Question please: I used to have the “Dark Whelpling” (the option that teaches you how to summon this pet) to be sold at the AH around 30-40k. When I have learned this pet (by error) and caged it again to sell it on the AH, I found the price is quiet different: around 8k …
I don’t understand why it’s not the same price between learning how to summon the pet and a caged pet (It’s the same … you will have the same pet at the end no?)
Just wondering or maybe i am missing something here … in fact, there are two types of Dark Whelpling sold at the AH one cheaper that the other one
There is a significant effect from people who get a drop, don’t know what the price should be, weren’t expecting anything, list it at the first number they think of.
Pet sales are also slow. Nobody ever neds a pet today, they way they might need flasks or mats. Pets can stay listed for weeks with nobody buying. So people have no guidance on run-rate. Sometimes, people put pets up at ridiculously low prices just to get rid of them. Sometimes, if there is no competition, they list them ridiculously high.
And yes, the item that teaches a pet can be listed at a very different price to the pet itself. This can be rational, when the item can teach any one of a set of breeds, and only one of the breeds is good - so when you buy the item, there is perhaps anythiing from a 2/3 to a 9/10 chance that you’re wasting your gold. Most of the time, though, it’s because the people listing (and the people buying) don’t even realise that the pet can be bought both in a cage and as the item.
So the pet market is irrational.
Some smart people who know that can take advantage of it, but even for them, it’s a slow way to flip at the AH.
Here are the Dark Whelpling prices for your realm, which illustrate these irrationalities.
It’s the exact same companion. One learned, one not yet learned.
Ppl usually just undercut whatever price is on at ah. If someone sets the unlearned higher, than everyone just follows.
There used to be a difference in where companions were found at ah, leading to particular searches only turning up unlearned companions. Some ppl didnt know > this accounted for price difference.
People do it with Darkmoon Fair trinkets as well. The price is different for one ‘created’ compared to the item you click to make it when you have the complete deck. Yet it’s the same item.
That can be part of it, but ignorance swamps those as a reason.
I bought an S/S Raven from the AH for 3K in WoD. Hasn’t been in the game since Cata, and worth considerably more, but presumably the seller was happy to get that much.
Go down the page and look at the prices for the breeds of Fiendish Imp. Keep in mind that the S/S is the only really good breed:
Yes, companion stats can account for a huge difference in ah price.
But… as far as i know whelplings have fixed stats.
There are some odd things going on though; for instance, the tailor dropped companions from making imperial silk are often and on multiple realms more expensive unlearned than learned. Since these also have fixed stats, it makes no sense.
Another ‘odd’ thing is that some companions are purple unlearned (hyacinth macaw for instance). This is a leftover from before battle pets, where learned pets had no ‘color’, but unlearned did, giving some sense of rarity.
But when you learn a purple pet, it becomes blue. Same applies to some blues becoming green. That is also a reason unlearned companions are higher on ah. Some ppl seem to not know there are no learned purple companions (only gray, white, green and blue). They are in for a dissapointment when they do learn them. Specially if they payed xx k more than the learned ones could have been bought for.