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The Rules

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Enter your guess (0-100,000g) by leaving a comment below.
One guess per entry.
One entry per email address.
Winners will be notified with the email that they subscribed on the list (make sure it matches the one you leave on the comment below) make sure its correct or else you won’t be able to claim your prize.
The 10 closest guessed will win the prize
Entries will close when the winners are announced on 4th of August 2009

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The Prize

10 Guaranteed Winners will win a lifetime access to view and download all the videos that we currently have.

It doesn’t get any easier than this to enter a contest,

Have fun and good luck everyone

I’m sorry I can’t give out anymore hints!

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Color Coding and You…

02Aug09

color-coding One of the most useful feature of the Auctioneer add-on is the price-based color coding. Soon after you start using the add-on you will notice each auction line is color coded to indicate how good of a deal each item is. Blue means it is the best available deal – the item is very cheap compared to the “market value”; green, all the way up to red means that the item is increasingly more expensive compared to it’s “market value”.

What Is Color Coding?

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Color coding can be found throughout the modules used by Auctioneer, but the “Matches found” line of an items tooltip is where color coding really shines.

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How many times this item has been seen
The current distribution in the AH
The Confidence value for the item

As you can see in the previous screen shot, there are 32 matches of this particular item on the Auction House, and 22 of these matches are in line with the market value (yellow) and 10 are overpriced. This easy to read summary is of invaluable help in your day to day auctioneering.
For example, I usually use this tooltip line to see which Glyphs don’t have below-market competition and are worth crafting.

Obviously the “market value” for each item needs to be accurate, this is where the Confidence value comes in, otherwise color coding means nothing. The higher the confidence, the more accurate the value. Also, you should always be sure to run a full scan before consulting the tooltip to be sure you have the most up-to date data.

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Tags: AddOns, auction house, warcraft, warcraft gold, world of warcraft, wow gold

Dominating The WoW Auction House

01Aug09

domination This is something that works wonders on low level items, especially trade skill items required to level professions. The basic idea is that you find an item that you can afford to buyout all of the auctions and then resell for a profit. The screenshots below show you how the AH looked before and after I executed the strategy on the Strange Dust niche. Obviously I sold everything in a couple of days even after marking up the price by more than 350%!

Resetting Prices

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Obviously not every item in the AH is eligible for this kind of strategy. The ideal candidates are the items that satisfy the following two requirements:

The item should be cheap and low level – this is because you don’t want to play around with higher level items that usually have massive competition and are constantly under the spotlight. If, for example, you tried to buyout all the [Infinte Dust] I can guarantee
that in a matter of minutes you would be undercut by at least a dozen sellers.
The item should be not too abundant in the Auction House - The golden rule is that you don’t want to invest too much in any given item. Buying out too many items would make it harder to resell and you may end up with bags full for too long.

The right items vary from server to server, so you will have to browse around to find what works on your realm. I suggest you start by looking at low level reagents for professions like, for example, metals (bars and ores) enchanting dusts (stay away from low level essences and shards) and herbs.

Also, I suggest you buyout all the items BEFORE the weekend starts, as Saturday and Sunday are the busiest days on all servers.

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Tags: auction house, overpricing, warcraft, warcraft gold, world of warcraft, wow gold

How To Find Best Selling Items

01Aug09

WOW! what an amazing response to the contest, its going to be a lot of work sorting through all the comments keep them coming!

In this video, I show you a very powerful tool that many people don’t know about. You can use this to find the best selling items on your server as well as the best time to sell them.

HD version is available here

Enjoy!

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Undercutting and Overpricing Guidelines

30Jul09

By posting your items at lower costs than other auctioneers at the Auction House, you will sell more items than other sellers, which is good for your character. You will, however, make less on each item. This method of undercutting must be practiced with caution. There are certain situations where this is helpful, but other where the seller must be careful. The flip side of undercutting is overpricing, a situational strategy that, if used correctly, can yield tremendous profits.

How much should you undercut?

Undercutting too drastically can drive the price of items way too low, diminishing profits for everyone. To avoid this, you should always undercut by 1 copper for both Buyout and Bid values, the minimum amount possible. This yields the same results as a larger undercut (i.e. your auction gets listed before the others) and gives you the most profit possible.

When should I overprice the competition?

There are some special situations where it is a good thing not to undercut your competition. The two most common scenarios are:

When your completions auctions are about to expire – using the Auctioneer add-on you will have the ability to see who your competitors are for each item you want to post and when their auctions are due to expire.

Here the last auction is about to expire so it’s safe to overprice it
Also note the smaller stack size, to trick distracted buyers into thinking it’s cheaper
When you are dealing with high-demand items and the competition is low – For example, Netherweave Bags, which are always in high demand, would be pointless to undercut, because the number of competitors is low, and the item will not sell for much different than the desired price, if at all.

An extreme example of a high-demand item (on my Realm) overpriced by an insane amount but still sells.

When should you avoid posting an auction?

In some cases the safest and most profitable route may be even to refrain from posting the auction. This should happen when there is an “undercutting war” going on between many other sellers where prices are driven to the ground by too many sellers undercutting each other.

In this situation you have three options you can choose from:

Wait it out – This is the safest strategy, in that you wait for the underpriced
items to be bought before posting your auction at a more profitable price.
Overprice the competition – read above for more details.
Buyout the underpriced items, and resell them at a higher price. This strategy is a bit risky as it requires a good understanding of the market for that particular item as well as the demand for it, but it is surely the most profitable if executed correctly.

For more on how to correctly price your auction is all in our Appraiser Selling Strategies video.

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Tags: auction house, overpricing, undercutting, warcraft, warcraft gold, world of warcraft, wow gold

Stack Size Manipulation

30Jul09

small-stack Stack size manipulation is a technique that I use in my day-to-day auctioneering. The most common way of manipulating the stack size is by splitting item stacks into smaller stacks.

This can be used when the auction house is populated by listings of full-stack items, and will let you sell the items for a little more than if you sold the full stack. This may seem strange at first, but if you think of it this works for the following reasons:

Most people see “full” auction prices as opposed to price per unit (as I suggest in the video guides). This means that it is very difficult for them to asses if you are overpricing your listings (most people never bother to check price per unit on stacks).

Many times people don’t need full stacks, they just want a few items to craft their recipe or pattern. For example, this works when dealing with tradeskill items like Herbs, Enchanting Mats, Cloths, etc.

Another way of manipulating the stack size is by selling bigger stacks when the auction house is flooded by singles like in the following screenshot.

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This will allow you to overprice the item because, this time, you are after people who are leveling their professions or need a lot of a particular item.

You can find out more about splitting stacks and other selling strategies in the Appraiser Selling Strategies video.

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From 0 to 1,000 Gold Video Questions Answered

29Jul09

This is the video that started it all. Here I’ll try to answer to some of the most common questions that I receive about this video and how I was able to pull this off.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long did it take to get to 1,000 gold?
I took 4 hours played time over the course of 9 days. You can verify this by looking at the calendar in the top right corner of the screen.
Why did you level your character to level 5?
Initially I intended to use Disenchanting as a main source of income, but later decided to just “flip” my way to 1,000 gold.
What do you mean by “flip”?
“Flipping” is the practice of buying cheap items from the Auction House and reselling them for a profit. You can learn more in my upcoming videos: “How to Find Items to Buy ” and “Appraiser Selling Strategies”.
You bought XYZ for only 10 copper, that’s impossible!
You will be surprised by how many times people sell stuff at ridiculously low prices. Most of the times they just want to get rid of it or they don’t really know how much a particular item is worth. Not everyone is uber l33t on World of Warcraft
Where can I download the AddOns you use in the video?
Check out the “Top 8 AddOns for Gold Making“
I play on XYZ Realm, what should I buy?
Unfortunately I don’t have a magic “shopping list” that works on every possible realm. What I suggest you do is learn how to use tools like Auctioneer and get to know your Realm and understand its economy. Very soon you will learn how to find the hidden “gold makers”
What’s the name of the song?
Constellations. It’s a track licensed from neosounds.com.
What software did you use to edit the video?
Sony Vegas

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Tags: auction house, video, warcraft, wow gold

Welcome to our Pre-Launch Blog

27Jul09

Hi there, and welcome to ‘WoW Auction House Mastery Pre-Launch Blog’ (that was bit long..)

My name is Mayley and I’d like to tell you a quick history of our guide, around April 2009 we began creating our high quality Auction House videos to help wow players see just how easy it is make gold at any level,

Our most famous videos is what you probably have already seen is the 0-1000g in 4 hours video, which have already received over 100,000 views ! Many people have have shown interest in the guide which really drove us to create more videos.

We have released our guide to the public before had we had over 100 people testing our gold making secrets and all of them have left us with a positive feedback.

Right now we are temporarly close the site for server and videos updates. The Good news for you is that we’re giving away a Ton of good stuff to help you get started.

I’m excited to see you guys here, over the next 10 days I’m going to post more articles about dominating the Auction House.

I have really designed this guide to be as easy to follow as possible but as always there will be a ton of questions and I will do my very best to answer all your questions so don’t be shy

Keep in touch and post a comment

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