Why are people stupid about crafting costs?Follow

Today someone wanted a Cobrascale Hood and was asking me for cost with and without mats.

Me: "With mats I'll make it for 250g for the nether. Without mats it would depend on actual gathering time, but it won't be for less than 1000g."
Them: "Nvm, that's obscene profit for you if I don't give mats. Goodbye."

The thing takes 15 primal air and 10 cobra scales! That's 700g right there! Add in nether price and the actual time I expend getting the stuff, and 1000g's a bargain! Just because it's crafted doesn't mean you get it for cheap.

Needed to gripe.

I'm personally not out to make money with my profession; as a tailor, the only pattern of interest I have at the moment is for the Spellstrike hood; 10 spellcloth (which AH for 60g) would take me 12 days to come up with, and the 5 primal mights are 100 each on my server. One person who talked to me flipped out when I said how long it took to make that amount of cloth, not to mention the 1100g price tag on those mats, and the fact that I do not do heroic dungeons regularly. I figure when I do start doing heroics, every caster in my guild will come before the general public, and most of them will be providing their own cloth and mights.

yeah, people are stupid. i feel your pain sel.

Yeah, but nobody knows that when you just give them a pricetag.

The best thing to do is tell them the mats needed, and that they should go check it up on the AH. They'll come to appreciate crafters a little more.

Not sure on the price of a nether, but asking for 1k gold for 700g in mats IS pretty outrageous. I haven't hit that level yet, but making 250-300G for crafting one item sure seems like alot.

He gave them two pricetags: One with mats, and one without. One should jump to the conclusion that the cost of mats would be around the difference of the two prices. Of course, if you are an idiot, I could see how you could think that the extra 700g is in some way 'obscene profit'.

I have seen primal nethers go from 125-175 on my server. I would assume that the rest of the cost would be a combination of a service charge for the actual synth (which would be related to the massive amount of money it likely took to skill up that high) and a charge related to the amount of time the crafter would have to spend farming up those mats. As a mage, I would not be surprised if a tailor would charge a fee based on the fact that if I were to use their mats, a piece of spellstrike gear would take 12 days worth of their cloth. Of course, I am a tailor as well, so I provided my own mats, and all I paid for was the nether, 175g.

According to merriam-webster, a definition of 'gouge':



While offering services for high prices may not be extortion, if the buyer is unaware of the market price, and charges are in unreasonable excess of the cost of the materials, this could easily be considered gouging. You may need to define 'unreasonable excess', but to deny the existence of price gouging would put you on the naive side of a matter of semantics.

Well my gripe is why has the cost for primal mooncloth on emerald dream (alliance) dropped by 40g? You would expect 5g either way.When i put a Primal moonclth bag on AH for 850g (8x primal moonclth=100gx8=800g 4xnetherweb spider silk=7-10gx4=28-40g= 840g)plus all the time and gold i used to get my Tailoring to 375! and another Max Tailor puts the same bag on for 560g!Why do people do this???,and dont say under cutting because this is just as bad as giving it away!

Usual thing they want something for nothing without having to any work.

In many ways Wow is like real life.
If these people were running a business it wouldn't last long. And in real life you do see financial situations which are obvious to you and other people are blind to.
The solution (risky) to this problem is to buy the article for 560g and sell it for 840g.