Just a small tip for you people, it won’t make you rich but it may cover your consumables or give you some pocket change.
IE transmog gear is pretty weird on the AH. People get it for free while doing their weekly cap and tend to list it for pretty ridiculous prices, which are way below what people are ready to pay for such transmogs.
On my full pop server I usually find the weekly drops at around 200g for pretty cool stuff like head/shoulder/torso raid transmog. I pick any noteworthy item below 300g and keep them in my bags until the price goes above 1k or there none listed in the AH anymore, at which point I list mine at a random price (usually 4750g idk why). May not be the best strategy but it worked out so far.
And yet it sells decently fast for transmog (I sell one every day or every other day, with only about 10 listed on the ah…) even at such price.
For example I found a duskhaven dress for 200g one hour ago, listed it for 4750g, sold it within 20min. That’s server dependant and most likely pure luck but hey, if it worked for me all week long I should be onto something right ?
There’s also a lot of potential with the weapons (especially the blade of the nothern kings which is an exclusive transmog afaik and is sometimes sold for a few hundreds / thousands despite being worth well over 20k) but I didn’t try it yet beside with that sword.
Anyway, this is as usual server dependant and may not work with yours (or there’s maybe already a bunch of people doing it on your servers and buying all the cheap transmogs) but it won’t cost your much and this is an easy way to get a few thousand gold.
I have given away or de-ed a lot of the IE transmogs. They just don’t sell and after listing a few times, the cost starts to outweigh the value of the item.
It was yea, before salvage crates, 8.3. I’ve made alot of gold pre 8.3 but nowadays I realized they don’t sell well like they used to and stopped doing islands entirely.
Mrrloc shoulders used to have a value like 9-10 k gold in the past, now it is around 150 gold, how are crates helping in this case? I would rather go kill a few mobs on open world instead of wasting time with AH, 2 green items will give me the same amount.
Because prices are extremely volatile. Once the items are no longer on the weekly rotation the prices just skyrocket
All my profits came from items worth between 50 and 300g sold a few days later at +3k gold
That said listening to Punny there may be too much competition on the biggest servers (mine should be the 8th or 11th biggest EU server, didn’t expect things to be too different)
So basically you are another parasitic element on the AH making sure people don’t feel the happiness of spotting a bargain they want by combating low prices through reselling.
If you look at some gear prices, people might even list stuff specifically in order to make someone happy, not to make a profit but to ensure the transmog look doesn’t go to waste. And instead you make sure everything is as expensive as possible to only serve those with the most gold.
And even worse (but kinda in the nature of it), you then advise others to do the same.
Parasitic ? I guess as I try to profit from people lazyness. But the original seller is also satisfied by getting his items sold without having to relist it for a week, which I end up doing instead.
I guess that’s a noble goal, which isn’t applied in practice. When an item is sold at the default ah price or some default values like 100, 200, 250, that’s just someone trying to sell his items fast. He could’ve listed it at the current prices effortlessly if he wanted to but preferred undercutting to get his money fast, that’s his choice.
If the seller really wanted to help people then these items would be sold at vendor price or a symbolic 1s, which would make players even happier.
Believe me I could do much worse if I wanted to make things as expensive as possible… Like using the previous value of these items ? I’m sure people would love to see these listed at +20k each. After all I have a temporary monopoly on these items.
But the thing is : this is something players are already doing. I’m not revealing some kind of groundbreaking secret here, just sharing some knowledge about how volatile the prices on these items can be.
This post will only change which player gets some of the benefits, and maybe allow new players to get their share.
Sounds like me. AH is a way to clean out inventory while earning something since vendor prices don’t really pay for anything anymore. And since re-listing again and again is annoying, it’s undercutting ftw.
Soon it’s Trial of Style. I predict it’s a good idea stocking up on these sets now and sell at the event. Some look very cool imho.
A weird thing I’ve seen are totally insane overpriced bracers. I suppose it’s because most ppl would think it’s worthless and sell directly. Then a possesed completionist buys them just to have their full set. So don’t vendor bracerdrops. Probably you have to put them in many times to sell for overprice, I expect them to sell quite fast for a decent price.
I’m very happy when I find transmog that sells below vendor price. I get to learn a new look at a profit. I have been looking for this for only a week, but it already happened twice with island expedition gear, a mace and a gun. I even got 4 of the guns at discount, 100 when it vendors for 117.
It’s nice to see that people want to give others tips on how to make money!
But I have to mention that this method isn’t beneficial anymore after crates was introduced in 8.3, there are simply too many items on the AH to satisfy the low demand- on most high and full populated servers.
Basically they used to be expensive because they were rare, but today on my server Draenor there are numerous items of the same piece for really cheap prices.
My personal tip is to farm old expansions’ crafting materials. These are used to skill up, and for profession recipies that create good-looking transmogs. It’s a forgotten market which can sell for thousands of gold to most buyers.
