| It's really not possible for me to tell you to go buy | | | | going to be epic fail, let's go over methods you can |
| some items, resell them, and make a lot of money. | | | | use to ensure you always have success on the |
| The most obvious reason is because each server / | | | | Auction House. |
| faction is it's own unique economy. Even if I could tell | | | | 1 - Tracking Prices |
| you to go buy Frozen Orbs when they are below 50 | | | | Whether you write this down or make a spreadsheet |
| gold and resell them for 75 gold once people obtained | | | | like I have for it, you'll want to track prices. Start off by |
| that information and started doing it on every server it | | | | picking a few items that you might be interested in |
| would no longer work for everyone. | | | | selling. Maybe they come from a place you farm |
| That is why the most important thing for making | | | | regularly or a profession you have, whatever the item |
| money in the auction house is being able to find your | | | | is, let's track it. |
| own niche and know when to sell. | | | | In this tracking sheet it is necessary that you record |
| If you really sit down and think about it, there are | | | | both the lowest selling, highest selling, and total quantity |
| optimal times to sell items and times that are bad to | | | | available on the Auction House at least 1x per day. |
| sell items. Obviously, on the weekend when every | | | | Make your sheet cover everyday of the week and |
| single person is off of work, school, or sitting around | | | | record this information to the appropriate day. If you |
| playing WoW; that's probably not a good day to try to | | | | are good with graphs, make a graph. After a few |
| sell stuff unless your selling an item that raiders need | | | | weeks of tracking you will begin to see an obvious |
| because that's when most raids happen. | | | | pattern and no exactly when to buy and when to sell |
| So you can see by that example that you have to | | | | this item. |
| apply common sense and logic to your gold making | | | | 2 - Hold onto Items |
| strategies. On a weekend a lot of people are running | | | | You should always expect to maintain a bunch of |
| heroics, so why would you try to sell Frozen Orbs on | | | | items that you are selling in your inventory. You never |
| the weekend? On the other hand, it is probably one of | | | | want to flood the market with hundreds of the same |
| the best times to buy Frozen Orbs and other items | | | | thing, you will only bring the prices down on your |
| people are farming because they usually sell for cheap. | | | | server. Keeping items to sell at your price, on your |
| Generally speaking, you'll see prices for a lot of things | | | | terms, and when the time is right is one of the |
| go down on weekends and come back up during mid | | | | smartest things you can do. |
| week. This is generally true but like I said each server | | | | Most people think they can just get a bunch of items, |
| is very unique. | | | | get rid of them quickly, and make a lot of money. This |
| So instead of me going over items to sell, which is | | | | is almost never the case. |