Jayyyyyy! I just had to respond in this post because Jay replied and I see that awesome siggy. hehe.

to the OP, don't pop locks. You're competing against people who farm platinum. Basically they cheat to get a boat load of platinum and they use their plat they didn't spend real money on to open locks. You have no chance of ever making as much gold or looting as many items as the people who cheat and I'd hate to see you waste more of your hard earned money that you could spend much more wisely on real world items or console games!