What is an Auction House Mule?

A mule is a low level character whose only purpose isLike I said, using a mule is simple. It starts with you
to work at the Auction House to make you gold. Theplaying your main character and collecting things to sell
process goes like this: you log into World of Warcraft,in the auction house. When you want to stop playing,
play with your characters and when you are to log off,mail those things to your mule.
you go to the nearest mail box and mail all that is to beYour mule should:
sold in the Auction House to your mule.    * Sell the things you collected
Then your mule will receive everything and go to the    * Scan the Auction House for bargains
Auction House putting it to sell. It will also be this mule    * Monopolize markets
that will check for bargains and monitor the market. It is    * Monitor the market
as if the Auction House is a separate game that youIt won't usually be necessary for you to send gold to
are playing with a separate character.your main, because it will be getting enough from
How do you create a gold making mule?quests and vendor trash. However, if the necessarily
When choosing the mule's race, there are a fewdoes arise, send it just what it needs - don't be
factors to take into consideration: how close is the mailtempted to waste your gold.
box to the Auction House in their capital, how well doWhat are some advanced techniques with mules? A
you know it, how much lag there is...very profitable technique is to create cross-faction
A mule should be a character you start from scratch -mules. This means creating a mule on the opposite
a level one character that you run to the main city, stillfaction and a mule on a cross-faction auction house.
in level one. For more details This prevents you fromFor more details .You would then trade between those
even thinking about leveling that character later on andmules to sell items on the two factions, as some items
keeps you focused on gold making.sell much better on one than the other.
It should have a normal name, because many playersAnother technique is to have an enchanter and
won't buy your auctions if you name your mule "Mule"leatherworking mule, which can profit from items that
or "Banker".don't sell that can be disenchanted and from combining
Other than that, you choose which is better, though I'veruined leather scraps to form light leather.
found Humans for the Alliance and Undead for theUsing more than one mule is another technique, useful
Horde quite good.to when you monopolize a market but don't want the
How to use your mule?player to know it and to overcome the gold cap.