Player Owned Shops

My vision is that one day Jagex will incorporate fully interactive Player Owned Shops within RuneScape to be combined with the recent introduction of Player Owned Houses.

The ideal situation is that Jagex would permit Player Owned Shops to be fully functional on non-member worlds as well as member worlds. A big selling point of members could be owning their very own store. I feel this would address the problem of spam that is rife in the popular trading worlds currently and would cut out on a lot of chancers trying to scam people in trades.

The basic principle behind this would be shop opening times. Players could set their opening times ( on a 24hr clock basis) to be open when they are online or open 24/7. A shopkeeper would get paid wages per hour and players would be able to freely set the prices of goods they had in stock that they were selling. Players would also be able to set the selling price of their stock which would always remain at the same level unless altered by the player.

In addition, players could select 3 items ( or a set number of items) that they would always buy if they had sufficient funds available... much like managing the kingdom in Miscellania, players would therefore manage their shops.

There could be a host of events surrounding this like advertising their ingame shops through fliers that would show the location of the shop, special sales or simply the shop name and owner.

I feel this would revolutionise the trading world in RuneScape and would be a very worthwhile thing for Jagex to consider in the future. It would also impact widely on runescape merchanting.