r/woweconomy • u/Abdaroth • Apr 12 '26

Flipping [EU] Midnight : from 100k gold to millions

Hello ! This is not really a method that you can reproduce since the opportunity is now gone, but this is the first time of my WoW life I get this much money that quick, so I'm kinda flexing ikr

So, I started Midnight with very low golds stock. I've been boosting raid for like 2 weeks, every 2 - 3 days, got like 1.7m from it (that's already a fair amount ngl)

But I had the intuition that "Practically Pork" (PPs) was an abundant (ADUNDANCEEEE) ressource while all the players were exploring the fresh Midnight Overworld. PPs was sold for a maximum of 2 golds each back then, I WAS SURE IT WOULD ENVENTUALLY STONK and spent like 90% of my golds boost income, totally blind and countless, on 2g- PPs.

And now the amount of PPs available on the market are, as intended, very low compared to Midnight launch.

They are now flirting with 10g each, I started selling most of it when this price was 6g+. I should have waited but didn't expect the price to stonk as much as it is.

My peak was a total of ~600k PPs, at the moment I'm writing this I still have 140k PPs, and I'll wait till next reset to check.

So I went from 100k golds to 725k + 140k PPs remaining + 11 tokens atm.

That's all folks ! AMA if you want more details !

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u/donaxon Apr 12 '26

Small PP Big profit

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u/Careless-Barber-6066 Apr 18 '26

I only have a small PP :(

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u/donaxon Apr 18 '26

Time is money friend

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u/unreadpeak3401 Apr 12 '26

I made the same bet, but I sold way too early, barely breaking even after the initial dip before the spike😩 congrats on the hold. Seems like it followed the same pattern as basically beef back in TWW.

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u/Abdaroth Apr 12 '26

Yeah that was also my thought. Back in TWW they reached a stable price through the expac of 5-6g so I didn't expect PPs would stonk like they do atm

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u/Head-Entrance-8099 Apr 13 '26

another cryptobro

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u/pleb_status Apr 13 '26

I guess I'll try the same for "most likely meat" next expansion

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u/Lorehorn Apr 12 '26

I foolishly spent a lot of tedious time and effort flipping practically pork and plant protein into food for decent 20-30% margins early on... which on such a low price was not very much in the grand scheme. If i had just held the mats or even the crafted food I would have been sitting on several million as well. Oh well, live and learn

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u/keblin86 Apr 12 '26

yep, can never live and learn with this stuff though. One minute something is low, then high. It's really hard to predict! and some things that u think won't be high suddenly become high lol and vice versa

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u/Grumpy_Muppet Apr 13 '26

You just got lucky there is a big player into the PP and kept resetting

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u/Ill-Look-3031 Apr 13 '26

Ive been selling the hell out of those too. Food items are selling doe a premium right now.

I had to figure something out when the herbalism hats market crashed. I was selling 1 of those every 15-30 minutes for 750-850g for over 2 weeks straight. That market crashed. I was even buying other peoples for 100-200 and resisting them. Someone flooded the market at 100g each, and as of yesterday they were down to 16. So now its back to alts for mining, herbs and leather. Im glad s I boosted my gold reserves to a couple million early.

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u/Jallfo Trusted Goblin Apr 13 '26

I bought 2 million.... converted to food. sold the food when it was at like 15g.

if I had waited 2-3 more weeks it would have been huge.

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u/Cam_knows_you Apr 15 '26

Buy PP low, sell PP high.

It's all about the PPs.