Quote Originally Posted by 'Caspian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=197127#post 197127
When I cornered markets it was on smaller ticket stuff. I hit Truesilver and Silver couple of times. back in the day they were fairly rare and were, proportionally, more expensive then they are today. I would never try and hold the market for more then a day or two tops. Something like Frozen Orbs is just crazy. The turn over on them is crazy and the prices can vary wildly. Just this pas week on my server they have been as low as 50g and as high as 125g. Epics always scare me, especially crafted ones.

I just discovered how insanely profitable inscription can be if played right. That, along with the discussion here, might just get me back into the game .
Inscription can be profitable if you start early and know when to stop. I am selling 3-5k gold worth of glyphs a day, that is all going right back into buying more books.

Back on topic, I tried a lot in BC (solo boxing days) to sell my services as a tank. Tanks were in great demand and I never once got anyone to pay me money for a heroic run. People don't want to pay for something they know they can get for free, convenience almost never factors into the true cost. There isn't a huge demand for normal mode instances, with heirloom items I didn't really care about drops from non-80 instances and when I hit 80 I just started going to heroics.

edit: OP is posting success in doing this, so I guess it can be done. Congrats