Making gold guide: Selling blue quality gems on AH

Helpful add-ons and macros
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Get Auctioneer at auctioneer with this add-on you can put all the gems of the same kind on the AH with 1 single click, and it helps you with undercutting and looking for cheap Saronite Ore.

Make this macro it will make prospecting alot easier:
#show Saronite Ore
/cast Prospecting
/use Saronite Ore

Use a level 1 alt to place gems on AH
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Create a level 1 alt and bring him to the AH and buy some large bags and mail them to your alt. In the end you will place over 100 gems a day on the AH and you will need the bag space on your main/JC char for other things.
Place a gem of every design you have in your bank, when you scan the AH with auctioneer you can see the AH prices if you mouse over the gems.

Buying Saronite Ore from AH
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One of my golden rules is to calculate the average price of the gems you will sell. This average has to be larger than the cost of one stack of Saronite Ore. If the cost of a stack Saronite Ore is lower than the average price of the gems you sell then buy the Saronite Ore. For example you have the following designs:

Runed Scarlet Ruby (sells for around 50 g)
Glowing Twilight Opal (15g)
Smooth Autum's Glow (20g)
Enduring Forest Emeralds (15g)
Veiled Monarch Topaz (20g)
Solid Sky Sapphire (20g)

Average price is of your gems is 23.33g, so buy stacks of Saronite Ore that are below 30g. On my server the stacks of Saronite Ore are around 12-20 g, and I only buy ore when it's lower then 15 g a stack.

The amount of Saronite Ore you should buy depends on the amount of gold you have and the amount of gems you sell. If you have allot of gold and sell alot gems than buy alot of Saronite Ore. Ofc you will see for yourself if you buy too much (have allot of unsold gems) or buy too less (all your gems are sold and don't have spare gems in bank). Just adjust to these two things, hard for me to tell you how much you should buy (I buy over 24 stacks a day). Prospect the ore you have cut the gems you want to sell, mail them to your alt and place them on the AH.

Why Saronite Ore and not Cobalt Ore, in my experience Saronite gives more blue quality gems and is cheaper anyway.

Selling gems on AH
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- Place the gems on AH for 12 hours and undercut the lowest price with 1 silver.
- Place them on the AH in the morning before 8.00 or 11.00, and they will expire if not sold in the evening so you can put them on AH again.
- Don't put more than 10 gems of each kind on AH (except red gems they will prob sell anyway)
- Place new crafted gems whenever you can on AH.

The important times to place your gems on AH are around 18.00 and 23.00, because most guilds start raiding and end the raids at these times. They will have new gear and need to gem these so this is your opportunity to sell them ^^. And I chose for the 12 hours duration because of the undercutting, now I can undercut 2 times a day with the same gems.

Dragon's Eye and Icy Prism
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If you have some decent designs that sell well you can start using your Dalaran Jewelcrafting tokens to buy Dragon's Eye's and sell them on the AH. They sell for around 100g, so this is a little extra money everyday. The daily quests for the Dalaran Jewelcrafting tokens can be found on wowhead.

You can also make Icy Prism's every 20 hours. The Frozen Orbs are sold on AH for around 20-25g and drop in Heroic instances and can be bought with Emblem of Heroism.