tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780098707419698899.post2100103179761181872..comments2023-08-04T08:25:05.793-07:00Comments on Bang & Blame: A Knight's Tale: What's Goin' on... The Auction House is Actin' weird....SlikRXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16385000304830840202noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780098707419698899.post-39065505380936704642009-11-06T19:37:17.183-08:002009-11-06T19:37:17.183-08:00First thanks or the info and reply!
I learned abo...First thanks or the info and reply!<br /><br />I learned about "bear" and "owl" stuff selling well a while back, and have even noticed that level 20-40 gear has dropped off lately.<br /><br />I hadn't thought about the level 60/70 (Outlands/Northrend) stuff making AH purchasing kind of rare.<br /><br />I have an alt that I use for enchanting so I know the DE routine, and I know a couple folks that are among the few buyers of my items. Evidently they are pretty picky about what they grab, (doing the DE calcs) because they will buy SOME of my items, but not the others... (I know the one Auction addon I use will say "auction/DE/Vendor" depending on the "value".<br /><br />Thanks again for the info though! I would have NEVER thought about the higher level aspecst. :)<br /><br />:)SlikRXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385000304830840202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780098707419698899.post-65395641706277594582009-11-06T16:39:53.922-08:002009-11-06T16:39:53.922-08:00Apologies in advance for a very long-winded commen...Apologies in advance for a very long-winded comment. Brevity does not come easily to me.<br /><br />I think it's mostly two things:<br /><br />1. Quest rewards at low levels are crappy or poorly-itemized enough that people would prefer BoE greens from the AH. (Cataclysm may change this. We'll see.) This means that it's well worth selling lowbie greens.<br /><br />Especially "of the Bear" to the pre-40 mail post-40 plate crowd, "of the Monkey" to the pre-40 leather (whether they're post-40 leather or mail) crowd, and... I dunno what to the clothies. Something caster-y, never played one so I'm not the one to ask about the stats they look for on lowbie levelling gear.<br /><br />Non-cloth with spellpower is also noteworthy (and sale-worthy) just because it's so damn rare before 60.<br /><br />However (getting off my tangent), at Outland and especially Northrend levels, your green quest rewards are honestly so good you don't *need* to go spending money on AH greens to be passably geared. And that's setting aside any blues you may nab from levelling instances or group/chain quests.<br /><br />This pretty much establishes that there'll be relatively little trading of greens at higher levels for the actual sake of equipping oneself.<br /><br />Barring the not too frequent occasion of someone taking up a new role and thus needing whatever they can scrounge up for, say, healing/tanking gear when they've always been DPS in the past, or something. But even in that case people won't go much lower than blues (if even that low), given crafted gear and rep rewards, and let's not forget the ToC-regular pinata.<br /><br />So, very occasional trading for this purpose, sure. But not a lot.<br /><br />2. So then, who *does* want to buy those greens? Obviously, if you sell them for under vendor price, anyone with Auctioneer will promptly snatch them up so they can pick up their auctions, march them over to a vendor, and unload for a profit. But at/over vendor price? You've got green gear, but green gear that people aren't actually gonna wear. So who's gonna want to buy it?<br /><br />Enchanters.<br /><br />And that's only if the expected value (factoring in that, as I'm sure you know from your mention of DE'ing yourself, there's a random factor involved here in both type and quantity) of the dust, essences, shards, or crystals that the item will yield, is a better deal than just buying those enchanting mats directly.<br /><br />So if someone can spend 5G to DE something to get 10G worth of mats, they'll do it. If they can spend 5G to DE something to get 5G (or possibly less if they're unlucky) worth of mats, they probably won't do it.<br /><br />Long story short (far too late): Expect that your buyer will be an enchanter. Even if the stats are good. Because people generally won't even be looking, given their quest rewards.<br /><br />Use Enchantrix (comes with Auctioneer) to determine the expected DE value of the item given the current market prices of enchanting mats. If said DE value is less than the vendor value, vendor it. If greater, throw it up for sale for around the DE value.Vilnoreply@blogger.com