The Alliance Project - Everything must go

This would normally be posted on a Thursday but as was mentioned yesterday, this weeks posts have been swapped, so...

I think I mentioned I have a single Alliance character on the server I play. At some point my Wednesday history post will reveal more details about him but what it means that on a server where I predominately play Horde, I do have access to the Alliance market. The guy is a dwarven hunter with skinning and leatherworking and has his own guild with two bank tabs.

Now I have a plan for this character. I am going to use him to access the Alliance AH and should be able to use him to get some materials cheaper. Maybe. I believe that my server has a larger Alliance pop than Horde, I knew that was the case a year or two ago and believe it still to be. So there may be some things cheaper there. Somethings I can pick up and put on the Neutral AH for my GFs account to pick up instantly. Do what I call the Alliance Shuffle.

It is a fairly well known method. Place an item cheap on one faction and have the other buy it as soon as it is posted. Works best when you are using computers next to each other. Sure, there is a small window of opportunity when someone camping the neutral AH looking for this to use addons to grab it quickly but hasn't happened to me so far. I place the item for 1c bid and buyout and that way the AH doesn't take a cut.

And this is part of the crux of the issue I have, the neutral AH cut. Its 15%. At the moment I have over 20,000g on Horde and 1600g on Alliance. If I need money on Alliance, I could place something very high on there and buy it with Horde, but that means losing 15% to the cut. I could also find someone on the Alliance side with characters Horde side, give them money on Horde and get them to give me the same on Alliance. But that means finding someone who you can trust as much as they can trust you.

So I have come up with an idea. I am going to try and get into the markers on the Alliance side, but slowly. And I am looking at a very specific market to start with. I am going to try and enter the pet market. My plan, buy a number of the Horde pets, send them to the Alliance and sell them there while also doing the reverse with the Alliance pets. For this, I need storage.

I mentioned I had two guild bank tabs. Well, these are full, or at least were. My dwarf is only level 70. I have hardly played him since leveling up in TBC to get a leatherworker. He has two bank tabs full of things like TBC raw food and greens, crafting materials and the like. So I am sticking these on the AH and trying to get shot of them. Some I have put up very cheaply whereas others are cutting current sellers. I am trying to get rid of them all while trying to make a little at the same time. Some of these things have sold, others are still sitting there. I have already made over 100g selling this stuff and I may give it another week before putting everything up as cheap as possible without vending just so I then have the space.

I have already started on stage two too. I have gone around all the Alliance pet vendors and bought 12 of each. I need to do the same Horde side and then get two characters to the neutral AH, Booty Bay more than likely. The dwarf sits in Stormwind most of the time so it is a short flight there. Horde side, my GF has a mage at 71 who teleports to Stonard and flies the rest of the way. For stage two to complete, I need to ensure I have space Horde side for my Alliance stock of pets and clear out the dwarfs bank ready for storage and selling. I hope to make steady income there to support any future purchases I may need to make in the future.

Something else I will be looking at doing as part of the Alliance Shuffle is cash in on what I have always considered an unfairness in the balance of Alliance/Horde. There are a number of cooking recipes that are only available to Alliance characters that are sold in Stormwind. Once I have created more space Horde side, I will be buying a large amount and moving them over.

Thursday night will be discussing the Alliance Project and hopefully by next week some progress will have been made on this.