I was thinking the SAME thing, people salty as hell because they waited for it to go to BMAH thinking they would beat the system and get a deal. 5mil isn't hard to make, i play only a few hours a day on most days and maybe 5-6 hours on my 2 days off and managed buying for of this this xpac for myself wife and kids. Now I had over 15 mil coming into BFA from selling raids ect from pervious xpacs but still, i made the last 5 mill 100% from the AH and profession's etc. as I no longer raid. Blizzard isn't stupid, they saw too many people waiting and bragging on public forums how the ones buying it at 5 mil are suckers and that they would wait till BMAH to get it cheaper. Jokes on them.
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it was posted on MMO-Champion front page NUMEROUS time's , we can see from your post count you are a busy bee here and have been posting near daily for months so its safe to say that you also looked at the front page. It was also on the launcher numerous times. Another poster quoted you the post blizz made when they said it would be gone in prepatch, it goes like this I am pretty sure we all knew as far back as January that prepatch would be it, Prepatch is ALWAYS the FIRST patch of the Xpac... 8.3 became 9.0. That was SL regardless of if anyone licked it or not just 98% of the content was still gated.
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Just like the real dinosaurs that once walked our own earth, the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur’s days in Azeroth are numbered. Once the Shadowlands pre-patch goes live, the shady vendors Talutu and Tricky Nick will cease selling it, and the accompanying Feat of Strength Conspicuous Consumption will no longer be obtainable. The Mighty Caravan Brutosaur will then trek from its Battle for Azeroth vendors to the Black Market Auction House where it can show up occasionally as a purchasable mount for players to bid on. The accompanying Feat of Strength Conspicuous Consumption will be earned upon purchase.
To earn: Purchase for 5,000,000 gold from Talutu in Grand Bazaar, Dazar’alor (Horde) or Tricky Nick in Hook Point, Boralus (Alliance)."
You claim you never saw this, yet after some digging i found this post from you in February ... where you quote nearly word for word almost what blizzard says from the post you claimed to not see.