It really never ceases to amaze me what people will buy on the AH.  Even funnier is what people try to sell (like all the hundreds of stacks of vendor trash grey items you see all the time), but that’s another article for another time.

This is just a quickie today, since I can only embellish so much on this particular tip.  But you should be able to add an extra 50-100 gold every single week doing this, even though it’s only going to take you about 30 seconds.

We’ve done an article or two in the past about some rare limited supply recipes that can make you some pretty good coin.  But just recently I stumbled onto another set of recipes that is neither rare, nor limited, and it makes me more gold now than all of those other ones ever did.

Which seems like the dumbest thing in the world to me.  Why in the world would anyone pay a 400-500% markup when they can just go grab it themselves in about 2 minutes.  When I tell you which ones they are you are simply not going to believe it.

I found these completely by accident.  I was working up tailoring for my Shadow Priest and my Wife’s Warlock a couple of months ago and popped into Shattrath to get the higher end cloth recipes from the vendors in the Lower City.

As I did, I noticed the AADV price tooltip for one of them and it made me think (for one of the first times ever with AADV info) “That just CAN’T be right.”  It told me that the recipe for Imbued Netherweave Bag was worth 29gold on that server.  You have to be kidding me right?  People CAN’T be spending 30g on a 3g item.

But the historical data was just too strong, so I bought a few of those, as well as a couple of each of the “bolt of” recipes from the specialists there at the tailoring cluster to do a little test.  (I know the screenshot above shows my priest tooltip as only seeing 2 of these over 2 days, but the same numbers were true in the hundreds on my banker who has much more accurate data in the tooltip).

So that was 2 each of:

  • Imbued Netherweave Bag
  • Pattern: Bolt of Imbued Netherweave
  • Pattern: Primal Mooncloth
  • Pattern: Primal Mooncloth Bag
  • Pattern: Spellcloth
  • Pattern: Shadowcloth

For a total of 51 gold 60 silver.  I mailed it all to my banker to run at the auction that weekend.  Again, it’s just silly how well these things sold.  All in all, those 12 patterns sold in less than 24 hours for over 165 gold.  An average of 13g 75s each.  Some went for around 7g and the Primal Mooncloth Bag fetched nearly 30.

I just don’t see why a level 65+ toon (who is already in outlands anyway) wouldn’t just pop into Shattrath and grab these things.  Do they not know where to find them?  It certainly couldn’t be any easier.

The really nice thing about these recipes is that you could start selling these as soon as you were able to collect about 10 gold.  For me that is normally around level 10 or so.  Just get a mage to port you to Shatt, set your hearth there and grab as many of these as you can and then reinvest the gold for a few days.  Boom, you could have over 200 g by the time you hit level 20.

That sure would make it easy to get your mount at 30 right?  I checked this out on five different servers, and there always seems to be at least a 100-150% markup for all of these recipes.  That means that this should work on almost any server.

So again, you find all of these recipes in the lower city of Shattrath, in that vendor area in the south part of the city.  There are 4 cloth sellers there; Adrion Darkspinner, Gidge Spellweaver, Nasmara Moonsong, and Eiin at 66.3,68.3  Here they are all standing around just waiting for you to show up.

I have found that I can normally sell about 5-10 of each of these recipes every week.  I certainly would never have guessed that they would be in such high demand considering they are so easy to get.  But you just never know about people – especially the lazy level 70’s out there with more gold than sense.

Oh well, if it wasn’t for silly shoppers, I certainly wouldn’t make nearly as much gold, and so I sure don’t care if they ever find out.  Good luck with these, it’s just one more little tool you can add to your ability to Dominate on the ah.