Underachiever: Every WoW Achievement

I wonder why they spike so much on Saturdays. At any rate, I'll be flipping a few stacks on Saturday (probably as singles)

Gold grinding is still going well. I only sold a single 500g+ scroll yesterday (Typically I'll sell 2-3) but I sold a lot of 10g-20g profit items. I'm getting close top the point where I have three of every enchant on the AH at all times. Once I get there, I'll be able start collecting gold without immediately spending it on more inventory again. One special thing of note: I picked up the +4 to all stats enchant yesterday from the AH. I'd been looking for several weeks and I'd never found it (it's a world drop with a really low drop rate). They seem to be selling right now for 130g each, costing 30g to make. Total price paid? 20g buyout!

Gold generation is going well. I originally planned to take on several markets at once - Jewelcrafting and Enchanting Scrolls. I've come to realise that I don't have the resources to do both. My primarly focus is, therefore, on enchanting. My goals have changed slightly as well - I plan to have 3 of every single profitable scroll in my inventory, with 2 on the AH at all times. I plan to only spend a few minutes per day posting and relisting and to craft twice a week - Wednesday and Saturday mornings. I am using Quick Auctions 2 to manage the pricing and relisting of the enchanting scrolls, with the threshold set to guarantee a profit at all times. I keep my fallback slightly lower than the existing competition's normal prices in order to drive them out of the market. And I don't undercut by a copper - it's often by 5g or more. Again, my goal is to make the market hostile to everyone who isn't me. 3 of every enchant in the game is a lot of inventory - somet...

I'm going to spend some time in Molten Core this week to get my rep up and to farm materials for Thorium Brotherhood revered (needed for a couple of enchanting recipes). I also want to pick up the spellpower enchant. I am also going to round out my old-world enchants this week. Crusader and Fiery are selling extremely well, so much so that I've started to list 3 at a time on the AH instead of my usual two since they often sell out before I can repost. In absolute terms, I'm only making 15-20g or so per fiery, but in percentage terms, it's great. Here is an excellent guide to BOA enchants that I'm currently following: http://theahpile.blogspot.com/2010/05/boa-enchanting-guide.html

"I did 100 days of dailies AFTER the dailies for Chef's title, and all I got was this lousy hat!"

By complete accident, I posted some solid stone in my inventory at a truly ridiculous price. I think I tried to set the price per unit and wound up pricing a unit the same price as an entire stack. Anyway, it sold. I guess it shows that some people will buy anything.

My "endgame" goal with enchanting is to have every single enchant in the game available on the AH at all times. Since it's free to post enchants (other than the 1-2 seconds of extra time) there is little downside in having a "long tail" inventory so long as I keep my thresholds higher than the materials cost. There are several enchants that look crappy right now because the scrolls sell for much less than the market price of the mats. Quick Auctions simply won't post these, so there is no real cost to me for having these lying around. If demand DOES increase, I'll already be there, covering it. It's worth noting that I plan on making all of the low level enchants available, albeit at a huge markup. I am not selling an enchant for less than 10g and the mats cost me (including vellums and AH cut of 5%) around 5g. For the lowest level enchants I'll simply keep 3 up at all times, with 20g fallback, 10g threshold and a 10s undercut. I had anothe...

While I have been focusing heavily on getting my enchanting business up and running, I thoguht it would be worthwhile to briefly post on my first foray into the Alliance side fo the AH. Last week, I picked up one of the Horde-side Argent tournament pets from a guy in trade. He was asking 400g and I offered 312g. (Market price horde-side is around 420g). I moved it to a level 1 alt on the alliance side via the neutral AH and flipped it quite quickly for 650g. I then scanned the AH using auctioneer to find arbitrage oppertunities and wound up loading up on cheap level 45-ish epics for 80g each, a few very good twink blues in the range of 20g-30g each and 4 stacks of Northern Spices for 35g each. Out of sheer dumb luck, someone had bought all the spices out horde side, and I managed to flip all four stacks for 235g a stack. The epics all sold for around 400g each with only one relist and most of the blues have also sold for around 200g each. The gold per hour is ridiculous and I pla...

Most of my efforts have been focused on either raiding or generating gold this week. I'll start with the non-gold stuff: I hit exalted with the Argent Dawn by running my wife's alt through Undead Stratholme a bunch of times. No mount dropped, alas. I also did living side, mostly for the Righteous Orbs to sell for the Crusader enchant. I also did some random BC raids, including killing Lady Vashj in SSC. She's much easier at 80 :) On the gold front, I am finally getting a solid system together. I'd like to do all of my crafting 1-2 days a week since it takes up so much time. My biggest sticking point was actually getting enough vellums at a decent price. In the end, I got some guild scribes to help me out but for the future, I've decided to level up a scribe solely to help me get cheap vellums. (The markup on the AH is insane - 800% or more.) Tankspiral, my new level 58 Deathknight, is now my new scribe. Enchants are selling well but I feel like I need to be ...