I discovered the auction house once I reached kraag. It took me another month before I discovered there was a place in there for chests and eggs.

When I got my first pet egg I clicked on it and it vanished from my inventory. I thought I had wasted the thing. Then I found a new pet in my stable and was like....where did that come from?????

I also distributed my points equally. Str, int, dex. I think it was level 21 when I learned I was supposed to be all dex.