Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Great Glyph Experiment Part Ten

Its really all a bit of a roller coaster right now. Total number of glyphs being sold now exceeds 130 - and I have therefore split sales across two alts. Lacking motivation I have split purely on class - with hunters, mages, paladins, druids and DKS on one toon and priests, shamens, warlocks, warriors and rogues on the other.

Sales trickled in yesterday - and I have tweaked with a few settings - increasing my threshold to 3g to try and limit the market in minimal profit glyphs - let my opposition fight out for the scraps I reckon.

The biggest issue I'm facing is my AH camper. He's a insistent little so and so, and won't get the message I am not going anywhere. I know he will eventually but until then he's an annoyance!

I went to bed fairly late after a rather failed attempted with an undergeared group in Uldaur 10. I cancelled all undercut auctions and reposted - on both toons. in total around 300 sales were cancelled and reposted - and the price drops by another 62s.

I started with glyph seller 1 then moved onto glyph seller 2. The trouble was I fogot something on glyph seller 1 so switched back. Within the 5 mins that glyph seller 2 was cancelling and post - glyph seller 1 had been undercut.

I did cancel and repost - but went to bed as the glyphs were being posted.

This morning I'd achieved 8 sales on both toons - around 75g. I cancelled all undercuts and reposted - knowing my AH camper friend wasnt online - hopefully I got at least a few hours of sales before he came back.

I suppose I am doubting things again - I know there is profit in a 3g sale but not a huge percentage. I can see the market being driven down and down across the whole section of the AH - due to my deep undercutting. But my main opponent is still there - still AH-Camping, still undercutting by 2s.

Anyway as they say 'know thy enemy'. So what do I know about them:

KNOWN FACTS
  1. Level one toon
  2. Must have access to a 450(ish) scribe - who has many of the 'not from trainer' glyphs
  3. Online 16 hours a day
  4. Uses QA2 to mass cancel and repost
  5. Plays later than I do but isnt around when I get up
ASSUMED FACTS
  1. Gold seller
  2. Dedicated account
FACTS I'D LIKE TO KNOW
  1. Is scribe an alt of the AH-Camper or run off a second account?
  2. What is their bottom line i.e. what is their fall back position? Right now its somewhere between 2g and 3g
  3. Exactly what hours they are online
I must investigate whether AH-Campus is in a guild actually - how remiss of me! but I will squeeze the fallback position by dropping it to 2g50s tonight.

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