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My thanks to all that've contributed to this thread, it's helped me have fun collecting more gold that I can usefully use, at least for the moment. A few tips I'd like to contribute that I haven't seen/don't recall being mentioned specifically:
1. With Large Prismatics I've found it easy to get a higher sales price by selling them in various quantities rather than individually. I've consistently been able to sell shards in stacks of 4 or 6 (and less often 2,8,10) for a 3-5g markup per shard over the last couple of months. From what I can tell this is a result of people needing a certain number of shards for an enchant and simply buying the cheapest stack with that number in it available without checking other prices at all. Not always profitable due to undercutting, but I've tended to find the worst undercutting actually happening with single shard sales so it's often an easy 10-15g for a single search/check. There are probably other materials with the same sort of potential, leather especially from what I've seen, LPS have worked well for me though since they're high demand and have no listing fee.
2. The markets for small prismatic shards and large prismatic shards aren't always in sync. By keeping an eye out I've been regularly able to buy small prismatics for 6g when large prismatics are going for 25+ or sell small prismatics for 9+ when large are 20ish. There doesn't seem to be a huge demand for small prismatics comparatively so it's easy to post too many and flood the market, as above though it's a single search to check. Not so helpful for those that aren't enchanters and can't break down/merge shards themselves, I assume this plus the usual laziness is the reason these two prices aren't better matched. I'd expect void crystals and large prismatics will probably reach some similar sort of relationship too of course. Similarly it's occasionally possible to pick up cheap nexus crystals as people clear out banks/level old 60s for substantially below the price of a small prismatic - stacks of 20 nexus for 80g when SPS are 7-8g a piece for example being something I've caught occasionally.
3. As with large/small shards it's possible to make some easy money buying motes and converting them to primals, with the advantage that there's no profession required. People seem to throw up motes at cheap prices rather than bothering to wait for enough to convert to a primal so a quick search can often pick up what are effectively primals at 1/2 to 2/3 the current price (provided you're patient enough to simply collect motes this way until you get full primals of course). Another won't always work but simple and quick to check thing. Works particularly well when the price of primals has spiked but those chucking up motes for a quick sale having raised their prices in compensation.
4. Searching the entire AH and sorting by time left. Basically means you can hit the refresh button and see whatever's just gone up seconds ago. Usually nothing too exciting but the quickest way to spot those obscenely cheap bargains people throw up unknowlingly or uncaringly that will vanish within minutes at most. I've had success with this buying bulk stuff that people have been offloading well below market raids almost the second it's gone up whereas I've never been able to get Auctioneer or similar to be quite that responsive for me personally. Imagine others may have had more luck automating this but throwing it out there for those that haven't.
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