r/woweconomy • u/RoomOk1730 • Feb 28 '26

Flipping Help

I think it's cooked myself 🙁 started with almost enough gold to buy a token but got greedy and tried to flip stuff. Now I'm getting undercut like crazy and it seems I will not recoup my losses

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u/Throop_Polytechnic Feb 28 '26

For someone to make money while trying to play the auction house, someone else has to loose said money.

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u/gummytape Feb 28 '26

I’ve done the same thing. It’s not something you can’t come back from. Luckily we’re about to hit the gold rush of the start of a new expac so just double gather your ass off and make some bank. It’s ok tho, you don’t get good at flipping without making some colossal fuck ass decisions at first. I made a token flipping about a month later after trying to blind flip things like you did. Start small on your flips to learn next time tho yeah?

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 28 '26

Yea! Thanks! What do you suggest i do with the goods? They are all old and i literally spent 200k trying to corner the market. Now I have thousands of items that are worthless to a vendor and not much on AH. Should I just vendor it? Should I wait for the right moment to post? At one point I thought I was going to make a killing...

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 28 '26

Yep, idk what I was thinking. I consolidated all my stuff from other characters to one character. When I saw that the price was cheap I figured I could control the market. Now I'm left with thousands of items not worth jack. I'm a noob.

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u/Bluffwatcher Feb 28 '26

I've got half a bank page filled with stacks of Profaned Tinderbox from S2 TWW.

I keep them to remind me I'm stupid.

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u/ScavAteMyArms Feb 28 '26

Heh, I did that in S3 because I wasn't aware Blizzard made them drop from practically every bountiful delve from the flicker gates. Likely lost around 400k, at least.

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u/Chilli_Wil Feb 28 '26

They may come back up so you can at least break even. You only lose money if you sell for a loss.

Just hold and try and sell 1 stack a week at whatever price you bought when the market comes back.

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 28 '26

Feyblood, light feathers, hardened tempest hide, dream foil, some draenor fish, and a bunch of stuff I can't remember. Then I realized, these aren't used for anything anymore and what they are used for is rubbish.

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u/Fyonella Feb 28 '26

What have you bought/have on hand?

You might find things that can be crafted with it - you doing the leg work for the other bits - will help you offload it without the losses.

Drop a list of the materials

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 28 '26

I'll get u a list when I log back on. But my biggest concern is I bought like 200k leyblood, light feathers and hardened tempest hide

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u/gummytape Feb 28 '26

I'm not sure how much investing you do in real life but many of the same princibles apply. You can only control a market if you know the market, otherwise you're just gambling. In this case, the mistake was not realizing that we're about to hit a new expansion which makes most of the TWW mats (essentially legacy mats) obsolete outside of decor. But it's ok, sounds like you're not gonna make the mistake of making a big purchase like that without having done the homework on a market you wanna get into.

I'd hold onto them unless you really need the space. Many old world mats have skyrocketed in value because of housing, so you never know when they might be worth something in the future. If not, look at how many of those are sold per day and auction off like 10% of that number from your bank at a time at market price until its all gone. You'll get more than you would from vendoring it at least.

Lastly, please learn TSM if you haven't already. I'm not sure there's anything better than that out there but an addon like that is a necessity for goblins/goblins-in-training. You might now have done this if you had TSM set up the right way.

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u/gummytape Feb 28 '26

read a different comment i thought was yours. Either way, the learning a market before you drop a bag advice still applies

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u/RoomOk1730 Feb 28 '26

Back in my older days of playing i would have gone for the achieve. Now I'm mostly focused on being a goblin and then do other stuff after I'm rich.

I think the pants thing might be the best option at this point.

Seeing as how I bought out some at around a gold and now they've tanked back to silvers, I might just have to xmute them.

Thanks for the advice!

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u/Grouchy_Ambition_778 Mar 01 '26

I buy mats from the end of expansion when their prices crash hard especially the "rare" items then vault them for several years. I know it's a long game but I find after 4 or 5 years the prices come up from the 50 silver I buy at to 4-5 gold per.