What is AHSpy?
AHSpy is another Auction House data comparison website, and today announced localization for French, Spanish and German. They now cover all US and all EU realms, taking data straight from Battle.net to ensure that every datum is correct.
AHSpy charts highlight good deals
The charts on AHSpy are particularly bright, simple, and therefore easy to use. You can use them to discover and check for good deals when you’re considering buying an item for investment from the Auction House.
As well as the charts, there are lists of quantities available to buy on the AH, and from which sellers. Of course, you can also use this to check if your competitor is posting that item.
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Here, we are looking at the details for Mountain Silversage (click for a larger image). We can see immediately that the price is very volatile, which is perfect for an item for investment. Â Remember, we buy low sell high. It seems the maximum price for Mountain Silversage according to AHSpy was around 3.5g each, whilst current prices are 49s. Which offers a potential profit of 3g.
Not only that, but from the graph we can see that the average, normal price is 2g, and so the current 49s is not only below the maximum price, but well below average. The quantity line, shown in grey, agrees with this potential, as the number available are much more than normal. This would be a great time to stock up and invest.
I hope you will try out AHSpy today and that it is useful for you when you are looking for good deals in your own Auction House.
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The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
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Which of these famous Bank alts are you?
During my daily work on the Auction House, I see several different types of sellers.
The level 85
This guy comes to the Auction House after his raid. He wears half T12, half T11, and has around 20,000g . He is trying to sell his BoEs, and wants to buy gems, and mats for enchanting so his guild mates will enchant his new gear. He looks at flasks and pots, but doesn’t really buy them until 5 minutes before raid.
Usually seen: Orgrimmar or Stormwind
The Level 40-70 abandoned alt
This is a half-leveled alt that the player got bored with and turned into his bank alt. His professions are inscription, jewelcrafting (not maxed) or alchemy. He usually wears half blues that he bought in the auction house one night when he was bored, and half pvp gear, because he started to pvp in the hope of getting a nice looking set, but got fed up of being graveyard camped.
Usually seen: Exodar. Darnassus. Undercity.
The level 1 fun bank
This guy wears tuxedo trousers and a rich purple shirt. Or he is a level 1 blood elf / night elf / female human, and wears no gear at all, standing stupidly and naked in front of the auction house npcs day in day out. His name is a corruption of “bank” or a bank brand like “Santander”.
Usually seen: running back and forth to the mailbox like superman
The level 85 alt
This character is a back up to the level 85 raiding main. His professions are mining and herbing. He appears at the auction house just before his mom pulls the plug on the internet at 22.00, and dumps bagfulls of whiptail, cinderbloom, and obsidium ore on the Auction house causing moans of delight from the other bank alts.
Usually seen: stealing your herbs in fight form
The Guild Leader
This rare nocturnal beast appears just after the raid ends and splashes the auction house with BoEs and other items found during the raid. He then spends 1,000g on potions for the guild bank and disappears into the night, never to be seen again
Usually seen: on a rare mount high above the city, AFK
The Nub
This guy turns up at the auction house just after school finishes for the day. Â The Auctioneer npcs try to avoid him, as he likes to drool all over their shoes whilst browsing the latest shiny epics in stock. He wears a striking combination of last season pvp gear, and heroic blues, with a badly enchanted weapon.
Usually seen: In trade chat, 1-2 hours after school ends, screaming and crying for gold to buy the latest gear.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Thank you for all your comments on yesterday’s post about the new Mini-Guide. Writing is all finished, and I’m just distributing it to the guys who offered to preview and help straighten out any last kinks. This weekend I’ll be hunched over my desk trying to write a sales page that tells you about the benefits. I’m not a great copywriter, heh, so I expect I’ll be cranky again on Monday. If you are not already on my news list, now would be a good time to join, so that you can benefit from the big pre-launch discount that I’ll be sending out.
Good News
From Monday, I’m going to be officially “employed” by thegoldqueen.com which makes me either a pro blogger, a pro gamer, or just plain lucky. For me, that means I’ll be focused on writing more guides, spending more time in the forum, being available on twitter, researching more gold making on World of Warcraft, and hopefully bringing you more articles, news and answering more questions. Â For you, that means I’ll continue to write blog posts, and be available for you if you need a hand to get more gold.
I’m working with a coaching client this week, and hopefully releasing the second mini-guide, and also having both children off school for the summer holidays (vacation). Apart from that, you can contact me, use the contact form for email, or tweet @thegoldqueen on twitter. So let me know what I can do for you.
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I’m horrendously distracted this week by re-writing the next MiniGuide. Instead of thinking about blog posts, I’ve been writing and rewriting the newest miniguide. See, I left the manuscript for the new miniguide on the back seat of a taxi and I’ve been re-writing the chapters whilst I can still remember the outline and ideas that I wanted to put down.
The next MiniGuide will be the World of Warcraft Gold Guide for Teenagers.
I have a few concerns about it that I would appreciate your input. I’m thinking about how I can address the needs of this special micro niche without alienating parents. As a parent myself, I’ve set parental controls on my son’s World of Warcraft, with a maximum time per week, and I’m always ready to chat to him about anything that he’s seen or heard. Â I see it a little like the playground: Â You can’t stop kids from growing up. Â You can’t stop them from hurting themselves, but you CAN minimise the risks, and be there to mend them, and you can let them free in the world in the safest possible way.
I have this wierd overprotective but kinda-liberal thing going on.
The main concern to me about marketing to teenagers is that gold is a commodity that is linked very much to envy, and therefore to peer pressure. And parents can be touchy about peer pressure. I’m either very niaive or too generous with my time, but I think that any parent that’s a decent parent will help their teen understand and make their life decisions without bowing to peer pressure. It’s part of becoming an adult, learning to deal with the expectations and pressures of friends and people that you care about.
As an example, I taught my son the rude swear words at a young age, and what they mean, and how to use them, and why they are rude, and how different people will react to them. As a result, he rarely swears, and when he does, he knows wtf he is saying. I have sex education books on my top shelf in the lounge / sitting room he can see when he’s ready, but if I catch him with prn or any image that doesn’t treat man or woman as a human instead of an animal, I’ll hit the roof.
Teenagers Gold Guide Focus?
The miniguide was meant to be 5,000 words, like the last Pet Selling miniguide, but I’m currently at 6.5k and in danger of turning this into a huge everything-you-need-to-know gold guide, instead of focusing selectively on the teen’s needs and barriers. oops?
This guide is aimed at teens who can’t afford the big guides yet (20k!) or for parents like me who are trying to show their teens how much fun you can have in World of Warcraft. I know our younger players have reaction skills and pvp skills that are better than mine, but I can still pwn them on the AH and this miniguide is to help them.
Thanks for reading, and for your patience with me as my time is spent on the miniguide instead of on the blog.
Questions: How long should a mini-guide be? how much should I charge for it? How much text / pictures ratio would you expect? What subjects should I cover? Am I on dangerous territory in teaching under 21s how to do something? Do you know any teenagers who would use this? What do you think are the primary worries and problems that a teenager faces specifically when they try to make gold? Do you want to be an affiliate?
Huh, what’s a Pipeline?
It’s a key item that you understand completely and perfectly.
A pipeline item has a market value that you know off by heart.
When you know its perfect market value, you know immediately on looking at the auction house, whether it is currently under or over priced. You know how many will sell, at how much, and by looking at your competition, you know immediately how much profit you can make on that item.
With a pipeline system in place, you find under performing items and sell them for their real value.
It’s not just buy low sell high
It’s buy really low, and sell really high.
It’s buy 1,000 for 10s each and sell 1, 000 for 2g, making a profit of 1, 900g.
It’s not a fluke, it’s not accidental or lucky, it’s a system that genuinely works.
The problem is: Finding the slippery little suckers!
And finding several of them.
And naturally, running them in conjunction with all your other gold-making efforts.
Two favourites are Goldthorn and Mountain Silversage.
Want to see my pipeline?
I have a pipeline that consistently makes me lots of gold, and have been using it for about a year now. It still works!
(update,Sept 2014, this pipeline is still working)
(update April 2016, this pipeline is still working)
Can you guess what it is ?
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.