I did the most stupid thing...

[MrLachyG]

I alread did a thing like that IRL....

NFT's?

/10cha

[Darknessvamp]

I had something similar happen to me when I was buying some ring enchants from the AH a few months ago, I confirmed one was selected and that I had chosen to buy one but as I clicked purchase it updated to 30 and I suddenly had 30 enchants in my mailbox with a chunk of gold missing. Thankfully I still had quite a bit of gold left (heck I've never been above 400k) but I still couldn't tell if I did something wrong or if it was a bug so now I wait like five minutes before confirming an AH purchase. Sorry to hear you lost 700k on grey items tho.

[casecase89]

Yesterday, I decided to try to get the "Waist of Time" belt. It was a secret, and it seemed like something fun to do. I read on Wowhead that you needed some items, and all were purchasable from the AH.

So that is what I did, I started buying, one of the items was the "Punctured Pelt". It had a cost of 990 on the AH. Seemed pricey to me but hey, it was worth it... so I bought it. In a flash before my eyes I saw like a weird big number but before I could register what was happening my finger already clicked "yes".

To my horror I found out I bought not one, but close to 600 of these grey Punctured Pelts at 990 gold EACH. I had around 700.000 gold, that was after 20 years of playing (I was never good at making gold), and now suddenly I have less than 100.000

After the heart attack, I made a ticket but read online that AH transactions will not be refunded and are final.... I have not logged in since, I just can't bring myself to play anymore. Whoever is out there and got 600.000 gold for grey vendor items, well played ...

I know this won't change anything, but I'm a sad panda and somehow wanted to share. Maybe it saves someone else down the road..

oh ouch my friend. since the warbank has come out, I do not keep more than 100k on a character at any time. I had done it with dust in DF before. I clicked instead of typing the number in. I ate a bit of a loss. I started keeping most of the money on a single banking character. But with the warbank, I just deposit any amount i get over 100k and I'll keep around 30k on the toon and restart. This has kept me my losses to a max of 100k whenever i make a mistake on the AH. It only happened once, but now I have a failsafe built in. I do not buy things outside of materials often, if i do, I withdraw what i need or if its really expensive, buy it on my banker/AH character, who I do keep several 100k in case i decide to resub with gold, but aside from that, all of my crafters have very little gold on them.

Don't quit over gold. Its actually not very hard to make it. You do have a hurdle in your way with not having much capital anymore, but you can still do it. I would check to woweconomy subreddit. You can ask questions there and people are generally helpful and share advice on making gold. I use it.

I would suggest investing into a profession, something like blacksmithing, and spend some of your remaining gold on that. It will look like you are losing gold. But once you can craft 3-4 weapons, you can start to make your money back. 1.5 months ago, I leveled 6 of the crafting professions, BC/JC/Tailor/Scribe/LW. Took around 100k per profession. About 3 weeks into it, I was able to make gold back. I now make anywhere from 30k-150k AFKing in town listening to youtube videos. Its late in the season so its gold making time for me as people are making lots of alts and crafting lots of gear.

If you don't want to invest much money, drop one of your professions ( if its not making gold, its useless ) and pick up skinning. There are lots of 2x4 groups running Bees and wolves. Googling a talent spec for it that will get you the most items, there are generally guides out there. Idk how much money it makes per hour, but I did cloth at the start of the expansion and made several million. This could be a way for you to pump up your capital a bit and then you can start working on professions.

I have always been a gold maker. I didn't get good at it until cata. But since, I have been able to pull in millions through various methods. I don't suggest playing the AH itself, like with flips, as it requires too much capital and there is risk involved and it requires a bit more knowledge than what i suggest. There is 1 safe avenue but it isn't 100% going to always work every day. That are 408 greens. Sometimes you can find them on the AH for 100-500g. They will sell for 3-30k, depending on the piece. 408 ilvl items are lvl 70, which are needed for people who spam dungeons up to 70 to be able to queue for TWW dungeons. I did this for months and pulled in millions as well off this. I still have a stock of over 100 pieces ranging from 70-73, all selling for 10-50x what i paid for them. Sometimes you can find the pieces, sometimes you cant. Check often and buy them when you can and relist for higher. When they sell, its a good return on what you spent. One of the best ones actually I've ever found as far as how much you have to spend to make x amount of gold back.

*Edit*
Don't overlook old world items. For a long time I made most of my money selling prior expansion materials as they are generally more expensive than current and not many people farm them. Things like saronite and titanium in wintergrasp require no startup cost. They sell well and its decent money with very little competition. Even having to farm cobalt to level it up, that is a decent little bit too.

None of this is going to make you rich if you don't go really hard or invest a lot of gold/time into crafting either everything, or bulk production of something, or farming like a madman.

TLDR: Don't quit over gold. I promise you, you can make that back within a few months with barely anything to your name, and thats not going hard at it either. Watch gold guides and go to woweconomy subreddit and ask questions there.

[Tezzeret1993]

Don't overlook old world items. For a long time I made most of my money selling prior expansion materials as they are generally more expensive than current and not many people farm them. Things like saronite and titanium in wintergrasp require no startup cost. They sell well and its decent money with very little competition. Even having to farm cobalt to level it up, that is a decent little bit too.

Funny enough (for two non-rare Ores from the same expansion), Cobalt is way more costly then Saronite, like double if you play on EU, probably 'cause the best routes for Titanium just literally exclude Cobalt veins (for obvious reasons).

[Powerogue]

Absolute worst case scenario you could buy a single WoW token and get back more than enough gold to manage. See it less like the end of the world and more like you dropped $40 out of your wallet and it fell in a sewer grate.