Phat's Weekly Lewt Review: 1/29

If you're interested, my 'Gold Total' page has been updated to reflect this week's total, along with an update of the graph.

This week, I'm going to be going over how much I spent, as well as break down my sales by the overall week, as it seemed to be of interest to some players, and since TSM_Accounting keeps track of summaries by faction, it will be separated by faction as well:

Alliance:

Horde:









Alliance Analysis
This week on my one Alliance alt I invested only about 1,600 gold, and made 19,000 g.  This alt is purely into markets such as transmog and twink gear, but since my Alli has been getting their Tailoring/Enchanting leveled (still not 80 yet so no max), I've been making some more gold with that, but it's not a major component of their arsenal yet.  Most of my sales were most likely of things that I had purchased prior to this week, so my investments don't really reflect my returns, and that's something I'd like to heavily emphasize.  On any given week I can invest 2k or I can invest 12k, and I can still make that 19k in this market because I have a stockpile of items I repost.  Over the long run buying increases my sales, but at least 90% of the time something I buy in a flipping market usually doesn't sell the same week I purchase it.  I'm on a small server, so for larger servers, of course, YMMV.

Horde Analysis
*The 'Last 30 days' and 'Total Gold Spent' is heavily influenced by the purchase of Invincible's Reins.
On the Horde side of things, it gets a little more interesting.   I spent 60k this week, this is mostly on Ore for Living Steel/Prospecting and Herbs for Milling, Flasks, Rare Gem transmutes, as well as 5-7k on rare 80-84 gear.  I made a 180k income in the past 7 days, including 4 Relic sales which are still selling for 15k+ on my server (I still have a few trinks left over, my first surplus approaching a DMF since MoP release).

Other than that it was a whole bunch of gem sales, enchants, glyphs, item enhancements, the usual spread. I've recently revived my TSM_Crafting (I was lazy for a while) and got items churning out left and right.  I dropped one of my 4 Xmute masters for an Elixir master, as it's currently beneficial to have one on my server, and hopefully will be even moreso come 5.2's new raids.

Transmog & Twink
This week I did something that was a long time in the making.  I had been selling all my 77-78 and 80-84 twink gear from my main posting toon (also my main), whose bags don't have a whole lot of space to begin with.  I made an executive decision to transfer the posting of all the twink gear over to my level 1 transmog seller.  I just switched the groups to him on TSM_Mailing and had the items all waiting in his box the next time I logged.  This adds a lot of items to this sellers inventory, but I usually AFK browse the internet as I empty mail on him, and logistically it just makes more sense.

How was your week in WoW, did you make any awesome sales or purchases?

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

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Milestone: Alliance Alt Hits 100k

So today I hit 2 very important milestones on my Alliance alt, level 70, and 100k gold!

Background
I've written about this alt before, but a quick summary for those who did not see those posts (they're few and far between).  On my main server I have 10 Horde characters and 1 Alliance character.  I originally made my Alliance Priest to see how I could do with the resale market on the Alliance side of my server.  For some quick (albeit expensive) start up capitol I bought an heirloom cape on the Horde side, and vendored it on the Alliance side (before cagable pets).  If you did the math I started with 300g, and now have 100k at level 70.  For a part time alt, it's not half bad!  I figure that sharing some info with you as to how I did it might help you with your repertoire, so here goes!

Flipping Out
This project has been a long time in the making, I started it in Cataclysm, and was working on it on and off.  Basically if I ever finished my gold making rotation Horde side, I'd play this toon.  If I were starting today, I would have just sold a caged pet for starting capitol if I were to do it today, and if you ever start on a new server with no high level alts, I'd suggest you do the same.  The first thing I did was join a level 25 guild.  Trying to do this without guild perks is just silly.  Looking back on my sales, some of the first flips that I made gold off of were in the 77-78 Twink market, which I still sell in now.  In the beginning I had a sale once every 2-3 days, then more often as my inventory increased.  Once I had a decent pile of gold I got into the transmog market, and that's when things really took off.  Below are 2 screenshots of some of my top sales.

Top Resales (Click to Enlarge)

Top Sales (Click to Enlarge)

Business is Booming!
As Cataclysm started coming to an end, I started leveling this toon.  As I leveled, I leveled the traditional Tailoring/Enchanting for my clothie.  Once I had high enough Tailoring, I got a friend to transfer the Icy Cloak pattern to me from the Horde side.  If you are a tailor and you haven't checked out this recipe yet, you should.  Read about it here.  For the TL;DR it's a horde only recipe, and a sweet transmog cloak.  I was able to sell two of these within the first week that I had the pattern for 5k each!!

I noticed something though on my alli priest transmog seller that I did not get on my level 1 transmog banker.  Lots of players whispering things like "why is all your @#$^ing gear so expensive on the AH!?".  Now I'm not going to accuse the scum of the Alliance of being less scrupulous of their Horde counterparts, but I had my fair share of "polite conversations" with some Allies during this experiment.  I chalk it up to actually being on the character for more than a few minutes every 2 days.  As an aside, generally if someone whispers me and doesn't use their first whisper to insult/attack me or my mother, I will be more than willing to cut them a deal.

Mountain of Gear
At this point I have something like 300 pieces of transmog and twink gear (my server is small!) that I cycle every 2 days.  On top of that I'm crafting Netherweave Bags as I just got through BC, and realized that there was about a 3-4x markup on the bags, and up to a 10x markup if I can get cloth cheap enough!  My next goal will be 80 and some maxed MoP professions.  As of now though, my priest only gets maybe 30 minutes of leveling on any given week, so that is going to be in the distant future.

I'm also playing around on another server, and making some decent progress just buying and reselling twink/transmog gear.  That character I only log maybe once or twice a week, but I've accrued about 75k, which I'm slowly investing in lvl 25 pets to move to my main server.  Kinda fun, no thinking involved.  So how about you?  Have you conducted any gold making experiments?  If so how did they turn out?

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

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