Conclusion on the Gered Experiment

You may remember the level 1 dwarf I made a while ago in an attempt to start making gold at level 1 with only 10 copper. I made a few posts about it and then stopped. Why? Well, the reason was because I didn't do anything. After the first 4-6 days I had made about 25g that, while not a lot, proves that it's absolutly not necessary to be high level to make gold. By making 25g while starting out with 10 copper I've increased my gold amount by 250 000% in less than a week. Obviously the gold increase percentage wise is a lot bigger at lower amounts but it's still a lot.

So I then left him, not feeling it was worth the time any more, but now I have decided to get him back in business, with a small pocket change on about 2000g. He will mainly be used for finding new markets and working them.

Meat Trading

You often see lowbies begging for gold in cities, desperatly trying to find someone who is willing to give them some gold, or even just a few silver.

As you know I am currently testing how much I can make from simply buying and selling at level 1. Today I decided to try an alternative method for low level gold making, begging.

So I started running around in the SW trade district begging for a gold. I ran around for about 15 minutes trying to get my fellow players give me some of their hard-earned gold. The result? None!

Not a single reply, the only thing I got was a "shoo" emote from another banker when I jumped up to the auctioneers and started typing in caps.

So after15 minutes of work I hadn't made a single copper. Doesn't sound like a very good moneymaking method to me, but it appears that some people get it to work. Why would they else spend their time on it? Or they are just stupid.

Now when we're done with begging, lets see how Gered is doing. My wolf meat investments went great and it had sold out when I logged on today. This put me a nice bit over the 2g mark. I decided to use my newly earned gold on some clam meat. I bought 35 succulent clam for about 4 silver each.

I then put them up in stacks of 5 for 1g 70s which is about 70% of the average auction house value. I am now only waiting for some buyer to show up and buy them. So not including my clam meat I now got 1g 72s 87c. This is after just a few days at level 1 without any help from other characters.

There's nothing special going on with my other characters, glyphs are still low, I am trying to raise my enchanting when I am not to tired and the stuff I made while leveling enchanting/JC is selling and gives me a pretty steady, but at the time small income.

All in all I'm sitting at 8244g.

My Ten Copper: First 50 silver

After 3 days of working on my new alt, Gered, I have just hit the 50 silver mark. During these days I have only used the vendor search function of Auctioneer to find stuff to sell. As you can see it's very useful even on lower levels.

Now when I have started to get some more money I belive it will be a lot easier to get into a few small investments. I can't describe how hard it is to buy and resale or even just buy to vendor when you only got 10 copper.

Not a very long post today, but I promise you'll get more tomorrow.

My Ten Copper

The normal business is going well (except for the glyphs) so I see no need to give any detailed info on how it's going. Instead I will tell you about a new alt I started today, say hello to Gered!

His use? To make gold by only buying and selling. And as the title of this post implies, he started out with only 10 copper that I made by selling the starting food!

Within a few minutes I had made that 10 copper into 1s 23c just by buying Red-speckled Mushrooms with the vendor search. I then decided to invest it in some boar meat (one silver for a stack of 13 :O) a piece of coarse thread from a vendor to see if it sells, and a few more bids on the vendor search. I ended up with only 5 copper left, but I should be able to see some money come in tomorrow.