After watching the AH for the final furies card i need (8) and watching it come down slowly from to 200, I finally saw it going for only 25g! ... On my alts server :( (still sold it for a big profit)

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Bottomscanner is great... I log on while doing other things in the house, as it dings when it finds something. It's great for finding deals or when used with "Enchantrix" can be a huge benefit to level your enchanting for a few less gold.

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I recently went through the trouble of assembling a full Blessings deck for my warlock, and the seven was one of the last cards I needed. After weeks of not seeing anything, I found one on the AH for fifty silver. This was on a weekend, too.

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I frequently see people putting up auctions with ridiculously high prices to taint the Auctioneer data, as Vlad described.
Bottomscanner is a wonderful tool - but it is no substitute for your brain.

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I don't trust Bottomscanner. i do it myself -

Scan, list, and then use my brain and experience.

I kept 4 characters in the best AH greens and blues, epiced out my 70 Shaman (for the few things I didn't want to get via PVP or drops), Epic Flyer, plus top-level Cooking, First aid, JC and Engineering. Have about 4000g in the bank right now. I should level my lower-level alts so I can use some of that cash.

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mine will trump you all. Staff of Jordan. Epic. For only 10g. I scooped it up in a mini second. I later realized it was my buddy who sold it (a new person to the game and really didn't know what he was doing.) It was later when I bought him his mount because I have mass money from my copper/skin farming.

But still man, who ever sees something purple...with TWO digits?

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I found a "Nightwatchman" epic rogue helm listed for 16G one night by someone with the apt name of "Stupid".

I sold it for 1,400 G. Helped finance my epic flyer.

I make sure to check my zeros when I list expensive things now.

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Best deal I ever found was recently. Purchased a Badge of Tenacity for 50g (currently considered one of the best druid tanking trinkets in the game), turned around and sold it for a cool 1100g on the AH.

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5 Preserved Holly for 10s. Not too much of a deal, but still a very nice find. I don't use Auctioneer at the moment, but I'm planning to get it soon. I usually place my greens for 150% of the original AH bid price then around double it for buyout. I don't know if someone's got an amazing deal off of it, but I guess it wouldn't work for stuff like Ores, etc..

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I'm a bit of an AH freak - I enjoy it far more than raiding - so I'm there all the time and often find nice deals.

The best: I bought [The Green Tower] for 49S99C.

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I'm usually the one giving people deals. Not because I'm stupid. It makes money faster, and helps other people make a quick reselling buck. For example, when winter's veil started, I made and sold 50+ sets of 5 Gingerbread Cookies. They were going for 5g for 5, and I started selling at 1.75g. I sold them faster than I could make them, making 80g in a matter of 20 minutes.

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Solid Star of Elune recipe for 15 g

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Epics with double digits? Try epics with SINGLE digits: nabbed Blackskull Shield for 8g. I know its crap but the only other epic you see for under 10g is the much undesired Nexus Crytal. Also, scored the Pattern for Drums of Restoration for a mere 12g back when it was a world drop. Funny how we're all gloating about other people's AH mistfortunes :P

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In ye old days I found a complete Warlord's Deck on the AH for 5 gold. Not sure what happened there. Sold it for 220 a few days later.

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BottomScanner can be a tough add-on to wrangle with for the casual browser in the AH. That's a key tool in the Auctioneer Advanced suite of tools when it's combined with frequent scans of the AH. But there are enough configuration options to make your eyes glaze over if you don't want to spend too much time in the AH (I love it).

A better tool for most just starting out is Auctioneer Classic which is more intuitive and simpler.

It takes a little practice. With little effort you can really bring in some great coin to compensate for all those greys you pick up beating up on mobs.

Finding a great deal in the AH is almost as much fun as mowing down Horde in battlegrounds.

Almost.

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In the early days of raiding, where people went into MC and BWL, I accidentically sold a [Hide of the Wild] cloak for 3g 75s 99c instead of 375g 99s.

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