134K in the bank and a quick flip

The sales continue apace. I found a few good deals over the past day or two and have turned those to my favor. Someone was selling uncut Cardinal Rubies and Ametrines for 100g apiece right before I was about to log off last night; I bought those and flipped 'em fierce. I picked up a new epic cut thanks to the JC dailies -- Purified Dreadstone -- and now can cut all the epic gems but Eye of Zul. The fact that they almost always sell makes me not worry about diversifying the cuts I have. Happily enough, Greater Cosmic Essences and Titanium Bars were going for 23g and 25g respectively this morning; I've been selling them for 16g and 17g apiece so the profit margin is skyrocketing. My daily transmutes and Titansteel smelting are keeping me fat and happy.

But the best thing of all happened today just as I was about to leave for work: someone was offering up the Agility version of the Greatness Card for 3000g bids in Trade. I jumped on it and offered 2700g, but the seller wound up putting me in a bidding war with another Darkmoon Card flipper (I know he is one because I sold him one for 4000g this week and saw him immediately list it on the AH for 4800g. Of course, I put one of my own up for a 5g undercut not a minute after he listed his.) In the end I wound up paying 3200g for the thing. Not 15 seconds later, I kid you not, someone in Trade is offering 4200g for the EXACT version of the Greatness card I'd just bought. I became immediately suspicious that I was somehow being set up for some type of scam (I don't know how that's possible, but hey, seemed too good to be true.) I immediately invited the person and we met up at the Deeprun Tram and made the exchange. In less than 5 minutes I had made 1000g. No effort. Not even as much effort as collecting something from a mailbox and listing it on the AH.

I doubt I'll have that opportunity again very soon but holy cow. That was one thousand of the eighty thousand I have to make before I hit the gold cap. Incredible!

122,000 in the bank

Sales have been moving at a pretty nice pace lately. I haven't seen the same post-patch results as many other goldmakers but I'm not well-organized and I didn't do any preparation. My bad; epic gem prices are up 100g across the board. If I would've focused on that niche alone I'd be looking at thousands in profit. Still, the glut of new gear from instances of all sizes is causing enchants and gems to sell like crazy. I've taken advantage of the titanium transmute being taken off the cooldown and have been selling tons of converted saronite ore that way. I've also been buying cobalt ore at 25g a stack, making axes, DEing those, and selling that essences for about 19g per ... I'd love that to be higher but I'm not going to complain about turning a ~80% profit.

I have been burned on a few things; primary among these was a large purchase of abyss crystals that the RNG saw fit to turn into dust.

And let me just say that if I hadn't leveled JC and enchanting, I'd be bleeding gold right now. Glyphs are still in the basement; I do a QA post every couple days at random times, and I can't remember the last time one of them sold for more than 10 gold. I have held off completely on buying herbs, and in fact cleared the AH out of Frost Lotus even though my alchemist is transmute specced, making Flasks of Endless Rage for 60g lotus and effectively-free Lichbloom and selling them at 46g apiece. Nice profit there. I've even taken to buying out our resident idiot discounter's stock of flasks (he lists at 33g) and flipping them. He lists more, I buy em, mine sell, screw you.

One of my goals this weekend is to get serious about managing my enchanting scrolls. I have a couple hundred stacks of saronite ore to burn through and a bunch of recipes to buy from the shard trader. Hopefully I can find a way to soak up these piles and piles of cheap dust and turn them into heavy profits.

Up above 115K, finally

Quick update since I finally guessed the right password and got into this account.

* Glyphs have crashed. I'm barely participating in that market. I haven't done a restock in weeks.

* I've leveled my shaman (previously "my little shammy") to 73 already. Nearly 74. He's got maxed out JC and 440/450 Enchanting. The recipes for both are pretty sparse but the ones I have are big sellers. I'm so grateful that I got the MC/heirloom SP enchant, I sell one every few days at ~250g profit.

* I'd be further along but I got epic and cold-weather flying for the shaman. Man does that speed things up in Northrend.

* I do my daily transmute with my DK and my daily JC quest on the shammy and everything works out.