Stupidity at work

I did not play a lot last week (again, my wife would disagree) but yesterday I did make a very stupid mistake. Listen to me and don't do it on your own:

When I checked my gold-addon it told me I had about 20k to spend. But with serveral things to buy (gear and mount for my death knight and my rogue) I thought the safety margin was too low and I had to make some money. And I proceeded to make money like I was used to do two month before....

NEVER EVER DO THIS! I made a couple of stoneguard bands (worth ~17g each) and disenchanted them. But I did not check the prices and so the average profit of a single band was 15g! A net loss of 2g per band. How stupid!!

To cut my losses I made a few scrolls from the last stack of dust so I may end up with a minor win but next time I will check this in advance. I promise ... :-)

I also bought a few stacks of saronite ore to prospect them and get some gems. 100 ore and only two scarlet rubys (no other blue gems!). *sigh* At least this will result in 50% profit. You have to be lucky if you are stupid :-)

cheers,
chaoskas