In this video I go over how to use the (Beta) TradeSkillMaster Web APIs (Stormspire post explaining the feature) to download a .csv of my realm auction house pricing data and build a Google Drive Sheets spreadsheet that allows me to access and manipulate that data to do things like:

• Quickly show prices for multiple items on the AH in one look.
• Quickly show prices for any list of item names or item IDs.
• Be able to do things like calculate material costs for items.
• See which crafted items are selling for the most and the cost per mat etc.

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TradeSkillMaster Custom Pricing Sources can be a bit complicated so today I thought I would share a few of my favorites as well as explain them thoroughly.

Head past the jump for explanations of some of our most-used pricing sources.

It's not that often that we get to apply our gold-making strategies to make real-world money. Over the last few days, however, we've been playing around with selling items on the Steam Community Market.

The Steam Community Market is Steams place for buying and selling items, trading cards and much more for real-world money that is stored in your Steam wallet.This money can be used to buy other items, cards and games from Steam.

Watch Steam Community Market - Selling Strategies & Pricing Tricks on Youtube or head past the jump for the embedded video and more information.

Episode 064 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 Erogroth discuss 87-88 markets, how gold-making is like music, just-in-time vs. stockpiling and much more. And now on with the show!

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Kaliope wrote a wonderful post talking about pricing for the new Reborn Blacksmithing weapons introduced in Patch 5.2.

Now that many players have enough Lightning Steel Ingots to craft the top item level 502 weapons the question becomes should they? Head past the jump for more.

There was a time back in Wrath of the Lich King when selling glyphs was my number one source of gold. Now it's a market I cringe away from. Why?

What has changed over the years to turn something I loved into something that scares me to inaction? Read on past the jump to find out.

Episode 060 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 co-host Erogroth discuss the best gold-making profession, gold-making myths, selling gems in Mists or Pandaria and much more. And now on with the show!

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In this livestream we discuss how to get Pandaria Jewelcrafting patterns, discuss obtaining new Blacksmithing patterns from Itoka, pricing for 77-80 and 83-84 items and much more.

You can watch the Part 1 and Part 2 directly on YouTube or head past the jump for the embedded versions.

I was approached by livestream viewer SheLuvme with a proposal. They wanted to take my Simple Living Steel Material Price Calculator and make it into an Excel spreadsheet that would automatically pull the material prices directly from The Undermine Journal servers. This would make it so I would always have updated pricing information.

This sounded great and they seem to have pulled it off. (One small snag, I don't own Microsoft Excel.) Regardless I've been assured by SheLuvme that this spreadsheet works. Head past the jump to learn how to get the spreadsheet and set it up for your own use.

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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In this livestream we spend time figuring out how to collect and analyze auction house sales data from The Undermine Journal in a spreadsheet. We also welcome a new inductee into our prestigious doppelgangers page and much more.

Part 1: WoW Gold-Making! 1.3.13 Pt.1/2 - Afternoon Routine by Jim Younkin




Part 2: WoW Gold-Making! 1.3.13 Pt.2/2- Afternoon Routine by Jim Younkin

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One of the most common requests I get on the livestream is the pricing information I use when selling my 77-80 Cataclysm and 83-84 Mists of Pandaria items.

Head past the jump for my pricing information for all of the different categories of items I flip in those categories.

I've been playing around with moving data from The Undermine Journal character sales pages (search for your character on your server and faction and be signed into TUJ to view sales info) into spreadsheets.

Below are some of the raw sales data from tonight's mailbox collection. I thought I'd share it so you can see what specific items are selling on my particular server. Head past the jump for the data.

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.

World of Warcraft Remote (iPhone).

Breaking news: Power Word: Gold reader Edladd just contacted us to let us now that they had discovered that there was a news update on their World of Warcraft Remote that stated that all the World of Warcraft Remote subscription features (remote auction house and guild chat) were now free to all World of Warcraft subscribers. Head past the jump for the news.

Today's post is my response to a reader who had a problem in their 77-80 Cataclysm Items market with people posting items at prices below their "threshold price" but above their "buying price".

In essence, these sellers were perceived to be selling items in the reader's pricing "blind spot". Head past the jump for our email exchange, possible solutions and thoughts on the importance of constantly analyzing our markets.

If you've been making gold in World of Warcraft for any length of time it can be easy to fall into familiar routines. You log on each day and post the same items for the same prices day-in day-out. When you are making a steady income it can be easy to rest on your laurels and let yourself coast.

That is how I've been running my level 77-80 Cataclysm item markets. Same items. Same prices. Day after day. Luckily for me I was able to discuss the 77-80 market with Jamie, Shannon Lasell and Farli on one of Shannon's livestreams. They opened my eyes to new ways to run the market. Read on past the jump to hear about my initial success raising prices during the weekend.

Breaking News: Mists of Pandaria zones might have multiple copies per server if there are a high number of players. This has huge implications on the amount of materials that miners, herbalists and skinners will be bringing into the game and may have huge impact on those of us who were planning on farming to make gold at the beginning of Mists of Pandaria

Read on for a few excerpts from the official blog post by Blizzard as well as my thoughts on it.

Ever wanted to know how I edit the Power Word: Gold Podcast? In these three recorded livestream videos I go through editing the entire Power WordL Gold Podcast Episode 31. Come watch how the sausage is made!

Part 1: (embedded above) WoW Gold-making: WoW + editing PW:G Podcast Ep. 031 (Part 1) by Jim Younkin. 3.21.2012

Head past the jump for parts 2 and 3.

WoW Gold-making. Late night routine etc. 3.19.2012 by Jim Younkin

In this 1 hour livestream recording I go through my late night gold-making routine, bust out some beatboxing and more!

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