Tag Your It – 7 Things About Me Meme
Just when I thought I had everything ready for my trip I get tagged by a meme from Shai @ Just Make Money Online. Well if its one thing I can resist its games so here we go, and the game name is “7 Things About Me That You Might not Know”. I haven’t done one of these before, and I’m a little late on sending out some link love this month so I’ll mix the two together! Ha the lazy game-a-holic procrastinator still wins! I also need to make a mental note to add meme to the list of things to do to increase traffic to your website. Also just because your blog is – for business only, doesn’t mean that you can’t change it topic around a little to fit the blog like Shai did in her meme. I don’t have a very descriptive about me section so maybe this info will fill in some gaps for some people.
7 Things About Me That You Might not Know – Well here goes nothing.
- I play video games ALOT – While you probably know that I play video games, you don’t know to what extent I do so. Xfire keeps track of how many game hours you play if you have the messenger program running, and here’s a glimpse at my World of Warcraft playtime: 2,115 hours. Whew I’m a Gameaholic for sure, and that’s just the hours that the xfire logged. I used to turn the xfire off most of the time that I play to avoid interruptions.
- Being bi rocks, bilingual that is – Growing up in Hawaii, but with one parent from Japan I did get to learn how to speak Japanese fluently. Only thing that sucks is having half your family halfway across the globe.
- Playing with lenses is bad -
Well this is a good a place as any to place confessions. So to my family, remember when our front yard looked like someone applied the scorched earth tactic to it? Well that was me playing with ants, and a magnifying glass. Note to kids, don’t try to burn an ant with a lens while its on dry tinder. - I’m Greek don’t ya know – Not in blood, but in spirit at least. Delta Tau Delta was my fraternity of choice, mainly because I wanted to be around the friend’s I made. While I won’t become as famous as Drew Carey (another Delt member), hopefully I’ll atleast be known around the blogosphere.
- Maui born & raised – Yup locally grown, and cultivated this variety of Mitch has been sheltered here on the island of Maui for almost 30 years. The species isn’t know to wander too far away from the island, but has been spotted in some areas of Tokyo or Chicago for brief periods of time.
- Anime Daisuki – I’m not an Otaku, but I do love my animations. Anything from cartoons, but mostly Japanese animations are my favorite. Current items being watched are Bleach, Clannad, Naruto, Bamboo Blade, and Dragonaut. One can never grow too old for anime.
- It’s a boy! – Yup I’m a father of a very overly energetic, rascally little five year old. He’s also very smart. How do I know this? The son-of-a-Mitch managed to bring a wheelbarrow full of dirt into the house every day, with no wheelbarrow or shovel. Just the with the undersides of his small four inch feet. I have yet to figure this one out.
Now the hard part who to tag with this meme. I did say that I was also going to basically make this my November’s linkages. Here’s some people I’ve met recently over on Blogcatalog thats been fun to chat with in the forums, and also some people kind enough to send me traffic so here is my thank you. =)
Lex @ Parisukat
Alan @ The Thin Red Line
Megha @ Life in Black and White
JoanJoyce @ JoanJoyce
Joanne @ The Laid Back Buddhist – Good Luck on the 2007 weblog awards btw
Ritu @ Work n Play
Andy @ Andy Beard – That Greasemonkey solution for trackbacks is definitely easier to use than Haloscan. Thanks for the tip!
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World of Warcraft Gold Tip for The Poor Leatherworker
So you wanna be a leatherworker in World of Warcraft? This isn’t the guide for you then, the leatherworker power-leveling guide is located here along with all the other professions. This quick tip is for those poor leatherworkers who finally got the nice shiny Epic leather gear. Now the only problem is once you made your gear what else can I do with the skill? I know, I can sell various armor kits to make money like that expensive Nethercobra Leg Armor! I’m sorry to say it’ll be a slow going process for you unless your running heroics day in and out for those Primal Nethers.
Well this quick tip won’t make you rich fast, but it can put an extra 50-100g a day for a few minutes work.
Here is what you’ll need:
Minimum LW Skill: 325 (yep fund your 300-375 training with this)
About 100g to start off if you have no materials.
Skinning – Not required, but useful
Auctioneer – Not required, but makes things go a lot faster. Check my post on Auctioneer Guide.
First thing first – check for your competition
Go to the Auction House, and search for Knothide Armor Kit and Heavy Knothide Leather. As of Patch 2.3 there is also a Heavy Knothide Armor Kit(LW Skill 350) available as well. Write down the prices of those items, and also check which increments are selling. Are there stacks of 20? Or are there stacks of 1s and 2s. Figure out the unit price of Knothide Armor Kit, and Heavy Knothide leather. (ie: if a stack of heavy knothide leather is 40g each piece is 2g. [40g / 20pc = 2g])
Step two: Next based on this unit price figure out how much you need to buy your materials for to make a profit. For the purpose of this tip we will use Heavy Knothide Leather at 3 gold sell price, and Knothide Armor Kit at 2 gold 50 silver sell price.
Heavy Knothide Leather
Materials: 5 Knothide Leather OR 25 Knothide Leather Scraps
Unit price of Materials for Heavy Knothide Leather:
Knothide Leather: 60 Silver [3g / 5pc] or 12 gold per stack
or
Knothide Leather Scraps: 1 silver 20 copper [3g / 25pc] or 2 gold 40 silver per stack
Knothide Armor Kit
Materials: 4 Knothide Leather OR 20 Knothide Leather Scraps
Unit price of Materials for Knothide Leather Armor:
Knothide Leather: 63 Silver [2.5g / 4pc]or 12.6 gold per stack
or
Knothide Leather Scraps: 1 silver 25 copper [2.5g / 20pc]or 2 gold 50 silver per stack
These listed prices are your unit costs. You want to get your cost down to around 1/2 to 3/4 this to make a worthwhile profit. So your target prices are 30 silver [6 gold per stack] for Knothide Leather, and 60 copper [1gold 20 silver] per Knothide Leather Scrap
Step Three: Check the Auction house for materials at this amount.
Due to each server having its own economy, you will have to adjust according based on the above formulas.
If there are materials (knothide leather or knothide leather scraps) with a buyout with the target prices listed above. Buy those materials outright. On my server Leather Scraps can be found for less than 1g a stack(knothide leather for around 7g), and I can sell it for 3g making me 2 gold per piece. If material costs are high, but there is no finished products (Heavy Knothide Leather/Knothide Armor Kits) you might be able to start making a little extra money. Just figure the cost of the finished product, and sell for a profit.
Step Four: Put your goods on the Auction House
Now that you bought your materials start making those armor kits, and heavy leathers. Then put them up on the auction house in increments of 1 or 2. I would maybe start with 5 stacks of 2 heavy knothide leather to feel where the demand is. Then check back the next day to see if it all sold or not. Adjust this accordingly so that you don’t lose your deposit if an item doesn’t sell. Do the same for your knothide armor kits. Put them up in increments of 1 or 2. I usually sell out if I place 10 auctions of 1 pc, but it never sells when I put up 1 stack of 10. Remember this!
Step Five: Restock your materials
Now you’ve started to sell some goods, but don’t stop buying materials. Your next goal is to buy out all the materials at below your unit price. Also place bids on the other items if the bid price is lower than your unit price. This does two things for you:
1. You have a ready supply of product to sell if the market suddenly dries out.
2. By buying out everything cheaper than your material unit price you are setting the price in the market for your goods. If someone tries to undercut you they will have to do so at a loss or at the expense of time farming their own goods. Neither is something most people will do for an extended period of time.
Notes:
I say look for scraps for one main reason. Skinners who never took leatherworking.
They cannot convert their scraps into regular leather, so they end up with bags filled of scraps to list on the auction house. Use this to your advantage. Buy the scraps, and convert it into these two goods, and rake in the money.
Why do these two items make more money than selling an expensive armor kit like Nethercobra leg armor?
Answer #1: Volume – You can sell 20-30 pieces of heavy knothide leather in the auction house overnight, but will probably only sell 1 Nethercobra Amor kit a day IF you have the nether for it.
Answer #2: Quest – People wanting to complete the quest chain Quenching the Blade need 4 heavy knothide leather.
Answer #3: Other Trade Skills – Both Tailoring and Engineering require Knothide Leather, and Heavy Knothide Leather for some of their goods. However since they only use 2-4 pieces at a time the big stacks aren’t very profitable for them. If your the nice leatherworker that puts up stacks of 1s and 2s of Heavy Knothide Leather these people will love you.
This tip is part of a series of tips I will share on my site so stop by every now, and then. Also check the Auction House Day tip while you’re here.
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