Disenchanting experiment

I have used the "buy green from AH, disenchant, sell dust on AH" several
times. I _think_ I have made good money, but never really tested that
hypothesis before. I decided to do a pair of measured experiments to
see if that was true, and thought others might be interested in the
results.

Test is incomplete so far. I will report back as it proceeds. I'd also
be interested if others wanted to do a similar experiment on other
servers, and report what they find.

Setup: I have auctioneer and enchantrix addons. I started by doing an
auctioneer scan, so it would have the latest data. Have been running it
periodically on both servers for months, so it has a pretty good idea of
what dust sells for.

I decided to use the following algorithm for all green items in the AH.
Some of this was just to keep down the time required.

- I scanned for levels 1 to 30
- I bought outright anything under 10s buyout
- I bid on everything else with bid under 20s
- I checked enchantrix for all items bid 20-30s, and bid when minimum
result was 40s or higher
- I more-or-less randomly checked items with bid over 30s and placed bid
if enchantrix said result was at least 20s over bid price

I did this on two servers. The results of the buying spree:

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Blades Edge:
- Bought 70 items
- Bid on 386 items
- Spent 62g

Roughly 100 of those bids had been outbid when I went to bed at 2AM.
The server went down an hour later and is offline for 24 hours. Thus, I
expect I will have 250+ items tomorrow to disenchant.

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Drenden:
- Bought 30 items
- Bid on 173 items
- Spent 37g

Only one had been outbid when I logged off. I will find out tomorrow
how many items I actually get.

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I will report tomorrow on what stacks of items I get from this stash,
and what Auctioneer tells me to sell them for. Then the following days,
I will report on what cash is actually received and what has to be
reposted for sale.

I am anxious to see what the bottom line is on both of these. Am I
really making as much gold as I think, or is it just an illusion? We
will all see together. :-)

btw, each server buying session took roughly half an hour. I'm guessing
the same for disenchanting and placing back for sale, so roughly an hour
to make xxxx gold.

--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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