The Ultimate Gold Guide REVISITED. How To Sell Your Drops For Insane Prices

[Cronan]

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for the guide It's been very useful!

[stevesgamebox]

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for the guide It's been very useful!

NP. All the best to ya. If you have any interesting results feel free to post them in this thread.

[stevesgamebox]

Hello, first of all, thanks a lot for this priceless guide who introduce me to how earn more money by saving time !

I have read everything and now I would like to ask 3 question.

In the FAQ you say we can use auctionnator because the biggest part is done by TSM & TUJ but im not sure to understand what is TUJ ?

By the way about auctionator or auctioneer, I dont understand why they are needed in this guide because we use only the TSM function, or maybe I've miss something ?

The last one is about the auto sell config, in the "Posting price settings" in particular. On your screen we can:

When Below Minimum: “Ignore auctions bellow minimum”
However you say to copy past this in the guide:
When Below Minimum: “Post At Minimum Price”

I think its just a writing mistake, the screen setting is the good one, right ?

Thanks again, this is far away the best guide for TSM and after taking the time to digest it like you sayd i will considere if i need to pay for the rest

Thanks for pointing that out

The guide has changed soo many times as TSM and WOD developed that those "mistakes" we're actually true at one point or another.

For minimum: You want to post anyway, so the setting "post at minmum should suffice". And as for auctionator or auctioneer - you can use either. But I find auctioneer to be MUCH better for my own reasons..

And as for TUJ.... hehe.. Let me take that line out.. Im not sure how I let that stay in this guide. TUJ is completely irrelevant now. Thanks

[stevesgamebox]

The guide is definitely working as I have been selling green items for a long time as well. But yes having the option to put everything with several clicks takes the whole thing to the next stage. I have been trying to figure out how exactly the percentages works though.

Currently the addon undercuts the "bid" price. How can I set it to undercut the "buyout" instead?

Also how can I set the addon to always undercut with 1 copper no matter what the regional medium price is? I tried to set maximum price to 500% and it seems it works.

Do you have a further explanation regarding the percentage values?

Hi

Theres a slider on the operation config page labeled "bid percent" or something similar to it. (You'll definitely see it). TSM will match the bid and the buyout when you slide it to 100%.

That should take care of most bid related problems.

As for the undercutting by 1 copper, there's also an undercut amount on the operation settings page. You can enter which value you would like it to undercut by there. I always use 1 copper nowadays

[stevesgamebox]

It depends on what sells, and what I still have in stock. I built a stock of greens and blues to get started by farming rares in Blasted Lands, Swamp of Sorrows, Wetlands, Hillsbrad Foothills and the Ogre cave in Thousand Needles.
Now I have 5 alts with maxed out Garrisons / Salvage yards to add to the mix, and do more buying/selling in the AH.

This. Just play as you normally would with a bit of farming here and there. Make sure you throw a salvage yard on all of your characters (It helps TREMENDOUSLY) and you should eventually build up a massive stock.

The AH route is by far faster I'd say.

[-Saphyro-]

Used to manually repost 80-100 auctions before, this has saved me a LOT of time! Made good gold with very little effort, but have not struck the real jackpot just yet.. Had a good 3-5k gold in mailbox every day before WoD was released, now it appears that people are busy with other things..

Thanks a lot for a very good guide!

[RebelCat]

Hey there! Wanted to thank you for the awesome guide. It was good enough to convince me to buy part 2 (which I do not regret at all, it was very informative). I've been working the transmog market for about 3 weeks now and I've started noticing something a bit troubling. I've managed to amass a stock of about 600 greens which I keep up on the AH at all times. All have been purchased from the AH following the 1/6 rule, and all range from values between 5 gold and 5k gold. In total I've probably spent around 10k on items with a projected value of around 150k (assuming they all sold of course)...

Now comes the issue I'm experiencing, listing prices have become an actual issue. What I mean is, it costs around 600g-700g a day just to post those greens/blues I currently have. On an average week day I can sell anywhere from 100g-2kg worth of items, with an average daily yield of about 350g-400g. (Note, I am posting items according to EXACTLY how you outline in your guide).

So here in lies my issue, having amassed a decent size stock, I find myself spending more on daily costs than I am receiving as a daily yield. I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that I am on a relatively medium pop server cluster, and as such, don't have a great buyer's market.

What would you recommend I do in this situation? Is this just the nature of the beast, should these numbers turn in my favor when some of the big ticket items end up selling?

Thank you for your time, and for the great guide!

~koro

[SAP_Pete]

Hey there! Wanted to thank you for the awesome guide. It was good enough to convince me to buy part 2 (which I do not regret at all, it was very informative). I've been working the transmog market for about 3 weeks now and I've started noticing something a bit troubling. I've managed to amass a stock of about 600 greens which I keep up on the AH at all times. All have been purchased from the AH following the 1/6 rule, and all range from values between 5 gold and 5k gold. In total I've probably spent around 10k on items with a projected value of around 150k (assuming they all sold of course)...

Now comes the issue I'm experiencing, listing prices have become an actual issue. What I mean is, it costs around 600g-700g a day just to post those greens/blues I currently have. On an average week day I can sell anywhere from 100g-2kg worth of items, with an average daily yield of about 350g-400g. (Note, I am posting items according to EXACTLY how you outline in your guide).

So here in lies my issue, having amassed a decent size stock, I find myself spending more on daily costs than I am receiving as a daily yield. I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that I am on a relatively medium pop server cluster, and as such, don't have a great buyer's market.

What would you recommend I do in this situation? Is this just the nature of the beast, should these numbers turn in my favor when some of the big ticket items end up selling?

Thank you for your time, and for the great guide!

~koro

I stopped posting when there are listing below minimum ("When below minimum" - "Don't post items").
If I see items sit in my bags forever without getting posted, i'll undercut whatever is out there to get rid of it. Posting a couple hundred items a day where cheaper ones are already listed struck me as wasteful.
When stocking up on items, I also pay close attention to the listing fees, so I mostly sell low level items that cost just a few silver to list.

[dayaran]

First of all I want to say thank you for the amazing guide, this is providing me with enough gold to buy all the gems/enchants I need for progression right now. I actually haven't farmed anything since the end of MoP which is when I spent about 8 hours non-stop farming Zul'Farrak which yielded amazing results (obviously saw it on your Youtube channel). I still have about 100 or the greens from that farm but they're depleting as time goes on and I tried farming ZF the other day and had 2 greens worth selling in a total of 3 runs. It seems like it has been nerfed? Do you have any other farms you can suggest me do as a feral druid? I have the speed set that you featured in one of your videos to further increase my farming speed Cheers man!

[KidBlue]

Just wanted you to know I made over 300k from this guide since you posted! My dream of owning the tiger has come true and thus thanks a million!!! I would buy you many beers if you lived Portland OR

[stevesgamebox]

Just wanted you to know I made over 300k from this guide since you posted! My dream of owning the tiger has come true and thus thanks a million!!! I would buy you many beers if you lived Portland OR

Glad to hear it . Amazing! Months down the road and still I get stories like this daily.

Running the second part started just as a cool way to get some side income from sharing my gold knowledge.. but its become like a full fledged business nowadays

Apologies to everyone for being absent like everyday.. But running a website specifically dedicated to this has taken me by surprise.

Glad it's working for you. Enjoy !

[stevesgamebox]

First of all I want to say thank you for the amazing guide, this is providing me with enough gold to buy all the gems/enchants I need for progression right now. I actually haven't farmed anything since the end of MoP which is when I spent about 8 hours non-stop farming Zul'Farrak which yielded amazing results (obviously saw it on your Youtube channel). I still have about 100 or the greens from that farm but they're depleting as time goes on and I tried farming ZF the other day and had 2 greens worth selling in a total of 3 runs. It seems like it has been nerfed? Do you have any other farms you can suggest me do as a feral druid? I have the speed set that you featured in one of your videos to further increase my farming speed Cheers man!

ahaha. I havent noticed the ZF thing. To be honest, I no longer do any farms at all. It's like kind of moving on.. I started farming heavy and now I keep all my workings strictly to the AH. IF anything has been nerfed.. I really know nothing about it.

WOD has changed just about everything, so I would have to do some digging before I get a concrete answer on that.

[stevesgamebox]

Hey there! Wanted to thank you for the awesome guide. It was good enough to convince me to buy part 2 (which I do not regret at all, it was very informative). I've been working the transmog market for about 3 weeks now and I've started noticing something a bit troubling. I've managed to amass a stock of about 600 greens which I keep up on the AH at all times. All have been purchased from the AH following the 1/6 rule, and all range from values between 5 gold and 5k gold. In total I've probably spent around 10k on items with a projected value of around 150k (assuming they all sold of course)...

Now comes the issue I'm experiencing, listing prices have become an actual issue. What I mean is, it costs around 600g-700g a day just to post those greens/blues I currently have. On an average week day I can sell anywhere from 100g-2kg worth of items, with an average daily yield of about 350g-400g. (Note, I am posting items according to EXACTLY how you outline in your guide).

So here in lies my issue, having amassed a decent size stock, I find myself spending more on daily costs than I am receiving as a daily yield. I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that I am on a relatively medium pop server cluster, and as such, don't have a great buyer's market.

What would you recommend I do in this situation? Is this just the nature of the beast, should these numbers turn in my favor when some of the big ticket items end up selling?

Thank you for your time, and for the great guide!

~koro

Alright . Here's what you do.. I saved this for members of my website exclusively, but it seems to be a big enough problem that everyone probably needs to know this..

In TSM theres a feature under tooltip options > accounting called sale rates. With sale rate you can enable your tooltip to show how many times an item expires and how often it sells (Given in a decimal form). Basically what I've been doing, is setting rules for these sale rates.

For example, any item that gets a sale rate of 0.08 or expires 25 times without any sells get sent to a D/E to liquidate for lost assets. I found the number 25 to be extremely effective since there are dozens of times where items are posted for the 20th+ time and then finally get a sale. After 25 times of posting with no sales (And this does not count for high tier items) I found that most of my stock goes on to expire forever.

It's different for every server, but for my lofty home on moonguard.. Thats always the case.

So enable sale rates in your accounting and make some hard and fast rules about when your going to STOP selling an item. Always having a d/e'r to liquidate an item is truly a boon in the transmog world.

And thats not just half of what sale rates can do.

I've even used them to determine when I should start discounting items.... Theres more possibilities as well. So go ahead and start experimenting with em.

[placce]

Ok what the hell....just logged in and TSM has reset all my settings, no groups left NOTHING...random addon is random...shit.

[SAP_Pete]

In case you don't use one yet, a banking addon like gBanker is a godsend. Single click to dump all items in the personal or guild bank, single click to withdraw all, or set filters for a range of items.

All in a day's work: