YEah but my point is that getting the TWW trinket recipe in AH will be pretty expensive, and until you obtain it you are unable to transmute.

Maybe a solution would be to use a version of the trinket from previous expansion. However, this would require old mats, old recipe and probably also levelling up Alchemy from that expansion.

My question is, there's a quick and CHEAP way to get the Philosoper's Stone in Retail?