The Glamour of Gold part I

I used to do dailies. For many auctioneers this is a waste of time, but I didn't feel that way about. I made some gold and had fun trying to make the quest routes as efficient as possible. But as with most wow-activities, you will get bored by the endless repetion. This paid for my raiding expenses (I also herbed some to get flasks) and even for a few epic flyers, but I could never seem to get past 7k gold.

In november a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to help him farm the Bloodsail-title. I was a bit unsure to wether or not I wanted to, since I would probably be bitten by the reputation bug and start mindless farming for useless feats. And what do you now, I soon find myself running in and out of DM to get the Insane in the Membrane-achievement. I realized quite early that I would need shitloads of gold to cover my Darmoon-rep, and that Shendralar wouldnt come cheap either. So I started camping the AH for Pristine Black Diamonds which I bought for 5-150 gold. I made an alliance alt and bought them in Stormwind as well, and before long the Night Elves of Dire Maul loved me more than their own children.
But since PBD was selling at riddiculus prices, I kept buying the cheap ones and resold them for 300-400 gold. Meanwhile my adventures with the Steamwheedle Cartel in DM North made me realize there were huge amounts of gold to be earned from farming that place. Enchanting mats and Runecloth made a steady cashflow, and the one Gordok Ogre Suit you could bring out would always sell for 25-30 gold. This gave me the idea of mass producing the suits, but since they are unique I had to make one (at the goblin in DM for rep) and mail it using my Argent Gruntling. The mail box is at a time limit and I could make/send 13 suits before he buggered off. The sales of these (30-35g) + librams (150-250g) and PBD (300g+) made my gold per hour from 600-1500 during my rep-sessions.

But as expected, I grew tired of this mindless activity and took a break from the Insanity. I was now sitting on 25 000 gold, a number I never had dreamed about getting. So what do one do with this amount of cash? We buy ourselves a 16k mammoth! Of all the needless shit I've wasted gold on, this is my best investement. I have a vendor for trash I loot, I have infinite amounts of Runethreads a click of a button away, and my own personal reagent vendor.
Now as much as I liked getting the mount, I liked having lots of gold bmore. So I started investigating a little, and soon found internetlitterature (blogs) such as Justmytwocopper and Gevlon the greedy goblin. I was inspired, I was entertained and my lust for gold increased for every little bit of information I picked up. And so it began..