minimum 12,500 gold for engineer to buy the goods, and the rest can be farmed easily. I have the mats and enough gold but no one in my guild has a 450 engineer and my engineer alt is only level 68 and will not be able to get exalted anytime soon, or getting from 375 to 450 engineering skill as well.
So if I get the 12,500 gold and mats, what would be the suggested tip for engineer to make the mount? I'm thinking 500g.
Someone tried to get one made and was offering 5g tip (plus only 10kg total for all the mats) and got laughed out. That person hasn't been on for 2 weeks now. It's hard to tell if he got laughed out for not offering enough to cover the vendor only mats (let alone the rest that can add another 3-4kg) or the 5g tip. Either way he was a first rate noob or a bad scammer.