Old Thomas Yance, The Traveling Salesman

First things first, don't forget about the vent meeting tonight at 7-8PM EST, I will post the vent information promptly at 6:30, giving everyone a 1/2 hour. I hope to see you all there!

Poor Thomas Yance, being called old and he's barely old, hehe... Anywho, Today's post is about a vendor that is rarely seen by people, a vendor that many people don't even know exist, a very cool yet cruel vendor that kills level ones and steals their clothing and then tries to sell them back to players ( that's my theory! )

Thomas Yance is a vendor located in Old Hillsbrad Foothills, not the regular old and boring Hillsbrad Foothills, OLD Hillsbrad Foothills, which is located inside of the Caverns of Time. Thomas Yance sells a leatherworking pattern that can be flipped for a rather nice price. The Pattern is....

Pattern: Rich Purple Silk Shirt - An Easy Flip!

I picked up this pattern about a month ago on the alliance side Auction House for 49g. Since then It's been posted up countless times at 2500g, for about 3 straight weeks, and then today I suddenly dropped the price down to 1500g, to my surprise it sold within a few minutes. This is as far as I know one of the rarest tailoring patterns in the game ( don't quote me on this! ), that is why it sells for so much. It's a world drop from vanilla, therefore it's pretty difficult to farm this.

This pattern is a world drop from vanilla and below, if you were trying to farm this your best bet would to kill the world dragons. Even then the dragon is a pain to catch as they have long respawn timers. This is an item to add to your snatch list and keep checking on every day just to see if it's there. I would be willing to pay up to 1,000g for this recipe, just so I can flip it at almost double that price.

One of the strategies I used to sell this was I first posted the item at a high price for about 3 weeks, this gave people who regularly scan the Auction House a starter price. After about 3 weeks I would lower the price by almost 40-50%, that way the people who have seen it in the past 3 weeks see that, the item is going for well below it's regular price and they proceed to buy it out. This can be done with almost any high value item if it's rare and it isn't commonly seen at the Auction House. It might seem a little evil, but hey it's just smart thinking!

Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw) - An Item To Flip

Yesterday I saw a guy spamming in trade selling this pet, I instantly thought wow! that's the first time I've ACTUALLY seen this pet on my server! This pet normally goes for about 10-11k, so I asked if he would sell me the pet for 5k. He instantly said he'd gotten offers for 7k. So I thought that was that until about 30 minutes later he whispers me if I still wanted it for 5k. I instantly said yes, he COD'ed me the pet, an hour later I had it.

It was late at night so I decided not to start spamming trade, and just post on the auction house for 10,750g. I logged in this morning only to find the pet still on the auction house. I decided to go do my daily brewfest kill. I then decided to do my PVP daily, a few seconds after I queued I see, a buyer has been found for your Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw). I was ecstatic, I instantly ran to AH and double checked!

Just comes to show, low balling people can sometimes turn out to become a huge profit. I made about 5k profit from this single flip, I was going to save this pet for cataclysm, but I decided to post it for 11k just for giggles and to my surprise it sold!

Quiff - The Magical Goblin

Quiff Needs to Eat Sometimes!

I Love Quiff. He's the best goblin I've ever met. I sit down and have lunch with him sometimes. We had a lovely picnic last night!

Quiff is an engineer vendor in Netherstorm. I love coming to him. He has a VERY value thing in his possesion that I'm ALWAYS in need of. Khorium Power Core. This thing can be bought for 4g 80s and resold for roughly 250g+

Be warned the core is a rare spawn item so you might not catch it on your first or second try. If you're an goblin engineer, then build the dimensional ripper to Area 52, and use it EVERY cooldown. Why? Because those 10 seconds of teleporting there and having lunch with Quiff, might net you an easy 250g.

While I'm here I also pick up the pets that are unlimited in supply. His name is Dealer Rashaad and sells 8 pets. I buy them and mail them off to my bank alt where they're posted at pretty good amounts of profit. Just be careful to not flood the market with them, as if you do, you might end up selling them for less than what you bought the pet for.

Sulfuron Ingot - Turn Them In!

I'm not sure how many people know that Sulfuron Ingots can actually be turned in to a NPC inside of BRD for an epic BS pattern that sells pretty well.

To obtain the recipe, you do not need any reputation, you just need to find a way into BRD. The Plans are, [Plans: Sulfuron Hammer]. 

The NPC is inside of BRD and is named Lokhtos Darkbargainer. He is the Quartermaster for the Thorium Brotherhood.

What I do is just add the Ingots to my snatch list and buy them at or under 400g ea. I turn the Ingots in for the Plans and then list them at 2,000g+. It's an easy and reliable flip.

The only real downside to this is that you can't flood the market with the plans, as you're only targeting Blacksmiths and in my opinion they are few and far, compared to other professions. Also if someone else is doing this the market can become flooded even with 2 Plans up, it will just become an undercutting war which results in loss of profit.

I managed to flip another Swift Spectral Tiger Today, well not yet but I have a buyer coming with 16 Choppers. I bought the Tiger at 60k and it's being sold for about 220k. I've made roughly 250k in the past two days. I will also hit my first gold cap by doing these 2 flips :)

I made 150k+ in 1 day - TCG Loot & Flipping Values

Wow I must say just wow! I was just searching my realm forums yesterday and happened to spot a guy selling a Swift Spectral Tiger for 60k. I INSTANTLY bought this. You ask me why? Because the value of these things are about 250k+. Within an hour I had someone transfer to me with 16  Mekgineer's Chopper, each valued at 14k, and buy the mount off me. I still have the choppers but I can easily sell them at 14.5k ea or even 14k.


Just comes to show you browsing your realms forum can net you in some HUGE deals, I myself made 150k :).

There is great money to be made from TCG the only downside is that it requires heaps of gold to start off with, and sometimes you have to be willing to pay for several server transfers.

Schematic - Arcane Bomb - Add it to your snatch list!

I added this schematic to my snacth list about 4 weeks ago and I've just been scanning the AH daily for any rare old world recipes. Well this one popped up for 25g on Terokkar 24 hours ago. I bought it out instantly and posted it back on the AH for 2500. I linked it in trade 3 times before the Schematic was Sold! Just comes to show how easy gold can be made! 2475g in a matter of seconds.

Basically the reason this schematic is VERY good is because the it scales 1:1 with Spell Power. I've heard stories where this drains 6500 mana.

Quick Post today :) Just make sure to add this item to your snatch list.

Swiftness Potion - Making Gold From BG'ers + Unbanned

Quick post today about swiftness potions. This potion increases your run speed by 50% for 15 seconds ( 1 Minute Cool Down ). I know myself and a lot of BG'ers use this potion like crazy. It's amazing during the 19 bracket or Warsong Gulch because, since there are no mounts this acts like your own personal mount and it helps you get that flag back to your base that much faster.

The Recipe itself, [Recipe: Swiftness Potion] is a rare world drop, but many people have had success farming Ragefire Chasm. Alliance might have some issues getting there but, that just adds to the rarity of this potion.

The potion requires 1 Swiftthistle, 1 Briarthorn and 1 Empty Vial. All in all I pay roughly 1.5g per potion if I buy everything off the AH. Profit wise I manage to sell 5 for about 30 gold pretty frequently. The market isn't very competitive as many people just never realize that this potion is even in the game, and the recipe is also a rare world drop.

I still use this potion while I'm farming, doing instances and sometimes even while in raiding to get me out of a sticky situation!

I've also added this recipe to my snatch list, because if you manage to find it for cheap, you can turn around and sell it for a very high price.

On a side note, I'm Finally unbanned! I got unbanned at about 2:30 Pm EST yesterday, the GM's told me I was wrongfully banned and they have put in a ticket to get my lost gametime back. I'll be more careful next time before I spend 65k on a single farmer...

Fused Wiring - An Engineer's Easy Profit.

Using this because I'm currently banned ;(

I love making [Fused Wiring]! The profit here is enormous!

The schematic for this can be picked up from either Viggz Shinesparked in Shattrath City, or Xizzer Fizzbolt in Winterspring.

Fused Wiring requires Delicate Copper Wire (3), Essence of Fire (2) to make, which costs me a total of about 5-7 gold. I get 5 Fused Wiring out of 1 craft. I Sell Fused wiring at 15-20g each.

The only downside to this method is in order to make copper Wire, you need a Jewelcrafter, and that Essence of Fire isn't widely available. Essence of Fire isn't a good material to farm, which is great, it makes this market very easy to control this market.

Essence of Fire typically sells between 1-2g on my server, and I always buy everything on the AH, because by doing so I'm limiting the competition in 2 markets. One is Fused Wiring, and the other is Enchant Weapon: Fiery.

Holy Cow! I spent 50k Last night! - Cheap Mats & Return Prices

Holy Cow! I spent 50k Last night! No joke there was one farmer selling everything at very cheap price! I got 480 Cardinal Rubies at 75g per, 35 stacks of Abyss Crystals at 12.5g per, 50 Ametrines for 45g per, and couple minor things. I must admit I feel poor now :(

By the end of the night I managed to flip some of the cardinals at 110g ea, I still have roughly 340 Cardinal Rubies, I cut roughly 25 Cardinal Rubies, and posted them at an average price of 157g, within minutes, I sold several gems.

As for the Ametrines, I am actually keeping and cutting these, only because they don't really sell to well on my server. Ametrines sell much better when cut, especially when cut into Reckless. I can sell Ametrines at an average price of 146g.

I shattered the Abyss Crystals, and came up with roughly 900 Greater Cosmic Essence, and 2500 Infinite Dust. Dust on my server typically sells for 30-35g per stack, tonight it was at 37g per stack. Greater Cosmic Essences sell for 13-16g each. I managed to sell half the dust at 32.5/stack and roughly 200 Greater Cosmic Essences at 13g ea before calling it quits for the night.

All in all I made about 25-30k from everything that I listed here, I bought other things along with what's listed here, but if I listed everything then this post would become an encyclopedia ^.^

I guess the moral of this post is to get you to watch trade chat! Farmers & Hackers are trying to sell their stuff as fast as they can, and as soon as people see good deals it becomes a dog fight. Don't be afraid to dump your gold on mats that are extremely cheap, You're going to get it all back and then some. One tip I can offer is as an avid Alliance player, most hackers & farmers reside in Stormwind, Even though I hate the city ( Ironforge is 10 times better ), I can trade with them faster then other people, giving me access to even more mats that wouldn't have of been there if I had to travel to the farmer.

On a side note, the flask market on my server has officially crashed. I used to be able to sell flask at 20-22g per, now I'm lucky if they go above 16g. The sad thing is, that I have roughly 150 stacks of lichbloom, several hundred frost lotus & other herbs. Lichbloom prices have bottomed out at 18g/stack. They used to be at roughly 40-50g/stack. I'm not a very happy puppy with the current state of the flask market, I've tried to raise prices here and then, but everyone just undercuts their way down to 16g per flask.

Elixir of Giant Growth - Whoa! How Are You So Big? Smart Advertisement

The past few days I've been messing around since I was able to finally get my hands on an Orb Of Deception. Man this thing is so fun ^.^. I use the trinket and use a Elixir of Giant Growth. People begin to ask me how are you so large? I tell them Elixir of Giant Growth, and the first thing they do is go to the AH and buy out the elixirs that are posted on my bank alt ;S.

The mats for this elixir are extremely cheap, I generally craft them for 50-80 silver per elixir. On top of that I am Elixir spec'ed, so that adds even more profit. I can push 10-15g per elixir, the profit from these things are great!

Im doing this on the alliance side, I've never played horde, and being honest that's where I got this recipe from. I bought this recipe cross faction and then sent them to my main and used one up for myself.