Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 85 silver per craft.

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 5 gold60 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 2 gold50 silver
Items per craft: 2
Listed value of one craft: 5 gold
Auction House cut (5%): 25 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: −85 silver (-15%)

Evidence: 14 current listings holding 2,552 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 2 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Blacksmithing
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Classic Blacksmithing
Item level: 10
Reagent slots: 1
Cast time: 1.5 sec

Crafts

Iron Buckle2 gold

Reagents

1Iron Bar5 gold60 silver

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Iron Bar Metal & Stone · 11,624 on the Auction House · crafted by Smelt Iron (Mining)	1	5 gold60 silver	5 gold60 silver	100%
Total per craft			5 gold60 silver	100%

About Iron Buckle

One craft takes 1 Iron Bar. Iron Buckle is itself a reagent in 12 other recipes (Leatherworking and Tailoring).

Recipe category: Materials (Blacksmithing Plans)
Skill-up colours (Classic Blacksmithing skill): Orange below 150 · Yellow 150 to 151 · Green 152 to 154 · Grey 155 and up
Skill points per craft: 1

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Iron Buckle

Item Level 10

Trade Goods

Sell price: 1s

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Iron Buckle: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 48% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.

Now: 2 gold49 silver
30-day low: 68 silver Sep 5
30-day high: 22,222 gold22 silver Sep 3
30-day median: 4 gold75 silver
7-day median: 4 gold64 silver
Hourly snapshots: 685

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Iron Bar. Made with Smelt Iron (Mining, Classic Mining) from 1 Iron Ore. At lowest listed prices that makes one Iron Bar for 4 gold99 silver, against 5 gold60 silver listed. Also a required reagent in 34 other recipes (21 Blacksmithing, 6 Engineering, 4 Jewelcrafting and 2 Alchemy); Barbaric Iron Breastplate takes the most, 20 per craft.

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 1 reagent for one craft of Iron Buckle cost 5 gold60 silver.

Break-even is 5 gold89 silver per craft, 2 gold94 silver per item at 2 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 2 gold50 silver, which does not clear it.

The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −60 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 85 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -15.2% return on the gold you put into reagents.

Listing depth right now: 2,552 units across 14 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.

Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →

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