Most people know by now what happens in the new patch (3.3.3). The most important changes are the new auctionhouse interface / options and the changes to Frozen orbs.
They can now be used as currency for eternals, frost lotusses and crusader/runed orbs.
Most moneymakers rushed to the frozen orbs market and bought everything in stock below 10g ~ (estimate).
I did the same thing ofcourse, buying up everything that came on the market. The patchnotes were pretty new and Im sure 95% of the people online at that point hadnt read them or heared about them yet, so I chose to try something.
I wanted to buy everything, relist it when the patch hit and make a profit. However if I bought everything on the AH the prices would automaticly inflate a little, making me less gold if I kept doing that.
I decided to gamble and buy 90% of the markets stock. Leaving a couple of the orbs there to not inflate the price, while I waited for more orbs to hit the AH. This worked pretty good, 24 more orbs of the unknowing were quickly bought by me. Then I made a mistake that cost me any more ez profit. I asked for stacks of frozen orbs in tradechat. This itself wasnt so bad, but someone replied in tradechat what the hell I needed all those orbs for. After that some people started the discussion about the new patch and how it would inflate the price alot. Damn, that sucked, now everyone knew. Quickly bought what was left and went on my daily heroic. When I came back about 30min later I checked the AH again for orbs.
50 orbs total, buyout on the cheapest was 29g... craaaap
Got too greedy and wasnt thinking. This was something I could have seen comming had I just thought about it for 2 more seconds.
I did manage to sell my stack of lotusses tho, for 110% value so that was pretty satisfying.
I really hope the new patch doesnt kill auctioneer or any of its functions. The snatchtool I love and I wouldnt leave home without my beancounter or appraiser. Guess we will just have to see how it turns out...
*fingerscrossed*
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