Love finding a deal on the AHFollow

Nice story. I've had similar unexpected deals, but nothing this lucrative. Grats.

Could also have been running without Auctioneer. Default prices are really crappy but if you did not know the prices, they hit create auction, and say, oh free gold, not knowing they could of had many free golds.

Same for me actually, the only places I've seen things like this so far is the Neutral AH. I love when people whisper you asking for their stuff back. I'm not generally a nasty person, I almost always return the items I grab on the Neutral AH (sometimes I don't even try to get payment for said item).

On the other hand, I love laughing at people who whisper me or send me letters threating to report me. What are they going to tell the GM?

"Dear GM,

Today I broke the rules and tried to transfer between the Horde and Alliance side. Some meanie actually purchased items that I put on the Auction House and wouldn't give them back when I called them a #*%&tard. Please help."

I haven't been messing with the AH long enough to know what a good deal is most of the time, but I had a fun thing happen earlier. A friend of mine knows I mine, but he doesn't know that I haven't in a while, and am still lvl 124 (UG!), and he sent me a tell, asking if I had a gold bar lying around. I was at the AH at the time, and he sends another tell saying he really doesn't wanna spend 5g on a bar of gold. So I did a search for bars of gold, and there were a bunch sitting there for 5g ea, and a stack of 4 for 5g. :) I grabbed it and sold them all to him for what I paid for them. He was happy, and I was happy, cuz he's helped me a ton on his main.

Trill

Lucky you. I look for deals like this a lot in the AH. I usually don't find them but every once in a while you can get pretty lucky and make a pretty good profit.

I play on a relatively new server and find crazy deals all the time. I just a shadow pearl for 1G, recipes some people put up really cheap and I just immediately post them back for a huge profit. It's certainly the easiest way to make gold for me. I got something yesterday for I think 10G and immediately sold it for 38G. I have no idea what it was but it sold quick.

If you understand the twink market, then you can make a lot of gold off of greens and blues that low level players mistakenly put at a normal low level price. I love it.

I found at the time a new set of Ragesteel Shoulders a day or 2 after they released them for 18g, sent them to an alt and they sold in about 2 hours for 385g. Was perfect timing because I was farming for gold for my epic mount training at that time.

Lesser magic essence and strange dust-great sellers, I bid on any green (sometimes a blue) item that is less than 15s, or buyout if it's less than 15s. The items I win get DE and I can sell a stack of 20 Strange dust for 20G and a stack of 10 Lesser Magic Essence for 10G. Also, 10 Greater Magic Essence usually sells for about 10G, and that breaks down into 30 Lesser Magic Essences, thus 30G. Occasionally others undercut me and slow down my sales but I have sold many a stack even at the higher price because people don't want to look through pages and pages of materials. When I'm the only one with those items up they sell like hotcakes. My main is only Lvl 34 and my AH toon is Lvl 21. And I have almost 1000G.

I spotted the recipie for a Destruction Potion on the AH for 10g yesterday. "That's GOT to be underpriced!" I thought, and snapped it up. I put it up at a 299g/377g buyout to see if any fish would nibble.

Sure enough, I got a buyout in less than an hour. On a hunch, I searched for Destruction Potion on the AH and saw that the recipie had been relisted at 800g/1000g. Okay, fair play to them, plenty of profit for all.

Minutes later I got a whisper from a guildie, asking if I would lend him 500g so he could buy a BoE world drop alchemy recipie that he'd been looking for forever.

Before TBC, the Thorium Shield Spike (plan) was the best spike a BS could make. I would check AH everyday and it was never there, but the Mithril one usually was and always sold for around 40g.

Low and behold one day there's a Thorium Spike listed for 62s. Yes...silver! Just like the OP, I rubbed my eyes to be sure I hadn't gone looney.

All I can figure is some guy got the plan, asked his buddies what it should go for and one of them said "probably around 62", so the guy figured silver, not gold.

As fate would have it, I've had the plans drop twice for me since. One sold for 122g, the other for 160g.

But it's not all good. My plan to corner the market in copper ore/bars by buying all that was available and jacking up the price taught me the definition of Epic Fail.

Hahaha, back in the day, I got a stack of Black Lotus for only 88s. I think the seller thought that they were Purple Lotus :p

Don't happen to play on Bonechewer? A guildie of mine tried that twice. And Epic Phaild. Twice. Rather humorous to watch someone waste 600+ G like that.