And you thought those boots would be worthless, didn't you? Think again, friends! Over the past few days I embarked on a little experiment. After talking with Cold of
Cold's Gold Factory on the
Auction House Junkies Podcast and my conversations with Flux from
Powerword: Gold and Nev from
AH Addict on the
Power Word: Gold Podcast guest appearance, I decided I would take all of these folks advice, and jump on a market I thought would be long dead. Talk about easy money!
Why are these 359 Item Level Boots Selling?
That has been the question I continually asked myself. But with some research and some time in the market, I realized why. For all intents and purposes, these are great boots for any character. Whether they be your main, or an alt you just hit 85 with, these are some great boots that you won't necessarily replace easily. Moreover, on most servers prices have hit the point where they are decently affordable for most players.
On my server, I've been able to move a couple pairs of boots for 2,500 - 3,000 gold. That's a great return on the justice points that take to buy these boots. An even better return if you buy them off a player and use the Auction House as a vessel to flip them.
How To Obtain ThemYou have a couple of opitions. The first opition is the most obvious. With your Justice Points. If you don't need anything that you can buy with Justice Points, these is a sure winner for liquidating your points and adding some gold to your pocket. You can even take this a step further. If you're utilizing PvP or Tol'Barad, you can trade in your honor points at a lose for Justice Points and use a combination of your Justice and Honor points to purchase more of these boots. This may make reaching 1650 Justice Points seem like a much easier process, thus adding a bigger stream of revenue to your overall earnings.
If you don't fancy spending your Justice Points on the boots themselves, then your next option is a little more Goblin inspired. You're going to be doing some flipping. While these can be as easy as just buying them off the Trade chat, if you use a little more imagination, you'll be able to scoop a bunch of these up and land yourself a nice profit margin. For me, I shoot for a 1,000 gold profit margin with 500 being the bare minimum. While I could lower that margin, I don't want to sit on these boots for long unless I get them at a great price. I use a little macro like this:
"/2 Anyone have an extra 1800 justice points and need some gold? PST"That's all I say. I usually get a lot of whispers. What I don't do is say anything about boots in the macro, nor do I use the exact point amount. This helps to curb what I'm actually talking about. It keeps people from piping in offering more. I then go on to tell the player about my new 85 character that doesn't exist and I how I need to get them some boots so they can get into heroics. I then mention that I have 1500 gold saved up that I could spend if it would help them out. Some players blow them off, while others happily pocket the gold. It's a numbers game, the more people your proposition, the more bites you will have.
How To ProfitNow that you're two ways of obtaining the boots have been established, let's talk about how to actually profit on them. I came up with the 6k figure by determining with an average of two pairs of boots being able to be bought on a weekly basis by combining PvP and Justice points with very little effort, the average player can add 6k gold to there income on a weekly basis. That's 24k gold a month. Sounds pretty nice, doesn't it? By simply playing the game. Of course you can make quite a lot more if you take the Goblin method, but that involves just a bit more risk.
Basically the point of the post is to inform you that you shouldn't write off 359 Item Level boots as a form of profit, just because they arn't the latest and greatest, doesn't mean they aren't a great way to turn some easy profits!
4:10 PM
Wes
