How to be an Enchant Buying NubFollow

Take off the tinfoil hat. A tailor isn't going to tie up 1000g in mats (assuming they even HAVE 1000g, I sure as hell never did as a tailor), just to make a stupid 5g tip from a customer.

Its the exact same as enchanting, you have to GIVE the enchanter your mats before the enchant gets done. If a tailor tried to rob you of mats, all trades are logged, you'd put in a ticket and have your items back in a day, while the other person gets warned/suspended/banned.

Edited, Aug 8th 2007 8:48pm by mikelolol

I don't keep any mats on me at all, so any enchants I do MUST be with customer-supplied mats. All my mats are on the AH. I make my profit whether I perform the enchant, or whether a person he trusts buys them. I even make my profit if the buyer has them ripped off by a third party. Trust doesn't really enter into my enchanting world (except that lack of trust in me expressed in chat will **** me off and get a person /ignored).

Why would the deal be reversed if you got your robe off the tailor? :)

On a more serious note, Mike is clearly stating that he is not in this to level his enchanting by selling enchants. In fact, he claims that he makes all the money he needs selling mats on the auction house. Why should any of you guys trust the other? The buyer risks being ripped off if he hands over the mats- Likewise, if the crafter buys the mats he risks the customer changing his mind or being out of gold.

Only difference is that if you sell all your mats instead of enchant with them is that you don't care if you don't make any enchanting business. Ergo it's only a potential risk with no gains for him to use his own mats for enchanting.

As for my self, my enchanting is just around 240, so I haven't sold an enchant yet. I don't even think I could sell any of the few I know. I'm still a bit away from fiery and crusader, so for now I'm quite content with staying at 240 as I don't see any prospects of making money in a long time. Why would I start intruding on an overfilled market where the sellers are treated like sh** for not supplying mats at half price or less?

I made a small calculation of the costs involved in levelling the different crafting skills, and the figures are very different I must say. Ranging between 600G and 6000G. Of course server economy comes into play here as well. So I really understand enchanters (6000G) need to be a bit careful. If you are to reduce this number significantly, you can't sell chants with a 50% loss even if it means skilling up. Worse even if it does not give you a skill point.

I assume also that if you want to be a successful crafter, the money is in the high level products, level 350 - 375? The market of players buying them will be a limited one. And if you get a word for not fulfilling your end of the bargain, you wouldn't get any business, am I right? So cheating someone out of mats would not be good for business in the long run anyway.

I know my meaning might not carry too much weight with all of you, as I have no level 70 character or 375 crafters. I still think too many pass judgement on others thoughts without putting themself in their position. We all try to make the most/best/safest out of the marvellous system that is given us by Blizzard.

/sigh

Maybe I should stay blizzfully ignorant at level 66 and never start raiding or epic crafting.

I guess you could run into rotten eggs in World of Warcraft just as much as in real life. I just hope I don't run into your ignore list members. I have only ignored people for being irritating in ways of constantly duel requesting and griefing (yes same fraction griefing - by banishing my targets repeatedly)

Grats, most dont, and on my server nethers are 100g max, 75g average. I sure as heck wouldnt tie up 1000g because somebody is paranoid. I've NEVER heard of anyone getting scammed, I play on a medium/high pop server, it just doesnt happen.

No offense, but I really dont believe your stories of people getting robbed and GM's doing nothing. I just dont buy it. Unless they didnt bother to report (why??), the GM's would at the very least, go into the trade log, and get the items back.

Edited, Aug 9th 2007 3:06pm by mikelolol