Hey y’all! As some of you already know, I do love me some ESO auctions! I first became interested in them when I started getting serious about the sales database. See, the downfall of doing what I do is that I could (and have) easily be accused of market manipulation. To avoid that, I simply don’t sell much in traders. Sure, I’ll throw in common things like furnishing plans, intricate items, the occasional motif, items that don’t ever fluctuate in value because they are the basic of the basic stuff. Mats and such though, I keep those out of the trader market. However, that put me in an awkward position: How am I going to make money?

At that time, I was a member of the guild Cramps (f.k.a. The Minstrel Cramps) and they had been running auctions for quite some time. Guild members would donate mats, they would be auctioned off, then the member got a paycheck from the proceeds. Sounded good to me! I carried on doing this until others in my own guild wanted a taste of the action. We adopted a similar system and now we participates in at least one a month. Next month we’ll be having our very first solo auction and needless to say, I’m very nervous about it!