Auction House Antics

I am (again) a Blizzard WoW Fan(boy)

2010-05-07T15:13:00.000-05:00

As promised.

Really?
Well, not really. I'm not blindly, dogmatically supportive of all things Blizzard. I am, however, extremely impressed, again, with Blizzard's WoW support team.
Here's the Cliff's Notes version of the in-game resolution notification:

It was too long ago, we can't help you. Besides, you have enough money and gear to be able to play the game.

That was a depressing response, let me tell you what. More like a kick in the jewels. I was NOT relishing starting over. One oddity, though, was that one of the items in my item restoration emails that were already on my account when I resubbed was a Warrior/Shaman/Priest (I think) Tier7 or 8 glove token. On my Paladin. So in response to the "we can't help you" resolution response, I extended the ticket with a request that, even though they can't restore all my stuff, could they at least swap that token out for something I could actually, you know, use?

Well, for some reason, that got my ticket Escalated. Hmm... ok, I thought to myself. Maybe I'll get a gear token for gear that's too low for the content I want to do, but maybe it will help me build my new Ret set. We'll see.

Later...
While in the middle of logging between banker, main, DK alt, and back again in an attempt to rebuild my old glyph business and try to restart some JC biz, new GM mail popped up in my mailbox. Odd. What's this, I think. The gear token should be on my Pally, not my DK. And there's 3 of them, not one. Oh dear, what's wrong now?

Whoa, Darkmoon cards and ore and stuff?!?
OMGOMGOMGWTFBBQ! Quick, log to my main, log to my main!!!
Gold! Gold! GOOOOOOOOOOLD! 8k GOOOOOOOOOLD!
*gasp
Quick, self, check the mage, check the MAGE!
Yep, there it is!
*happy dance

What did Santa Blizz bring me?
73 DK Alt Miner/newb Enchanter - Money Restored: 87g 68s 24c
70 Druid Alt(old refer-a-friend) Mid Tailor/Mid-High Skinning - Money Restored: 836g 96s 11c
80 Pally Main JC/Scribe - Money Restored: 8,632g 30s 81c
10 Mage Banker - Money Restored: 17,300g 12s 30c

Total - 26857g 7s 46c
Additionally, there were a boatload of Adder's Tongue, Saronite, a few Epic and Rare gems, several uncut meta Gems, Eternals, BoE and BoP gear, Orbs, glyphs, etc.

So, instead of having about 1000g cash and probably 1500g in mats and inventory across all my characters and having to "start over", Blizzard have made me fall in love with them all over again.
I have my bankroll, I have many mats and sellable inventory, and most importantly, calmness, zen, a lack of stress. Coffee may be for closers, but stress kills. I can't concentrate when stressed and depressed, so I lose my edge.

He can fly!
I can play the game without constantly worrying about having money for Cataclysm and alts.
I can finish training up my Enchanting, drop my low tailoring and pick up Leatherworking or, more likely, Alchemy. My spouse has 450 Tailoring because she wanted the carpet and Alchemy Flask master because we were raiding at the time and "free" bonus flasks were great.
So I want to make a Transmute Alchemist, but I also want Leather, but I also want to be able to make money on skinning and mining when Cataclysm comes out, if not by outright selling mats, at least by turning skins and ore into armor kits and gems. Maybe I can get my spouse to switch to Transmute. I can afford it, now. :D

What's the Plan?
I don't know. I know what I want to have when the 'clysm hits.
Goals for Cataclysm
0 - Keep: 450 Mining, 450 JC, 450 Inscription
1 - Get (to): 450 Enchanting, 450 Alchemy(Transmute), 450 Leatherworking, 450 Skinning
2 - Drop Tailoring, as my spouse has that covered.
3 - Level DK and Druid to 78, as I think that will be the "cutoff" for Cataclysm, like 68 was for Northrend. They need to be able to gather the new zones/content.

Who's what?
My Mage will continue to be the Banker, though I'm going to need a second one, I think, if I'm going to get heavy into JC and add Enchanting and Leatherworking.
My Pally JC/Scribe is and will continue to be my main "playing" character.
My DK will keep Mining/Enchanting
My Druid can drop Tailoring but keep Skinning.
I'll also be starting a Worgen. He'll probably be Skinning & either Herbs or Mining, depending on what else is happening to tradeskills for 'clysm.

Decisions, decisions...
That leaves only one slot for Alchemy AND Leatherworking. Or rather, OR. The worgen won't be meaningful to this decision, as I want to level up and skill up before 'clysm.
So, what would you do? Take Leatherworking and hope I can get my spouse to switch masteries? Ignore Leatherworking because you have to focus, limit yourself at some point? Maybe Gevlon can do it all(or rather, chooses to), but I prefer to spend more time in random dungeons than in AH PvP, though you do have to deal with competition, no matter what, unless the competition deals with itself for you. I know I need to diversify some, as my previous business was almost entirely Inscription, and due to a lucky hit by the RNG and some slick salesmanship in the /trade channel, a big chunk of my ~30k was from a single, once-rare recipe. Rituals of the New Moon. When I first got it, noone else was selling them. I made about 8k over a couple weeks in /trade and on the AH, hawking them for anywhere between 200 and 500g. Each.

Point is, I need to diversify. I just have to decide between two valid options. End-game benefits have no bearing, as this character probably will never raid.

Many Unhappy Returns

2010-05-03T11:36:00.002-05:00

Almost 30 thousand of them, to be a bit less vague.

That is how much gold is missing from my account upon my return to WoW and the Auction House.

Perhaps I should back up a bit and explain how that is.

Last season on AH Antics...

In August, my 10-man raid team was having trouble getting 10 signups each week. (Don't worry, this isn't going to turn into a raiding blog.) Also, my possible start-time was going to get later come September, locking me out of my guild's "official" 10- and 25-mans. So I quit WoW because raiding was as important as Auction Housing for me. In fact, my Auction House Antics were merely a means to an end, not the actual enjoyment of the game. It allowed me to buy gear, mats, mounts, repairs and more for my spouse and myself. I was no Greedy Goblin, but my steadily growing bankroll, around 27k when I quit, was plenty for my needs and showed no signs of doing anything but continuing to grow. I was considering buying a motorcycle for my spouse.

Anyway, I left the game in September. Abruptly and without warning.

In December, I got a High Priority email from my former co-tank from the aforementioned raid team.
Have you been logging on? If not, someone may have hacked your WoW account. Wanted to make sure you were aware just in case.

Well, no, I had not. A quick trip to the Battle.Net site and two(2) password changes later, I had fired off an email to WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com AND started an in-game GM ticket, ass ALL my money and banked items and Raiding gear had been "disappeared" by an account hacker. From the time my guildmates had noticed my suspicious activity to the time I had changed my password and had a ticket in (two ways), less than 3 hours had passed.

Five days later, all my stuff had been restored and I was notified by an email per character from wowcharhelp@blizzard.com exactly which items and how many and how much gold was restored to each character.
26957 gold to be precise.
And at least 2500 gold more in mats and items. Probably closer to 5k.

I was extremely grateful, but still not interested in coming back to WoW, yet, so I left my account alone, with a new, unguessable password, used nowhere else.

But wait! There's more!
This brings us to last week. I saw some news about Cataclysm, listened to a couple podcasts, and started feeling that urge to play again. So my spouse and I re-subbed two days ago, on Saturday. I was really looking forward to doing some instances and not having to worry about gold, since I knew I had over 25,000 gold waiting for me, as well as a knowledge of how to earn 2,000 gold per week without trying, which I'll share again later. Except...

My gold was gone!
Where could it have gone? Why isn't it there? What on earth happened? I still have the 5 emails from wowcharhelp@blizzard.com detailing exactly what was restored.
My guess is that it got lost in the mail. I don't recall actually logging in after getting that email to verify that my gold was there. So I think that it got Mailed to my characters, and then expired and disappeared.

I'm sure Blizzard has logs that can check this stuff. I worry that it's so old that they won't want to or be willing to dig it up. I don't know what kind of data warehouse they have set up, or how easy it is to search historical data. I do know that if they can filter it on my character names, there should be VERY few records, as I haven't played in 9 months, not counting the handful of logins in December to deal with the Account hacking.

In December, I was effusive about how well Blizzard handled my account restoration. I was ecstatic that, even though I was not actively subscribed - not counting the hacker's paying for a month on my account to reactivate it to hack it - they handled my issue quickly, politely, and with care. Well done, Blizzard. Mostly.

Mostly?

Well, yes. Mostly. See, I'm still out about 25,000 gold at this point. There's a handful of gold on each of my characters... maybe 3,000 total, account-wide? But that's a far cry from the 27,000 that should be there. I'll be an unbelievable Blizzard fanboy if they restore my lost gold. If they don't, I'll be disappointed, no mistake. But, by the same token, I know how to make money in WoW. I can rebuild my bankroll. It will take time and effort, but I don't have to learn how to make gold all over again. That's knowledge that doesn't disappear. Even if I didn't have a maxxed out Level 80 Scribe-Jewelcrafter and a maxxed out Level 73 DK Miner, I would still be able to make gold on the AH.

Why not farming?
The astute will have noticed that I didn't mention going farming with my level 80(paladin) or 73(deathknight), either of whom are fantastically suited to it. My tankadin can AoE grind like nobody's business. Put on my BlockValue gear, find a spot with humanoids in large numbers just low enough level for me to be able to handle 10 or 15 of them at once, continuously, and many would say "Rake it in!" Bollocks, I say.

In WoW, Farming is for chumps.
I bet that'll get a rise out of a few folks. That's kind of the point. Making people think. Beyond the 3rd grade "No, you are!" retorts, any dyed-in-the-wool farmer will need to actually *think* to refute that. I used to farm by AoE grinding and is a crap way to make money. In the same time someone can grind for 3 hours, I can spend 30 minutes at the AH, cancelling auctions, collecting the cancellations, scanning the AH, and using Auctioneer's Appraiser to Batch Post a few hundred auctions. You know what I do after that? I go have actual, real, World of Warcraft fun! /gasp! No really. While the farmer is grinding, I'm seeing content I haven't seen before, I'm running instances which is even easier with the new Dungeon Finder tool, so I actually spend 2 of the remaining 2.5 hours playing the game instead of trying to find one more body to do something, anything. Add in the nifty Disenchant option to the Loot Window and now I don't even have to bother with hanging around after the run to hope the Enchanter is going to actually hand out shards.

Next time on AH Antics...
I expect to know within a week if I'll get my old gold back or not. I sincerely hope so, as I'd much rather be seeing the content in the game than playing the "I'm better at math than you are" game or the "I'm better at configuring Auctioneer than you are" game. Yes, I can play them, and be successful at them.

But I'd rather play the other game. The one I originally bought. With monsters and bosses and elves and orcs and my once-derided Tankadin wading into the fray. Things are good in WoW right now, why would I want to spend this time staring at spreadsheets?

So, here's what you can expect from AH Antics in the future.
Yes, I'm back to posting, and back to my old Antics, but there's gonna be some changes around here.

First, I don't play WoW so that I can play the AH. I play the AH so that I can play WoW. (Hey, look, a tagline!)
I'll be writing here from that angle. There's lots of blogs aiming for the gold-cap or trying to corner a market or making the whole game about starting with (almost) nothing and documenting their rise to tycoondom. That's not my niche. I'm not playing Auction House Tycoon. Everything I do at the AH is to support my and my spouse's game time and playstyle. I need gold for the following things: repairs(lots of repairs), mounts, training, flask mats and other raiding/instancing supplies, BoE BiS gear, and shinies, preciouses, and fun things. Think of it as Auction House Eye for the Casual Guy. Feel free to steal that for a blog name.

Second, I may talk about raiding and intancing. That's the part of WoW that's important to me. However, the main focus here will still be Antics at the Auction House.

Last, it's good to be back. It will be better if I don't have to start over, but even if I do, there's some good writing in there. I've already restarted my glyph biz, already made close to 1k gold between Saturday night and Monday morning, just from leftovers from when I left and a couple of new purchasable glyph recipes. Either way, I'll keep on writing as long as it's fun. And we'll see what Cataclysm brings.

The goblin in me is already drooling at the thought of all those Goblins and Worgen alts.
That's a lot of demand for more glyphs.

Is This Blog Dead?

2009-08-06T08:56:00.003-05:00

The question was in a comment on my last (ooooold) post.

I'm simply reposting my reply here for those that are interested but might not check comments.

Short answer, no, not dead, just sleeping. If it wasn't nailed to the swing, it'd muscle right up to the bars and VOOM!

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Not dead, just fallen on my priority list of things to do, right behind Find a Job, Raise my Kid, Spend Time with my Wife, and Actually Play WoW. There will be more, I promise. Right now, it's pretty boring on the money front. Collect Mail(sales and fails) Scan AH Post Glyphs (batch post) Rescan AH Buyout all Adder's Tongue below 19g and send to Main. Make Ink Craft any glyph with Undercut above 10g(10-20 ea) Send Glyphs and Snowfall Ink to banker Rescan, Repost I only craft new glyphs about once a week, maybe every other week, when I notice sales slipping due to reduced inventory. I only really "play" on Raid Night, once night a week, other times, I'm just checking AH for sales and relists. Otherwise, Real Life calls.

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Alright, it wouldn't VOOM! if you put 10,000 volts through it, but it's not really dead, just resting. Sorry for any disappointment, but there'll be more. Eventually. ;-)

Mount Changes = Money Making Opportunity

2009-06-13T08:57:00.002-05:00

Mount Changes coming in the next patch -

60% mount - available at 20
100% mount - available at 40
flying mount - available at 60

Remember all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Riding Crop got nerfed?
Well, now there may be a reason for people to buy them, which will also mean there may be a reason to craft and sell them again.

Riding Crop may be making a comeback.

My Cost to Make Glyphs Is Less Than Zero

2009-06-03T17:54:00.004-05:00

That's right. Less than zero. The economy on my server is paying me to make glyphs in a way you wouldn't normally imagine. Look at the chatlog in that image.

See what I'm getting at? That's right. One Snowfall Ink selling for more than 21g! I generally try to pay 18g per stack of Adder's tongue, but will only very rarely go over 20g. Each stack of Adder's Tongue averages one Snowfall Ink or two Icy Pigment - which, by the way, are selling for 11 - 12g. Each!

What does it mean?
It means, my dear reader, that every glyph I craft is 100% pure profit.

Every. Single. One.
No matter how low I price it.

I'm still reeling from this. I was calculating my costs based on approximately 18g per stack of Adder's Tongue = 6 inks = 6 glyphs + 3g for parchment = 3.5g per glyph cost.

I was wrong. Glyphs cost me less than zero to craft.
/boggle
/giggle
/laugh maniacally

Crash Course In Using Auctioneer's Snatch List

2009-06-01T11:49:00.004-05:00

This post marks a slight change in the focus of AH Antics. I will likely revisit Tabbytha, my little hordie experiment, but for now, I will be focusing on my "real" AH business.

How would you like to always buy your crafting materials well below the market price? Well, "always" is a bit strong, but I'll show you how to do so any time they're underpriced and you are in the Auction House. We'll be using the SearchUI part of Auctioneer; specifically, the Snatch Searcher.

Now, there are two ways to get to the SearchUI. You can either click on the Search tab at the bottom of the AuctionHouse/Auctioneer interface or you can right-click on the little magnifying glass at the top of the interface. We want to do the latter.

But Why?
That's a good question. I'm glad you asked, and we'll get to that in a moment.
But first, let's click on Searchers in the left menu area of the SearchUI. That will open up a list, and towards the bottom of that sub-list, you will find the Snatch item. Click that. What you see will look something like the screenshot. My list is already populated with a few items that I snarf every time they meet my price requirements.

Price requirements? What do you mean?
The whole point of the Snatch list is to allow you to easily find items you want to buy at a price you want to pay for them. For example, I have mine set to find Adder's Tongue with a price of 85 silver each, which translates to 17 gold per stack. That means any given glyph will cost me 3.33g to craft, including 50s for parchment, the most expensive parchment available.

17g for a stack of Adder's Tongue?!?
Look, I'll admit, it doesn't happen as often as I'd like, but it does happen enough to make it a good point to set my Snatch list. Normal for my server is about 20g per stack. I will likely change my searcher to 90s per herb or 18g per stack. That's still only 3.5g per glyph in mat cost.

So, what? I can do this by hand! Why use Snatch for this?
Ah, but can you buy 40 stacks of various different herbs in 40 seconds? I can.
That's the real beauty of the SearchUI. Once your Searcher has returned a list, you can Purchase All just like the Appraiser will let you Batch Post a ton of auctions.

So I can just leave my Banker on while I go to sleep and he'll buy everything for me?
No, not exactly. So I lied a little. It's not "just like" the Apraiser's Batch Post. Here's what happens.
You hit Search on your Searcher, Auctioneer zips through all the listings for all the items you have in that searcher and returns one unified list of all items that meet your price requirements.
Then you play a little game of Keyboard Twister by pressing Control + Alt + Shift then pressing the Purchase All button - which was the Purchase button before you pressed that magic key combination.
FInally, you will be presented with a rapid-fire series of confirmation pop-up boxes, ensuring you really want to buy 20 x Adder's Tongue for a really great price. Or 17 x Felweed for a really great price.

17 Felweed? But I need stacks of 5!
No, you don't. Look, I make a lot of gold on the side off of people that think like that. Don't be that guy. If you're completely unwilling to hang on to the extras until you buy another odd stack with an extra 3, then just relist those two. But I'd rather buy an odd stack for a really cheap price than limit myself to multiples of 5.

So, that's it. That's the Auction House Antics Crash Course In Using Auctioneer's Snatch List. Use it every single time you're at the Auction House. You'll be astounded at the great deals you find. Like Adder's Tongue for less than 50s each. That's 10g per STACK for the mathematically weak. And that's imba.

And Now for Something Slightly Different

2009-05-30T10:19:00.002-05:00

As you may have noticed, I'm having a hard time making consistent posts about my little hordie auction experiement. I just feel no motivation to play her. I've been above 50g for a couple weeks, I could easily hit 100 just by knowing how to divide by 10 and/or 3. So I'm going to start posting about my main AH character and how I'm making money with him, as well as a few tips and tricks I've picked up along the way.

Expect a real post later this weekend. Or two.

The Good, The Bad, and The Lazy

2009-05-19T11:31:00.003-05:00

While reading a post over at One Copper I was struck by how much like-minded individuals can disagree over little things to do with making money in WoW, while agreeing, in general, with overarching strategies.

We'll take the three characters in my title in reverse order.

The Lazy
I've been very busy of late, and not much motivated to work very hard at this experimental character. As such, I'm taking the lazy way out by glomming on to Seth's gold-making journey over at One Copper.

The Bad
Here's where I disagree, at least in part, with Seth.

Selling:
So what to do with Trade?
First make a macro!
typing = time consuming
time = money
typing = less money = less profit = BAD!
use the macro when you're in a capital city. once when you enter and once when you're about to leave.

I disagree. I prefer to type my wares manually. It's not that I like typing the exact same thing over and over again. I don't. But I like trying to catch people's eyes with my pitch. People see a lot of macroed sales lines, and often learn to filter them out. People generally don't filter out clever pitches. It could be just the split second of attention you need to hook a buyer, and that's extremely important. You see, there are two types of /trade sellers. First, and the type I tend to be, is someone willing to be patient and get the price they want, even if it takes several sessions or attempts. Second, folks that just want to sell they're wares so they can go do something else. Which leads us to...

The Good
Here's where Seth really nails it, and where so many people lose out on great moneymaking potential:

Buying:
Learn to take a look at Trade (yes i know its disgusting but do it!) You'll see some poor snob spamming ah with: WTS 200 saronite bar or something alike. When selling by trade they expect to get rid of their goods, as fast as possible. Which means they are selling cheaper (and sometimes a lot!) then AH, which in turn means that you can sell them for more on AH... getting the point? (point = Profit!)

Remember my previous post on buying Eternal Fires and breaking them down to Crystallized Fire for some really good profits? While this can be done on the AH, depending on where you are on the normalization cycle, it is far, far more profitable to find some farmer dumping 10 or more Eternals in /trade. They will sell cheaper than the AH, you'll get a volume discount if you pitch it that way, and you can make 50% or more profit margin. Now, you can't dump them all at once or you'll normalize the price far too quickly, but you can trickle them into the AH for steady, easy, high profits.

But the main point is, don't /leave trade on your Banker/AH Mule. You never know when you'll find a great deal just waiting to be scooped up.

Thanks again to Seth of One Copper, both for the good post and for allowing me to be lazy.

I'm Not Dead Yet!

2009-05-11T23:54:00.004-05:00

I've been spending more time out of WoW over the weekend. Longer updates will follow. For now, no, during the week, there's not enough buying of Crystallized Fire to support me and the monopolist at 10 each.

A change in strategy, down to 5 CFs at a time and well under 2g per resulted in selling 10 or more of them over the weekend. I also started dabbling in short-duration low-bid resales and conversions. Cheap Greater essences cut into Lesser essences and selling for 20% profit or more; cheap mats in goofy-sized stacks resold as singles for 20% profit or more; green drops from questing sold for 15% below Disenchant value; that sort of "little stuff".

But the little stuff adds up. A lot of folks think the trick to making money on the AH is getting a big score on a BoE epic, and that can be a part of your trade, but the really strong stuff is the little stuff that sells over and over and over.

More to come.

Opportunity knocks

2009-05-08T09:22:00.005-05:00

These two screenshots illustrate a fantastic money-making opportunity, albeit a cyclical one. We see Crystallized Fire selling for a minimum of 2.98g per, but in a stack of 7. (!) Then we see Eternal Fire selling at a minimum of 14.9g per, but in stacks of 5.

For those that don't know, all characters can turn 1 x Eternal Fire into 10 x Crystallized Fire. Some very basic math tells us that Crystallized Fires are extremely overpriced. If I had 70g, this would be a no-brainer. Buy the cheapest per-Eternal Fires, down-convert them to Crystallized Fire, then list for, oh, about 2g each.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to show that bit of "advanced algebra" ;) where I realize how profitable these can be.

1 x Eternal Fire = 14.9g

Convert that and ...

10 x Crystallized Fire = 14.9g
1 x Crystallized Fire = 1.49g

Seriously. 1.5g per Crystallized Fire. When they're listing at 3g minimum.
The kicker is, nobody wants to buy 7 Crystallized Fire. Nobody needs 7 of them. People need 1 or 2. So what do we do? List single Crystallized Fires.

What is the buyer's corollary here? Check both Crystallized and Eternal Markets. In this particular market, at this particular time, you should look for a single Eternal Fire to break, use what you need, and Auction the leftovers, singly, at a profit to you but well below the 3g market price. You might end up having more money after you buy mats than you had before.

I found that the single Eternal Fires were listing at ~17-18g. Still a lot of room for profit, but I was wary of using almost 90% of my on-hand cash to play in a market I only had 2 days worth of scans. I held off for a day or so, bought at 17g, listed at 2.4g (in singles!), and promptly got undercut by one of the Fire market players with his own singles.

Next time: Is there enough volume in Crystallized fire for both the undercutter AND my fires to sell?

First Sales

2009-05-07T15:29:00.003-05:00

Can you believe that? Oh, you didn't look at the screenshot did you? Ok, fine.
What I have:

31g 96s 75g

Yep, from 35s to 31g in one overnight AH posting.
Yes, eggs for Children's Week did help. A little. But the big thing was the Light Leather.

Now, I still have some Silverleaf, Leather Scraps, Bloodthistle, Lynx Meat, and 6 more eggs on the AH. I cancel the Eggs because I'm being undercut and a stack of 6 is useless. Relist at undercut in singles.

The next thing I do is buy bags. I can't afford much, so I look for the sweet spot of slots per gold. I think that came in the shape of 12-slot bags. That took me down to 21g and wishing I could partake in a little conversion selling, but with not enough gold to feel comfortable doing so.

Next time: Opportunity Knocks.

Ready to Start Auctioning

2009-05-06T16:22:00.005-05:00

Just a short scoop here on my beginnings at the Horde Auction House. I'm level 10, though I could have started scanning with Auctioneer sooner, I wanted to hit the Hunter Level 10 Class quests to get my pet. My eventual goal is to try farming for the Black Tabby cat for transfer back to my Alliance characters for sale.

I have:

35 silver 10 copper
13 Light Leather
14 Linen Cloth
14 Small Eggs (!)
16 Leather Scraps
6 Lynx meat
3 Peacebloom
1 Copper Ore
8 Silverleaf
1 Bloodthistle
Journeyman's Pants

Not a bad haul from 1-10. Not huge, but it's a good thing Eversong has a couple of quests that give you free bags, small though they may be.

Next time, we'll see how well these things sell.

What's this, then?

2009-05-05T16:01:00.000-05:00

So, I've been reading a lot of the World of Warcraft Auction House blogs and making money hand over fist.
But enough is never enough, is it? So I decided to start a Horde character for the sole purpose of farming and buying Horde-only pets for transfer back to Alliance to auction, via the Neutral AH. That was the plan. Looks like there's going to be more, however. This is a place for me to document what I'm doing and how, and to share it with my guildies.

What WoW AH blogs am I reading? What inspired my recent and current activity at the Auction House? What helped get me to 10k gold, then giving my S.O. 3500 for her epic mount, then got me back to 10k, then inspired me to try the Alliance <--> Horde plan? Here's the ones I can think of at the moment.
Greedy Goblin
Just My Two Copper
Skrooge
WoW Trade
There are others, I'll make a blogroll later.

Coming up next: Starting my Hordie and her First Sales