Pulling gold from a hat. It's Magic!

If you are familiar with the selling of Dalaran pets you know people will buy items without knowing where they come from or how much they are worth (or they just do this to save time). However the Dalaran pets are not the only items you should grab when you go to Dalaran. I have another shop for you to visit!

Have you ever been to the tailor shop Threads of Fate? If not I think you should try and make a trip over there. The first thing you should do is buy yourself one of their beautiful shirts on the first floor (great to stylize yourself, but so far I have not had much luck reselling them). After buying yourself a nice new shirt go ahead and take a walk up the stairs and you will find a cobbler selling shoes (for justice points) and a Cloak seller as well (again justice points). you'll also find a very strange little man doing laundry and then You should see your real target. Chameli Banaphash.

Chameli sells two items that should interest you. The first is the Violet hat. You can buy this hat from her for 55g and  when worn be the center of attention! The second item is the Purple Turban Which you can buy for 99g99s99c. Both of these are level 1 hats so are great for bank alts looking to flash it up and people who just don't have any option for a head slot. I have been trying keep one of each in the auction house for 300-500g each. These are especially nice on RP servers and may have more value there. These hats used to have 2 armor on them which unfortunately was removed in 4.0.1 but these are still good sellers and well worth checking out. So buy a hat for yourself as well, and maybe a couple to put on the AH. After all... it's your job to help Azeroth be stylish!

A nice facet of gold making.

Lately I have been having a lot of luck with Simple gems. I don't believe this is a fluke. Everyone leveling will come across these gems and a lot of people will post them without really knowing their value and just 2 or 4 people undercutting can easily effect the price of the market. So if no one buys them for a couple hours their price is drastically reduced. You can often find these gems for 20-40% of their true market value.

When I say simple gems I mean gems such as Citrines, Jade, Large Opals, Star Rubies, Azerothian Diamonds, Aquamarines and various Pearls. These are great items to buy up when you can find them at a good price. These are used in several professions for skilling up with low level gear, and are used heavily in Jewelcrafting for almost all of the early designs. So when these sell at normal market value it will probably be 5-10 gems at a time as they are being bought out to help level a crafting profession.

I believe the prices for these gems will go even higher as many people find Inscription less profitable and switch off to something else (maybe Jewelcrafting.... the #2 in gold making professions?). I've been grabbing all the simple gems I can and re-posting for a significant profit. Rarely have a seen any of these come back after a 48 hour post. So next time you look in the auction house, take a look at these beautiful gold makers.

So two guys sit down at a bar....

This month the JMTC Blogging carnival is about "Mistakes You've Learned From While Playing the AH".
I have given this subject a lot of thought, I've considered telling a story about the time I confused a Black Tabby with one of the Siamese Cats and sold it for 15g instead of the 1000g it was worth. I've considered telling about the several times I've tried to Corner a market by buying all of an available stock and re-listing at a profit (this almost never works) only to realize I had neither the time nor the will to maintain a market and ended up loosing hundreds of gold. I could even bring up the recent mistake that most of the gold blogging community had made with Buying up mats for a cooldown removal that never happenend!

Instead I have decided to supply you with a different story.

There are two guys sitting in a bar at the top of the Empire State Building. The first guy has black hair, and the second is a blond. They sit there, drinking their booze, when all of a sudden the black haired guy looks over at the blond and says "Hey man!, Want to see something amazing?". The blond guy looks up from his drink and responds with a "Sure man". So the black haired gentleman walks over to the window, throws it open and steps outside. To the blond guys amazingment instead of falling to his death, he just seems to float there he then steps back in through the window and continues drinking. The blond is amazed by this and says "MY GOD MAN!!!! How did you do that?"; "Easy" says the black haired man "At this height the wind is blowing so hard against the building that the force will hold you there and you won't fall.". The blond man says "I have to try that!" and runs over to the window, throws it open and steps outside. He plummets the full length of the building only to splatter on the sidewalk below. The bartender looks up from his paper at the black haired gentleman and says "You know, you're a real @$$ when you're drunk Superman!"

Now you might be asking yourself what this has to do with gold making. In truth, there is quite a bit to draw from. I have found a lot of the people that come to our blogs are new to gold making and trying to find a way to get ahead, buy their epic flying, or just wanting to build a nice nest egg for Cataclysm.

Yet most of us (the gold blogging community) are rather well established. We have large sums of gold to waste, and although often we are giving you great tips there are times that these tips are also speculation and are not always sure fire ways to make you gold.. Our goal for us is to make you rich (just not as rich as us). Sometimes, however, you need to take a closer look at what we are saying and make sure it's right for you. If we have a post that will require all of your capital, it would be a mistake to wager it against what we say as gospel. If you do not understand the market the tip comes from it might not be right for you. It may pay out big, but there is always the chance that you will lose everything. If we offer you a tip it is not guaranteed to work on your server (although the ideas themselves are normally very sound).

What we truly want is for you to keep the gold you have, to prevent you from making the mistakes that we have, and to help you work through the ones that you will make yourselves. We all learn from these mistakes, and these mistakes define us and make us better for it. So be careful of the advice you get from people you don't know. It may not always be in your best interest.

A Black Cat crossing your path is good luck!

Do you currently own a Black Tabby? If you are an Alliance player be prepared to pay a hell of a price . If you are horde however this is a great pet to farm.  I've managed to farm this pet with an alt 3 times in the last couple months. Twice I have sold this for between 600-1000g each. (600g horde side 1000g on neutral ah).The third farm however will probably be addressed in my upcoming "mistakes" post for the JMTC blogging carnival.

This is a great pet. A little history note the Black Tabby used to be know as the Maine Coon (see pic below for a real Maine Coon). This name was changed to Black Tabby due to the name being offensive (At one point in time had a Maine Coon and this is still the name of the breed). This is also one of two cats (the other being the Bombay) that Stinker the skunk will chase around lovesick like a crazy loony toon character.

It's easy enough to farm if you have a level 30 toon horde side, simply station them at the steps in Ambermill and create a macro that reads (/target Dalaran Spellscribe).

The Spellscribe will drop this pet about 27% of the time and spawns about once every 2-3 hours (some say 4-5). not a lot of people farm this and if you are able to Snag the cat it is worth 1000g on most of the servers out there. This is a great Halloween pet so heck who is to say you won't get more for it this time of year.

Good luck and keep making Gold!

My favorite Fishing hole

So. Can you make 500g+ an hour fishing? It's actually not that hard. Especially if you have either Cooking or Alechmy to fall back on.

Today I would love to share with you my favorite fishing hole. You have a little over a month for this to be a great gold maker for you. So if you have the patience to fish. I'd start fishing!

One of the biggest sellers is food cooked from Dragonfin Angelfish. you can cook up Blackened Dragonfin and Dragonfin Filet. Both of these can sell for a pretty penny if you have your cooking up high enough to make them (8g a fish on Burning Blade). These are easily attainable in Dragonblight. The fishing village with the walrus ghosts spawns pools of dragonfins about as fast as you can fish them. I've fished these up at a minimum of 5 stacks an hour. If you cook them up and sell them for 8g each (minus say 100g for Northern spices) you're looking at 700g for an hour of work. But it does not end there.  Almost every fish that comes out of the lake also has a Pygmy Suckerfish attached. These can sell pretty well themselves, or can be converted into Pygmy Oil which are components of Guru's Elixir and Flask of Pure Mojo. So if you have an Alchemist this is even more lucrative.

Even raw the Dragonfins and Suckerfish should sell well enough to keep you up and going with several hundred gold an hour(last i checked raw Dragonfin went for around 50g a stack and Suckerfish were around 20g or so).

So if you have had the patience to Level up your fishing, this spot is much more rewarding than just throwing out a pole in Wintergrasp.

Halloween... carry on,bury all!

I love Halloween (and not just because it's my birthday).  I love the quests, and I love running around trick or treating. The headless horseman quest is one of my favorite battles. It's not much harder than the Brewfest fight and is a  pretty good Gold maker as well.

With the Holiday fights being queued into Dungeon finder, this is now a really easy fight to Farm.The Headless Horseman has a 27 percent drop rate for 3-6 Weighted Jack-o'-lanterns which can sell for really high prices on the AH (currently 10-25g each on my server). The best plan is to hold onto these until after the holliday, their price will increase significantly. I tend to hold mine until the X-mas holiday and advertise around the Nightmare before Christmas crowd. The fights are pretty much Insta-queues if you tank or heal, and with Dual spec being so cheap you should have no problem with this.

In addition you will receive several wands while Trick or Treating that offer you 5 charges of various costumes (Skeleton,ghost,bat,pirate,ninja,wisp,gnome?).You can often sell zaps of this wand for 5-15g each. so be sure to trick or treat as often as possible. More wands = more G and it's Free! This is a bit time consuming as you need to advertise in trade, but it's still worth your time.

So go out.... grab bags of candy... put on a flimsy mask and go get some gold!

SNACK-O-MATIC, There for you!

Are you a horde?  Would you like to walk up to a machine and make an easy 20+G? well step onto your closest Zep  go below deck and try the SNACK-O-MATIC IV 

It Slices*, It Dices*, It dispenses wonderful amounts of food and drink on your way accross the oceans of Azeroth! That's rights, Fresh Fruits! Wonderful cheeses! Even the hard to find Alerac Swiss! that ellusive cheese needed for the Clementine Surprise Quest. That's right for the special price of 40 silvers you can get 5 pieces of cheese that  are tasty beyond compare and will Auction for 1+g each! while you're here why not pick up some cold milk, or Some refreshing spring water? heck believe or not these taste great and sell too!  The SNACK-O-MATIC IV also has lots of other foods and drinks that you may find Both tasty and profitable!

So Remember when you've got to travel, The SNACK-O-MATIC IV is there for you!

* (the SNACK-O-MATIC IV's slicing and dicing is to be used at ones own risk. We are no liable for any dismemberment, death, or accidental disintegration.).