Making Gold

[purplefag]

Ello

Ok, so I have a bot running, collecting herbs and mining ore. Whatever he collects, goes to the AH for the going rate, and usually sells pretty quickly, and I make a little bit of profit. However, I am finding, that lately, a large amount of ppl are doing the old "cut throat" undercut trick, undercutting but a huge amount in order to secure a sale, bringing the prices of my farmed mats down considerably.

My question is a simple one. How can I use these mats I collect to make a slightly better amount of gold, withour resorting to selling them in thier raw form, which is where most of the cut throat competition is.

Sorry for rambling on

TIA for any help or advice you are able to give

Purple

[Picklesowner]

Depends on what mats. You can always use professions to make shit out of em, make them into bars, or just sell 1 stack at a time for 75% price. But we need more details on what type of ore it is. If Titanium, prospect it with a jewelcrafter, if saronite trasmute it, etc.

[purplefag]

I have been collecting saronite, melting it into bars and selling those, and selling any raw titanium ore I get. Weeds are sold in thier raw form.

[HeraldOfTheTitans]

Yeah,i agree.

[Shodokan]

X-mute into titanium bars and then make titansteel.

[Massimiliano]

Or learn how to control your market. Today i had a lv 1 toon start with 25gold, if my auctions sell, i'll have 1,5k tomorrow

[Forgiving]

Although it takes a little bit of work, if you are constantly botting I have found controlling all the glyphs is a big way to get money. it will take some time to get set up, and You will need to have a couple thousand gold to get it running, but in general if you control one whole market you can just buy the glyphs that are undercutting you, and resell them. I would also suggest maybe not farming those high level herbs/ore. The pre-bc ore really sells for a good bit for all those people who are trying to get up their Jc or Bs before Cata comes out. Same for herblore. You can sell these items for raw, and usually not many people will undercut you (because noone wants to farm them!). If they do undercut you, chances are the herbs are at such a high price / demand both yours and your undercutteee's items will sell relatively fast

[swankboss]

smelt the ore into bars and vendor them. You get extra gold without dragging the saronite market down.

[Forgiving]

smelt the ore into bars and vendor them. You get extra gold without dragging the saronite market down.

That is not the greatest idea. Unless your ore is literally 4g a stack, there is no point. it takes 40 ore to make 20 bars, and thats 20g to the vendor. I would suggest if you are going to keep botting higher level ore to prospect it and sell all the green gems. Usually each one goes for around 3-4g each. And then you wont be flooding the market still.

[klamis]

Or learn how to control your market. Today i had a lv 1 toon start with 25gold, if my auctions sell, i'll have 1,5k tomorrow

Teach me.. :<