Yesterday's post was about keeping track of our inventory, today's post will be about keeping track of your Auctions.
There are a few add-ons that are used by most of the Auctioneers, to mention a few; Auctioneer, Auctionator, Quick Auctions 3 and possibly a lot others.
Yet to see what auctions were successful or not, we will be a bit more dependant on Auctioneer's Beancounter.
The major downside of this mod inside Auctioneer was, the data was only easy to view in-game, Beancounter Exporter changes this.
It's an Excel spreadsheet which converts Beancounter data into readable data for you, displaying items sold, at what price, sold by which of your characters, how much etc, just everything.
This was the utility a lot of us were waiting for and with this, we can filter out the bad selling items and mail those to one of our bank alts to put those for 48h auctions and look every few days if it sold or not.
If we create a plan at the hand of the results of beancounter, we can maximize our profits and analyse the market, weekends (show sales after the weekend, last 2-3 days), midweek (check on Friday's for the last 5 days ), etc.
Once we get used to this and create our own pattern, we can improve our AH game, increase our profits and spend less time doing so.
Examples how to:
- create separate groups in QA3 for the same category of items, ie; glyphs, gems, certain materials and so forth.
- adjust and optimise your bulk mailing add-ons to send only the items you want to sell quick/dump to bank alt.
- change our days, time, frequency in which we buy, sell & trade items.
All-in-all, maximizing profits has become easier by one step.
I hope you enjoyed today's post, keep your copper coins rolling!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Even in Chaos there is Order.
Today's post is about managing your bags, bank and guild bank.
Even though you think your complete inventory is nice and ordered, you should question if it really is.
Do you let add-ons order it, do you manually order it, or just loot from mailbox and see what's next?
This is important, to be able to have a clear view on good sales, you should have a really clean inventory, it's important to know what you have, where you have it and how much of it.
Luckily for the automated kind of person, there are add-ons to manage this.
Bankstack is such an add-on, it is able to sort your bags, bank & guild bank with a few clicks.
Another feature is that it is capable to stack items from bags to bank/guild bank and vice versa, so you won't have random stacks of item "X" multiple times in your inventory stored where only 1 slot would be needed.
Altoholic is fairly mandatory to track which one of your characters has what kind of item and how much of it, so you know what to craft, stockpile or sell.
It can track items on your bank, guild bank, bags, auction house and mailbox, spread over all your characters.
Bagnon displays your bags into one large bag unit and also provides a search feature, so if you can't find an item in your 'organised' bag, you can search for it through that function.
It also displays the amount of total gold you have across your characters, just a handy thing to know (how much liquid gold you have to invest for example).
Last but not least, Addon Control Panel, this wonderful add-on makes it possible to switch between Add-on sets or enable/disable current add-ons in your add-on list. This is really nice when you have to swap from scanning to crafting (some computers crash if they have both enabled) and this is the fast & easy way.
You simply select a set, add, remove or load it stand-alone, reload your user interface and there you go, a complete new UI in a few clicks.
What add-ons would you suggest to use besides these? Or which ones are you using to keep track of your wares?
Even though you think your complete inventory is nice and ordered, you should question if it really is.
Do you let add-ons order it, do you manually order it, or just loot from mailbox and see what's next?
This is important, to be able to have a clear view on good sales, you should have a really clean inventory, it's important to know what you have, where you have it and how much of it.
Luckily for the automated kind of person, there are add-ons to manage this.
Bankstack is such an add-on, it is able to sort your bags, bank & guild bank with a few clicks.
Another feature is that it is capable to stack items from bags to bank/guild bank and vice versa, so you won't have random stacks of item "X" multiple times in your inventory stored where only 1 slot would be needed.
Altoholic is fairly mandatory to track which one of your characters has what kind of item and how much of it, so you know what to craft, stockpile or sell.
It can track items on your bank, guild bank, bags, auction house and mailbox, spread over all your characters.
Bagnon displays your bags into one large bag unit and also provides a search feature, so if you can't find an item in your 'organised' bag, you can search for it through that function.
It also displays the amount of total gold you have across your characters, just a handy thing to know (how much liquid gold you have to invest for example).
Last but not least, Addon Control Panel, this wonderful add-on makes it possible to switch between Add-on sets or enable/disable current add-ons in your add-on list. This is really nice when you have to swap from scanning to crafting (some computers crash if they have both enabled) and this is the fast & easy way.
You simply select a set, add, remove or load it stand-alone, reload your user interface and there you go, a complete new UI in a few clicks.
What add-ons would you suggest to use besides these? Or which ones are you using to keep track of your wares?
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Insane in the Membrane
Insane or just clever, that's the question and today I'm going to try to answer it.
I'll admit, I'm one of those foolish people trying to grind that achievement, but casually..
Every time Darkmoon Faire comes by, I try to get as much decks as possible for a reasonable price and sell the cards, but lately, the decks are more expensive than the cards, which results in a loss.
I want to make money, not loose it, not even for an achievement that might be removed in Cataclysm(rumour says it will be).
Prices of the materials for Darkmoon Faire are relatively low during the weeks it's not up, that's when I'm stockpiling it and making a ton of cards & decks.
My mini buy list is this:
- Northrend Herbs
- Eternal Life
And that's all I need! I (ab)use my automated milling technique and then just create all decks that I can right after.
Which has lead me to a point that I don't auction Snowfall Ink, but use it to craft decks instead and I have to admit I'm fairly lucky so far with almost 1/5th being Nobles Decks, and Agility/Strength Greatness still selling for 3.5-4k gold each, which keeps me in the profit range by far.
When and if I include the other decks that sell(slowly...), I'm making money out of 'grinding' the Insane title, that's Insane! or brilliant, it's all the same to me.
I'd also like to mention that Cold has made a really nice master-craftables-list, including items that can be produced to sell during the Darkmoon Faire!
Read, absorb the info and use it wisely, stock up and sell in appropriate quantities.
And last but not least, I'd like to ask you, are there any other ways you made a profit doing the Insane in the Membrane achievement or any other achievements?
And don't forget, keep that copper coin rolling!
P.S. Sunday 1st of August 2010 is when Darkmoon Faire arrives again.
I'll admit, I'm one of those foolish people trying to grind that achievement, but casually..
Every time Darkmoon Faire comes by, I try to get as much decks as possible for a reasonable price and sell the cards, but lately, the decks are more expensive than the cards, which results in a loss.
I want to make money, not loose it, not even for an achievement that might be removed in Cataclysm(rumour says it will be).
Prices of the materials for Darkmoon Faire are relatively low during the weeks it's not up, that's when I'm stockpiling it and making a ton of cards & decks.
My mini buy list is this:
- Northrend Herbs
- Eternal Life
And that's all I need! I (ab)use my automated milling technique and then just create all decks that I can right after.
Which has lead me to a point that I don't auction Snowfall Ink, but use it to craft decks instead and I have to admit I'm fairly lucky so far with almost 1/5th being Nobles Decks, and Agility/Strength Greatness still selling for 3.5-4k gold each, which keeps me in the profit range by far.
When and if I include the other decks that sell(slowly...), I'm making money out of 'grinding' the Insane title, that's Insane! or brilliant, it's all the same to me.
I'd also like to mention that Cold has made a really nice master-craftables-list, including items that can be produced to sell during the Darkmoon Faire!
Read, absorb the info and use it wisely, stock up and sell in appropriate quantities.
And last but not least, I'd like to ask you, are there any other ways you made a profit doing the Insane in the Membrane achievement or any other achievements?
And don't forget, keep that copper coin rolling!
P.S. Sunday 1st of August 2010 is when Darkmoon Faire arrives again.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
QA, Auctioneer and ...!?
In the recent posts from Markco & Gevlon they questioned and analysed the usefulness of Quick Auctions 3 and Auctioneer and why not to use either or when to use either or both of these add-ons.
However both of the discussions are focussed on selling your ware, I'd like to pinpoint out the importance of being able to buy things in bulk, when you want to sell things in bulk yourself (one needs a stock to craft any of the selling products).
When it comes to buying, I feel that another add-on is left out when it comes to this, mainly for buying and quick cancelling your supply on the auction house.
Whenever I'm stocking up on a specific product, I use Auctionator to do the bulk buying, it's buying feature is a lot nicer than Auctioneer (it's confirmation window is annoying till no extend and for me it's too slow).
Auctionator has this really neat future to create Shopping Lists, similar to default AH "Browse"-tab, but it displays items you'd like to watch to buy at any price and how much stacks at that price.
For example I created an "Eternals" shopping list to have quick access to Fire, Earth, Shadow, Water, Air & Life.
I recently bought 337 stacks of Adder's Tongue to mill, it took me a few clicks and no annoying confirmation window asking if I really wanted to buy it for each item/stack, as you would need to do in the Auctioneer Search tool.
It's selling feature is something I haven't used often yet, I have to be honest that I still am too used to Auctioneer's Appraiser or simply posting bulks of items (glyphs, enchanting scrolls and other items I sell in bulk) with QA3.
Once I'm more aware of it's usefulness, I will certainly make a post about it, as there are people on wowecon's Hall of Fame who merely used Auctionator and a few other addons(mail, item tracking etc) to reach the gold cap(several times).
The "More..." tab is really nice, you have all your auctions listed there alphabetically, once you click one of your auctions, it'll display the query, how much and which of those are yours.
If you're not on top (lowest price) you can choose to cancel the auction (cancels all of that item in 1 click), I love this feature for my best selling items or top selling glyphs, so I'm not reposting all 440 glyphs when I use the cancel option from QA3.
You can also check for undercuts of all your auctions instead of doing it manually for each item.
That's all for Auctionator, it's a small and handy add-on, but it should be used more.
I leave the QA3 vs Auctioneer discussion to the more experienced and gold-capped bloggers, Markco, Gevlon and who else feels to voice his/her opinion about it.
In my case, it's all about preferences and I mix the usage of both, neither is wrong if it is capable of producing more gold than your starting amount.
Use QA3 & Auctioneer both, next to, obviously, Auctionator!
Go ahead and try Auctionator out and keep your copper coins rolling!
Auctionator link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionator.aspx
However both of the discussions are focussed on selling your ware, I'd like to pinpoint out the importance of being able to buy things in bulk, when you want to sell things in bulk yourself (one needs a stock to craft any of the selling products).
When it comes to buying, I feel that another add-on is left out when it comes to this, mainly for buying and quick cancelling your supply on the auction house.
Whenever I'm stocking up on a specific product, I use Auctionator to do the bulk buying, it's buying feature is a lot nicer than Auctioneer (it's confirmation window is annoying till no extend and for me it's too slow).
Auctionator has this really neat future to create Shopping Lists, similar to default AH "Browse"-tab, but it displays items you'd like to watch to buy at any price and how much stacks at that price.
For example I created an "Eternals" shopping list to have quick access to Fire, Earth, Shadow, Water, Air & Life.
I recently bought 337 stacks of Adder's Tongue to mill, it took me a few clicks and no annoying confirmation window asking if I really wanted to buy it for each item/stack, as you would need to do in the Auctioneer Search tool.
It's selling feature is something I haven't used often yet, I have to be honest that I still am too used to Auctioneer's Appraiser or simply posting bulks of items (glyphs, enchanting scrolls and other items I sell in bulk) with QA3.
Once I'm more aware of it's usefulness, I will certainly make a post about it, as there are people on wowecon's Hall of Fame who merely used Auctionator and a few other addons(mail, item tracking etc) to reach the gold cap(several times).
The "More..." tab is really nice, you have all your auctions listed there alphabetically, once you click one of your auctions, it'll display the query, how much and which of those are yours.
If you're not on top (lowest price) you can choose to cancel the auction (cancels all of that item in 1 click), I love this feature for my best selling items or top selling glyphs, so I'm not reposting all 440 glyphs when I use the cancel option from QA3.
You can also check for undercuts of all your auctions instead of doing it manually for each item.
That's all for Auctionator, it's a small and handy add-on, but it should be used more.
I leave the QA3 vs Auctioneer discussion to the more experienced and gold-capped bloggers, Markco, Gevlon and who else feels to voice his/her opinion about it.
In my case, it's all about preferences and I mix the usage of both, neither is wrong if it is capable of producing more gold than your starting amount.
Use QA3 & Auctioneer both, next to, obviously, Auctionator!
Go ahead and try Auctionator out and keep your copper coins rolling!
Auctionator link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionator.aspx
Sunday, July 25, 2010
My Markets
Today's post will be about the markets I am participating in, it will be short, but hopefully constructive.
- Inscription;
My cash-cow, I am not yet completely utilizing this profession to it's maximum, that's mainly because I started it really late.
I lack 32 more glyphs and at times I forget to do my daily research or just don't have time to do so.
Every weekend I am crafting 5 glyphs of each type, it could and should be more, around 20 of each, but I simply fail at managing it all.
Furthermore, the books; Faces of Doom, Rituals of the New Moon & Ironbound Tome are part of my to-sell collection.
The vellums are used for my Enchanter, I also keep my Snowfall Inks to create Darkmoon Cards (Insane achievement whoring while making cash at the same time, why not?).
Investing goes purely into buying Northrend Herbs only, I am too lazy to bother with anything else, as I can convert the Ink of the Sea at Jessica Sellers in Dalaran.
- Jewelcrafting;
Tried the blue & meta gem market, but people are simply selling too much at a too low price, I suspect botting, but reporting them haven't changed a thing so far.
Just Epic Gem crafting & flipping, Saronite shuffling to keep my Enchanter supplied and sending bulks to my Alchemist for transmution.
- Mining;
I am releveling mining as I dropped it for Blacksmithing on my Paladin, good old DKs are good for that.
I currently have no Herbalist, Skinner, Tailor or Leatherworker, I might install those professions on my alts (74+ Rogue and 60+ Prot War, 30+ Mage (has Tailoring, but I simply hate leveling)), but not sure what or how I'm going to deal with that yet.
I might create a second Jewelcrafter to speed up my Gem coverage (mainly blue gems on one character and Epics on the other) and perhaps even another Alchemist for specializing in Transmution again or diversify a little and pick up another...
Tips and/or recommendations are welcome.
That's all for today! Tomorrow I will cover disenchanting, prospecting & milling automation, stay tuned!
- Alchemy;
Transmution mastery is so nice! Converting Saronite into Titanium Bars and selling them for a stack price of Saronite is pure profit (excluding the procs!).
Crafting my daily Epic gems is a nice way to keep my JC busy too.
- Blacksmithing;
Work in progress, all the items, or at least the green quality and up are send to my Enchanter to be disenchanted and sold on the AH to keep the investment costs low, unless the materials are useful for my Enchanting business, then I apply them to the destined scroll to be sold.
- Enchanting;
Vanilla scrolls are my main thing, Spellpower, Crusader, Fiery (lots of competition sadly), Agility, 2H Weapon Agility and Chest Stats.
I know I am missing out if I don't post mongoose or any post-vanilla enchants, but the materials are running dry (crystals & shards mainly) and farming instances with my Hunter (Enchanting char) isn't the most speedy thing, I miss my prot pally for those things too much.
- Engineering;
I craft arrows for my hunter and that's it, I even sell them in singles for the price of a stack of 1000, not often, but there are those times when you do your daily heroic and some hunter keeps pulling packs that you wanted to skip to speed up the runs, this is my revenge.
- Inscription;
My cash-cow, I am not yet completely utilizing this profession to it's maximum, that's mainly because I started it really late.
I lack 32 more glyphs and at times I forget to do my daily research or just don't have time to do so.
Every weekend I am crafting 5 glyphs of each type, it could and should be more, around 20 of each, but I simply fail at managing it all.
Furthermore, the books; Faces of Doom, Rituals of the New Moon & Ironbound Tome are part of my to-sell collection.
The vellums are used for my Enchanter, I also keep my Snowfall Inks to create Darkmoon Cards (Insane achievement whoring while making cash at the same time, why not?).
Investing goes purely into buying Northrend Herbs only, I am too lazy to bother with anything else, as I can convert the Ink of the Sea at Jessica Sellers in Dalaran.
- Jewelcrafting;
Tried the blue & meta gem market, but people are simply selling too much at a too low price, I suspect botting, but reporting them haven't changed a thing so far.
Just Epic Gem crafting & flipping, Saronite shuffling to keep my Enchanter supplied and sending bulks to my Alchemist for transmution.
- Mining;
I am releveling mining as I dropped it for Blacksmithing on my Paladin, good old DKs are good for that.
I currently have no Herbalist, Skinner, Tailor or Leatherworker, I might install those professions on my alts (74+ Rogue and 60+ Prot War, 30+ Mage (has Tailoring, but I simply hate leveling)), but not sure what or how I'm going to deal with that yet.
I might create a second Jewelcrafter to speed up my Gem coverage (mainly blue gems on one character and Epics on the other) and perhaps even another Alchemist for specializing in Transmution again or diversify a little and pick up another...
Tips and/or recommendations are welcome.
That's all for today! Tomorrow I will cover disenchanting, prospecting & milling automation, stay tuned!
I toss us a copper
After reading wow/gold blogs daily for quite some time now, I will take a step into the blogging community and try to maneuver my way through.
This blog will be about wow in general, but I hope I can focus on gold making and wise spending, but to give you a better view on the subjects of this blog, I should introduce myself first.
I'm Vennren, a former self-proclaimed achievement whore, I stopped bothering about a year ago when Ulduar progression was hindered by the absence of active players, resulting me to quit the game for a few months.
Coming back when ToC was decently progressed wasn't a great stimulation as upon first entering, it felt like a complete faceroll instance compared to Ulduar, no fun at all, thus resulting in another mini-break.
Coming back for ICC progression was fun for a while, but it still didn't feel as hard as Ulduar initially was, I lost my interest and failed my trial in a raiding guild.
At this point I was tired of the realm I migrated to right before the launch of WotLK and decided to migrate back to my original realm.
As I came back I decided I should focus on playing for fun again and what I perceive as fun is mainly collecting gold and bumming around doing some lame achievements here & there or try out a new alt (prot warrior at the moment and oh damn they rock!).
So here we are, trying to make that one copper roll, rolling to the gold cap and probably eventually one million.
If at all, it would be nice to have at least one of these goals before cataclysm, but my investment vs. profit kind of evens out lately as I'm investing a lot more than I did before.
That's my short introduction, if it didn't make much sense that would be because I think while I'm thinking and that can be very confusing to write down.
Go forth and roll your coppers and let it accumulate into gold, tons of it.
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