk (arrows, food, armour, the likes) for a valuable item, so they are more likely to get the money, rather than have it sit in the Exchange for years at a time.

[1101]

I suppose that makes sense...