Quote (bomben @ 18 Apr 2013 18:50)
Well, I still think its viable. I bought 1x Spectral tiger + 1x Swift Spectral in november. I sold the Swift one 1 hour after I got it for 150k more than I bought it for, so I would say its still viable if you know the right people. I got a few people that wait for mounts on my server so directly when I get a mount I got a customer.. but if u try to sell it in trade it can take a couple of months..
That's just it. We used to be able to sell them quickly in both trade and on the AH without knowing the right people before the dupe wave that hit around ~august last year. Even the least rare TCG mounts were in high demand as they were available at best once or twice a month, so people would jump on them. I remember once when looking up swift spectral on TUJ and it had been seen "more than 6 month ago" on the 4th biggest realm in europe, that's how uncommon it used to be, with a price tag of 850k-1.1m.
When the duping was at its worst there were 3+ or more of
every(!) TCG mount available 24/7 for a measly 20-30% their normal price and that went on for pmuch the remainder of the xpac. The serious collectors got all of them, the average players got the one or two they had always wished for, heck everyone could afford one if they invested some effort (or if they played during the patch 4.3 release

).
"There i was, doing nothing, then the friggin' EXPANSION came and threw gold right in my face! WTFBBQ. Anyways that's how i got rich.Coughing up at least 100k+ for a mount when i can use it on every one of my toons instead of only 1 of them makes a purchase look that much more attractive. I had imagined the introduction of account wide mounts combined with fixing the main duping method behind it all would have a positive effect on the TCG market, i'm glad to hear it didn't take longer than til november for it to recover enough to be usable again.