Mats Speculation for Cataclysm

[Tonuss]

How's this going for you guys so far? I remember the price of low level mats soaring in previous expansions but, at the moment, prices have actually dropped on my server

After two previous expansions, it's possible that lots of people stocked up. I haven't really checked, to be honest, because I've been busy playing. I've managed to skin a few bags full of leather, but those have gone to my paladin to level up LW, which then goes to my shaman to DE for mats to level enchanting.

From my quick visits to the AH, prices for everything seem to be low. I got some level 79/80 greens for my rogue because they were selling for 15-50 gold each. Crafters are dumping items, people are dumping world drops... it could be that Blizzard finally managed to make gold worthless, I dunno. But at least in terms of armor and weapons there seems to be very little gouging. I certainly will not buy low level armor and weapons for 100-1000 gold, but lots of new items are listing for 100-200 gold, which isn't really gouging IMO.

[zenga]

Basically you can take advantage of whats happening now:

- you stocked up low prior to cata (weeks)
- the masses heard about the stocking up theory without having a real clue, they decide to save instead of selling
- cata launches
- they see that mats didn't magically go up ... they wanna get rid of their stock before it lowers even more
-> you buy, wait, profit

[Ualaa]

My Week 1 mats, alliance side.. aren't selling terribly well; horde side, going great.
But chances are, that's what has happened alliance side at least.

Not sure that I want to spend 3g per stack, to buy 25 pages of auctions; somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 auctions up...
I paid a maximum of 1g per stack... and am listing at 10g a stack at the moment.

Horde side, spent no more then 1g per stack on Copper, Tin, Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Linen and Wool.
And they're selling in the 20-30g per stack range.