About Item Lending -n- Duping
 

taken from mod Ash

The item lending system in RuneScape is quite complicated. Frequently people find that it's not working how they expect, and they reasonably assume that it's broken. For example, I've had perfectly intelligent people complaining to me that their lent items went missing, only to find that they were trying to retrieve the lent items from the GE collection box.

I'd quite like to rework how you get lent items back, to make it simpler, although there are other problems that need more urgent attention.

For what it's worth, the item lending system works like this:
The lender's item is moved to an escrow inventory (on their account).
A new fake version of the item is given to the borrower.
At the end of the loan, the fake item is taken off the borrower, and the lender is allowed to reclaim their property from the escrow inventory.
So if you've lent out an item, you should always see it in your Returned Items box (talk to a banker) and you should be entitled to claim it at the end of the loan.
Since the item is never removed from the lender's account at all, it's unlikely that they can be stolen. So far so good, anyway.

This is the exact way I described the system, nice to have a mod confirm.

Yes it works like this, because if it was the real item that the lender had, it would cause too many problems if a bug was found to keep it.

Nice. I thought it as liek this.

Quite obvious it worked like this.

BUT, this morning 2 minutes after the Run Energy update, there was a Item Lending glitch where people managed to keep loaned items. A Jmod confirmed it on RuneScape Forums.

nobody kept no items the glitch was that the item was returned but the original owner never got it it.

Shall I post the picture of a Jagex Mod confiming that people did actually lose the items?

Shall I point out how idiotic that post was, or does someone else want to?

I thought all of this was obvious

If the item on the other person's account is only a copy, then how did the glitch occur where people where able to dismantle Godsword's loaned to them, and then keep the hilt while only returning the blade?

(I never did the glitch so the above post is assuming that the item lending system was not altered after the glitch)