Westus, Diablo 3 Auctioneer

I received this email and promptly sent him a bunch of forum time. If anyone else has success stories please share and I will post to the blog plus give you time to say thank you!

 

"Hello Markco! My name is [Censored], although you are probably more familiar with my handle, Westus. I was lucky enough to be chosen by Darkmotion a few months ago to be the winner of a free copy of your gold guide, and the forum time accompanying this. I spent a lot of time with your guide and using the forums, and I gleaned quite a lot of information that has really helped me to hone my skills as an auctioneer. Long ago I played WoW and was a long time reader of your JMTC blog, where I learned a lot of my buying/flipping and buy low, sell normal strategies. With your help, time, patience and a bit of luck, I hit the old WoW gold cap which was a major achievement for me. 

I started playing Diablo 3 at launch and had moderate success with the AH. I continuously read your D3 blog but never felt the need or drive to purchase your guide. I felt that what I knew on my own and learned for free was good enough. I was content and complacent with my mediocrity. Skipping forward a few months, I won Darkmotion's contest and was allowed access to your guide and forums where I found a staggering wealth of information regarding certain items and stat combinations that I had never conceived. I used this information to help bolster my moderate knowledge of the Diablo 3 AH which, let's be honest, is quite a beast. At one point in time I thought the AH to be expansive and confusing, but after spending time going over all aspects of your guide, practicing the techniques and using the markets that you and others mentioned, I went from having a GED in the AH to receiving my master's. Starting with 50m and struggling to make money, I put in the effort and have achieved success. l now have a super geared character, 1.5b in the bank, almost 300 dollars in my paypal, and a slew of expensive items waiting to sell on the RMAH. I have attached some pictures, because the proof is in the photo.

Your guide and the forums have been truly invaluable to my growth and continual learning as an auctioneer, and since I can now recognize their true worth (thanks to Darkmotion's kindness) I would really like to renew my forum time. However, you know us auctioneers - always looking for a deal; I can't help but notice that right now a year's subscription to the forums isn't discounted as it sometimes is. Instead of waiting an indefinite amount of time for you to discount it again so that I can once again join the community, I decided instead to send you this email asking you directly if I could please purchase a year's forum time at it's discounted (half price) cost. I know that you just recently ended a sale of this magnitude but I was on vacation during this time and couldn't participate and renew as I wished. Allowing me to do this would mean quite a lot to me and would help me to further my edification of the D3 AH... To be honest, you definitely deserve the full price for how much you have helped me over the years... Too bad I am a goblin at heart haha. Let me know what you think, and thank you very much once again for all that you have taught me, as I have been an eager student. Thanks for reading, hope to hear from you soon.

-Westus"

 

I gave Westus the year for free. Thanks so much for the email of your story and your screenshots. It means a lot :)

Do You Pick Up Flawless Square Gems?

You should pick up flawless square gems. They sell near instantly during prime time on your server, and you can effectively store up to 10,000-30,000 gold x 100 per slot. That's a lot of cash you might be throwing away if you don't pick up flawless square gems. Since gems can be created by combining 3 of a lower tier plus jewelcrafting tomes/pages, the lesser quality square gems are also quite valuable (considering that they take up a super small amount of space).

I also pick up tomes, pages, essences, etc because they sell instantly and take up one square in your inventory. Once you get to a full stack, they are worth far more than most random items you pick up and identify. To top it all off, those random items are probably two slots as well.

Hopefully you aren't passing up on these items because individually they aren't worth very much. It's the same as not running over and grabbing the gold drops from a hoard of mobs.

Farming Billions of Gold in Diablo 3

I have made over one billion gold per day since the latest patch 1.0.8. We use some tricks to turn our dollars back into gold on the forums and gold guide, but even without them, you should be making several hundred million gold. I expect this weekend to be just another continuation of the great streak I've been having in Diablo 3.

Why are items selling more often? Well, gold actually makes sense to buy at the moment, and is not stuck at the minimum price for once! Now you can buy 10 million gold at a time, which goes for around 30 cents. Since that's 5 cents above the minimum, then gold truly has value right now and people are willing to buy/sell at that price! (we on the forum aren't, but that's a story for another day).

Another reason for the increased sales is a throng of players coming back to the game. I believe that many of them are happy with the increased magic/gold find changes for grouping together. They could also be excited about the PvP, which many returning players probably haven't seen yet. Just look at your friends list and see the large number of people showing up for a change!

I'm working tirelessly to discover new markets and share them with guide/forum members. Please consider joining at the current 50% discounted price. It's my way of saying thank you to anyone who waited for me to update the guide to patch 1.0.8. The price will go back up next week.

Place Your Bids

Tomorrow Diablo 3 will be going down for maintenance. For whatever reason, I feel like it could be down for a good bit. Call it intuition.

Either way, get your bids in early tomorrow morning or tonight, and if maintenance runs long you'll probably win quite a few.

Don't forget to bid on the RMAH as well! You'd be shocked how many $1.25 items can be turned into $7-$10 (just like under-priced gold auctions can be flipped).

Patch 1.0.8 Gold Guide Video

Here's the video I just released for the gold guide. It's 50% off, for both the guide and forum time, while I work to make patch 1.0.8 updates.