A post by "Zekta Chan" http://Phase3profit.net

I am a Software Engineer and a Wow player in Hong Kong. I keep on doing many small project of mine to learn more about the world. Currently studying the economy in the World of Warcraft. These are the notes of what I had found and thoughts when I am there. To see more posts click here

Advice – They need it yet they don’t want

Yesterday, when I finished my auctions posting, I saw a 62lv DK spamming /trade “Free Boost in the Stockade”

I could use some _Free_ leveling for my banker for travel from (Druid)

I joined the party, and most of them recognize my bank alts name from the AH (Fame may not be a good thing for us though).

The catch about the boost thing is that the DK want to collect wool and silk for leveling tailoring.
So she decided to do it herself, and she even let us keep on the loot (Blueies and greenies).

I didn’t pick much, since the other alts are so eager to loot all the corpses, and I don’t really need that. (In goblin term, I don’t even want to do the clicking)

I tried to give her some advice (Since I would said it’s pretty time consuming on farming wools there)

  1. She should consider buying cloth on AH, instead of farming that herself. (Consider 2-3 stacks of wool, per run of stockack, and it’s sold 1-2G per stack?)
    - She refused, I suspect she had no idea of what’s opportunity cost
  2. Boost people for payment and buy those cloth is much more effective (If she’s not willing to pay for cloth)
    - She refused too, for a social reason “people boost me before, so I shouldn’t charge others for it”
  3. The price on AH is on 4-5g due to shortage on weekend, so I told her if she ever consider to buy them, she better do it on weekday
  4. She believe the cloth should be sold at 50% price (50s) on what show on my auctioneer average, and said anyone selling higher than that is a evil trader (Bxxxtard etc). I doubt that anyone will sell her except morons.

I was thinking to sell her on 1g (100% market price), for some stock remaining in my mail box, (I would lost 200% if I put that on the market, since they’re 300%+ now).
But I didn’t even suggest that (Since she won’t accept that price anyway).

Finally I offered some tips on where to farm for mageweave. (If you really had to farm, at least find somewhere worth your time)

I can foresee she’ll be farming the instance for hours to get her tailoring up.
While telling her to stop boosting others is against my own interest (Since I can be boosted too), but….

There is not much I could do,
if she just didn’t listen to advice.
But at least she is happy about this (may be).

Sometimes, the reason for people remain poor is themselves.
-Zekta

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4 Responses to “Advice – They need it yet they don’t want”

  • Gevlon Says:
    September 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Incorrect. “ALWAYS, the reason for people remain poor is themselves” is the correct version.

    Otherwise perfect example of the above. He will farm and boost like forever.

    BTW, since only money is “evil” you could suggest him to offer boosts for a stack of cloth. Despite it’s financially the same, it doesn’t feel the same (to the socials).

    • Zekta Chan Says:
      September 7th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

      You see, I still feel little pity for her. (In which I shouldn’t). So I put the sometimes rather than always. But your version may proved to be true.

      I doubted that she’ll take wool as payment as well, since she said, no payment etc….

      But this true that, different things will feel differently for them (There are something twisted in their head).

  • Shy Says:
    September 7th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Sounds to me this person made the choices she/he made well thought out. People do play this game to have fun, not only to make a profit. I’ve farmed my own cloth in there many times, and I have to say it can be quite relaxing to just mash the instance.

    • Zekta Chan Says:
      September 7th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

      I agree that play game is for fun. She can have fun and get the tailor training done at the same time.
      So, may be she takes the extra wool and silk as extra.

      My standing point is on that she wants the wool, but she didn’t bother to trade for it at market price.

      I would suggest that, take some extra care, and she’ll be free of grinding afterward…

      (she did spam trade for the wool afterward, but with her target price is at 50s, I doubt she get any at all. But that’s over the scope of the orignial post though)

      About the profit thing, We all need money from time to time for our desire in wow, so let’s face it, even we don’t aim for profit/gold, we need them.
      One way or another, either we farm/grind or trade for them. Why don’t we make some on the fly of other activities?