WoW: I shoot myself in the foot. Mmm, feels good
Mike and I have a couple of toons on our old server we play Saturdays if we can. This Saturday we both dinged 38 in Badlands. While purchasing my spell upgrades I ran out of cash and had to log on a 60 toon to send some money. I’m not rich on this server. I have 150 to 175 gold spread across various characters. I decided, rashly, to take up enchanting with the 38 toon as disenchanting things has been a consistent money maker on our new server for me.
I bought some things from the auction house to disenchant, but when I went to put my Vision Dust up for sale I found the market flooded with low priced competition. Here’s where the crazy stuff starts. I started buying up the competition. I quickly ran out of cash again and had to get an 80 gold loan from my 60 toon. I burned through most of that before I controlled the whole Vision Dust market. That lasted no time at all as everybody started flooding the, now inflated, market with new competition. I attempted to keep the market stable for a little while. It would have required more cash than I could possibly muster. Now I’m just limping along trying to get back some of my money out of the Vision Dust crash of 06.
What a combination of dumb moves on my part. I’m now trying to re-coop my losses by working the auction house game on that server. I certainly know how to make money; I’ve over 1000 gold on our new server. It turns out I know how to throw it away as well.