I really, really hate goldmaking blogs (WoW)

[thistlechaser]

Like WoW RP, WoW goldmaking blogs suffer from the lack of quality control: Anyone can RP anything on WoW. There are no applications to fill out, no staff to make sure everyone is staying on theme. If you want to RP Dr. Who as a dragon from LotR, there's nothing to stop you from doing so. Same with writing goldmaking blogs. Anyone can do it. Too many people do it. Too many damned stupid people who have no idea what they're doing.

"They're all idiots" is hardly enough fodder for a post though, at least until this morning. One of these stupid people posted a tip on a weapon to sell for transmogging. "The Best Mogging Item You Never Knew Existed!" was the subject line.

1) This is NOT new. I sold the damned weapon from day one of transmogging coming out. This is so not new that it's not worth doing anymore, because so many other people sell it.
2) This line from his post:

Selling Advice

My personal advice for anyone trying to sell the [weapon] is to keep it quiet."

So the advice he's giving, in his public blog, is to not tell anyone about it. ARRRGGG

These people. These stupid, stupid, stupid people. Fight Club jokes aside, the first rule of making gold is to shut your damned mouth. Know a great thing to sell? Tell one person, now you'll make half the sales. And of course that one person will tell others too, further reducing your sales. Loose lips sink ships!

If you're serious about making gold, you will NOT be writing a goldmaking blog. Most of these blogs are so full of bad/wrong ideas and suggestions that I'd think they were trying to mislead new sellers (but I doubt they're clever enough for that).

It's getting to the point where I think this is my life:

These people. Sigh.

Edit: Arg! And a different blog had a similar post this morning:
Like all speculative posts, if everyone jumps onto the bandwagon, then we may end up with oversupply and a price crash.
SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT IT?

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT IT?

Honestly? So they can advertise how clever/smart/awesome they are.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I really disagree, Thistle. I tell people how I make gold all the time. No one I talk to about it ever does anything but occasionally throw a couple netherweave bags up on the AH. I found out yesterday that a guildie just vendors everything he ever picks up because he doesn't want to go to the bother of selling it, so I convinced him to send me stuff like greens. When people are too lazy to even put a couple of things on the AH, do you really think the majority are going to do anything that takes actual work? And that there will be that many on the same server that will do that amount of work? Moon Guard is one of the biggest servers out there and there aren't that many power sellers. The vast majority are not interested, they'd rather just whine about having no gold.

I rarely glance at gold making blogs, but those who follow them tend to be trend followers from what I can tell. They do what the bloggers talk about for a few days or weeks until they lose interest, then they're gone. They're a blip on the market and once they get bored because they didn't instantly make 1,000,000,000,000 gold, they stop and those of us that actually do things can get back to business as usual.

Obviously you can keep quiet if you choose, but I seriously doubt it would make any difference at all if you didn't, especially since you're not running a well known gold making blog. Your personal LJ is kind of obscure, not exactly what people would run into in the first few pages of a Google search. ;)