Goal of 200k Gold for Cata

One of the blogs that i follow is a general gold making blog called Caffeine, Smokes and Auction House Fess, who has just announced his plans for what he will be doing after he hits his single character gold cap of 999,999, has got me thinking as to what i would do if i were to hit my milestone of a lowly 200,000.

Now i dont have big dreams in wow like getting vial of the sands on all my toons.  heck, only one toon has super fast 310% flying, and thats my miner (with crusader aura!).  and most of them do not have big fancy items.  only one toon has a mechano-hog.  i am somewhat of a very frugal person in this game.  i dont spend too much gold and what i do have, i save up.  the only times i actually spend a lot of gold is when i am buying ore to prospect, or herbs to mill, or frozen orbs to make who knows what. ;)

But i do find myself getting closer to my goals.  if i keep up what im currently doing, i will have 200k gold by the end of the month.  now i do only play the AH when nothing else interest me.  lately, heroics are a blah, raiding is nil, farming is even blah-er.  i barely want to log on and when i do, its really just to play with my girlfriend and play the AH.  i dont even do professions anymore.  I still have to level up my leatherworking, my enchanting and my tailoring.  I have alchemy maxed, inscription almost maxed, bs maxed and jc maxed. i really do not need to try to make gold from LW/Tailoring enchants or from enchanting itself (the dust/essences sell well already).  getting closer to my goals will mean one of two things: i will do something else or i will continue to make gold on the AH.

now there are more paths to take when i do move on, like how many "something else" can i list and do?  or if i continue making gold, will it still be as a JC?  or will i try to dive into other markets?  if i dont care too much about returns, should i even bother with going into a "lucrative" market?

If i were to move on to other markets but still play within the AH, i would have to be OK with collecting less gold each day. this is fine with me, so long as i make sales.  i think the only thing that bothers me more than not finding crafting mats in the AH when i need it, is to find expired auctions in my mailbox.  i love the feeling of having a sale, whether it be for 5g or 50g.  now 50g is better, but 5g isnt too bad at all.  at least i removed a useless item from my inventory... that's my thinking anyway.  I can go into enchanting, but i'll still have to rely on my jewelcrafter to supply a lot of my mats. My leatherworker can make leg enchants but it does look like the mats cost just as much as the final product.  there's a lot of competition out there and perhaps finding the right market to list items in can be a game in and of itself.  currently, my tailor is making bags because spellthread doesnt make positive gold.  my leatherworker is on hold because there's no positive gold potential there either.  my scribe is pulling in about 200g a day on glyphs (yes, sadly) but does slowly sell infernal inks.

Overall, it looks like there isnt much to work with besides gems.  but gems can be fickle and many people have tried to enter into this market.  its a market with a lot of potential and a lot of competition. My mantra is usually, if i put up 5k gold in sale items, im sure to get about 2k gold in sales.  what doesnt sell can be relisted.  that's easy for a market with a lot of turnover.  but in a market where things are relatively stale (compared to gems), like leg enchants.  but if pants are replaced as often as belts (belt buckles) and headpieces (meta gems), then why not.  why not offer up some decent leg enchants and make a couple hundred gold a day?  i dont know.  it would greatly simplify my life and lower the time i need to spend at the AH. 

Finally, i am slowly getting to the 200k mark.  my plans to reach it by month-end is steady unless i end up taking a few days break.  even if i dont reach that goal, i figured it's a whole lot better than not trying at all.