New to tokens and see the value is around 180k gold.
Question - can I buy a few now and hold onto until the next expansion? I would imagine the game would be more popular before 9.0 and the value of the token would increase? Would it make more sense to buy now for 25 bucks and hold onto instead of buying now and getting the gold today?
I believe you can hold up to 12 at once but please don’t quote me on that.
I think it will decrease because of the brutasaur, many people will buy tokens with money to sell it to complete the 5M gold and buy the mount. The same happened at the beginning of bfa, when it dropped from 220k to 110k
The value of the token is locked into the gold value at the time you buy it.
Teehee 
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Having made this mistake personally, no it’s not. It’s locked in at the time you post it on the AH.
Considering the eminent mount removal , I would hold off a month or so before Shadow lands and then get some 
(sneaks Trustlvlfour some cookies for giggles)
Effect of removal of AH mount hasn’t been felt yet even tho ppl keep claiming it will drive the price down. The price has been pretty steady between 170k to 190k. Don’t expect this mount to have any noticeable effect on the price.
However, so far noone has been able to correctly determine the price of future tokens. All predictions made end-Legion, pre-BFA, in BFA and end-BFA has been quite wrong. For example, noone expected tokens to drop almost half price at the beginning of BFA, so if you wanna hold on to them do it but it is a risk.
You wouldn’t hold on to the token.
You’d want to sell it now for the gold, then hold onto the gold until the price drops. Then buy the token again at the cheaper price and turn it into blizzard balance.
The price is set at the time you put it up for auction, you can hold onto them for later, but you can’t have 2 different types of token, and have no more then a certain amount.
Limitations and Restrictions.
You may use the in-game Shop to purchase a maximum of 20 Tokens per week.
Your Blizzard account can only have one type of Token and:
a maximum of 20 Tokens purchased with money in your inventory at one time
a maximum of 10 Tokens purchased with gold in your inventory at one time
I want gold.
3: You will be shown the current selling rate for Tokens, and you can choose to list your Token or wait and list it later.
So you can really horde them like stocks? If that’s the case, I should have bought a bunch years ago when they were worth around 5000 gold. :\
You can’t resell the ones you buy from AH though, unless that has changed.
No, you can decide exactly when to list them. It’s not an in-game commodity like that.
You give Blizz $20. They create an item in your character’s bag. You take that character to the AH and list the token, because you can’t trade it or vendor it. Someone else buys that token from the AH and when it comes out of the AH it’s BoP and cannot be vendored, traded or AH’d. The only thing the buyer can do with it is choose to redeem it for one month of game time or $15 Battlenet balance.
No one can predict accurately what is going to happen with that token since all kinds of things can affect it.
It should be going down right now but as soon as it hits 175k or so someone with a lot of gold buys a bunch.
I agree this is what should be happening. However, classic is causing a constant demand on that token and if there are others items blizzard releases that cause pressure on the supply it will go up.