I sold 3 more Decks.

I wrote the other day that I stopped making nobles cards. Today, I decided I would make more cards instead of canceling. Instead of crafting the decks in hope to sell them, I started spamming this macro:
/2 Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats

I cleared about 20 minutes of trade chat for you. I removed everything except the talk related to me.

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17:42 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
17:43 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
17:46 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
17:51 [Olìve]: someone link greatness trinket please
17:51 [Hasheshe]: LF5M for 10man toc, need 2 healer, and 1 melee and 2 range dps
17:51 [Razardica]: [Darkmoon Card: Greatness]
17:55 [Thoro]: northrend herbs
17:55 [Enigmaatic]: in particular?
17:55 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
18:02 [Olìve]: Buying all lvl 76+ greens 10g each. Please COD. Long term
18:02 [Olìve]: WTB [Adder's Tongue][Icethorn][Lichbloom] 20g a stack! PST or COD
18:07 [Mandeloppy]: you know you can make a nobles deck even if you dont have inscription right?
18:07 [Olìve]: you can make a nobles deck without inscription? how?
18:08 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
18:08 [Mandeloppy]: right click on your nobles cards xD
18:08 [Mallard]: Right click the cards?
18:08 [Olìve]: i'm offering to make the cards for you
18:08 [Mandeloppy]: you realize how long it would take to do that right?
18:08 [Mandeloppy]: to craft each and every card
18:08 [Olìve]: to make the cards?
18:08 [Olìve]: it takes me 5 minutes
18:09 [Derperpalerp]: i call bs
18:09 [Gnomeshady]: its more that theres no guarantee that youll get noble cards
18:09 [Gnomeshady]: or specifically the ones you want
18:09 [Olìve]: well you can buy the deck from me
18:09 [Mandeloppy]: mhmm
18:09 [Olìve]: for 5k
18:09 [Mandeloppy]: then why arent you spamming wts nobles deck 5k?
18:09 [Celerítas]: you dont understand chance apparently
18:09 [Celerítas]: lawl olive
18:09 [Olìve]: because some people thnk that thats too expensive
18:09 [Gnomeshady]: this guy on fox news explained chance one time
18:09 [Olìve]: 8 Nobles Cards to complete a deck. Each cards is 1/32 chance to get. 6 snowfalls/3 Eternal Life and 3 Ink of the Sea per card.
18:09 [Olìve]: It will be an average of 192 Snowfall Ink, 96 Eternal Life and 96 Ink of the Sea to make a full deck, but, again it's a random chance so you might either need more or less if you're lucky
18:10 [Celerítas]: when they say 1 in 32 chance...they dont mean the 1 you want out of 32 possible..
18:10 [Staldath]: LFM ony 10 need 1 tank 1 healer and dps
18:10 [Gnomeshady]: either olive will make you the card you want or he wont
18:10 [Gnomeshady]: so you have a 50/50 chance
18:10 [Razardica]: exactly
18:10 [Gnomeshady]: sound fox news logic
18:10 [Mixolydian]: YOU DONT TALK ABOUT FOX NEWS
18:10 [Olìve]: i'm selling the deck for 5k. if you think that 5k is too much i'm offering you the chance to get it with your own mats at no cost
18:10 [Mandeloppy]: except to get all those mats would probably cost more
18:11 [Mandeloppy]: because theres no sure fire way to get the card youw ant
18:11 [Olìve]: so get the deck from me
18:11 [Bluntzillå]: selling [Darkmoon Card: Greatness] 1k
18:11 [Olìve]: whats the problem
18:11 [Gnomeshady]: if you got every card you wanted it would be dirt cheap
18:11 [Staldath]: LF 1 healer and dps ony 10
18:11 [Shyva]: WTS [Nobles Deck]
18:11 [Bluntzillå]: u guys are funny
18:11 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
18:12 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
18:13 [Olìve]: I am offering you a deck for 5k. if you think that 5000g is too much for the trinket, i'm offering you the chance to craft it for your own mats.
18:15 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
18:18 [Darkshaman]: you cant craft a [Nobles Deck] ?
18:18 [Olìve]: you cant? i make about 3 every day
18:19 [Mandeloppy]: bullshit
18:19 [Darkshaman]: what did you buy gold online and then buy all the cards in the AH?
18:19 [Olìve]: i craft my own cards?
18:19 [Mandeloppy]: what do you stay up 24/7 gathering mats and crafting?
18:19 [Olìve]: why would i gather mats
18:20 [Olìve]: i buy them from AH and from herb farmers
18:20 [Lilslacker]: cool story bro
18:22 [Darkshaman]: so olive, i would find a need to give you my 8 nobles cards and have you assemble it for me?
18:22 [Olìve]: what? i will craft the cards for you
18:22 [Olìve]: why aare people asking stupid questions
18:23 [Mandeloppy]: what do you do with all the extra cards? xD
18:23 [Unholymofoxx]: trow them away
18:23 [Olìve]: i give them to you?
18:23 [Nelfstealth]: whats a card??
18:23 [Stucko]: because it's trade chat olive, it's what they do
18:23 [Olìve]: people ask some fucking retarded questions.
18:24 [Sparatan]: ya
18:24 [Olìve]: either you pay me 5k for a deck, or you get together the mats for the cards and ill make them. the luck is yours.
18:24 [Veretis]: People ask retarded questions when people try selling stupid hit like crafting [Nobles Deck]!
18:24 [Olìve]: how is crafting [Nobles Deck] stupid
18:26 [Chicano]: olive why dont you shut the fuck up
18:26 [Olìve]: because i sold 3 decks aready?
18:26 [Chicano]: i dont give a fuck
18:26 [Chicano]: shutup
18:26 [Billyhatcher]: why do i get the feeling that olive is extra virgin?
18:26 [Olìve]: if you dont care for my product you can put me on ignore
18:26 [Blckdragon]: wtb better /2 trolls
18:26 [Barface]: tell em olive
18:26 [Olìve]: Crafting [Nobles Deck]5k my mats. Free with your mats
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In this period I sold 3 Nobles Decks and got a request to make another one from someone who only had 4300g and said that they will whisper me in a few days when they make more gold.

Updates

Just a few updates tonight.
I decided on leveling a druid using RAF with a few other people. Starting Thrusday and should be 80 in about a week or so.
Also buying out all the herbs on the auction house under 30g now. The result of doing it for just one day was amazing. I bought 10 stacks of Lichbloom for under 25g and resold it all the same day for 40g. The AH look pretty empty with no lichbloom, only a few stacks of Adder at 32g/stack and no Icethorn. Considering the fair is coming next week, the AH is going to be very starved for herbs soon.
At the same time I lowered the threshold for glyphs to about 2.4g and I'm chasing my competition down all the way.
My stock of Ink of the Sea is growing. Sitting at 5000 right now, while I only have 10 snowfalls left. I seem to be having the opposite problem from everybody else.

At a crossroads

So far my biggest moneymaker has been making Darkmoon Cards of the North. However I decided to liquidate whatever I had left and move on. Patch 3.3 is very soon and it’s really early to tell if cards will be profitable or tank. In addition, one of my big farmers got banned so it’s hard to get 400-500 stacks of herbs every day. It will be a good time to asses what I have in my inventory. I estimate that if I sell everything at a minimum price I should hover around 60k.
The thing I have to decide is what market to concentrate on the most.
I think I’m going to go with Enchanting Scrolls, I’ve dabbled in the market for a while and it has a very good potential for sales. With the new changes to enchanting + all the people upgrading their gear in 3.3 enchanting has the potential to make a lot of money.
The strategy for scrolls is very simple, snatch the ones that sell for lower than mats cost and make the ones that sell for a high profit margin. Once a week, advertise enchanting in trade chat and get rid of the scrolls that I have accumulated.

Separating Glyphs into 1 and 2 ink categories.

Step1: Open QA2 and create a category called ‘2inkglyph’ Set it up with the values you want.



Step2: Close WoW and open the file called QuickAuctions.lua located in your WoW Saved Variables folder.
Find the place where it says
["groups"] = { and locate the line that says 2inkglyph
Change the file so it looks like this:

["2inkglyph"] = {
["item:41547"] = true,
["item:42744"] = true,
["item:42402"] = true,
["item:42453"] = true,
["item:41535"] = true,
["item:43551"] = true,
["item:42749"] = true,
["item:42906"] = true,
["item:41094"] = true,
["item:43549"] = true,
["item:42471"] = true,
["item:42473"] = true,
["item:42406"] = true,
["item:42737"] = true,
["item:41104"] = true,
["item:40896"] = true,
["item:43554"] = true,
["item:42458"] = true,
["item:41542"] = true,
["item:43417"] = true,
["item:42400"] = true,
["item:45797"] = true,
["item:42962"] = true,
["item:41532"] = true,
["item:41098"] = true,
["item:41108"] = true,
["item:40909"] = true,
["item:42456"] = true,
["item:42746"] = true,
["item:42470"] = true,
["item:42736"] = true,
["item:42960"] = true,
["item:42908"] = true,
["item:45747"] = true,
["item:42955"] = true,
["item:41537"] = true,
["item:42462"] = true,
["item:42973"] = true,
["item:42415"] = true,
["item:41536"] = true,
["item:43424"] = true,
["item:43427"] = true,
["item:43827"] = true,
["item:42410"] = true,
["item:41092"] = true,
["item:40923"] = true,
["item:42897"] = true,
["item:45740"] = true,
["item:42970"] = true,
["item:42964"] = true,
["item:42904"] = true,
["item:43418"] = true,
},

These are all the 2 Ink glyphs in the game. Your next step is to log back into WoW, set up a category for 1 ink glyphs and add all glyphs in your inventory to that category. You should be all set.

Business : A (not so) new project

There are quite a few WoW economy blogs out there, some more popular than others. At first, I was reluctant to start one because there are so many bloggers that most things have already been covered. However I do have a few thoughts of my own... at least once in a while, and writing about my progress in a blog seems less boring than just keeping a spreadsheet.
The first thing I wanted to write about is a project I just started - [Netherweave Bags]. No, I don’t mean that I just leveled tailoring and started selling bags, I sold bags on and off since they were introduced in TBC. Netherweave bags are a very easy market: buy cloth when it’s cheap, turn into bags, sell the bags. It’s not a market that would make anyone rich, but it is a steady profit that I doubt will collapse anytime soon. The bag is cheap (20 cloth = 4 bolts +1 Rune Thread = 1 bag). It has 16 slots which makes it the most popular type of bag for anyone starting a new alt.
I had control of the bag market for about 3 weeks on my server a while ago(by control I mean I was the only major seller) but later I gave it up because I found it too annoying:
The bags each take 1 slot
They are slow to cast (about 15 seconds to create a single bags, over 12 minutes to craft just 50 bags)
Constantly checking the AH for cloth to deny others access to cheap cloth.

I finally created a new alt to deal with all these bags. I sent over 1000g to the alt and I won’t touch this alts money for any reason. I decided to buy all the cloth and the rune thread on this alt and send it all to my tailor from there this way I can track all the money easily and deal with a few annoyances this way. I’ll craft about 200 bags at a time without worrying about bag space and saving myself to run to the tailoring vendor for thread.
I’m using a few addons and macros for this alt, and will give credit and links to the authors of each.
Auctioneer for snatching cheap cloth and Beancounter for tracking expenses/sales.
QA2 for quick posting of bags. QA2 posts a lot faster than Auctioneers batch post, especially when it doesn’t have to split stacks.

MoveItems a mini addon created by Zerotorescue from the JMTC forums. It allows you to create a macro that moves whatever items you want from your bags to the mailbox. 
The macro actually does a few things 
It moves the cloth to the mailbox and immediately mails them, all in one button press. In addition it targets the nearest auctioneer. I use this trick to open the Auction interface while staying within range of the mailbox in Stormwind.

This is about all I can say about bags for now, but I will update at least once to report on my progress. There’s a few things I’d like to pay attention to: How many bags I sell a day, my competitors’ behavior and the optimal price among a few.