Monday Musings - 1c

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1c

I started my auctioning last week and entered into the glyph market. By the weekend I had some sales, not great but there we are. I had just started. Anyway, can't remember what it was that had me do it but I decided to do a scan of glyphs with mine up and I had been undercut on more than few. And undercut by a copper. By one person. Other glyphs of mine which he wasn't listing were under bid by another person for about 10s. Added them to friends and noticed that when I cancelled and relisted, the 1c guy very quickly cancelled and relisted too.

This got me a little annoyed. Sure, I was getting a few sales but I know he was probably getting a lot more of what should rightfully have been mine. So I started playing with the settings of QA3 and relisted. Sure enough, soon I was underbid by 1c and then by 10s. I know this are different people, at least I think so.

Anyway, last night I decided to take a couple of different approaches. This isn't something to get worked up over. Its just a game and wishing for my competitors computers to explode isn't going to get me anywhere. So I will adjusting my efforts and seeing where I end up.

Glyphs go bye bye?

I was talking to my Brother-in-Law yesterday and he mentioned reading some news about Cataclysm, specifically that Path of the Titans was out and the glyph changes. When he told me that I immediately responded with,"That's the biggest market gone." He mentioned seeing comments saying the same. So I read the posting about it and thought... Great, I have just tried to enter the market and it is being taken away from me, and those annoying under bidders will get it.

But I took some time to think about it later when the fuming had stopped. True, I won't be selling the same amounts of glyphs any more but I'm not at the moment anyway. But there will be those who want all the other glyphs on top of what they have. Those less wanted ones might sell. Also, who knows what changes will happen to existing ones. And then there's all the new medium glyphs. So, maybe there still will be a market. Besides, I'm leveling 3 toons at the moment. I need glyphs. Won't others. Will there be room for me? Lets wait and see.

Sparkle pony

When the Celestial Steed was added, I kept quiet. I knew my girlfriend would want one. And I was playing when she logged a while after it was added. So I heard the "awwww, what's that? Its purrrrtttttyyyyy. I want one." I explained you bought it from the store and explained how much, and that was it. Except whenever she saw one I would hear the comments. And how many people have one?

Anyway, she did some nice things for me recently. Me for her too, I must add. I got her the pets from Stormspire for some of her characters and she sent me some real life presents. And then she bought me a White Kitten in game. I mentioned then I was keeping an eye out for them to sell and she insisted I kept it for myself.

So I decided I would get her the Sparkle Pony. Bought it yesterday while she was sleeping and got it sorted on her account. To say she was surprised when she found it in the mail is an understatement. She had no idea where it had come from at first. But she loves it and what more can I say. I also finally got around to redeeming the Murloc Marine that came with last years Blizzcon feed I had purchased with her account last year. That's another thing she loved as well.

Mage Portals

I have decided when Cataclysm comes out that I would probably level a goblin mage. I don't have a mage on my account and it would be a help to my GF being able to portal her to places I have got to. She has mage at 70 so that means I can get my characters to Shattrath with her help but that doesn't help her... Until last night.

I had been thinking about her mage and her other characters. I have noticed that when you log off, the character stays in group. With that in mind I logged one of my characters and she, one of her low levels. I invited her to group, she then relogged to the mage, created a portal, relogged back....

And then I realised I had forgotten to add the mage to the group. So back to the mage, join group, create portal, relog and the lower level was off to Shattrath. Useful to know for future use. Not sure how it plays into taking advantage of loophole, but at least we have a way to get her characters through portals, even if it is a little fiddly.