Making Gold in WoW. The multi-part Guide.
So, I'm sure that anyone using auctioneer has been noticing the price of low level enchant mats jumping up and down.
I could never figure out why that was until now. I have been using Bottom Scanner pretty extensively, and one of the search criteria is to buy stuff just to disenchant it.
That has been incredibly accurate up until today. For some reason, I noticed that every low level green on the AH was listed as a deal by the disenchant module. Well, a little research revealed that someone had jacked up the price of small glowing shards to somewhere around 1000g a piece. Which is pretty insane. So the disenchant module started dinging for every item that might DE into a small glowing shard...
Previously, I would find that a lot of people would put level 55-58 greens on the AH for sale for like 3g. I could then buy that item, send it to my enchanter, and DE it into say 3 Greater Eternal Essences. Which I could then sell for 17g easily. That was back when the disenchant module wasn't being screwed by people trying to gimmick the system.
In any case, I have now disabled that module for the time being. I can't sit here and wade through all the level 10 greens it wants me to buy. I just disabled it.
One of the other modules is the vendor module. What's hilarious is that people will put a stack of 200 Dreadfang Venom Sacs on the AH for say 24g... Turns out, you can vendor a stack of 200 for 30g... So I have been buying them off the AH and walking them over to the vendor to sell. =)
Anyway, that's some info for anyone using Auctioneer and Bottom Scanner... Beware the Disenchant module. At least for the time being.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Making Gold in WoW. The multi-part Guide.
I have several notes that I'll continue to post in here about making money in wow.
I never farm. Farming is just lame. I've tried to do it a couple of times, but I just can't believe I'm wasting my time on it.
The key to making wealth in wow is time. You have to look at the auction house on a daily basis if you are going to make money at it. But you can't just sit there all day and make money. Let me explain. Unlike farming. The AH is working for you while you are not at the keys. So it doesn't help that much to sit in front of the auctioneer for 5 hours a day. You would be better off farming something if you wanted to sit at the keys.
My method for making money takes no more than 15m per day. But you have to spend the 15m in order to make the money.
If anyone wonders whether or not I am really successful with my methods, feel free to ask Batillia, Ziethiel, Dalwhinnie... Any of those guys know that I have cash. Most of them have borrowed from me. =)
In this thread, I'll post notes about making money on the WOW auction house. If you have questions, feel free to ask them.
First things first. I use auctioneer. I've tried a couple of other auction scanning addons, but none of them do what I need them to do.
If you want to get started right away, I suggest you install the auctioneer addon and start scanning the AH today. Don't buy anything yet. Don't get all excited and start looking for deals yet. Just install the addon, go to the AH and hit the Play button.
This guide is going to be centered around using Auctioneer Advanced. The reason is that classic, though still maintained, has a number of limitations to it.
So that's it. That's the first lesson. Install auctioneer and do a full scan of the auction house.
Now, you need to do this once a day for no less than a week before you advance any farther than this. So if you're looking to make money, you better get that mod installed and start scanning now.
I have several notes that I'll continue to post in here about making money in wow.
I never farm. Farming is just lame. I've tried to do it a couple of times, but I just can't believe I'm wasting my time on it.
The key to making wealth in wow is time. You have to look at the auction house on a daily basis if you are going to make money at it. But you can't just sit there all day and make money. Let me explain. Unlike farming. The AH is working for you while you are not at the keys. So it doesn't help that much to sit in front of the auctioneer for 5 hours a day. You would be better off farming something if you wanted to sit at the keys.
My method for making money takes no more than 15m per day. But you have to spend the 15m in order to make the money.
If anyone wonders whether or not I am really successful with my methods, feel free to ask Batillia, Ziethiel, Dalwhinnie... Any of those guys know that I have cash. Most of them have borrowed from me. =)
In this thread, I'll post notes about making money on the WOW auction house. If you have questions, feel free to ask them.
First things first. I use auctioneer. I've tried a couple of other auction scanning addons, but none of them do what I need them to do.
If you want to get started right away, I suggest you install the auctioneer addon and start scanning the AH today. Don't buy anything yet. Don't get all excited and start looking for deals yet. Just install the addon, go to the AH and hit the Play button.
This guide is going to be centered around using Auctioneer Advanced. The reason is that classic, though still maintained, has a number of limitations to it.
So that's it. That's the first lesson. Install auctioneer and do a full scan of the auction house.
Now, you need to do this once a day for no less than a week before you advance any farther than this. So if you're looking to make money, you better get that mod installed and start scanning now.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Picked up a new tv
come. In the meantime, I picked up a new tv. I got it off of amazon.
It is a refurb, but after a week of checking it out, I can't find
anything wrong with it.
I don't understand why people still buy TVs at places like best buy.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
A sweet little tool called 'rsyncrypto'. Pt 1
I had something of a specific need. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so I'm going to outline how I handled it.
I am NO good at keeping any kind of physical media. Quite some time ago, I took all the CD's I owned and ripped them to MP3 because I found that I was losing CD's constantly. Now, when I buy a new CD, I immediately rip it to MP3. My MP3 store has been with me ever since the days of having to upload a song to an FTP server so I could get my ratio high enough to download a few songs. Old school Internet folks know what I'm talking about.
I decided that I wanted to carry this over to my paper media also. I seem to lose receipts and documents such as this all the time. So I decided to start scanning them and keeping them in on my server.
As a backup to all my media, I upload the "/share" mount up to a server that I run a website on. Unfortunately, that website is somewhat popular, so the system is under constant attack. When you're talking about my mp3 collection, you're not really talking about super sensitive stuff. If you want to jack my copy of Billy Jean you can be my guest. However, when you're talking about jacking a copy of my marriage license, we're in another ballpark.
So I had to determine a good way to encrypt my data on the server without a tremendous hassle on the home front. I'm not going to be able to get my wife to run some sort of encryption on every document that gets scanned and put into the store. In addition, I'm worried that I'll lose my encryption key if I use methods that require passwords. And quite plainly, there just is no way to enforce it. I would forget some file. Which would be the most important one. No, my solution would have to be seamless on the back end. I would only want to interact with it when I needed to recover a file that went missing.
Now, I'm no Linux Bigot. I love Linux, believe me, but if there is an easy solution out there, I'm actually willing to pay for it. I did a ton of research in this space. I thought about a Windows share with a backup client like Mozy or iDrive. As I dug into this space, I found that they have issues of their own. You can search the interwebs for these products, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
The closest thing I could find that did what I wanted was Jungle Disk. Which uses a separate program to encrypt compared to the storage, which is S3 based.
But I have to pay for that. I don't mind paying. But why pay when I can get it for free.
Enter 'rsyncrypto'. I just happened to search on Freshmeat for encryption, and I found it. At first, it was confusing, but I already use rsync to push of my /share store to the server, it might just do exactly what I want it to.
In my next post, I'll detail exactly how I am using it. Because even if you know how I am doing it, you can't put it together unless you have the pieces of the puzzle on my home hard drive. Very nice.
I had something of a specific need. I'm sure I'm not the only one, so I'm going to outline how I handled it.
I am NO good at keeping any kind of physical media. Quite some time ago, I took all the CD's I owned and ripped them to MP3 because I found that I was losing CD's constantly. Now, when I buy a new CD, I immediately rip it to MP3. My MP3 store has been with me ever since the days of having to upload a song to an FTP server so I could get my ratio high enough to download a few songs. Old school Internet folks know what I'm talking about.
I decided that I wanted to carry this over to my paper media also. I seem to lose receipts and documents such as this all the time. So I decided to start scanning them and keeping them in on my server.
As a backup to all my media, I upload the "/share" mount up to a server that I run a website on. Unfortunately, that website is somewhat popular, so the system is under constant attack. When you're talking about my mp3 collection, you're not really talking about super sensitive stuff. If you want to jack my copy of Billy Jean you can be my guest. However, when you're talking about jacking a copy of my marriage license, we're in another ballpark.
So I had to determine a good way to encrypt my data on the server without a tremendous hassle on the home front. I'm not going to be able to get my wife to run some sort of encryption on every document that gets scanned and put into the store. In addition, I'm worried that I'll lose my encryption key if I use methods that require passwords. And quite plainly, there just is no way to enforce it. I would forget some file. Which would be the most important one. No, my solution would have to be seamless on the back end. I would only want to interact with it when I needed to recover a file that went missing.
Now, I'm no Linux Bigot. I love Linux, believe me, but if there is an easy solution out there, I'm actually willing to pay for it. I did a ton of research in this space. I thought about a Windows share with a backup client like Mozy or iDrive. As I dug into this space, I found that they have issues of their own. You can search the interwebs for these products, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
The closest thing I could find that did what I wanted was Jungle Disk. Which uses a separate program to encrypt compared to the storage, which is S3 based.
But I have to pay for that. I don't mind paying. But why pay when I can get it for free.
Enter 'rsyncrypto'. I just happened to search on Freshmeat for encryption, and I found it. At first, it was confusing, but I already use rsync to push of my /share store to the server, it might just do exactly what I want it to.
In my next post, I'll detail exactly how I am using it. Because even if you know how I am doing it, you can't put it together unless you have the pieces of the puzzle on my home hard drive. Very nice.
An addition to the Blog
Well, at some point, I said that I wouldn't do this anymore if I didn't have something compelling to talk about. Bah, that's what we all say. Try this on for compelling.
I'm pretty excited about this. It's interesting to me that people are so happy to give you advice about your kids. Especially people who have kids. I'm not trying to say that I know it all, but I have never encountered a subject in which almost everyone is so willing to give advice. I'm not hatin'. I understand that people are just trying to help. It's cool with me. As long as I know you. If I don't know you, don't try to tell me about what I should do. That just sucks.
Well, at some point, I said that I wouldn't do this anymore if I didn't have something compelling to talk about. Bah, that's what we all say. Try this on for compelling.I'm pretty excited about this. It's interesting to me that people are so happy to give you advice about your kids. Especially people who have kids. I'm not trying to say that I know it all, but I have never encountered a subject in which almost everyone is so willing to give advice. I'm not hatin'. I understand that people are just trying to help. It's cool with me. As long as I know you. If I don't know you, don't try to tell me about what I should do. That just sucks.
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