As a follow up to yesterdays post I am sharing the results of crafting Darkmoon Cards.
Originally I was set on making 127 cards but I found a few more eternal life’s below 29g each and ended up crafting 163 darkmoon cards.
My estimate was a value of 215g on average per card. 163 crafts x 215g should be 35,045g in value of darkmoon cards.
Here are the results:
So my profit was 2,543g. Seems pretty low for an investment of 30,000g right? Well Snowfall Inks are a by product of crafting glyphs and when you are crafting on a large scale you aren’t able to go through Snowfall inks fast enough to get rid of them.
I constantly sell items that use Snowfall inks, such as runescrolls, off-hands, and even sell them on the AH individually if the price goes above 15g each. But I still end up with a large surplus week after week from milling.
This is a great way for me to offload a ton of them, I had over 1,000 Snowfall Inks which were calculated into the profit of my glyph selling and now is when I can realize the profits from my inscription business. I still have around 100 snowfall inks in the bank.
The value of 32,500g now brings my gold total from 75,000g to 107,500g. I don’t want to celebrate yet as I need to sell the individual cards, sell completed decks and have sales, but I am confident they will sell and I’ll make a more accurate assessment of my gold number in a couple days.
I have turned what I can into the completed decks and also bought out cards that I can use to make further decks (buying 2 Three of Nobles, 1 Four of Nobles and 1 Five of Nobles so I can craft 2 more Nobles Decks) and sell off any excess cards I won’t use.
Remember, I valued my Snowfall inks at 15g each and now that I’ve invested them into an item that is worth more, including all other costs, it is the same as selling the Snowfall inks on the AH at that price, so even though the profit is low I was able to get my gold return on my snowfalls.
very nice post’s over the last few days detailing your sales in darkmoon card’s. its unfortunate that the profit isnt what it used to be.
Hey Anaalius, yes its unfortunate however I’m glad that they are still selling considering how much new content and items have come out but nobles decks are still desirable.
If prices of nobles decks went down under 1K I’d have to raise the prices of my glyphs a LOT to compensate or get a much cheaper source for my materials so I am happy for now that I have a way to dump my snowfalls so I can stay competitive in the glyph market and get good profits even with 4g glyphs.
First of all, I agree with Anaalius. Very nice post indeed.
But I do have a question, are you pricing the nobles as decks for 5k? Or is that the trinket itself?
And would you profit more if you turned the decks into trinkets then sold them? Or is the risk too high?
Thanks =D
Zef
I have them all in their raw form as just decks, and posting at the same price, or a little bit lower than what they’d sell at as completed decks.
For Nobles Decks, I’m selling them for 5800g as that is the lowest price on the AH, and I’d sell the completed Darkmoon Card: Greatness deck for the same amount, down to 5,000g. If it goes below 5k gold I’ll hold onto them for a week or so but if it seems there is too much supply but not enough buying action I may lower my price to get sales.
I will be converting all of them to completed Darkmoon Card decks (like Illusion, Berserker, Greatness) probably tonight or tomorrow morning (as I’m headed out for the weekend to the casino and unable to play
Pfff, 10% profit from investment once a month ? no thx (or at least if i will have extra 60-100k to spend)
About cards vs decks : Greatness cards sell for min. 500g more then decks. This is a guaranteed profit, but once again you need starting capital (20k+ prefered ) and it goes for quit a long period (few weeks).
I have few “goblins” on my server that do it and i leave it to them. Too much work (or too long waittime) to really accept this strategy.
P.S. keep in mind that in this example “wowconf” had a reserve stock of snowfall inks, which means u need at least small glyph factory to have it aswell
@Archi
The reason my glyph business is so successful is because I have a way to get rid of my snowfall inks profitable through darkmoon cards, where others I am competing with just sell their snowfall inks on the AH for 7g each and are getting a much lower profit because of this.
This gives me a competitive advantage so I can sell my glyphs lower than them and still get a profit, while they are either producing at a loss or exit the market.