I have to side with Keran here. Despite playing the gold game in WoW, I never knowingly made gold off my guildmates (except that one shmuck who would not ask me for glyphs and just bought them of the auction house, but I had no way of preventing that, lol).
Agreed. I’ve always had a policy of not taking gold for services from guildmates (and during Wrath, Cata, and Mists I was the profession officer – maxed out all profs and did all enchants and gems for everyone). But the rest of the server was ripe for the picking.
Usually I ask for the price of supplies with guild mates, BUT that is because I am generally dead broke in game as I have a weakness for mounts and pets and I hate grinding the auction house.
I did that once, for the most beautiful yak ever, and I will NEVER do that again. *shudders*
If they want to give me tips I don’t protest, and if it’s under 100 gold to make I generally wave off any fees though.
Never making a profit off of guild mates, for sure. But they either have to supply materials, pay for the cost of the materials, or in the case of instance locked materials they would have to assist in getting the materials.
The guild isn’t my personal client base but likewise I am not a grind bot to provide everyone with their raiding supplies so they don’t have to dedicate the time to preparation.
I’m curious what Vedrana actually does for a job. Maybe it’s part of why she, A) Is so good at using the trade house, and B) why she’s kind of nuts about it.
I hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it, but now I also kind of wonder what she does for a living. She’s real good with money in game, so she’s probably horrible with it out of game. I’ve known people like that, who are financial geniuses in game, but broke deadbeats in real life.
I’m afraid I’m with Vedrana, to a point. I’ve been in various guilds. One gave a heavy discount as others said to buy them yourself. One guildy stopped giving them away. Why? Because they were being put on the auction house later.
Karan has to also understand of those that take advantage of their own mates. I’m not saying all, just a few who have tons of gold but whine when they have to buy stuff. I had one who whispered me that I charged to much for a mount, stating he could make it for far less. Told him to do so and not worry what I charge. Later found out, nobody would make him one as he was a cheapskate and had sold others online given him.
I would say as a one time thing, assuming its a negligible amount of gold to the person doing the service, it’s fine to let it slide. Good deed of the xpack.
Of course expecting everything from guildmates to be free is wrong though. Even if the person is rich. At bare minimum, material costs should be covered by the person asking for the service.
I agree. The idea of “it’s free to guild members” is okay for little stuff, but dishing out brand new stuff like this for free and expecting no compensation is bullshit. I’d demand that the materials for all of it be donated back into the guild bank or some other means to refund the guild for it.
Vedrana, yes!
This can only end in Vedrana getting money. There is no other answer.
I have to side with Keran here. Despite playing the gold game in WoW, I never knowingly made gold off my guildmates (except that one shmuck who would not ask me for glyphs and just bought them of the auction house, but I had no way of preventing that, lol).
Agreed. I’ve always had a policy of not taking gold for services from guildmates (and during Wrath, Cata, and Mists I was the profession officer – maxed out all profs and did all enchants and gems for everyone). But the rest of the server was ripe for the picking.
Usually I ask for the price of supplies with guild mates, BUT that is because I am generally dead broke in game as I have a weakness for mounts and pets and I hate grinding the auction house.
I did that once, for the most beautiful yak ever, and I will NEVER do that again. *shudders*
If they want to give me tips I don’t protest, and if it’s under 100 gold to make I generally wave off any fees though.
Yeah, the guild I’m in has a policy of “If someone asks for it, and you can make it, then you make it, and you don’t charge”.
Which is fair, seeing as our raid leader is the one giving out all our flasks.
Never making a profit off of guild mates, for sure. But they either have to supply materials, pay for the cost of the materials, or in the case of instance locked materials they would have to assist in getting the materials.
The guild isn’t my personal client base but likewise I am not a grind bot to provide everyone with their raiding supplies so they don’t have to dedicate the time to preparation.
I’m curious what Vedrana actually does for a job. Maybe it’s part of why she, A) Is so good at using the trade house, and B) why she’s kind of nuts about it.
I hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it, but now I also kind of wonder what she does for a living. She’s real good with money in game, so she’s probably horrible with it out of game. I’ve known people like that, who are financial geniuses in game, but broke deadbeats in real life.
She could be a business owner. That would explain why she knows how to do the market.
I’m afraid I’m with Vedrana, to a point. I’ve been in various guilds. One gave a heavy discount as others said to buy them yourself. One guildy stopped giving them away. Why? Because they were being put on the auction house later.
Karan has to also understand of those that take advantage of their own mates. I’m not saying all, just a few who have tons of gold but whine when they have to buy stuff. I had one who whispered me that I charged to much for a mount, stating he could make it for far less. Told him to do so and not worry what I charge. Later found out, nobody would make him one as he was a cheapskate and had sold others online given him.
I would say as a one time thing, assuming its a negligible amount of gold to the person doing the service, it’s fine to let it slide. Good deed of the xpack.
Of course expecting everything from guildmates to be free is wrong though. Even if the person is rich. At bare minimum, material costs should be covered by the person asking for the service.
I agree. The idea of “it’s free to guild members” is okay for little stuff, but dishing out brand new stuff like this for free and expecting no compensation is bullshit. I’d demand that the materials for all of it be donated back into the guild bank or some other means to refund the guild for it.
Kieran better watch Zhusen carefully or she’ll try to give Vedrana gold just to make her feel better.