[Zekta] whispers: What had those Gnomes and Goblins planning all along?

Jul 30 2009

The Reason of making money in AH Trading is difficult

Zekta Chan
Zekta Chan

For anyone do not know Seth Godin, He’s a great marketer of our age.
One of the Author and Blogger I constantly followed.

A current post he posted is about the reason riding a unicycle is difficult.

The reason riding a unicycle is difficult … is because it’s sudden.

Learning things that are binary like this is quite difficult. They are difficult to market because people don’t like to fail. They’re difficult to master because people don’t like to fall. “You don’t get it, but you will,” is a hard sell.

I am sure this also apply to every AH-Trader wannabe.

Trading is a habit, a sense of market, once you got that, Just like a Hunter learn the skill of Track Humanoids at level 10, It’ll show up in your minimap with red dots.

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Jul 27 2009

Monday Report (27th July)

Zekta Chan
Zekta Chan
Weekly Summary

Thoughts and Blogs

I don’t want to turn this into a rant post, but I guess some may interested why I didn’t update for 2 weeks.

I was having some Real life problem these weeks, and my girlfriend was out of town in the moment, so I am having a bad time on comforting myself. (Though I never able to express my gratitude enough to her)

Don’t want to have my negative energy spread thru the blog (I suspect my warlock alt is responsible for this), I decided to stop writing altogether.

I guess I’ll get some old draft polished and publish them right away.

Focus, must stay positive :)

Funny Thing of The Week (At least I found sth funny this week :) )

Diamond Ring and Its Box

Diamond Ring and Its Box

The Guy who charge for the box of a diamond ring

I keep buying Herbs for milling, I mill all my Ink of the sea myself, and always reserving a 300-400 stock, in case I am busy.

So I would LFB in trade, whenever I am in city, and have people COD them to me. I paid them right away and forward the herbs to my bank alt (Of course I only mill them when leisure).

So, here comes this special farmer, the Herbs is sold on 10g per stack, and for every stack he mailed me, he charge an extra 30 copper for it.

Cute, isn’t him?

I mean, come on, it’s a freaking 0.03% (33333:1) ratio…

Or I can manifest this in a RL example.

At a Tiffany Retail

Shopkeeper : “Sir, here is the ring you purchased, The price is 33000 USD, and we charge an extra 1 dollar for the box holding it,
so it’s 33001 dollar in total, thank you.”

He (and the staff at Tiffany) had the right to charge for the mail cost (and the box), but is it really matters?
Consider the time he needed to type in the mail box for the 30 copper each time he sell, how much time he spent to earn 1g for charging the 30 copper? (Compare that to the time he needs to kill a random mob at ice-crown then)

What was he thinking?

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Jul 20 2009

Monday Report (July 20)

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Zekta Chan
Weekly Summary

Thoughts and Blogs

The summer debuff strike here as well…

But as BRK Daniel put it

But for the time being, I’m going to try not to be boring. Instead of being boring, I’m just going to shut the heck up.

I am convinced that I rather had some good content than some frequent updated cr@p.

Will update time to time for another article crafted. Until Next time

P.s Again, Thanks for Zupa for editing my posts :)

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