| One lucrative way to make tons of gold in World of | | | | tremendous bargains, like a 100g item selling for 1g and |
| Warcraft is auction house trading. In fact it may be the | | | | such. With manual searches, you're looking for items |
| very best way, since it's available at any level. Until it | | | | with less profit margin but larger volume. Therefore, it's |
| was discontinued in October 2008, Auctioneer Classic | | | | better to start off with a bit more gold, say 50g to |
| used to be THE gold making addon for auction house | | | | invest. |
| trading. The process was quite straightforward: You'd | | | | Especially when starting out, focus on high profit margin |
| let Auctioneer Classic "scan" the AH for great deals, | | | | items with a low deposit. The best items to look for |
| i.e. under priced auctions, buy them out and relist them | | | | are trade goods; stuff used for professions. Those |
| at a higher price. | | | | usually sell fast. Here's a more complete list of ideas: |
| Replaced by the more clunky Auctioneer Advanced, | | | | * Enchanting materials (no deposit on these) |
| the process of scanning and finding bargains was | | | | * Food (high-end raiding food) |
| suddenly harder. I know a lot of people still use | | | | * Ore and bars like silver bars, gold bars, mithril ore, iron |
| Auctioneer Advanced for AH trading, but I don't like it | | | | ore etc. |
| personally. For the time being, I've largely switched to | | | | * Big stacks of stuff that I split up. For example: |
| manual searches. | | | | Purchase 20 eternal fire for 300 gold and sell them |
| What I do is I have a list of popular items, some of | | | | individually for 20 gold each, equaling 400g total. |
| which is listed below, that I search for regularly. Pretty | | | | * Eternals (fire, earth, water, shadow, life, air) |
| soon you'll learn the ranges in which the items trade. | | | | * Crystallized elements (fire, earth, water, shadow, life, |
| You can write down the high and low price of certain | | | | air) |
| items if you want to, but I find it easy to remember. | | | | * Herbs |
| Let's say, for instance, that you've been monitoring | | | | * Leather |
| prices for thorium ore on your server. You know it | | | | * Gems |
| regularly returns to 3g a piece, so when you spot it at | | | | It's important to learn the markets you're trading, so |
| 1.5-2.5 gold a piece, buy all you can get. Then just wait | | | | focus only on 20-50 items at first. Don't be afraid to |
| for prices to reach 3g each again and sell then. It's | | | | invest heavily when you spot opportunities. Sometimes |
| remarkably simple; all it requires is some patience and | | | | you'll lose money in markets that never recover their |
| seed money. | | | | price, but it will be more than made up for by the killings |
| With Auctioneer Classic it was easier to find | | | | you make on other items. |