Content Curves and Professions

If you are choosing professions for your characters you may want to consider what I like to call the content curve and how your profession will fit into the larger picture that Blizzard has in store for the game and it's economy.

Let look at Inscription:

glyphs - great long term items, as content winds down and players get bored with a lack of new raids they will level alts, and then naturally get glyphs for those alts. Blizzard helped us by resetting glyphs and making a lot of changes to existing glyphs.

shoulder inscriptions - great items for active content and for players main characters getting new upgrades, epic versions probably will taper off as most casuals will settle for sub quality economic choices especially for their alts during stale content.

you should pick out the items crafted by your professions and sort them between "made for active content and mains" vs "made for stale content and alts" Post the stale/alt items on the weekends and ramp up stock between raid releases (content is getting stale when pugs are clearing almost all raids and you see them forming often, this is a sign of alts and is a sign of profits to be made). Items that a for mains and active content should be posted and camped during raid nights. Camp them, sit in the AH, flip them and relay, if you drive out enough of your competition you can greatly increase your volume as long as the demand remains.

Autofill Web Auction House form and undercut the similar auction by 1g

So I was really tired of always filling out and tabbing the form to post my auctions at lunch. I decided to write a script that can be executed in the chrome console and will fill & undercut my competition. Below is the script, just open the chrome JavaScript console and paste it in after selecting your item, quantity and duration. If there is a similar auction in the house it will fill out your fields to be 1g cheaper.

what it does not do
set quantity, time length options, actually post the auctions

what it does do
fills out the 6 form fields so you don't have to set the gold silver and copper

to access the console you paste the code in:
while you have an item selected to sell with qty and time established, use the following to open the console in chrome:
[ctrl] + [shift] + i

Then past the following in and hit enter:

$('#form-buyoutGold').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.innerText-1);$('#form-startGold').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.innerText-1);$('#form-buyoutSilver').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.innerText);$('#form-startSilver').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.innerText);$('#form-buyoutCopper').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.innerText);$('#form-startCopper').val($('.price')[0].firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling.innerText);

Short Tip: Opportunity Cost and Inscription, Reducing the mailbox relay

Are you dealing with a large amount of competition in the glyph market as more players join the lucrative dark moon card trade?

If you are you may find yourself playing a lot more of the mailbox relay as you try to maintain a market edge in the world of glyphs. I used to spend about 5 minutes flipping auctions 3 times a day. Recently there has been a lot more people joining my competition and flipping has increased to about 15 minutes more than 3 times a day just to maintain the same margin I was getting before the first fair's aftermath. After the first DMF people starting bragging about their profit and a lot of scribes have been showing up since then.

There are really 2 options you have here:

1.) start battling with glyph walls and undercuts. Reduce your margin and post above crafting cost making it really low for other scribes to make a decent amount of gold

2.) reduce your stock to only the highest value glyphs and hover over those auctions to make sure you are getting the sales.

Personally I like option 2 as it will reduce your crafting time and the amount of time you do the relay. Battling probably won't work well in Mists as the cooldown will maintain a value for the darkmoon decks and scribes probably will not leave the market during the fair.