they got merched hard by someone can't quite remember who though. Someone had like Billions and billions worth of rock climbing boots and just held then and they rose like a bitch.
Used to be 500gp and after people were merching them jagex updated it to 2 seperate types of boots, one cost like 50k with strength+other bonuses and the other one was the same price as the old one but without strength + some of the other bonuses.
I had like 10 boots at the time of the update (not from merching), very jealous of those who had 1000s+
They used to just be called "climbing boots" and you could buy them from the guy at the mountain for 12gp. All climbing boots in the game got turned into "rock climbing boots" and they were given a high alching price of 45k. Jagex did this because they thought that the strength bonus of these boots were too good for the price of them. So basicly Jagex forced this huge price upon the boots and those lucky enough to have lots profited greatly. You can still buy normal climbing boots for 12gp. Hope this helped explain it a bit better
Most people made bank of these when the price rose, I do beleive it wasnt merchanting the made jagex change the price it was more because of the strength bonus like 'gds08' stated
Yeah I had quite a large break from runescape left with what I believed to be around a 600k bank, Had over 40 Climbing boots, came back to a nice little sum of money to start me back up
Yeah, not sure quite the reason - rune boot equivalent strength bonus was probably the reason - but Jagex made an update, raising their price on the GE and the stock price from the Sherpa.
^ yeah mod mark leaked to some of his friends that they were gonna rise by alot and people made bils off of them.
i was a noob at the time and only had 2 of them lol
Mod mark stated that the most boots that one player had only made them about 130m but I have seen vids with people making bills off them. Could be fake though I guess.