Auction House Price Advice

Unfortunately no one would really be able to help you set your prices on your server, based on the fact all the servers have a different economy.

What I usually do when selling ore is check the prices of the ore on the AH first, and then decide if I want to sell it for that price or not. Usually I undercut the lowest price a little and hope for the best.

Sometimes I will also check the price of the bars and see what sells for more, with the most profit.

a decent tool is just looking to see what the going rate is by searching for the same items currently listed. undercut by a gold or two or whatever you feel is a competetive price. people will always buy the cheapest availalbe.

but the best method i feel is actually knowing how rare something is. being a well itemized piece of gear, some type of gathered resource that either spawns rarely or is otherwise tedious to acquire, or even an item that is fairly common but is used in large quantities by lots of people. this only comes with experience but there are some items i just won't go below a certain price on. if the market becomes flooded with such an item i'll hold on to mine and wait for it to calm back down, or ideally when there are no others listed. i usually make my biggest killings during the weekdays.

like archangel said there is always someone leveling a profession and there is always someone with a grip of gold who will pay an exhorbitant price for the convenience of not having to farm something themselves. especially if yours are the only ones up for auction.

for the items you listed for your profession, don't expect to get much more than 9-15 gold for either copper or tin. silver on the other hand you can unload for upwards 50g a stack.

I want to add on that you shouldn't be a dick and undercut people by a lot. Those are the kinds of people that completely ruin a market, especially when it comes to gems. Take last week for example... Rigid Ocean Sapphires were going for a good 115g each, and within 2 days, assholes decided to undercut to hell and now they're only going for 60g on a good day.

The only time it's profitable to buy from an undercutter is if they placed the item at a 10% lower price then you. Anything less then 10% will end up costing you money.

quote Byzantine

Likewise, if you don't like it when people undercut you, you can just buy their low price listing and place it back up at your price. Really, a single player can actually exercise quite a bit of control over the auction house.

I have seen this back fire horribly on people.

I am proud to have been responsible for the ore crash on Vek. I also made so much gold from it. =D

quote SideSwipePrime

Hi guys,

I am relatively new to WoW and was just looking for advice on what price i should sell my ores for.

I am currently able to mine silver ore and was hoping for advice on the price at which i should sell the following ores,

Silver, Tin and Copper

Thanks

SideSwipePrime

The way that I tend to do it is look at what prices it's going for and undermine that price, so if a stack of 20 ore is going for 45g? Sell it for 40g and so on.

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Get the suite. Scan the auction house somewhat regularly. Never wonder about what price something is again.