For the love of God can you tell me why you pay so much for a Spectral Tiger?

[yetgdhfgh]

I blew 250k for mine

No regrets seeing how in a month i can get that gold back doing garry gold missions

[ComputerNerd]

Hatespark is the most expensive pet on the AH these days, as there are limited quantities. Same applies to Spectral Tiger.

You could have the ugliest mount ever made in the game, but have only one unique per server, allow it to be sellable on the AH, and it would still garner in 500,000 gold or higher. Just like the Ahn'Qiraj scepter mount, except that, of course, is not sellable.

There is one of the TCG drake models, which I cannot recall the name of at present.
It is in effect a standard WOTLK drake with blotches, but due to the rarity commands a high price.
I think it is ugly as hell personally.

[Glaziola]

The rarity mostly. But I bought mine duped for 50k and 80k.

Lmao I bought the tcg rocket for 50k back then xD

Wish someone would start duping these again.

[Gadzooks]

Don't mean to offend you (mount collectors & enthusiasts) but why are you willing to pay such a high amount of kinah for that particular mount?

Might as well ask why people pay thousands of dollars for a baseball card, or a signed picture, or anything else of that nature. Me, I don't collect anything, never seen the point of autographs, or paying for a game ball, but to each their own. Has no effect on me, I don't care. If a mount is worth that much to them, for bragging rights or because it makes the game more fun for them - go for it.

[Glaziola]

There is one of the TCG drake models, which I cannot recall the name of at present.
It is in effect a standard WOTLK drake with blotches, but due to the rarity commands a high price.
I think it is ugly as hell personally.

Mottled drake?

[Thelxi]

300k is really not that much. If I saw one up for 300k on my AH I would buy it in a heartbeat even though I don't really like it.

[Crimson770]

Heh I actually played the card game way back in 2005 when it started(part of the reason was for the loot cards) me and my girlfriend at the time (now wife) agreed to only buy up to 5 boxes trying to get the mount. I pulled every other loot card in that set in every box and I shit you not the last pack of the last box had it. I walked away not wanting to see what was in the last pack too since I was kinda defeated at this point but low and behold there it was......months or so later when the Chicken came out El Polo Grande I said what the hell and bought a few packs and pulled it in my first pack....never saw another loot card again after that one though =/

[Arcanimus]

Cost me 200k in WotLK. No regrets.

[reCAPTCHA]

They look pretty

[Treno]

As someone who's put out over 1.2 million on mounts this expansion, I can say it's definitely a supply and demand thing. Even duped, they still don't show up constantly in large amounts on every server. What surprises me is the White Riding Camel and Swift Shorestrider are arguably as rare or even more rare than the tiger, but they often go for very cheap and don't seem to have been duped much, if at all.

[huth]

If Blizzard put mount versions of the Pandaria Celestials, that Xuen mount would force the people selling the spectral tigers to put them at a much lower price. Especially if the Xuen mount could have been solo farmed later on down the line.

No, it wouldn't, because the spectral mount would still be as rare. It's about being rare and unique, not good looking.

[Jack Hatchet]

I'm surprised no one used the obvious comparison to sports cars. Think about it like a sports car. Almost anyone would say that they would love a hundred thousand+ sports car, and rarely do you ever see someone go "why do people pay 500,000 for a sports car, when you can get a 10,000 car that does the same thing.

Sometimes it's a class thing. When you see someone in a 500,000 sports car you assume they're wealthy, and you justify the purchase for them, because you assumed they can afford it easily.

But when you see another player with a spectral tiger, you somehow see it through the eyes of a poor person, or someone of equal class to you. When you're poor, spending a lot on a spectral tiger is a big deal, and even confusing at times. But you need to remember that most people who spend 500 dollars (real money) on a spectral tiger are also the kind of people who are not poor in real life. For a lot of people who spend 500 dollars on a spectral tiger it is because they have the money to spare or waste. A spectral tiger is like a sports car, but for World of Warcraft.

I have pants that cost more than that mount, but you can buy a full outfit from Wal-Mart for 10 bucks. So I don't see why people are confused when it comes to a spectral tiger, but can perfectly understand the exact same dynamic when it comes to clothing, luxury, sports cars, or going out to eat.

[Crenz]

I got mine for around 550k at Cata I believe, and no regrets. Great mount

As to why I paid that much? Simply cause I have nothing else to spend gold on.

[Adoxe]

Cus it's rare and very soon unobtainable aswell as the cards stopped being printed out, in a few years from now it's gonna be gone.

[Thetruth1400]

Why not ? It's not like gold holds a lot of value in this game.

Except gold does now thanks to the tokens. 250K gold now is about $250 or roughly a year of game time bought with tokens or 16 months if you bought the time yourself.

I saw one of these mounts go for 350K not too long ago, that's over $300 worth of token game time all for a mount that most people won't even ride exclusively.

I got mine for around 550k at Cata I believe, and no regrets. Great mount

As to why I paid that much? Simply cause I have nothing else to spend gold on.

Yeah, back then gold was fairly pointless. Now that 550K could get you almost two years of game time.

[starkey]

Got the rooster for 90k like 2 weeks ago dunno if the guy made a mistake listing it that low same with death charger it was listed at 25k i snapped that up straight away, i payed 350k for swift spectral.

[The Glitch]

I saw this mount waaaay back when I started playing WoW, and loved it, as I fell in love with all saber mounts. I wanted it since then, and when it eventually turned up on my server around the end of WOTLK, I spent all my gold on it, 300k-350k gold. While you may not think it is worth it, some people do, myself being one of them! only 3 mounts in game that I ever really wanted, spectral Tiger, Ashes of Al'ar, and Big Blizzard Bear, and I own all 3. Took some time, and they may not be everyones cuppa tea, but I play the game for me, not what everyone else wants/does.

[endersblade]

I paid $500 for the card back when they came out, and two weeks later, my account got banned in bot banwave lol. Oh well.

[Socialhealer]

got it for 500k early cata, was really rare, then late cata, every tcg mount got duped about 10k times, no tcg mounts are rare anymore =/ same with tcg pets in mop, soul traders and spectral tiger cubs like 200k each, suddenly everyone on the server has 1 and they're only 10k lol.

still people deny duping exists, well i guess there are holocaust deniers lol(yes i am saying dupe deniers are as bad!)

[MakeMeLaugh]

Gold is for pets and mounts. What else would you buy with it?