So I had a guildie ask me to look on the AH for him and tell him if any epic blacksmithing recipes were up and what they were. I started listing them all to him and their prices, then I got to the Boots of Utter Darkness recipe
Thottbot World of Warcraft: Pattern: Boots of Utter Darkness
I told him it was for 200g BO and he said "No way, that thing sells for atleast 800g, I wish I had the money" ... so of course, I bought the damn thing and put it back up for 800g(Broadcasted to trade channel) and bought me a stack of healing pots and headed to the mailbox, by the time I got there.. it had sold!!!
So I decided to do some investigating on my servers AH prices on epic recipes, for about a week I looked every day to see what was "common" and what wasn't, I also looked at each one on thot. Last night I found a recipe I hadn't seen up before, it was for the Hand of Eternity.
Thottbot World of Warcraft: Plans: Hand of Eternity
I bought it for 500g on a gamble, didn't know if I would be able to get that much out of it, but took a chance... 750start, 1500bo... sold it by the time I woke up this morning. So right now I'm sittin on half my epic flyer money w/o hardly any effort or time invested.
The Point: If its PURPLE, people will pay rediculous amount of money for it... the end