I swear some people would rather try and sell a boe for months without a buyer because of their ridiculous prices rather than cutting/negociating the price, just to never sell the item at a lower price.
When people get a random blue or epic drop, they're just wishing it was an actual good one. But most of them aren't, however they still feel like they hit a "jackpot" for getting the item in the first place, so they try to sell it absurd prices.
I tried buy a Mughols Helm for my alt pally, it's basically the same as the plate helm from RFD (I had terrible luck with the helm dropping). People were listing it at 90g. Like it's not a great helm and there is a dungeon equalivalent you can get 7 levels lower. Watched the price slowly drop down to 6g over the week and got one.
People just like wasting gold on AH fees I suppose.
The flip side of this is that you can make good gold if your patient.
I sold a Bloodrazor for 90g in trade chat. I’d been sitting on it for weeks, it was listed regularly at 60g-75g on the AH, and usually didn’t sell at that price. I posted in trade chat whenever I got on my bank alt. After a couple weeks, the other swords sold and there weren’t any left on the AH. Some rogue in trade chat bought mine.
Or the BoE pieces to the dungeon class sets. Sometimes there’s a billion of them and they are listed for 2g. It can literally be better to shard them. But sometimes, if you’re patient, you can get 10+ gold because there just aren’t any on the AH right then. I just made 25g off Lightbringer bracers and the beaststalker bracers just sold for 9g. I’ve made probably 100g off 4 or 5 gauntlets of valor in the same way.
Bloodrazor is actually pretty decent even if overpaying a bit. Now compare that to trying to sell the ardent custodian for 90g which is bad in every aspect
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u/RoundAffectionate424 2d ago
I swear some people would rather try and sell a boe for months without a buyer because of their ridiculous prices rather than cutting/negociating the price, just to never sell the item at a lower price.