yosh*thegreatestmageever wrote:
if you dont like the profession, and are annoyed by tips customers offer then re roll another profession
Oh, don't get me wrong. I love the profession. I make about 1.5 to 2K gold a week from it, so what's not to love? My enchanter has financed multiple epic fliers with no problems. I just don't sell enchants to make my gold. Instead, I sell mats to the dweebs who will find a sucker enchanter and ***** him out of a decent tip. In other words, I make my gold from people like you. You buy my mats (from which I make a
VERY hefty profit), and tip the enchanter 2G. I make 250G (on a 500G mat buy), and the other enchanter gets 2G (when he should have gotten 50). You have the money for the mats, but act as if a piddling 50G is going to break you...
Edited, Jun 21st 2008 12:55am by ohmikeghod A few more thoughts on the subject:
If mats on the AH sell for 500G, a legitimate Enchanter will advertise:
/2 Selling [Enchant <location-spell>] for 550G - my mats. Tips gratefully accepted. You are the type of person who will
/w enchanter UR 2 XpenSIVE! I CN BI IT 4 200 pun is intentional
/w you Well, if you can you're welcome to do so /2 WTB [Enchant <location-spell>] 200G UR MATS will tip ...and you find someone who farmed his mats from drops who figures that 200G is better than nothing so he enchants your item for 200G plus a 20G tip.
So here's what happens:
If you buy from the advertiser and tip your way, I make nothing, he makes 355G (more if he farmed from drops - less if he bought some mats at the AH), you pay 605G (550G + 55G tip)
If you buy the mats and tip properly, I make 250G, enchanter makes 50G, you pay 550G
If you buy the mats and tip your way, I make 250G, enchanter makes 2G, you pay 502G
If you shop around and get an enchanter to sell his mats to you at a discount, I make nothing, enchanter loses 280G (difference between what he could have sold the mats for at the AH and what you paid, including the tip), and you pay 220G
Edited, Jun 21st 2008 7:23am by ohmikeghod