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In a thread in the comments on my last article in which I had advised a reader to undercut his glyph competition heavily instead of camping the auction house, I got another comment that got me thinking about pricing. It basically stated that every time the commenter undercut heavily on glyphs, he would immediately get re-undercut by a few copper unless his price was down to the point of no profit.

I"ve written a little about the topic of pricing and undercutting before, but I felt it was time for a refresher. I"m going to start off by quoting what I wrote last March: "If everyone is knocking a copper off the next highest auction, they only way to undercut successfully is to try camp the AH and make sure you"re always the competitor who has visited most recently. Needless to say, this is a colossal waste of your time." This is as true now as it was then.

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Gold Capped: Why deep undercutting on the auction house works originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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