Spending the Gold Cap #10: Spent

I may or may not have purchased the Magic Rooster you see pictured here. And the spectral kitty. 

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

The title says it all, folks.

While I began this journey primarily by snatching as many Unclaimed Containers as I possibly could, my server's merger coupled with the fact that I rarely found anything of value in the containers caused me to shift my behavior and be a bit more direct with my purchases. You know, focusing on things like rare mounts and pets from the legit auction house.

As it stands, I don't see any reason to list a final accounting. After all, the ledger essentially reads 0g0s0c, and that's all that matters. Just know that the remaining sum was spent on more rare pets and the remaining few mounts my stable needed to meet the requirements for the Mount Parade achievement. Strangely, it took me a lot longer to spend the gold cap than it did for me to earn it, which may or may not be surprising given my methods. Still, if this whole exercise has taught me anything, it's that anyone can hit the gold cap. I was more of a casual gold-maker, accumulating my fortune over the course of a year. There are more serious goldmakers out there who earn much, much faster than I did. Really though, the common denominator between anyone who's ever hit gold cap is simple: dedication.

I first got into goldmaking from the desire to have more capital than I could spend. I wanted all of the gold sink mounts as soon as they became available. So I made sure I was in a position to never have to struggle over those decisions. I'm really not one for tips, tricks or guides when it comes to goldmaking. There are others out there who do a great job at this. Find a handful of these folks I've leaned on over the years below, and I ask forgiveness in advance as I'm sure I've forgotten some important ones:

Phat Lewts
Power Word: Gold
Stede
Drunken Mogul
Auction House Addict
Selltacular (Copper to Gold)

I encourage you to visit their websites and look at their links and blogrolls where many more goldmaking resources await you.

Now that the gold cap has been both earned and spent, I'm not sure where I'll end up in terms of auctioneering. Granted, I have several hundred auctions posted as I write this, but I don't have any intentions of chasing the gold cap again.

For now.                

RECAP

Spending the Gold Cap #1: 918,167g remaining

Spending the Gold Cap #2: It's easy to spend one-hundred grand

Spending the Gold Cap #3: Competition for containers

Spending the Gold Cap #4: Making it worth my time

Spending the Gold Cap #5: 60,000g  footnote

Spending the Gold Cap #6: Where have all the BMAH containers gone?

Spending the Gold Cap #7: Or is this WoW Weekly?

Spending the Gold Cap #8: End is nigh?

Spending the Gold Cap #9: The day I spent over 300,000g on battle pets

Spending the Gold Cap #9: The day I spent over 300,000g on battle pets

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

Yesterday, I freed myself of any lingering attachment I held to the half-million remaining on my banker's server and spent over 300,000g in a matter of minutes. Didn't even bat an eye, didn't feel even a slight tinge of regret. 

Earlier that morning, I was tooling around on my main server when I saw a player selling a Magic Rooster Egg and the Reins of the Swift Spectral Tiger in trade chat. My auctioning activity on Emerald Dream has been mostly light until recently, my liquid gold hovering right around 150,000g. I asked the player if they'd take that sum, fully well knowing what the response would be. But if I could come up with another 100,000g, the Rooster Egg was mine, they said.

That triggered something in my brain, my thoughts settling upon the remaining sum stranded on my banker's server. I wondered to myself how I could realistically spend that money. Sure, it would be nice to win a rare mount through the BMAH. However, as the appearance of Mimiron's Head taught me last week, that's a hell of a lot easier said than done. While I would've gladly dumped the entire half-million in that single transaction, I couldn't even stay alive long enough to place a bid. I guess a level 85 in a black tuxedo makes an easy target.

At auction's end, the thing sold for 10,000g more than I had. That experience, coupled with the inability to purchase the Rooster on my main server pushed me to decide that it's time be a bit more spendy and much less discerning when it comes to the money that's left on Bonechewer. 

On a whim, I sauntered over to the Auction House in Dalaran to search for tradeable pets I'm missing, a list I compiled easily at Warcraft Pets. Shockingly, the most expensive pet, going for a 135,000g buyout, was the Ethereal Soul-Trader. There was also a level 25 Spectral Tiger Cub going for much less. I knew that both of the prices were well under the U.S. market average. Hell, the Soul-Trader sells on Ebay for anywhere between $100 and $300 real dollars.

I polled Twitter, and with a wise suggestion by a fellow goldmaker, I nabbed the Soul-Trader for 129,000g and the Spectral Cub for much less. Of course, that doesn't account for the more than 300,000g spent. No, the remaining sum went towards additional pets---11 of them in all---each accessible via in-game channels, but ones most players will not organically acquire because of RNG. When a Blackfuse Bombling drops, some people see a cute little pet, and other people hear the cha-ching! of gold being made. 

I am, and have always been, a patron of both.

So while I won't bother listing which pets I acquired beyond the two above out of respect for my pet-collecting purist friends, let's just say I'm probably farther than most when it comes to Liopleurodon's handy little Warlord's checklist. The accounting:

543,414g

- 129,000g¹

-177,282²

Total Remaining Gold: 237,132g

                                                 

¹Etheral Soul-Trader.

²Spectral Tiger Cub all 11 mystery pets.

Spending the Gold Cap #8: End is nigh?

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

Ahhh. It's been a good run. Look at me, already talking in the past tense. 

With gold reserves dwindling down to the half-million mark, my thoughts are increasingly turning to how else I might be rid of the sum. All while keeping in mind that the character who holds the gold is stranded on a dead server. I hadn't realized it had been so long, but I haven't actually won a container since November---though somehow I've managed to spend over 70,000g since the last update a few weeks ago. Yikes. I've got some accounting to do. 

Granted, the urgency with which I've monitored the BMAH---even on days where an Unclaimed Container has been posted---has lessened significantly since that time. Plus, given the unfortunate but expected loss taken on nearly every single Unclaimed Container won, I'm not sure I want to chance the second half of the gold cap on more PvP armor I can't even wear. 

Finally, the dead server my banker is stranded won't be dead much longer: it is scheduled to be connected to three or four other realms in the near future, which I have to imagine will only increase the amount of competition I experience when vying for Unclaimed Containers. Like I mentioned earlier, for the second time in a row I have no Containers to report on, yet a hefty sum of gold has been spent: 

618,543g

- 50,000g¹

-10,000g²

-3,973g³

-11,156g†

Total Remaining Gold: 543,414g

                                                     

¹ Went against my own words (again) and transferred a character to my main server, sending gold with him in the process.

²Donated this amount to gold-maker and Twitter friend WoW Profitz for a giveaway promotion he is running.

³My SO has reached 90 on her seldom-played toon, so in addition to Pandaria flight, I financed the gems and enchants on her Timeless gear.

†Incurring eternal damnation from pet-collecting purists, I used Warcraftpets.com to identify missing, tradeable pets and have been scanning the auction house, buying up those at prices befitting of my frugal sensibilities.

The annotations speak for themselves, methinks. While I won't yet say I'm done purchasing Unclaimed Containers, I haven't had great luck as of late and I'm itching for a change. Time invested has not been worth it, and I suspect that relationship will only worsen once realms are connected and the Black Market Auction House has a greater pool of potential buyers.

Til next time, may your bonus rolls include extra gold!

Spending the Gold Cap #7: Or is this WoW Weekly?

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

An unfortunate thing happened last Thursday.

During a basic RAM installation, I seem to have damaged my motherboard. Well, 60+ hours of troubleshooting over the last five days confirmed it had to be the motherboard. I won't go in to the nitty-gritty for time's sake, but in the process of trying to figure out just what the hell was going on I had to wipe my machine --- several times. Among the files and settings I did not salvage was my TSM Accounting log, so I can't promise to accurately explain the significantly large dip in gold that took place between now and the last update. In fact, I didn't even win a container since last time. But with tens of thousands of gold spent, I figured a squaring-up was in order:

675,301g

-50,000g¹
-3,500g²
-3,258g³

Total Remaining Gold: 618,543g

                                                 

¹ Sent with a character when I transferred him to Emerald Dream.

² Partial Pandaria flight costs for two level 90s. 

³ Gear, gem and enchant upgrades for two level 90s. 

Really, I should've probably just filed all this info under a WoW Weekly update considering I didn't even win a container since last post. It wasn't for lack of trying. I'm not sure if we're seeing a general uptick in container interest or if tons of people on the server all of a sudden are finding themselves with a bunch of disposable gold or if people are thinking maybe they'll get luckier since it's Christmas time. I don't know. But if the crowd of bidders at the Veiled Stair two nights ago is any indication, I might have to be willing to try harder spend more if I mean to keep acquiring Unclaimed Containers. 

Anyway, before the nasty computer problems happened, I made the final leveling push with two toons who were both sitting at 89. Achievement? Hell no, I passively finished my quintet in early fall. Getting these two to 90 and in decent gear meant I'd have two more bodies to run through Tempest Keep each week in my futile quest for that stupid fiery bird mount thing. I spent a bit of time on the Timeless Isle with each to ensure their ilvl was at least in the 480s. The key to soloing Kael'thas is weapon strength. Simply put, if you can't burn through the phases of the fight quickly enough you will likely get overwhelmed because of loss-of-control effects and/or damage pileup. 

Ensuring they had at least an upgraded 463 weapon, gem slots filled and decent enchants applied was a priority. I also splurged on Pandaria flight for each right away because how can you not? Lastly, I sent 50,000g with one of the 90s when I transferred him over to my main server. 

And that's where I sit. A full accounting. I've resigned myself to spending at least half of the gold cap before I consider switching my focus on Unclaimed Containers to something that holds more potential to provide a return on investment. Really, stiff competition and dwindling gold reserves aside, after last week's computer issues I'm just glad to be back in the game. But what do you think I should do? I've resigned myself to spending the full amount, though I'm not sure if/when/how I will get there. Should I continue to buy up Unclaimed Containers, WoW's equivalent to Storage Wars? Should I perhaps try to save up some money and buy a coveted mount for near gold cap? Maybe instead I should randomly give it all away in 5-10,000g increments to people I encounter on the server.

If you've got an opinion, let me know in the comments. 

Spending the Gold Cap #6: Where have all the BMAH containers gone?

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

A funny thing happened since the last StGC post and my return to chilly Wisco from sunny Anaheim, California: I casually went after a couple of Unclaimed Containers on the first two days back -- didn't win them. And then all of a sudden, Unclaimed Containers were no more. I can't say for sure when it started, as I only started paying close attention last Monday, but there haven't been any containers listed on the BMAH for at least five days.

I've checked the BMAH on-and-off since it's inclusion in Mists of Pandaria, and have amped that up to near-daily visits ever since Unclaimed Containers were added in patch 5.3 (in late May). Never before have I seen the BMAH void of containers for more than two days. I assume that what gets listed there is completely random; from what I've seen, Unclaimed Containers have a pretty good chance to be listed, as I'm used to seeing new listings at least every other day, if not every day.

So I'm a bit perplexed, but take comfort in the fact that this is probably just really bad luck. Anyway, not too much to report since the last one. At that point, I was left with:

697,389g

- 108g¹

Remaining Gold: 697,281g

                                                        

¹ Auction-house listing fees. Been unsuccessful dumping the sellable items I've won from unclaimed containers.

Unclaimed Container #1

Contained: Grievous Gladiator's Armplates of Proficiency

Purchase Price: 6,060g
Resale Value: N/A

If you mouse over the tooltip above, that's not an error: even if the toon I bought it on had been level 90, and had been a plate-wearer, he couldn't have used these. Why? Because these are the Alliance version of the armplates. I've won quite a few unusable PvP items in my quest to offload a hefty chunk of my gold, and I've held onto each of them with the hopes someday Blizzard will implement some sort of account-wide chest, ala Diablo III, that would allow you to pass soulbound items between toons on your account. Wishful thinking, I know, and if it does come, it'll probably happen too late. Oh well. There's always the 16g I can recoup should I decide to vendor this item.

Unclaimed Container #2

Contained: Pattern: Fists of Lightning
Purchase Price: 15,920g
Resale Value: ≈1,000

This'll allow a leatherworker to craft intellect mail gloves equivalent in power to what you can find just by stumbling around the Timeless Isle for a short period of time. So in other words, not very attractive at all. Given that these are quite easily obtainable by running this expansion's earlier raids, I'm a bit disappointed to even see these as options. That and it's not the first shite pattern I've landed. Anyway, I've had this one up to resell for more than a month and I've got no takers. I don't anticipate saying goodbye to this pattern any time soon.

With that, let's have a look where I'm at:

697,281g

- 6,060g

- 15,920g

Total Remaining Gold: 675,301g

Spending the Gold Cap #5: 60,000g footnote

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

Something unfortunate happened with TradeSkillMaster, the addon I use to buy, sell and keep track of my income and expenses, since I last checked my accounting data. Namely, all of that data is gone. Vaporized. Perhaps it was erased when I recently updated my addons. Fortunately, I'd taken a screenshot of my accounting data six days ago when I won the second of three BMAH containers I'll be reporting on in this post. Because of that, I'm able to account for all but 32g of the difference between last post's remaining gold amount and this week's tally:

781,211g

- 2,850g¹

- 60,000g²

-32g³

Remaining Gold: 718,329g

                                          

¹ Purchased two battle pets, though I can't be bothered to remember which ones

² Pictured in the header; yes, I could've waited for a better deal

³ Laundered money

Unclaimed Container #1

Contained: Pattern: Imperial Silk Gloves

Purchase Price: 6,670g

Resale Value: ≈3,500g

This will be the second pattern I have on the auction house with the hopes of recouping half of the gold I paid for it. US Horde mean price, according to the Undermine Journal, is right around 3,500g, so that's where I'll have mine listed for the time being. Given that this pattern yields armor that's on par with what one can rather easily acquire on the Timeless Isle, this one's probably only going to appeal to the pattern collectors. Hopefully there are still some of them around on my banker's dying server.

Unclaimed Container #2

Contained: Banana Charm

Purchase Price: 8,490g

Resale Value: 25,000g+

Could it be?! I can't decide if this is an item I could sell to recover some of the gold I've been spending, or just keep it in my collection (like it is now). The fact is, it's likely I could sell this and make money. If I'm remembering correctly, this is the first time that's happened since I started buying up BMAH containers.

Unclaimed Container #3

Contained: Mulgore Hatchling

Purchase Price: 5,780g

Resale Value: ≈3,000g

The Mulgore Hatchling comes from the Argent Tournament -- my guess is a lot of people either have this pet or don't even know about it. Or maybe don't care about it. I purchased this guy back when the Argent Tournament was current, and I don't intend to add a duplicate to my collection. Most likely I'll toss it up on the auction house for a few weeks, and if it doesn't sell, add it to my list of free duplicate pets.

This week's tally leaves me just under 700,000g, which in truth made me feel a bit uneasy:

718,329g

- 6,670g

- 8,490g

-5,780g

Total Remaining Gold: 697,389g

Spending the Gold Cap #4: Making it worth my time

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

In the last Spending the Gold Cap, I had only one container to report on. Seems this quiet little server still has some players with deep pockets and a penchant for gambling, which has made container acquisition a bit more tricky, not to mention pricey. The thing is, if you're playing this game, both you and your competition are working with a finite resource: gold. At some point, you're both going to run out assuming you're not making it faster than you can spend it. So how you spend your gold when bidding can be rather important. If you're going to lose the bidding war over these containers, make sure your opponent is paying his/her fair share---the more they pay for containers they win, the sooner (in theory) they'll be pushed out of the market.

I've now noticed a handful of players who regularly return to check the prices on containers, though since the server population is on the lower end, I rarely enter a situation where I'm in a bidding war with more than one person. I pay attention to how often they return to their mailbox to get a sense of how much gold they have on hand. Are they heading to the mailbox every two or three outbids? It's likely they're working with 20-25k gold. The key is paying attention to your competition; it's the only way to drive them out or beat them.

Just the other night I arrived at the BMAH to find a container at just over 6k with less than 30 minutes left. Within a minute or two after my bid, my competition arrived. They ended up leaving with the container, but not before the price was pushed upwards of 20,000g. The week prior, I had a player openly state they were willing to bid up to a whopping 50,000g after I outbid them with a mere 7k. Now curious, I decided to call their bluff. And they weren't bluffing. That player walked away with a container for which they paid more than 40,000g. They must not know they're likely to receive a piece of armor they can't use, or if lucky, a battle pet worth a couple thousand gold. Either way, I removed 60,000g from the market, and hopefully, some competition went with it.

I've gone on long enough, though. I have three containers to report on for this edition, so let's look at the tally:

Last Tally: 804,874g

+ 1,900G¹

- 43g²

Total Remaining Gold: 806,731g

                                            

¹ Sold the Teldrassil Sproutling I won in an earlier container.

² Repairs; did some questing and dungeon-running with a friend.

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER #1

Contained: Cryptstalker Wristguards
Purchase Price: 11,500g 

Resale Value: N/A

I'm getting fairly used to receiving pieces of armor I'll never be able to use---out of everything one can purchase from the BMAH, armor is prevalent, whether no-longer-acquirable tier sets or items for use in current content.  

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER #2

Contained: Elwynn Lamb
Purchase Price: 6,670g 

Resale Value: ≈ 3,500g

Some may know I'm an avid pet collector, and naturally I have one of these in my collection. You know what that means: let's play Recoup our Losses! This puppy lamb will have to get used to the auction house, because that's where it's going to spend its days until someone takes it off my hands for a couple thousand gold. That, or during a bout of generosity I may just give it away to someone who needs it. 

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER #3

Contained: Plans: Chestplate of Limitless Faith
Purchase Price: 7,350g 

Resale Value: ≈ 3,000g

A 3k resale value very well may be wishful thinking, as the only people in the market for a chest pattern like this are profession completionists. That's right: someone who wants to maximize the amount of patterns they have on a character might be interested in this, but the chest the pattern creates is all but worthless now, especially given how easy it is to acquire ilvl 496 epics on the Timeless Isle. Now if I could only sell the items from Containers 1 & 2 I'd have enough for an extra container! After these three containers, here's where I'm sitting:

806,731g

-11,500g

-6,670g

-7,350g

Total Remaining Gold: 781,211g

Spending the Gold Cap #3: Competition for containers

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

It's not that I haven't been trying for Unclaimed Containers since the last post three weeks ago. Believe me, I have---though my own forgetfulness will occasionally contribute to me not rechecking the auction house when I should be. However, containers have been selling for as much as 20,000g, a price that gives me pause. As you can guess, I haven't been on the winning end of many containers this month...ONE so far, to be exact.

I know. One isn't really worthy of an entire post, unless it has yielded something amazing. Well folks, I'm breaking that rule. This week's item isn't a total loss right out of the gate. So let's get right to the accounting:

Last tally: 816,267g

+ 177g¹

= 816,444g

                                        
¹ Did a small amount of questing with a friend who returned to the game.

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER

Contained: Teldrassil Sproutling
Purchase Price: 11,570g
Resale Value: ≈ 2000g

It definitely lessens the blow when you win an item that can potentially be resold. Like the pattern I won earlier, I can fortunately list this item on the auction house. When I first unboxed the item, there were none listed, so I posted mine for the high price of 5,000g. At relist, there was another going for 2,000g. As always, I'd be happy to recoup any amount of money at this point. As it currently stands, to date, I've managed to spend 1/5th of my fortune:

816,444g

- 11,570g

Total Remaining Gold: 804,874g

Spending the Gold Cap #2: It's easy to spend one-hundred grand

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

In the midst of my tallies this week I discovered a hole. A gaping, 80,000g hole. Now what did I buy...late at night...in the wee hours of the morning? Please not the Rocket Chicken, please not the Rocket Chicken. It wasn't the Rocket Chicken. Since the last post, I've only been able to land two Unclaimed Containers. Which of course doesn't come close to explaining where the 100,000g+ went. So before revealing the contents of the containers, I'll account for the rest of the money.

Last tally: 918,937g

- 9,000g (character expenses)¹

= 909,937g

- 80,000g (Jeweled Onyx Panther)²

= 829,937g

                                  

¹ A friend recently returned to the game and this money went to setting him up, aside from 500g I sent to my engineer to aid in the leveling process.

² 80,000g for a mount that at the absolute minimum would cost the crafter 72,000g seemed too good to pass up, considering I still mean to craft the four other panther mounts without dipping into my gold-cap money.

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER #1

Contained: Blood-soaked Invitation
Purchase Price: 7,540g
Resale Value: N/A

Most expensive Brawler's Guild Invite ever??!? Nah, I'm sure someone's received one of these for a much higher final bid. Still, this one stung a bit. I can't even remember how I got into the Brawler's Guild months ago, but given that I did, this item is 100% useless to me, like the majority of items I've received thus far from Unclaimed Containers. The item is soulbound, and will remain in my bags until I muster the nerve to delete it.

UNCLAIMED CONTAINER #2

Contained: Tyrranical Gladiator's Armplates of Alacrity
Purchase Price: 6,130g
Resale Value: 15g89s (vendor)

As you can see, those are plate bracers. For those playing at home, you may recall my banker here is a mage. But as if the armor type weren't enough to render this item completely useless to me, it's also the Alliance version of the item---I'm a Hordie. This is why I'd really, really like to see some sort of account-wide storage introduced into game so players could at least ferry these soulbound items between one another.

The Tally

829,937g

-7,540g
- 6,130g

Total Remaining Gold: 816,267g

Spending the Gold Cap #1: 918,167g remaining

Screenshot taken at Wowhead

What else to do once you hit gold cap, other than spend your fortune? In the Spending the Gold Cap series, I account for the money I earned as I spend it on Unclaimed Black Market Containers, and the occasional pet or mount from the auction house. There will be tears.

I chronicled the journey to gold cap, so now I may as well chronicle the journey back to broke. See, not too long ago I hopped servers with several of my most-played characters. The choice to leave my gold-capped banker behind would've been tough had I had to actually make it. But since Blizzard also enforces a cap on how much gold a player can transfer with a character, my money was essentially stuck on the the server. Sure, I could've purchased items from the current AH to sell on the new realm, but I wasn't interested in doing so.

So I've decided just how I'm going to spend as much of it as I can: Unclaimed Black Market Containers. I briefly thought about spending the lot in one chunk with a gold cap bid on a rare mount, should any of the ones I have my eye on hit the Black Market. Weighing the fact it took me about a year to reach the cap through auctioneering at varied levels of intensity, I've ruled that out. I've spent a chunk here and there on miscellaneous items, mostly battle pets I'm too lazy to farm, and also sent 50,000g with one of my transferred toons, but otherwise my fortune is relatively in tact.

Unclaimed Containers will hold any one of at least 200 items that are sold on the black market auction house, everything from a Shimmering Wyrmling to Invincible's Reins. Luckily, the server my wealthy banker plays on is medium-low pop, meaning I can normally snatch up Unclaimed Containers for 10,000g or less. I'm trying to keep it at that threshold, which would allow me to open approximately 99 Unclaimed Containers before my funds ran out.

View a full accounting of my ledger and the contents of the first three UBMC's below.

999,999g

- 50,000g (sent with transferred toon)
= 949,999g

- 1,832g (pets and misc. items)

= 948,167g

Unclaimed Container #1

Contained: Pattern: Robe of Eternal Rule
Purchase Price: 16,100g
Resale Value: 4,940g

A 496 cloth robe would've been appealing earlier in the expansion. Maybe 16,000g-appealing. But this late in the game, it's not of much use to me. I posted it on the auction house for around 6,000g at first, and it ended up selling for about a grand less after a couple of weeks---I was happy to be able to recoup any of the cost.

Unclaimed Container #2

Contained: Dreadnaught Gauntlets
Purchase Price: 7,770g
Resale Value: N/A

Absolutely, 100% useless to my banker, who is a mage. My secret wish for an upcoming patch is that either A) these items become account-bound so players can at least send them to alts on their server or B) pie-in-the-sky dream has Blizzard creating a true account-wide storage that could be accessed by any character on any realm.

Unclaimed Container #3

Contained: Fishing Chair
Purchase Price: 10,300g
Resale Value: N/A

I think the item itself is cute, but again, I fish with my main character who's not on the same realm. Since it's also soulbound, I'm stuck with it while secretly hoping I'll be able to some day ferry it onto a toon that would actually use it. 

The Tally

948,167g

-16,100g
(+ 4,940g)

- 7,770g

- 10,300g

Total Remaining Gold: 918,937g