Gimp from Gimps Gold caught the holiday giving bug and wanted to give one lucky Power Word: Gold reader a free Cinder Kitten pet from the Battle.net Store.

With that in mind we worked with Gimp to come up with a holiday giveaway rules. For your chance to receive your very own Cinder Kitten pet to keep you warm this Winter Veil read on past the jump.

Tauna writes:

"But boy has it paid off. I've put each one for 50 gold on the AH which is probably a bit light, but they are selling well. For such a little investment, they are making their money times and times over."

Read the full post Can't hold all these pets! by Tauna over at The Hatchery.

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Kassandra writes:

"Lately I have been dabbling with pet sales.  One of the things I like best about selling pets is the deposit on auctioning a caged pet is low, a mere one silver to run a twenty-four hour auction.  It would take me a hundred listings before I even lost a single gold piece."

Read the full post Pet Sales by Kassandra over at The Hatchery.

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Episode 069 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin and guest Nev discuss preparing for Patch 5.4, growing the seeds of gold-making, spreadsheets and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Episode 052 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss Mote of Harmony farming, gold-making styles, the TradeSkillMaster Application, dealfinding lists and much more. And now on with the show!

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Gold-Making and the Darkmoon Faire go together like peanut butter and jellyfish! In this livestream we spend time getting the last few professions skill points via DMF quests. We also work on buying DMF pets to sell and much more.

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In my continuing effort to understand and assess the feasibility of working in the cross-realm battle pet sales market I've been doing some data collection and analysis. I thought I'd share some of that research with all of you today.

As many of you may know there currently isn't any way to look up caged battle pet pricing on auction house data sites like The Undermine Journal and WoWuction. This leaves it up to each player to collect and analyze the data themselves. Head past the jump for some of the average prices I've seen for certain battle pets.

In this day's episode we work on researching and recording pricing for cross-realm battle pet arbitrage across 4 different servers. We also answer lots of questions and even check out a fairly crazy MMO gaming mouse.

We really live finding these fiddly types of markets. It remains to be seen whether the amount of work involved in selling battle pets cross-realm is worth it but I love digging in to find out.

Part 1: WoW Gold-Making! 12.14.12 Pt.1/3 Afternoon Routine by Jim Younkin is above. You can find parts 2 and 3 after the jump.

In this episode we not only go over our normal routine (83-84, etc.) but also start to set up a spy army of level 1 Starter Edition characters on our various servers. We did this in order to easily be able to track pricing and supply of battle pets in order to look for battle pet sales/arbitrage opportunities.

This livestream clocks in at just over 2 hours (split into three 40 min. segments) which feels like a really good length overall. Part 1 is above. Parts 2 and 3 are after the jump.

Episode 050 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your hosts Jim Younkin and Faid discuss battle pets, item upgrades, Mists of Pandaria 83-84 items and much more. And now on with the show!

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Today's post is about Battle Pets and was originally left as a few comments on a previous post by reader Kaexo.

Kaexo was gracious enough to let me repost their comments in this blog post. Read on past the jump for some of Kaexo's insights and experience making gold buying and learning Battle Pets on one server and caging and selling them on another.

Episode 042 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts Jim Younkin, Faid and Gimp bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode we discuss what we've been doing in gold-making, the Mists of Pandaria 5.0.4 pre-patch, the Bulk Mail Inbox addon and much more. And now on with the show!

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There has been much speculation around what would happen to our current pets when it comes to the Pet Battles system being introduced in Mists of Pandaria.

We've seen a blue post indicating that some pets may become "Rare" when caged. Some have done analysis on where these pets come from.

To set the record straight (at least as far as the current beta build is concerned) I wanted to test caging all my pets on the current Beta client (Beta Client: 5.0.4 (15929) Jul 31, 2012) and see what happened. Head past the jump for my (rather interesting) results.

Episode 038 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your host Jim Younkin and guest Nev bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this week's episode your host Jim Younkin and guest Nev discuss what they've been doing in gold-making, the Mists of Pandaria release date announcement, recent Pet Battle changes and much more. And now on with the show!

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Tailswish alerted me to a blue post link over at MMO Champion that states that all pets captured as part of the Pet Battle system will not be able to be caged, traded or sold. This may have large implications for gold-making surrounding pets and pet battles in Mists of Pandaria.

Read on past the jump for the blue post and my thoughts.

We present the 4th installment of our start-from-scratch experiment. This episode is in two parts with some beatboxing and lots of other gold-making goodness.

Part 1 (Above): WoW Gold-Making! 4.22.12 PM (Part 1) - Project Goblin Episode #004! by Jim Younkin




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Episode 021 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Faid bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss the introduction of the bind-on-equip Guardian Cub pet available from the Blizzard Store, cooperating with glyph competition, low level gold-making and much more. And now, on with the show!

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As reported by Cold there is a chance the Sinister Squashling may become Bind of Equip (BOE) in patch 4.3. If this does indeed happen then there will be a market for selling the pet on the auction house.

Read on past the jump to find out more about preparing to profit from this potential change.

Episode 007 of The Power Word Gold Podcast. Your hosts flux and Jokine bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making news, tips and strategies from the last week.

In this week's episode we discuss how they've been making gold this week, the launch of World of Warcraft Patch 4.1's effect on the economy, how to deal with auction house competition and much more. And now, on with the show!

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Today's guest post was written by Power Word: Gold reader and commenter Torgal. Torgal enjoys gold-making and raiding. His main strategy is diversifying into many niche markets. He plays on an EU-Server and can be reached via email at [email protected]. 

"Oh look honey they're so cute! - Yes, darling and they are selling!"

With Patch 4.1 there are now two new pet-related achievements: Petting Zoo for collecting 100 companion pets and Menagerie for collecting 125. How can we as gold-makers profit from the increased demand for companion pets (AKA mini-pets, vanity pets)? Find out after the jump.