Comments on: Ammo! One for the Price of Ten! http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/ Standing in void zones since 2008 Tue, 08 May 2012 23:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-3064 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:23:21 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-3064 The AH on WOW is pretty hardcore. It’s a bigger market than anything short of the real world :)

]]> By: The Spirit Beast http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-3063 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:00:35 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-3063 One of the few avenues where you can still get “scammed,” but as others have said your best bet is to farm them and have an engineer make them for you if you’re lucky enough to know one. I don’t know how I feel about posting the 100 stacks… I feel bad for people who are desperate enough to need to spend their time hoping someone will buy them, but I also think it’s kinda messed up taking advantage of newbies/people who have misconfigured addons.

In the days of lineage 2, however, I think I would have said “To hell with them, they should have paid attention.” WoW, being a less “hardcore” game seems like it’s made me a nicer person towards fellow gamers :)

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2968 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:52:21 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2968 It is, but many people don’t have access to a friendly engineer willing to work for free. Also, each engineer who has the recipe invested a primordial saronite- those either cost a buttload of cash, or could have been sold for a buttload of cash.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2967 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:51:09 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2967 In a free market, people are free to post what they want on the AH, and that includes us breaking down stacks of 1000 into stacks of 100 for the same unit price. Regardless of whether we’re doing it for profit or to keep others from profiting.

]]> By: brandon http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2963 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:27:33 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2963 The easiest way to save money on these arrows is simiply farm the mats yourself 2x crystalized shadows and ask a engineer to make them. 5 Stacks of arrows is 5000 Arrows, wich is only 1 Eternal shadow wich is about 10g on the A/H. Beats me… i think its the cheapest way this way.

]]> By: Demilos http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2961 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:33:18 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2961 Good job with this article. At least someone tries to counter-write that greedy-stupid articles, you know who I am referring to.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2952 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:44:19 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2952 If I’m in the AH and need something that’s available from a vendor, I’m willing to pay for the convenience. If I (for some reason) want to buy arrows in stacks of 100, I’m willing to pay more for them. I’m not willing to pay as much as I would have to pay for 1000 though.

Long story short- if 1000 arrows are 70g, I wouldn’t have written this post about people listing 100 arrows for 7g. If 1000 arrows are 10g, though, then hopefully there will be enough outDPS readers that list 100 stacks for 1g that nobody else buys 100 stacks for 7g.

]]> By: bobreaze http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2951 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:39:12 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2951 Im glad your spreading the word on this. I am a person that is taking advantage of the idiot. But im glad your teaching them to double check before buying arrows. I’ve been selling stacks of 100 arrows for 7g each making 60g profit from 1k arrows. Along with that i’ve sold ice cold milk for 50s each when it cost 1s for 5 from a vendor. I guess people are just dumb but bizzard shouldnt have made the best ammo craftable.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2950 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:43:53 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2950 They’re down to 5g now, and I’ve seen them go as low as 2g (which is about the price of mats). It’s just a matter of time :)

]]> By: weenie http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2949 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:40:00 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2949 10g/1000 – what a bargain! I’ve been unable to buy them for less than 30g/1000 on my server, so am using them sparingly. “ToC random? I’ll just use my crappy arrows….”

]]> By: kyeema http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2930 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:15 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2930 Our AH was full of single stacks people were buying 1 arrow so for the past week I have been putting small stacks of 11 43 23 99 3 at low prices so people relize the stack size issue on alliance side

but horde side I wasn’t so nice we play on a pvp server :D

]]> By: Hatchetman http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2929 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:35:48 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2929 Just saw the same thing on my server, and followed your advice. I hope it really pisses the guy off.

]]> By: Maddak http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2924 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:11:42 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2924 Sry just ranting
i have a maxed lvl 70 engneer i was using to make my own ammo now i cannt use him
or if i leveled him and rep him up i could only make arrows:(

]]> By: Bowya http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2922 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:23:30 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2922 Told all the hunters on my friends and guild about this and a few of them have been done by it.

]]> By: Heffer & Corringwoo http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2921 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:03:02 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2921 I got stung….. only realised when I got to the mailbox. Serves me right for not paying attention when topping up my bag pre-raid.

]]> By: Stupid Mage http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2917 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:03 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2917 Yeah, the price being charged by Engineers is somewhat upsetting when originally the mats cost was cheap. I’m glad I stocked up on mats but so far don’t have a crafter so have to buy.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2914 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:50:50 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2914 This is a temporary situation- as soon as there’s enough engineers with the rep, this will approach the cost of the mats, which is 2 crystallized shadow or earth. A stack will go down to under 5g on the AH, and if you try hard enough, you might be able to find a friendly engineer who will make them for you with your mats.

]]> By: Maddak http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2913 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:49:01 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2913 Sorry but blizzard is retarded for forcing a class to pay so much for this ammo
and it really pisses me off

100 gold per stack when i am going thru 3-4 stacks a night on top of repairs and etc.

what other class has to pay for each spell / auto attack they do but hunters. IMO put the extra dps on the weapons and just have hunters use vendor ammo at least then we aren’t targeted by price gouging thieves

]]> By: Lyraat http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2911 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:24:59 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2911 Oh ya, no question they would have been on top of the other ammo and I probably would have been burned. Same price, higher quantity = lower unit price = higher on the ui. Whew! :D

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2910 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:11:27 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2910 As far as I know, if the 100 stacks had been at 9.99g, they would have shown up first in the default UI :(

]]> By: Lyraat http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2909 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:08:13 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2909 I almost got burned. Someone was selling Iceblade Arrows for 10g/1000, and right below them on the AH was a bunch of auctions for Iceblade Arrows at 10g/100. Thankfully the default AH sorted the ripoffs below the good buys.

Safest bet: find an engineer with the ammo recipe you need and make a friend. “LF Engineer/BFF. Have mats, will tip in gold and leg humps.” :D

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2906 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:49:58 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2906 You’re selling stacks you bought for 100g a fifth at a time for a fifth of the price- that’s fine in my book. Hell, if I just needed a little splash and go, I’d probably be willing to pay a little more per bullet/arrow than I do when I buy them by the 1000 stack, but you’re not selling a stack of 100 for 100g.

]]> By: Stupid Mage http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2903 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:31:52 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2903 Guilty! Right here, that’s me.

My Engineer is not a raider so I can never get the recipe to make the ammo. I am also the only Engineer in my guild. That being the case I am pretty much forced to buy the ammo at 100g per stack.

So yes, in order to pay for my raiding Hunters ammo, I bought 100g stacks, broke them into 100 and sold each 100 for 20g. The so called profit has been keeping me supplied in ammo.

If I were money grubbing I could probably have sold the 100 for 80g+ like some others on my server.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2902 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:03:47 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2902 I almost fell for it too- but since I do so much AH whoring in my off time, I have the financial means to ensure that these guys never make another sale.

]]> By: Negathle http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2901 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:48 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2901 Aye, when you are rushed to buy some ammo before raid, you are looking at the prices before the stacks. “Oh, wow, a stack of epic ammo for 10g? Niiiic- oh, wait. Son-of-a-bitch…” I’ve never fallen for it, but I’ve caught myself at least twice now.

]]> By: euripidesoutdps http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2900 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:53:13 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2900 Not true- people with a misconfigured auctioneer addon are vulnerable, as well as people who are quite intelligent, but busy and don’t double check before just buying 5 “stacks”.

]]> By: asds http://outdps.com/2009/12/21/ammo-one-for-the-price-of-ten/#comment-2899 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:50:21 +0000 http://outdps.com/?p=1834#comment-2899 You gotta be pretty stupid to fall into this kind of trap, lol.

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