Friday, January 21, 2011

Reorganization

After reading Stokpile's post on The Method he uses for his AH machine I've decided to reorganize how I post and buy things.  Right now I buy and sell everything on my bank alt.  I'm making profits, but I don't really know what's making the most money for me, nor do I have a way to tell if I'm losing money in a particular market from doing something wrong.  Thus I'm going to split it up a bit -- my banker will continue buying/selling my Inscription stuff and bags, but my JC will be buying/selling the things I get from the Obsidian Shuffle, my LW will handle LW goods, vendor pets (since he's the one who buys those anyway) and cooking.  I suppose I'll keep my flip stuff on my banker as well, and just be sure to note that the money that came in wasn't from Inscription.

Unfortunately I already had done my posting for this morning, but I'll be sending things off to different sellers tomorrow so I can get more organized. =)

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Alright, I reorganized Tuesday afternoon after everything came back up, and so far am really liking the split.  I sent things to different characters to be posted, and each posting character got 5k gold.  They are only allowed to buy things for the markets they are posting for.  This way, when I check back after a week all I have to do is subtract 5k from each of their totals and I'll see how much profit I made!  I can't believe I never thought of that on my own. >_>  It's only been a few days but I've already noticed quite a lot from making this change...

Glyphs are my most profitable market, followed by the mats and jewelry I get from shuffling.  Every Tuesday after things come back up I'll make a weekly post on how each of my markets are doing at them time, to help myself keep track of things.  I definitely need to be more active on my LW though...but when I finally got access to Twilight Highlands and the vendors there I bought the recipe for a leg armor...only to find that it's creating an error in my bags and saying it's not there.  Nothing I've tried so far has fixed it, so after I try disabling my addons later today if it still isn't fixed I guess I'll submit a ticket.

I'm planning on testing out the old leg armors and seeing if they sell at all.  I've read a couple people are selling them still for a good profit, though I'm not sure who would buy them.  Maybe I'll try old enchants too and see if they sell well.

I have a feeling I'm missing out on a lot of stuff for enchanting.  However, my enchanter isn't even 80 and is another druid (which I don't feel like leveling again atm) so I'm not sure yet if I'm gonna wait for a while and then just bite the bullet or if I should do it now.  I haven't looked much into how profitable the higher enchants are so I'm not sure how much I'm missing out on.  As is I've been focusing on my 57 priest who is my tailor.  I have a feeling getting him to Northrend level at least is a good idea so I can make Frostweave bags in addition to Netherweave.

Lesse...The other market I'm not making much with right now is Alchemy, but I'm thinking that's because most of the stuff to make is sub-mat prices right now. =/  I still make 300g+ a day from my volatile life > air transmute at least.

Oh!  And I sold my Hyacinth Macaw!  It was only for 7k, but was still a nice 3k profit, and now I don't have to worry about the dropping price on it anymore.  Vial still hasn't sold, but I'm not too worried about it anymore.  If I don't find a buyer for at least 45k within a few weeks I may just learn it myself on Tyr.  Cause it's a pretty neat mount and I can use it to ferry my partner around while we're questing. ^^

Well, if it's done nothing else, playing around with how I organize has made me notice which markets I need to expand in and find more things to sell.  If you've been thinking about reorganizing, go try it before you post your stuff tomorrow.  Whether you're just looking to narrow down (or widen!) the glyphs you sell, or if you want to do a complete overhaul of your daily routine -- do it now.  It'll only take a few minutes and could really help you out in the long run.

*Please note* Be sure you're paying attention to what you're sending to which toon.  I ended up sending a ton of ore, raw gems, and enchanting mats to my scribe instead of my JC to post because I had forgotten to switch the name. >_>;

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