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Friday, May 18, 2012

Auction Tips for Flips

Put together a short little guide to how I'm playing the gold AH while I amass a fortune in gold for whenever the RMAH actually gets to us!

The beauty of this is it works for any commoditity be it Essences, Rare Crafting Mats (Illustration is with Fallen Teeth), Any level of gems, Black Smith or Jewlery Pages, Tomes etc etc.

The principle works on the basis that whatever the average price has been in the previous 24hour hours it will get back there again within the duration of your auction, ie. at peak times when demand outstrips supply.

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The AH kindly gives us the info we need..the previous 24hours price, the stable price at which we are relying on remaining constant.

Now you see the price for 10 right now is 29 gold...with some spamming of the search button we finally find a price at or below our threshold of 22g.

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Boom! Click Buyout!

Now for the fun bit that most people may not know!

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After you click the following Buyout Confirm pop up (Below) you will be returned to the search you just did with the 22gold per unit price. So without spamming for more under 22g fallen teeth you can click buyout again (Image 2) and it will continue to buyout any Fallen Teeth at or under 22g per unit until there are none left, at which point you get an auction not found error message, but no problem, just keep clicking, if anyone posts more at your threshold you will snap them up!

3 comments:

  1. I know I suck at math, but why do you multiply by exactly 0.85 where is this number coming from? If you could explain the math a bit more would be very nice, thanks!

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  2. @Synchro, it's 100% (1) minus the AH fee of 15% (0.15) = 0.85, ie you get 85% of what your list price when the auction completes.

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  3. Synchro maybe you should just play the game and not worry about subtraction.

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