Hey all I’m back for a small post

Don’t you ever have that something just won’t sell, or it just doesn’t work?
TAKE A BREAK!

If you crafted item doesnt sell its because of 3 reasons:
1) too much competition: wait untill the competition is lower and sell it then
2) not enough people online: post it in the weekend, when there are more searching the AH
3) it’s just horrible: remember the “of the falcon”? agi+int isn’t the most topseller or the “of the boar”? they just don’t sell! list them for about 145% vendorprice, or let the mdisenchant, otherwise you’ll not sell them.

And today I’m taking my own advice, my week’s leave of work is comming (last day today!) and I’m taking the week of blogging most probably.
I’m against all the nerfs Bliz is giving old content, and it seems that my muse isn’t happy with it either, i have about 500 idea’s but they seem to melt on paper. (or pc screen)
This will also givem e about 15-30mins extra with my wife over next week, and we can really use the “alone” time. Since i don’t draft texts, i all write them on the day they need to be posted, this will save me some time and frustration.

So This was my last post for June. I’ll be back the 6th of july.

grtz
Seth
and remember:

Dàchéng said…

I notice no mention of real-life friends. Keeping friendships requires effort on your part, and I notice that your general day desn’t include anything there. If this is not just an oversight, then you will lose your non-WoW friends if you have not already done so. Letting friendships wither could be a sign of addiction.

This is a great Comment I got on previous post.

I thought it was good enough to continue yesterdays topic.

Dàchéng, Yes I have friends. Though not a lot anymore. In the week, we don’t have much time/energy to go out and see each other, but they also play WoW so we put up Vent, and talk while we play. In the weekend, we mostly hangout at my home or at a bar playing some biljarts.

Yet I must say when i was younger, i had a lot more friends, as time passed by though you naturally lose sight of each other. (diffrent home, school, work etc)
The first year i started to work full-time, AND did univeristy I didn’t had a lot of time to spend with them, and i lost about half of my mates, later when I met my wife, that little time I had got split in 2. Most of my friends said then and there and litterly: it’s uss or her. (Do mind that this was not the first time) I chose her.
My cell has about 348 numbers in it, of which 24 familymembers and 10 worknrs. (i got an extra cell for work so only emergency nrs) The rest were mates. Now i call 3 nrs…
I realised that “Friends” are people who call you when THEY need something. And when you need something, they all dissapear. So I’m left with my “family”, my brow’s, my Dearest Friends.

You should do good to listen to this piece of advice:
For every 50 friends you got, there will be 1 that’s a true friend, one that isnt a M&S to put it in goblin words, only 1 that you will see between being a young-adult and adulthood.
Everyone else, will leave, forget you,find other friends…
there’s a line from a song that goes: “Friends are enemies with secret identities, who come around and stab you in the back when you ain’t looking”

Now that’s exagereted by far. But do think about this: how many friends of yours would dump you for 1 million dollars? how many would you dump? There’s probably only one or two that you won’t let go.

I’m not saying this out of bitterness, I’m saying this out of wisdom. You (my readers who are saying no) are probably below <24 years old, and think that those friends you have will stay with you all your life. Go to your family and ask how many childhood friends they still see? my mom and dad don't see any, my aunt doesnt see any, my grand-ma doesn't see any, etc etc.

Don’t think that having fewer or no friends is a result of addiction. I chose to have less friends, and there wasn’t one day I was depressed about it. I make one phonecall and i know that my mate will be running to me. For me that’s better then having to call 348 nrs and hoping that half of them show up.
I chose to let the relationship wither, not for the game, not for time but for me. I am happier now.
So right now i have: aquintaces (? spelling) and “family” (my dearest friends)
the first group, I see at work, at my favorite bar, at wow…. And they are fun to be with but thats it.
The second group, is the one I rely on, and those that can rely on me. And I take pride in it, that that group is small.

For the ones Thinking I must be 44 years old and a loner to write like this:
Biography:

My real name is Dave V.D. I live in Belgium and was born at 18th of august 1988.
So I’m 20y old,
weight: 54Kg
height: 1m72

My favorite hobbies: biljarts, spending time with my wife, reading, programming, hanging out with my brotha from anotha motha, and anything that can test my brain/body to its fullest.
(except contact sports: cant do those anymore – accident) and gaming (including WoW)

Work: I work as an ITer at N-allo and a programmer-analyst in my spare time.
Studies: Management, Acountancy and IT + IT-degree + degree to start my own company.
My IQ: 126-139 (from the tests i took these are my lowest and highest scores)

Favorite colour: Black and red (and green)
Music: HipHop, old rock and hard rock/metal
Movies: action, thriller, comedy.
Food: steak and fries

Anything else just ask.

How can I have wisdom then? Well, let’s just say I crawled out of the snake pit and have seen a lot.

It’s a big topic here in Belgium: Game addiction

When are you addicted to the game?
Yesterday I came in touch with this topic.So i thought i’d write a small post about it.
Can people really say: “your addicted”? What are there parameters? Let’s take me for example:
My general day is:
6h30 get up
7h leave for work
7h30-15h30 (normally) working
15h30 -16h driving home
16h pressing the On button of my pc, and checking my mail etc.
17h-18h dinner (including dishes) yeah i eat loooong, since i love the peace and calm, and family time.
18h10-19h banking (about 30mins i just sit and read a book of it ,while my scan is running)
19h10-22h Raiding and keeping my Guild in order.
22h – ??h (mostly 12h) Rent a movie, read or finish my rubikscube since it takes me an hour or 2 to complete.

Note: i smoke a cig every hour or so, so i need to go downstairs, and do it in my “smoking area”
Note2: the playtime in the weekend is about the same
Note3: i try and Not game on Thursday (personal time with wife etc)

So you should say: well ain’t you adicted? you come home from work and almost instantly play!
Valid point! But:
1) I see that my work and work @ home are done first.
2) I don’t watch TV (I really don’t like it)
3) I read books at work (on my brake) aswell as the newspaper.
4)I don’t have kids yet, and my wife is mostly @ school or something like that

So is that addicted? I don’t really know. If you say to me: Quit a week.
I wouldnt mind, what i would mind though is: Who is going to run my guild? I saw at TAOW what happened when 2 officers took a brake… 25left the first week(!)
Second i would be bored half the time. I read a lot, but i do that at work and while smoking at home. I don’t like TV so thats out.. I do like videogames… but heck thats the same.. i like boardgames, but you got to find people for that… I really really like sports, sadly with my injury a couple of years ago, the only thing i can do is jog and run. So no contactsports.. which were my alltime favorits (Basketball on concrete, hockey, soccer, …) I could go out to a bar and play some biljarts (which I also really love) and thats something i would do, but not a whole week, cause then i would be an Alcohilic, since i’m at a bar all the time. Next week i have a week of liberty (no work)
So i’ll be home with my lovely wife the whole week and this is what i’m going to do:
-sleep a bit longer as my 4h a day i have now.
-Go for a walk with my wife
-Go swimming (and this is a real achievement for me! since i’m an aquaphobic)
-Go to our yearly feast here in Heist, so shop and have some fun.
- just doing nothing ! (for about an 1h, i can’t do that too long)
- reading
- blogging
-WoWing
- being romantic for my wife ^^

So you judge are you addicted? what is addicted? and as long as you keep your RL straight, is that really addiction?

Grtz
Seth

Edit: For the record I do have 2 addictions I reallly like: 1) My wife, and i will never give her up!
2) Smoking, yes I Like IT! so I don’t care what you say about it, though I’m cutting back for my wife, she doesnt like it. And as said: She’s my prime addiction, my sweet and perfect little drug!

Thuesday is the day that I bring other experienced players and bankers to this site.
We are all short on time so It’s just Me and Grodus. But we’ll do fine

Grodus: Getting into a price war can be extremely detrimental to an item’s value. If you’re in a battle with a vicious undercutter, there are a few things you can do to minimize your losses:

1) Wait awhile. If it’s a rare item, there’s a good chance that your competitor’s will sell and then you’ll be able to set your own price. This technique doesn’t work as well with crafted items or items that are easy to come by.

2) Keep undercutting. Either your item(s) will sell, or the price will go so low that you can buy out the others and relist at normal prices.

3) Stealth auction. If your competition is posting auctions for a 48h duration, post yours at a 12h duration before peak playing times. In all likelihood, your auctions will sell before anyone even notices.

There are more ways to effectively deal with price wars, but these are the ones I use most frequently.

Basicly Grodus already mentioned most of the tactics, Including what I do. Mostly I wait awhile for posting, or i push the price so low that i can buy most of his stock. What i also do is: creat a new charactar and undercut with him. If he sees 2 people (me and my alt) undercutting he can do 2 things:
1) give up, if he does so i can cancel all my auctions and relist.

Another tactic, which i don’t use a lot but can do if he’s persistent. Sell via Trade. Take the AH price -10% and you’ll sell while he’s wondering how come nothign is selling.

So these were the tips for today.
Thank you Grodus for your view!

In light of my Fridays post, i got a lot of commetns regarding the Alts.
Why Wait untill 3.2? => its only one month away since the ptr patchnotes are up.
So if you haven’t got one, this is valid advice, if you already have an alt let’s say 20+ well go ahaid and lvl it.
On the Part where i say that it’s sad that bliz lowers the difficulty of Old Content And to my commenter on that:
It’s not only the mounts… It’s the heirlooms, recruit a friend, the quests, the leveltime (remember the 20-60 lvl nerf?) the nerfing of dungeons (byebye Mallet of Zul Farak) about EVERYTHING that was Vanilla has fallen away or is shrinking in a corner crying and hoping it won’t get cut down! And YES it IS sad! I don’t care that you have lvled 4 alts… i have 3x 60’s 4×70’s and 4×80’s All leveled over the course of 4 years. And i Loved leveling them, Yes loved it. Why cause it made sense too! It made sense to Pug and wipe in silly lvl30 dungeons to know your class, it made sense to buy that blue lvl40 items since you would be using it 10hours instead the mere 2hours you’ll be spending now? It made sense to swear at lvl40’s with mounts, It made sense to love your Travel form, Ghost Wolf or Aspect of the Cheetah. What is left of it?

Absolutly NOTHING… And yes it’s Sad… Newer Players will love the changes ofcourse, and people who want to blaze to endgame will love it. Personally I want to learn how to play my class before lvl80, I want to learn how to tank with my warrior in old dungeons, i want to heal ZulFarak with his hammer again. IF you want to take the easy road and love it? Be my guest. But don’t say it’s for the better, no, heeeelllll no, It’s just because your to slow,tired,dumb, new, burned out, what ever. to do it the old way.
So here is what I and Half of the “old guard” want: Blizz make uss a VANILLA SERVER!

Some people want it easy, well do your thing.
Personally i want to raid Molten Core again, 40 man ragnaros, and raid 5hours at one piece cause there inst something like being saved. I want the absolute and total dispair agian when you see 20guys getting one hit because Fire Resistance mattered.

So this was my Rant for today. I want to say though that I don’t mind that people want to play an easier game, just dont’ think that everyone wants this. Some people want a challenge. If i Wipe 3 times at a boss i’m happy, cause then it’s something worth trying, if you don’t know tactics and still beat a boss… whats the fun in that? the cheer? the joy?

So my conclusion:
50% of the players want to take it easy = do yar thing
50% want to keep the game interresting, alive and Hard (in the context of wow at least) = These want the fun of the game.

Grtz
Seth

I’m sitting here for the last two hours, and I have a writersblock. I haven’t slept decently in the last week or 2, Work is getting a pain in the butt and to top it off i bought another game, which me and my wife played for hours yesterday, only doing my cooking quest on WoW.

But maybe I finally found a topic.

First of: if Titanium ore is under 2G a piece on your server buy them! and hold them untill 3.2 drops. (Most of you should already know this, so sorry for the late comment on this one) The reason why is simple: Titanium ore can be prospect for epic gems in 3.2

But up for the post:
We all know about the travel changes in 3.2 if not here’s a small list
ground mount = lvl20 (5g for learning and mount together!)
epic groung mount = lvl40
flying mount = lvl60 (flying will now decrease with your standing)

Why Am i talking about this, well aside from the fact that it makes the lvling easier… again… (personally i htink it’s a bit sad, Bliz is so ready to give up the difficulty of old content)
It also saves you a lot of cash! And that from the Banker or Goblins standpoint is the most beautifull thing in the universe! So my Advice here is quite simple:
- Don’t lvl alts untill 3.2
- Don’t buy epic flying! (normal flyspeed = 150% in 3.2)
- If you do want epic flying = get it when 3.2 drops
On the epic flying this can save you about 1500G! now, when is the last time you made 1500G in one day? Well if you are reading these tips you probably haven’t (or you just like my blog very much)

Again sorry for the video’s, i’m still deciding what to do with it.. Comment, hint, hint *cough* HINT *cough* /giggle
This weekend I might get off another post, since the last week I noticed my posts getting smaller, so i’ll game a bit, look at AH find something usefull and I’ll be dumb and share it with you guys, so my server will be flooded with it. Nah, ok serious now, i’ll find something decent to write about this weekend and search for that golden tip I like to give.

Grtz
Seth

Remember: A fortune starts with one copper!

We all know that we can sell, armor kits, tailoring threads, belt buckles, glyphs, potions, flasks and gems. Even the mats for these products sell well. We sell, leather, ore, flowers, meat, cloth etc.
Well you can sell more as just that, no im not talking about enchanting mats, everyone knows that. But i mean food! and even Hunter’s pet food! (mammoth snack) These sell really well! Thats not allSometimes from the daily fishing quest you get a grey quality hat, even though its grey, these can be sold for a good 10gold at the AH. Also some not so well known items that can be sold are: Frost oil that alchemists make (old Quest item) for a couple of Gold (i sell 1-3 of those every week for 5gold) and gyroatom (engineers make this, and also used for a quest item) for some gold (also 1-3 a week for 3-10G) even bronze and copper tubes can be sold!
I can’t call this a real niche market, just because it isnt that large, but can earn a pretty penny. Same as Gromsblood, on most AH’s this is non existent and can grant as much as 1-2G a piece!
Also.. and a lot of people dont mind this… but make your lvl10-19 and 25-29 Blue items! These sell like sweet candy! ex. thoughened leather armor, blue quality +19 stamina and made by leather workers, i can buy the mats for a mere gold (or farm them) and sell it for about 10Gold!
i mean thats 900% profit margin!
Something for the skinners: Have you been playing for more as a year? Do you still have that shadow cat hide? Strange but true i still had 20 when they took it out of the game, i have sold 10 of those and made a solid 50G! a piece…. why? well like i said, i probably have the last 20 on the server. And some people like to collect “vanilla material” that is unbuyable!

I know these tips are small, but trust me its free gold i’m giving you all here! I hope you enjoyed the small post of today!

Grtz
Seth

Farming is needed…sometimes…if there is absolutly no other way…none, what so ever other way…nothing else… i’m not kidding!

but indeed sometimes it’s good, sometimes it can be awesome even!
So for my fellow skinners and cookers:

On my server worm and mammoth meat are expensive… so i don’t want to buy them a lot. The only thing you can do then is go farm… and I hate it so… Well northern Dragonblight is your salvation: lots of jormungar worms, even a cave! which drop their share of Arctic fur. You are also just a small distance away from storm peaks, which in it’s south has a motherload of mammoths who again drop their share of Arctic furs. What i do here is i go out for an hour, (for the worms and an hour for the mammoths) and i get an average of 30 worm meat 30 mammoth meat and 60 chilled meat, above that i get about 120 borean leather and 2-5 arctic furs!
now i hold half my meat for cooking dailys so lets say i sell about 90 ofthem. and they sell for 2G a piece= 180G, i convert the leather to heavy leathers and i get another 140G of them, the arctics sell on my server for about 100G (!!!) so thats: a mnimum of420G and a maximum of 720G! but that ain’t all, if you buy spices with your cooking badge youll get about 10 northernspices + 3orso in your goody bag, which also sell 2G a piece. (26 gold give or take)

It isn’t an incredible amount of gold, but its good enough to afford you a week of raiding. And you’ll have enough meat for the dailys this week. (or they must be shoveltusk.rihno meats – but these cna be farmed about the same)

Well small post for the farmers here,
time to get your hands dirty!

Grtz
Seth

Well, it seems that the money making has taken a little dive this last week.
Probably because i haven’t spend that much time on it. The new guild has taken a lot of my time lately, so does work, and does my wife. I promise it’ll be better… soon… i hope…plz?

All the silly things aside, I’m getting used to the 5 -10 orso emails dropping in my mailbox a week for a thank you note or a help me question. I’m getting used to the ppl i helped on the server, Wing me for more moneymaking goodness… But this one was a first: I stumbled on a reader! A guildie even, someone who i haven’t recruited even a week ago… so that was a pleasant suprise, what was even better: he liked the blog… so that was double good. I know the blog is becomming more popular, I started out with about 10pagevieuws a day, now I’m at 250~ orso.
Not a whole lot but still a good number. So ….

hehe ^^

Okaj sorry about the sillyness again, I just can’t help it!
There will be an extra post here today! so just hold up and get your farmers weekly when it’s out!

One of the things I like to do on a RPPVP server is reselling
animals… jupz living breathing animals… I put them on a leash and
leave them in Booty bay with a woodenboard that sais “500G!”. No
seriously I do Resell Pets, more specific: Faction Only Pets. from the
normal little dragonhawks to the Teldrassil sproutling (the argent
tournament one) I must say on my server they are pretty profitable, i
buy them at the crossfaction house and put them up on the Alliance AH
and instant profit. I Also buy cats from the old catlady and put them
up at the crossfaction AH, but they don’t seem to sell quite as fast.
Though ofcourse I’m just one man, and one man’s view isn’t always
enough… I bring you my fellow Bloggers, the True Gurus of this
Blogsphere, The Inventor of Gold and the Mistress of Pets…

I don’t dabble too much in x-faction trading, there are a couple of guys on my server (low pop pvp, horde 2:1 alliance) that already have this covered which in itself proves there is a market for it. Re tournament pets there does seem to be a x-faction market but personally I just have an arrangement with a horde to swap pets as do quite a few of the “hardcore” pet collectors, on these particular pets, asking prices have tanked from about 2k to 800g on my server, I think its a case of ’sell them NOW’ if you’re still thinking about it.

We often hear a lot of Engineers complaining they don’t have any way
to make money, well the three BoE pets from engineering sell very well
on my own AH, that is the Mechanical Squirrel, the Lifelike Toad and
the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti. On my server I can sell 3-4 squirrels
per week, up to 3 toads and maybe one yeti but the yeti is a lot more
expensive to produce and I guess therefore not as attractive to people
going for volume (to hit 50, 75 etc) over ‘quality’.

One pet a lot of people don’t realise is BoE is the Mechanical
Chicken, obtained from completing the distress bot quest chain. People
going for Loremaster will probably end up with this pet and it sells
on my AH for approximately 1.2-1.8k.

I list my pets one at a time on a 24 hour b/o. Especially at weekends
when more people are playing I make sure to keep the stocks updated.

The other tip I can give you is to list when something in game draws
attention to the pet world. By that, I mean ingame holidays such as
Halloween, Easter, Brew Fest, Valentines and Summer Festival, or any
others where pets drop. These are the times people realise they’ve got
24/25 pets etc and are looking for something quick and easy (ie the
AH) to get them that achievement.

For some further coverage of which Vendors are of interest to people
planning to list pets either on their own, or the neutral AH, you can
find links on my blog post -
http://onlytenmorepoints.blogspot.com/2009/05/making-gold-from-achiev…

Until next time, Glinda, Mistress of the Pets

Zekta:
Guilty, I admit, I am the cold-blooded pet smuggler for selling those Noble Dragon Hawk to those pathetic Alliance. With help from those greenish goblin of course.

I am doing cross faction pet smuggling, rather than just putting it
on Goblin run AH. I had a travel thru Azeroth with my Horde DK, spend
around 25-30 minutes on traveling, and gather each type of pet for 12
each mail to one of my Alt parked at the Neutral AH, (Orgrimmar,
Thunder Bluff and Silver Moon). Transfer to the Alliance counter-part
on my girlfriend account, and start selling on Alliance’s AH. Listing
3-4 at a time.

The average price on those pet would be 8-20g depends on competition.
Reasonable profit margin for covering buyer’s trouble on smuggling it
themselves, but since we are doing it in bulk, the profit is nice.
They are selling like 5-7 per night, so one smuggle is able to supply
for 1-2 weeks.

Rare Faction based pet tend to gain high profit (but not in %),
however, they are much harder to sell. I found that once the price >
500g, buyer tends to shop very carefully, the price different is so
stiff that, they’ll consider smuggling the pet themselves. So I am not
in the Argent Dawn and Whelps-like selling. Another reason for not
doing the Argent Dawn is that, I expect the price will drop soon due
to more and more people will do it for profit. Once those pet
collector done their collection (And got those mount as well), they’ll
join the pet-selling group, similar to the Oracle’s pet. (They are
sold at 5g on my server now!)

The main drawback of pet selling is that it takes up lots of space.
Since pets are not stackable. Storage space, relisting bag space etc,
will consume space pretty fast compare to glyph selling and flask for
instance.

Also, Pet is a good item type for market manipulation; we’ll talk about it later I guess

A great inventory for your pet sales can be found at: http://warcraftpets.com/ (thanks for the linke Zekta!)

You heard it all! You can make serious gold of these creatures! Even you “I’m poor and can’t make money untill late game-engineer” can make gold out of this one!

I would like to thank both Zekta and Glinda, for this great post they have written!

Grtz
Seth