The Gold Situation on US Servers

[ChutzRadiant]

Hey guys,

I'm relatively new here. I had been actively selling gold for close to 2 years (mostly to friends and guild mates), before stopping abruptly at a ban wave nearly 7 months ago.

I've recently been browsing the Buy-Sell-Trade forum on and off in an attempt to find US gold resellers. Out of the very few who are advertising buying US gold, the average price is nearly $.12-$.14. Yet the average sell price appears fairly similar to what I remember. This contrasts significantly with EU servers.

What happened... and what exactly is going on now? It is hard to believe that US suppliers are out there making enough to cover their accounts, let alone turn a profit. Any suppliers who can enlighten me?

Thanks in advance,

[Ales Kolman Bagari]

My thoughts why gold droped so hard.
1. Tokens and Botters buying tokens. If they wouldnt buy gametime with gold, price would be higer.
2. Legit buying gold via tokens = safe and secure so to be compeative with token value you need to lower price. Blizz sells 0.8$-1.1$ per K so that means you need to sell gold 0.4$ to be competative. And then those reselers selling for 0.4 well we know they need to have profit and buying gold 0.1-0.2.

So basicly blizzard destroyed gold black market its still profitable but sellers doesnt make tons of $$ per month.
If your farming gold and think you will have profit from it its hard. Only way to be worth is if you run bot army +40 chars.

Once again this is my opinion only. If someone else think otherwise pls share.

[freeloading]

I was just checking PA on gold prices. A month ago I was selling for 0.5 to 0.4 per k directly (not resellers)....now gold prices has gone down to 0.30 per k.

Basically gold sellers have increased over the years which is why prices have dropped steadily. I don't think wow token has destroyed gold black market as much as people seem to think. The regular gold buyers will still want more bang for their buck and will still buy gold elsewhere instead of wow token.

Currently wow token is under 30k I believe. If you can buy gold for 0.20 per k it's only $6 as opposed to the $20 to buy a token from the store. That's a huge difference in price. I'd say stock up on gold if you can buy it that cheap and get cheap gametime.

[ChutzRadiant]

I agree that the token system may keep new buyers from entering the gold market, but anyone who has bought gold in the past three years knows that $20 for 21-23k gold is not a good deal. I want to further point out that I believe botters will benefit extremely well from the token system, cutting out any third party to exchange some of your supply for game time.

I have personally noticed a very low number of botters on my high pop server. Although this obviously doesn't prove a universal change, it makes me wonder how many botters are still in the game and how many it was that left.

No doubt the "game has changed" literally and metaphorically.