Zombie Auctioning

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 7:00 PM

Non zombie Mommar here.

I have a confession to make.  There are times that I get bored with listing things on the World of Warcraft auction house.   Now before everyone hyperventilates this is not to say that I am ready to turn in my Gold Goblin card (member 2007).

What I do sometimes fall into is the trap of just listing items without paying attention to their pricing.   I use add-ons that make listing items very quickly.   Where a key combination and mouse click will list that item at a set undercut price.   Some add-ons that will do this using a one mouse click system even (Trade Skill Manager is a prime example).   When you have hundreds of gems to list or hundreds of raw materials to list,  you want to cut every corner you can and get to the good stuff (raking in the gold from your mail).

But at times I will click and press buttons without paying direct attention to what something is listing at.   Most of the time this isn't a bad thing.  But at times you get someone who put a completely ludicrous price up on the Auction House for an item.   It is those times that zombie auctioning becomes a problem.   If you list that product undercutting the first original bad price.  Then another will follow thinking that will be the going rate for said item.   This upsets the balance in the warcraft economic system because players stop making a profit and will end up selling items at a loss.  

So at times taking a deep breath can be beneficial.   You don't want to get caught into the upswell of quick listing where an item is dropped so low that you end up selling your crafted product at well less than their server value. Knowing a decent acceptable price and holding onto your products til the server
resets its value to that listing can net you more profit than just listing it without cause or reason.

The other thing to keep track of is your potential to be sucker punched by your zombie listing.   There are
players that enjoy collapsing profession listing for their own reasoning.   The Inscription profession had 
this occurs on multiple servers.   The reasoning was never rationally applied to their listing,  but
players panicked and drove prices down lower and lower.   Players decided to abandon the Inscription  
profession for higher profit areas.   This left a non competitive area that only a few controlled.  

So before you start to drift off and click that next bid,  determine whether you're receiving the best profit you can for your item.  If you're not,  maybe it's time to set your listing price a little higher than the lowest bid.  Or if you're brave,   do the 'flipping the market' technique for bigger profits.

You are in control of your own listing process.   But just like the villagers dislike zombies,  the gold goblins tend to not be happy with zombie auctioning.

Good Luck and Good Zombie Hunting


Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbearjoe @ gmail. dOT com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up and I will buy you a glass of juice. 

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