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Hello everyone, I know it's been a while since I've posted and all, but my new study started again and the life that comes with it (introduction weeks & lots of alcohol).

However I did manage to make some spare time to keep my AH game up, even if it was inferior to be noticed by the majority of the community.
I lost one farmer and two gem sellers, but one Saronite Ore farmer stayed loyal and is supplying me once again.

I made most of my money, if not all of it with my JC/BS character, buckles & gems are flying through the roof lately and it even got me to buy around 500 gems today which probably won't last me more than a week.
My inscription market will get boosted again today, because today I've finished all research and will have 100% of all the available recipes for that profession (yay).

While I've been studying and preparing for school I started to Snipe the neutral AH.
Because I wasn't completely paying attention I missed a few good deals, but I'm happy with the 1-2 copper deals I've obtained through those few weeks.
Those alone netted me about 10-15k profit, so it's time well spend (studying & gaming at the same time).

Also because I'm playing more casually I barely spend anything for raids or my achievement/rep farm trips and I noticed my gold increased by a lot more than usually.

All-in-all playing more casually only gave me more benefits (gold wise).
I have to play the market differently, stock up more, post at raid hours, somewhere in the morning and resupply during the time I have instead of the cheap (morning) hours.

For me the WoW market seems to be more alive than ever, casuals/socials getting upgrades in ICC is my guess and they are a large part of the community.


I'll try to bring more (good) info and post frequently again, I can't promise anything and I might become one of those weekend players/blog posters.

Steady income, no excuse policy (part 2)

Yesterday's post was about the individual person him/herself. Today will be about helping a friend, a guild mate or yourself through them.

As a player who doesn't have the money to invest in materials and supply someone for craftables, you could offer your services to your guild mates in return for a small fee, using that as investment to get better recipes, your own materials or being able to just diversify your wares.

But as a fellow (rich?) guild mate and a good person, you can help the poorer while they are helping you!

Let them farm for you, anything can be beneficial to them, old content, new content, mining, herbing, skinning, enchanting, tailoring or whatever market you're participating in, they can supply you.

Another thing you could do to help them is let them craft the things you can't and give them a nice tip, that will keep them happy and maybe they'll suggest to do other things for you too, it will always be a win-win situation.

Another option is dragging them along in the Argent Tournament dailies, they are all done faster together than alone and they will see it's decent (daily) income too. You'll be happy because you finished this faster, the other person is happy with the gold he just racked together.

Next time if you see someone whining about not having gold, offer them to supply you with materials.

If you're the one who's struggling with gold, consider supplying someone you know, do your dailies and find your niche market, but the most important thing is diversify!

Steady income, no excuse policy (part 1)

People are still complaining they don't have gold and use more excuses for it than you could imagine.

• "I don't _ have_ as much time as you do"
• "I _have_ to raid, so I can't make gold all the time"
• "I _need_ epic flying to make gold, else it's too slow"

Seeing the pattern there? People blame others for being able to get gold so 'easy', but basically they are too lazy to bother making gold themselves!

People don't need to raid, but want to, they don't need to have a lot of time, just spend it wise and you can make gold without ever leaving town too, so all of that are just excuses to cover their laziness.

Daily quests might be boring, but they are the best way to ensure anyone of a steady income, every single day.

Effort has to be put into something to be able to reap the benefits from your hard work, without the will or the right attitude to make any gold, you will never be able to get any.

Which concludes this first part of this post, there's plenty of gold around, you just need to be willing to do the effort to make it. Time is there in abundance, it all depends how you plan & execute the things you do.

Gold Forums

Today Markco features WoW Confidential's Paid WoW Gold Forum and honestly, I was interested in the forum straight away.
My reason is that WoW Confidential got my attention because of the millionaires when I was still trying to find my way into making decent cash on the AH or ju st generally in-game.
I'm really curious about all the juicy stories and well described and worked out information that lurks in that forum, but sadly, my wallet doesn't permit me doing so (students got a hard time you know).

No worries though for those who feel disappointed, Markco also has been so kind to host a free WoW Gold Forum, namely the JMTC Forums.
The JMTC Forums also contains a few millionaires and has tons of useful (free!) information, helpful players and a dedicated community behind to help you and themselves to get more out of this game.
The JMTC Forums are up for quite a while now, a bit over a year I thought, so they contain a lot of useful information, waiting for you to absorb it and put the info into some action.

Now I'd like to know from you readers out there, have you ever paid for gold guides, forums or anything besides the monthly fee to play game, to enhance your game play?
If you did, was it worth it? If you didn't, why not? Found useful (and free?) information elsewhere or what the reason behind your choices, let us know.

Another thing I'd like to mention is that I'm going to try to create a glyph wall on my realm, I already got most if not all of my competitors move to my AH town (Undercity) just to hear them whining I post my glyphs too cheap (I'm still selling glyphs around 50-100g every day).
But now that I found out that they're basically all of them are frustrated by my actions, I'm going to mess things up, or try to.
5g fallback, 3g50s threshold (possibly dropping it to 3g) and undercutting with 1s, everything below my own price will be bought up and relisted.

I am considering to use a new add-on to make this possible during the peak hours of glyph selling (raid hours), it's a new add-on that Zerotorescue quickly put together while I was chatting with him on the JMTC IRC Channel.
The add-on is called: Quick Auctions Poster, what it does is it will scan and repost if you're undercut (it does not cancel and neither will it get mail, run to the mailbox or any other things, it will purely repost if you're undercut).
Wow Confidential also featured this fantastic add-on on their website, you can find the link here: http://www.wowconfidential.com/wow-addons/automatically-undercut-auctions-with-quick-auctions/

More about this when I've actually started my glyph war, I still earn decently with my Darkmoon Faire trinkets, off-hands and runescrolls. The vellums are used by my Enchanter, so I can afford a little glyph war for a while.
The 5k ink supply could keep me up for a while and I'm dominating the herb market by keeping the price above 20g per stack, while I'm buying everything up ranging from 8-19g per stack.
I'm mass purchasing with Auctionator, I can't live without to keep those markets under control.

While I'm milling I'm watching some TV shows, recently started a new one, I'll have to catch up on 50 episodes, which means enough milling time spend 'useful'!

That was all for today, a bit more than I originally intended, but I hope it still provides enough useful and somewhat entertaining information.