Leather, leather, leather

I hit the jackpot. I happened to look up borean leather this morning and what do I find but stacks upon stacks of hugely underpriced stock. Awesome. I bought it all. Now when I’m low on arctic furs I won’t need to fork over hundreds of gold per leg armor, I can just turn in 10 heavy borean leathers and get it myself! This will help me lower the margin and force my competition out of the market. No one can keep up with 8g stacks of borean leather. Moral of the story kiddies? Keep checking prices, you never know when a farmer is going to come along and way undercut the usual buyouts.

A new POV on maintenance day

Normally I don’t mind Tuesday maintenance because it means I get something productive (read: non-World of Warcraft related) done before work. Today for example, I returned late movies to the movie store. I do have to wonder though- what about the poor souls who buy World of Warcraft on a Tuesday? Can you imagine? They get home, all excited to play their new game, and they can’t even log in! Then again, does the system even let you patch during maintenance?? I’m not sure. All I know is that I would be very, very distressed- maybe even more so if I had gotten the chance to log in the night before and then woke up the next morning to a 24-HOUR MAINTENANCE – HA HA message from Blizzard.

Getting the leg up on competitors

Oh no! Over the course of a single week the AH has become flooded with 4 new dedicated leg armor crafters. Up to this point it has only been myself and one other leatherworker (a very pesky sonuvabitch I must say). Now, there’s a whole gang of us fighting for the market. What do I do?

On the one hand, I have enough gold to buy out all the auctions and resell them at my own price. This is a huge risk for me because of the sheer number of competitors that have entered the race. It is very likely that at least one of the other LWs would check their auctions over the course of the day, cancel, and then undercut me. Another route for me would be to farm my own mats and drive down the prices to a point where my competitors can no longer afford. Then again, what’s to say that they won’t just start farming too. Ehhhhh…

Until I come up with a better option I am doing my best to undercut at every opportunity. If prices get too low I buy out the lowest auctions and repost at a more reasonable level. I’m not trying to rip customers off, but I refuse to let leg armors go for under 200g!

Anyone else have any experience in this situation?