I wanted to post here to thank you again for the AH guide. Just last night I hit 101,000g. I absolutely cannot fathom how some readers aren’t having luck with the guide – my guess is that most aren’t utilizing every part of it.

I essentially own the entire Enchanting market as well as 30 other niches I’ve carved out for myself. Thank you so much.

I have been a fairly regular poster here on DYS starting with the Inscription guide last year. I made my initial seed money of 25K g when it was released, and since then have innovated my AH methods. I am now trying to hit the in-game gold cap, something I never thought possible.

Secondly. I never recieved the inscription update and would like to know how to go about getting it. Your help is greatly appreciated.

BLAM-O

So the first accusation is not accurate. The update was made in December. Everyone who purchased the guide was sent links to the new version via email. If you missed the update we would be happy to get you your copy.

The Auction House Guide will be updated as Auctioneer changes in big enough ways to make such updates necessary. This might be once a year or longer. The guide explains everything you need to know to truly master the AH. We are working on some video tutorials to further show people the things that don’t necessarily translate well into print. Picture is worth a thousand words kind of thing.

So as far as having poor customer service, this particular situation doesn’t fit that term. Service after the sale only goes so far. The product is by far the best on the market. It’s also one of the least expensive to boot. There is not enough time or need to update everything we ever do twice a week or something. If it’s good it stands the test of time, and these are good. Inscription was an oddball and needed a major revision after WotLK, but that has been done and the guide may never need an update again. At least not until the next xpac when the level cap goes to 90 and trade skills rise to 525 –

And Blam-o, I’m afraid that even if we expanded the Ah guide to 1,000 pages we could never cover every single situation that people will ever come accross. The key is to get back to basics. Read the section on searchUI again and then keep an eye out for the videos. I don’t struggle with changing markets because I watch them like a hawk, I just do the same old crud over and over and over again every single week. Nothing fancy. Spam clicking in SearchUI. If your settings are right, and you are following the system you don’t even think about it, just click and post. The numbers protect your investment. Don’t think about strategy, just set and click. Start with vendor and DE, then move up to Resale. After that add Prospecting, Converting, and milling. And last you can do Arbitrage once you have a big pile of gold on both faction houses.

Don’t make this hard folks, it’s really a brain dead activity once you figure out what order to click the buttons in. Build your ignore list, then just click 500 times. The guide actually is too long, so expanding it seems like it would add MORE confusion instead of clearing things up.

Besides all of this Coredriller, there is a completely rock-solid money back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose.

Coredriller (Llane)

Perhaps it would be better to say I would rather sell to a largish middleman who then redistributes the raw materials to manufacturers. Like a textile maker might sell to a cloth warehouser that carries thousands of types from dozens of other manufacturers to supply hundreds of mom and pops or clothing makers. The reason I didn’t get any better in the analogy is that it would have taken another 4 paragraphs to develop the idea – brevity got in the way of clarity.

Another thing I was thinking about in regards to the more interesting aspects of the wow economy is where all the gold came from in the first place. Since Blizz does not directly interact by investing in the market, the wild thing is that every single copper on a realm HAS to come from a mob kill or quest reward. Very fascinating when you think about it. OK there is some cash coming in from players who transfer as well, but even that gold had to source from drops and quests on some server somewhere.

It’s really a little mind-boggling that all the millions of gold available for sale from farmers was originally collected from some murloc somewhere or a silly daily. It’s then our job to consolidate that wealth for investment in the marketplace since no other vehicle for such investment exists. Once again – Dominate to the rescue!

Your outlier filters should catch that kind of crud, but it doesn’t seem to really work the way you would think. What’s happening is that the guy selling the vendor trash has bought gold from someone and is “laundering” the money through the AH by posting some stupid item for 1,000g to collect what he purchased. The gold seller logs in, buys out the item and everyone is happy – along with being virtually untraceable by GM’s.

Oddball prices will get washed out of your data after 30 days, so it’s not a huge problem overall, and outlier filter should catch it before that.

But really, our system is built to run on auto-pilot. I don’t really keep much of an eye out for things like that. If it’s causing you real problems then there may be other usage issues you need to address that have nothing to do with the little things, and everything to do with the way you are doing your auctions.

I have never seen the data get so corrupted that vendor prices are not working properly. I hate to say it but you might need to just blow up all your AADV stuff on all your accounts and start over, because you are right, that could potentially be a really bad problem.

I wouldn’t spend a nickle on anything other than resale until I had well over 2,500g. Frankly, at this point I’m trying to hit 100,000 so all my 80’s can get a motorcycle and tundra mammoth just for kicks, but that’s going to take a little while.