| For those people really interested in making some real | | | | You'll need to learn how to figure out what is worth |
| money with the Auction House in World of Warcraft, | | | | gold and what isn't. There are a lot of items on the |
| it's vital to set up an alternate character and split up | | | | market that fluctuate in value constantly. If you take |
| the work load of questing, leveling and traveling with | | | | the necessary time and energy to learn which ones |
| selling and buying in a major city. You'll save vast | | | | are worth the energy and time to search for, you'll find |
| amounts of time and gold in traveling this way. Once | | | | that you can corner the market on them. When you've |
| you've set up your alt though, what should your next | | | | found an item with high demand and limited supply, it's |
| step be? | | | | time to start picking up as many of the item as you |
| You'll need to level up your Alternate character to level | | | | can. Find bargain prices of that item in the Auction |
| 5 or so. As soon as you do, unload everything they | | | | House or go out and Farm for it, then turn around and |
| have so that their bags are empty and they can start | | | | sell it for market price in the Auction House. This is the |
| buying and selling. If you have a large quantity of linen | | | | basic formula of buying low and selling high, but can be |
| cloth for example, sell it all off for almost 50 Silver a | | | | taken to different levels by using two characters. |
| stack (of 20) and buy more bags so you can carry | | | | Now, with every item found Green or better in the field |
| more items. You'll want both of your characters to | | | | by your Main that they cannot use, send it to your |
| have substantial amounts of space to carry items. | | | | Alternate and sell it in the Auction House. Almost |
| You want to maximize the amount of time your main | | | | everything can sell and you haven't done anything to |
| character can spend in the field gathering items and | | | | buy those items...you've just found regular items while |
| minimize the amount of time spent going back and | | | | questing. However, some green items won't sell and if |
| forth to mailboxes. | | | | that's the case, don't repost them too many times; it's a |
| You'll probably see tons of low level characters with | | | | waste of time. |
| no equipment running around major cities. These are | | | | Every day when you log on, you simply logon to your |
| the alternates working the auction houses for their | | | | Alternate character and check the markets to see |
| main characters. Now that you have everything you | | | | what is available and what's selling well. This way, while |
| need set up, you can start making some money in the | | | | you're questing with your main character you can |
| Auction House. | | | | keep an eye out for those items. |