How to Make Gold on the Auction House

It's really not possible for me to tell you to go buygoing 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 tell1 - Tracking Prices
you to go buy Frozen Orbs when they are below 50Whether you write this down or make a spreadsheet
gold and resell them for 75 gold once people obtainedlike I have for it, you'll want to track prices. Start off by
that information and started doing it on every server itpicking 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 makingregularly or a profession you have, whatever the item
money in the auction house is being able to find youris, 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 areboth the lowest selling, highest selling, and total quantity
optimal times to sell items and times that are bad toavailable on the Auction House at least 1x per day.
sell items. Obviously, on the weekend when everyMake your sheet cover everyday of the week and
single person is off of work, school, or sitting aroundrecord this information to the appropriate day. If you
playing WoW; that's probably not a good day to try toare good with graphs, make a graph. After a few
sell stuff unless your selling an item that raiders needweeks 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 tothis item.
apply common sense and logic to your gold making2 - Hold onto Items
strategies. On a weekend a lot of people are runningYou should always expect to maintain a bunch of
heroics, so why would you try to sell Frozen Orbs onitems that you are selling in your inventory. You never
the weekend? On the other hand, it is probably one ofwant to flood the market with hundreds of the same
the best times to buy Frozen Orbs and other itemsthing, 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 thingsterms, and when the time is right is one of the
go down on weekends and come back up during midsmartest things you can do.
week. This is generally true but like I said each serverMost 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 isis almost never the case.