About me, the author…

I am Zekta, your host.

In short, I had played Wow for two years, and try to reasoning some interesting phenomenon on Azeroth.

Here’s my personal detail, just in case you really interested.

About you, the reader…

You are a reader of my blog.

For whatever reasons, you bother enough to read this about post.

What can you do…

In case you want to be more involved with us, here is what you can do…

1. Leave me a comment. For any opinion or amendment regarding my post, feel free to use the comment system for each post. I really appreciate commenting. (I still on a record on 1 vs 10 troll ratio)
2. Email me / fill the following form for contacting me…
3. Link me – I am more welcome for anyone would like to link me… here is some code and banner if you really want to introduce me to your fellows. ( Stil woking on this)
4. Guest posting / Co-authoring – I actively looking for blogger who would like to guest post or coauthoring on topics. If you are not quite sure how it takes to building your own blog, you may try to start your journey here as well. The Form

P.s This page is messy at the moment, will have it revised when I had time (or if you like, join my team on editing!)

Personal Info

I am male and 25+ years old, (Many confused that I am female since I have my bank alt’s screenshot). I lived in Hong Kong, and I am not aware of any Hong Kong Wow Blogger just yet (Let me know if you are).

I started to play World of Warcraft around 1-2 years ago and Leveled my toons in the middle of the TBC expansion.

IRL
I am a Software Engineer, focused on web applications. (Those Web 2.0 fluffy stuff)

My main

Wait I don’t actually had a specific main now, my first character is a gnome mage. Which I played around before Wotlk hits (I stopped at T4 because of the expansion). Then I started my Blood Elf Paladin (She was 60 when the 3.0 patch hit) and now on my new huntress. Now I am leveling my shaman with my girlfriend on my 4^th toons. I did consider using my new shaman as my main, seems challenging enough for me, and I like healing much more than dpsing.

Why Blogging

I enjoy reading, and being read.

In order to ease my girl friend’s stress on hearing those weird topics, I came up with the idea that throwing it out to the Ethernet is a good idea.

I didn’t start blogging right away in my wow life. I read lots of articles, and come to the most amazing BRK’s site, then spotted Skrooge’s site, and finally Gevlon’s. And decided I would like one myself as well.

Problems faced on building this blog

I am faced many difficulties on building this, mainly not techno thingy…

Lucky or not, there are 4-5 econ blog started at the same time as mine. Pros: Reader base is large, Cons: Hard to standout as Yet-Another-What-I-Trade blog. I decided to focus on analysis, rather than daily trade record I used to write. (Since I can’t write as funny as Skrooge can anyway  J )

Another one is my English skill. I know my English is not good, and I admit it. (Thanks for all that you are still found this blog worthy on reading despite of sentences lured with grammar errors.)

I really thank everyone who show their support on helping out building this blog. For everyone who linked us, and show their support in comments. Listed but not limited to… BRK (for eye opener for the wow-blogosphere), Larisa, Gevlon, Seth, Cassini, Markco and Zupa for offering editing for my post.

Where to go

Last Saturday, I bought 20 stacks [item]Saronite Bar[/item] for 40g each stack, while the market price was 60g. The price lowered to 42g on Sunday and remained there since then.
While the market reports from US that indicate prices of goods on Northern will drop soon (Since the people will come back and farming for gold), I had a hard time to get rid of them.

I had to consider

1. Accept my lose, to sell the bars at 35-38g
2. or, get hold of the bars to wait for a “possible” raise of them in the future.

I was thinking of 1. for the last minutes before the patch 3.1 .

But then, Comes my Savior

My Companion Saronite Arrow Maker

One of my guild mate ask me for the [item]Saronite Razorheads[/item]. I peek on the auction hall and thought there were no profits at all. 6g for 200 arrows. 6gx5=30g.
I was mumbling that until I crafted the [item]Saronite Arrow Maker[/item] and when I was able to mail him, I notice the line (10 uses) for the first time.
It was 5 uses for [item]Adamantite Arrow Maker[/item] before, so I assume it remains.

Now that’s 50% profit margin, while I had lots of [item]Saronite Bar[/item] stockpiled! I’ll just convert them to arrow maker each day and sold them by 200 a time. I even post a maker for 36g, just to test out the market (Which of course in a much lower profit margin of 20g vs 6g).

And it turn out, no one was buying the makers, but all my arrows sold out. On the day follow, I noticed someone was flooding those arrow maker as well, e.g. 10-15 @ price 35g. However while he wants to undercut me on the maker, he didn’t list an single arrow. And… my arrows are all sold again.

I guess 3.1′s come in bring back a lot of rusher, and that’s why my arrow sold like candy in skrooge’s word (not just common candy, addictive candy). Every arrow maker’s arrow sold will save me another half stack of [item]Saronite Bar[/item] losing. Thanks for supporting the “Saronite Bar Post 3.1 Recovery Fund”.

While a lot of people talks about the [item]Mammoth Cutters[/item] and [item]Saronite Razorheads[/item] (JMTC, Gevlon, Skrooge). I never witness such a ___ thing before(Stupid/Weired/Strange I can’t find the right word).

Thanks for escape route for me

Side Note:
I was lucky this time, but I wonder how I’ll deal with another cut-loss situation next time though

How would you deal with it, when you feel yourself got into trouble?

Change of name

No, Your link is not hijacked
I had change my blog name! previous known as Zekta’s Stuff!

[Start - boring background, skippable]
I was write a main blog, and here was some random thoughts dump..
But recently I found that I have more and more to say about WoW’s Trading here and many support from others.

The Name was Zekta’s Stuff, but it seems too generic and personal. So, I keep thinking about a new name for it.
[End - boring background]

So, I decided to hunt for a new name. While I am doing this, I find a new nice blog over

http://ahtrader.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-direction.html

by Marvco’s Suggestion. After reading his post, I got a sense “That’s also what I need to do too: Focus!”

Keep Focus!

Now, what I am going to do, Gevlon is really cool on the philosophy thinking on raid and market, Skrooge is good at all the fun stuff and encouraging discussion, and I won’t talk about Addon for sure.

What I excited me and get me interested, is the big question, Why?
There are reasons behind everything (Most of the time), and I am eager to find them out. It won’t be 100% of post here, since these topic is somewhat dull and hard to find(But I like it anyway).
I’ll try to pick once a week.

The Name, The Name

Here comes the hard part,

Most the great name had been taken, for instance (Goblin and Gnomish). I decided to use a catch phase of South park.
Phase 3, Profits

What Phase are we now?

What target of mine is to feel the gap on the big question mark, (of course it didn’t start at collect underpants)
Where is phase 1 and phase 2?
Where is Profits?
Why there are Profits?

that’s what I want to answer here.

I hardly can find any pic on gnome’s mage online
(other than what I made for myself)

if Mages are Psycho Fireball spammer
Which race can be more crazy than a gnome?
Anyone?

http://icanhascheezburger.com/
呢個 site 對愛貓一族黎講
絕對一流

If you ask anyone,
do they care about pollution problem?
Most of them will say yes.

Same goes for teenager education,
welfare for elder,
poor children in mountain area,
[insert your concern here]….

Odds are, everyone concern about it,
but if you change the question a little bit…
Do you willing to donate $1 for the course,
they probably also said yes,
but with an excuse not doing it right now

It’s not that we are all cold-hearted,
the issue is there are too many of them,
and we can’t afford to be emotionally…

wrath of god

Well, I didn’t mean it
but we all believe in it…

We’ll never remember what we did out of rage,
we’ve got plenty of reasons for those action,
it’s okay,
because we’ve got all the reason for it is wrath of righteous.

Surprisingly, all others do not have that support,
and never learn to control themselves.

Everyone think the same,
but it’s impossible,
is it?

Having a conversation today with my uncle,
this was one of the wise quote from him…
people tend to talk a lot but refuse to listen…

When Dealing with client about website design,
Everyone suddenly have a untapped talent on designing…
which pose a unease condition on us (especially on our dear designer)

Which pose interesting situation,
we like to be heard,
but nobody want to listen…
Even in situation which we paid to listen others,
e.g consulting doctor and lawyer

Is this a fault on us, or as an opportunities
This…