Permed. What does it mean?

[ShoedimusPrime]

I've heard people say this is done to prevent an item from disappearing. But why would an item just disappear unless it was illegally obtained (duped) but I also seeing "permed" items being traded here so it must not have to do with duping

[Epheira]

Cubing them or socketing then i think.

Basically when a 'duper' want massive amounts of ist runes (for example), he dupes mal runes and cubes em. Then they get new ID codes. I'm not really sure. Not a big fan of duping, but when getting ists in trades, i'd like em to be permed if duped ofcourse :azn: There is no way of telling if they are duped.. Too bad...

Non duped items shouldnt dissapear. But B.net sometimes glitches i have heard... Dont think perming helps that. Never had or heard of that problem.

When you're afraid of dupes, play ladder, they are less dupes there (they still are there)

[frish]

socketing doesn't work. the runes will still have their ID.
but duped runes in runewords will only be deleted if blizzard runs a full ruststorm, which they almost never do because it slows down the game performance severely

[baffle]

socketing doesn't work. the runes will still have their ID.
but duped runes in runewords will only be deleted if blizzard runs a full ruststorm, which they almost never do because it slows down the game performance severely

Actually, I think the main reason for not running ruststorm is because it gives a huge additional income boost to the dupe shops - they'll be able to produce new dupes within hours from a ruststorm, and sell them to all the losers who had their runes poof.