Hello Opportuntiy

With the holidays over and adults/kids returning to their normal routine I predict a huge change in the prices of mostly all crafting material. Blizzard created a critical intersection by releasing Cataclysm before the holidays and this will benefit you if you act fast. Over the holidays children were on break so they basically stayed up all night, woke up early, and farmed in Cataclysm. So for almost two weeks the prices for farmable mats have been relatively low. Like mostly all guilds on all servers, my guild has waited until the holidays were over to start raiding. When guilds start really raiding the mighty balls of pugs grow and more start to form. For any pug to have a shred of potential they will need higher enchants, higher gems, higher gear, and tons of flasks.

Breakdown:
To start it out, all of the Christmas vacation kids are going back to school so less and less mats will show up on the auction house. Then the raiders/puggers intersect that, creating a demand that is much greater than the supply. To meet market equilibrium the price has to rise.

Action:
It only makes sense that you should invest in low cost materials before the small stockpiles from the holidays dry up. The main materials I am going to focus on are for flasks, enchants, and belt buckles. you may have noticed that really none of these items have been selling and that's because there was very little need. Most players that have a bit of gold dont want to blow it on a belt buckle just to add one gem, for their heroics... but once the raiding kicks in every bit helps and they will realize that after their first 20 wipes. Most guilds also aren't investing much into flasks, or so i've seen, so anyone not wanting to look like a fool in their guild raid will be buying flasks.

Like i said here are the mats for the belt buckles that i expect to go up in price along with its mats.

Ebonsteel Belt Buckle:
4 Volatile Earth
4 Elementium Bar (8 Elementium Ore)
4 Pyrium Bar (8 Pyrite Ore)

Conclusion:
I would invest in abnormally cheap herbs of all kinds, Cataclysm enchanting mats, and the mats listed above for belt buckles. With the rise in price for herbs you can expect all items relating to the milling of them to rise as well... mysterious fortune card maybe...

JMTC Carnival: How I've Made Gold In Cataclysm

I Started Cataclysm with high hopes to make tons of gold, i didnt really get into making gold by playing the AH till about halfway through ICC so most of the markets i could get into were falling knives that i didnt want to catch. I eventually learned patience and was eager to use the knowledge i had gainedi n such a short amount of time.
Going into Cata i only had the items listed in my post Cataclysmic Stockpile and honestly it wasnt as much as i wanted. Well so far I have only gone through 2 bank tabs at the most and i've gained a combined total for my toons 110k in Cataclysm.

Over the duration of cata i have posted almost every way i've made gold

Mysterious Fortune Cards: My absolute favorite way to make gold. I love getting spammed with sold auctions after i use my barks. Some techniques i used to make gold in this area were massively buying cheap herbs to mill and barking a ton as posted in No Wonder My Dog Likes Barking. The most important thing i did in this market was raising the price. I kept the price relatively high around 50g each by planning the buyout of the entire market, i would wait until the majority would expire and i would then buy out the rest of the 48 hour posters and relist at 50-60g. This was very late at night when no other crafters were on, unsuring that i owned the market all night. I noticed that this was prime time for me because all of the fun players were on. I recieved tons of lols on my barks and thats what made this fun.

Glyphs: these were just the normal postings while i focused on cards, i stocked enough ink to push me for a long while and these would normally add a few K to my total daily profits.

Ore: I did some farming when i was bored staring at the AH screen and those would bring in about 180 a stack. I found some key areas to focus on and that really boosted daily profits.

Orbs: I didnt actually sell and epic crafted gear but i did manage to sell all of the orbs i got for 3k each. The customer would give me his mats, i would craft, and he would pay for how many orbs used, simple.

Truegold: The first weekend of Cata i was able to get some Truegold for 500g each! these relisted at 1k. My initial investment was to make epic pieces out of them, but that never happened.

Enchanting Mats: As abyss crystals got cheaper i got more stacks of them :) these easily turned profit via abyssal shatter because infinite dust and greater cosmic essence increased greatly in price.

Recently i have been buying up jaspers at 10g a piece and crafting the jasper rings out of them. the jasper rings DE to 1-3 Hypnotic Dust or 1-3 Lesser Celestial Essence. whenever i would recieve a 1 of soemthing it was really pushing it on profit but more time then not i recieved 2-3 of w/e bringing in more gold.

Stupidity in Netherweave: I sold off all of my bags extremely fast at around 9g each and i am scraping the bottom for cloth. I made the profit i wanted but there have been times when bags were up to 20g and i couldnt capitalize...so be it.

Prospecting: this barely makes me my 2 copper now because of low gem prices but early on this technique was damn good. I was only able to prospect obsidium ore but it was still well worth it. the strategy i used here was buy a stack, prospect it and calculate how much i would make if it all sold. i would then subtract that from what i spent on the stack. If i recieved a negative number, that was the profit. I was very conservative here, only prospecting a few stacks at a time.

Farming: I tried a few farming spots for cloth and volatiles but stuff like that just isnt for me, i always get flustered feeling like im racing a cloak. but if you dont get that feeling your wasting time, and time is money friend.

Setting Goals: I set a constant goal of making 10k every day. If i ever failed to meet that goal i would set a higher one. I have a weekend goal, a weekday goal, and my vacation goal to meet 200k. My vacation ends Wednesday and i am 25k away.

Infinite Profit

The need for wrath mats has finally come. What has happened was this: when Cataclysm hit there were still many players with WotLK mats and they frantically tried to sell them. Well when those stock piles ran dry there are still people that need to level their professions. the stock running dry created a lower supply and a higher demand. Which, in turn, raises the price.

I just noticed the spike in price for infinite dust and greater cosmic essence, lucky for me, i have a large supply of rings/necklaces to DE. Over a few days the normally price (25-30g) a stack has increased to amounts around 90g a stack! I have been selling out on every stack i post. I highly recommend looking out for cheap wrath gems/eternal earth and cheap abyss crystals.

To give you a little more understanding on how well these babies are doing... i have 1 1/2 guid bank tabs full of them... all gone in 2 days.

let me know how your doing on enchanting mats sales in an email or the comments section below!