Originally Posted by Papajan
Does anyone have success with playing with AH stack sizes? For example, making Imbued Netherweave and weapon oils are probably two of the more common uses of Arcane Dust and they use 2 and 3, respectively. Have people gotten better profits on selling stacks of 2-3 for that reason? If so, is there a decent list for more profitable stack sizes? As a buyer, I'd probably pay a premium to not need to re-list or bank items, but I could be atypical.
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I've had success with charging extra for different stack sizes though I never bought that item for the sole purpose of this. I had rediculous amounts of Arcane Dust from DEing all the greens I got while leveling and when I did auctions I'd put up stacks of 1,2,5,10,20 depending on the prices. If there were no stacks of size 5 I could somewhat consistently get more for a 5 stack than if I'd just sold them separately. It's been a few months since I've done this, in large part from a couple of people literally putting hundreds of Arcane Dust up as single stacks. Wading through 900+ results for Arcane Dust is a pain and drives many potential buyers away. There were also times where it could have been profitable to buy a full stack of dust and then split it apart to sell in smaller increments. Because of the AH cut, the profit margin for this is generally very low though.
More generally, enchanting materials can be very profitable without having an enchanter at all. Depending on the server, some Greater/Lesser essence pairs sell for wildly different amounts. There have been times where the lesser version was actually selling for more than the greater version. This can also be true for small/largre prismatics as they can now be freely converted back and forth by a high enough level enchanter.
For those that buy greens to DE and sell the mats, what source do you use for expected results of the DE? I'm perfectly willing to do the computation myself for the expected value of the item, I just need a fairly accurate assessment of what that item will yield.