New way to make a little extra gold?

[glo]

I charge 500g an hour to do anything in the game people want to do with the exception of wrath heroics. With people going nuts about achievements it's usually old world content they can't solo or don't realize they can solo, group quests, or twink runs. I usually tell anyone interested to figure out exactly what they want to get done and let me know ahead of time so I can make sure I'm not wasting any more time then necessary. Go out of your way to make these trips smooth and fun for the customer and you will have a ton of clients in no time.

[Diwa]

I actually want to try this out but I wanna know how you advertise this kind of service in the trade channel receiving less negative whispers.

[heyaz]

Dont see how this would be worth the time compared to dallies. Only takes a few hours to do 25 on 5 characters and that's about 1300g. Even if you're lazy, the grizzly hills dallies yield 300g in literally about 5 minutes. Then there's a pretty easy round of Icecrown dallies that will yield another 600g in about 20 minutes.

I think you'd spend more time than that just spamming trade, let alone getting to the instance and doing the run. If you could get them to pay for several runs and be able to clear them in a few minutes, well, maybe it'd be worth it. But still... just hard to beat dallies.

Plus - consider this. If you are letting them keep the loot, you could run your own instances and keep the loot or do a heroic. Given the abyss crystals and the frozen orb, everything else, you're making more than 200g anyway without having to wait for someone to agree to pay you.

I've tried this with twink runs and other low level instances, and people won't pay more than like 20g, because some other bored 80 will do it for less anyway, without even doing the math on how little they're making. I've tried to fill full groups, charge them 20g each, then they complain that I'm making 80g like it's some kind of crime, and some just want the loot so they want a solo run. I just haven't found a way to make this worthwhile.

[Dominian]

Best gold you can make on the side is buying low and selling high!

If you scan while you eat dinner or take a shower you can easily buy 10-20 items that are underpriced and resell them with a nice profit, and if you cba to do much of the work just buy the REALY good and rare deals.

I earned 2-3k each week after doing this for 2 weeks, but it takes some training thought.

Dailies is without any doubt the best way to make money for a boxer. When i started out clearing all instances with my pve team i earned 5k gold drops and general loot(I guess you could add about 1k in enchanting maths)

On doing around 100 quests in icecrown ive earned 2k gold aka 10k gold (4 boxed) in 12-14 hours. Thats pretty good in my eyes without epic flyers!

[elsegundo]

i remember Hachoo saying he ran people through Culling for the drake.

[Hellraiser]

First off, when you want to make big money with the auction-house be sure that you scan the AH pretty often with auctioneer. I was able to make almost 15k gold within a week.
Just invested 2k gold, bought every available damn frostlotus during the week and sold it at friday night. People go nuts for flasks in their raids.

So just scan the AH and be patient for some bargains. Don't bother with dumpers and don't even try to underbid them. Buy their stuff and sell it at your price.
For starters, just try to watch out for frostlotus and arctic fur. Sell them in different stack-sizes. You should be able to gain some nice cash within a few days.
(I'm using different toons to sell the items. So i can upraise my own prices and let the high prices look like bargains.)

When you feel comfortable with this kind of trading, start aiming for higher prices. Take a look at the inscription-cards. Maybe you can buy the cards for the Darkmoon-Cardset: Greatness. (This set runs for about 10k gold @buyout on my server.)


Also, i had fun while farming herbs straight for 2 weeks. Send all the herbs to my inscription-char and made glyphes (and sold the frostlotus). Just had to wait till they announce the release-date. Made every damn glyph 5x and gave them to my trading-char. So i just had to dump all glyphes to the AH a couple of days before that patch.

If you can spare 2k gold to try out trading, just give it a try. (Be aware that your gold also can be lost.)

Currently i would be able buy "Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth" for my first team. Since my first team isn't 80 yet I save the gold to get them some nice gear.

[Caspian]

If you can spare 2k gold to try out trading, just give it a try. (Be aware that your gold also can be lost.)

My very first character got burned. Back in July of '05 I took my meager holdings of about 20g at 35 (was actually a lot for the level) and started playing the auction house. I had 146g at level 39. At 40 it was ~100g for my mount. Did I sit on my gold to get my mount? Nope. I got into the Dark Iron ore market. Unfortunately this was at the time the patched DI ore into the world, before it was only in BRD and MC). This obviously made it much easier to obtain and drove the price down. I was stuck with a bunch and only 23 gold when I hit 40. I ended up having to move it to the opposite faction to sell it. I ended up making a profit but it took a week and moving and selling and buying other stuff and moving back and then selling that stuff. Took about a week and a half and level 46 before I got my mount.

It soured me on the whole buy low sell high. It was fun to corner the market in something but I took too big a risk for where I was in the game at the time(life lesson anyone -lol). I also learned that you HAVE to be on top of the market, you have to know as much as possible about what is coming next from blizz and, like any gambling be it stock market or the craps table, do not over extend yourself and put in more money then you can afford to lose or even have unavailable for the short term. You follow those rules and you have a very good chance to be sucessful.

Instance runs are a fun diversion. People on my server regularaly offer up to 50g for SM Cath/Armory runs and Strat UD. 20g for deadmines/sfk/wc. As boxers you can camp an AH toon or two by the AH of your choice and take another toon else to do the run through for any of that. I personally can solo (just my pally) every 5 man through TBC and most of ZG. Doing run throughs, for me, is nostalgic. I loved the challange they were at level. I can do an SM Cath in one pull in 7 minutes. It takes longer to loot it then for me to kill it. I love Strat UD and can do a full clear in about 15 minutes solo, that is skipping a bunch of mobs. Killing everything takes about 25.

Taking a team to do some larger old school stuff making some gold is fun and a nice diversion. I do about 45 minutes to an hour of dailies for 130g (just one toon at this point for me). 5 SM Cath runs for 250g in about an hour, accounting for looting, is more profitable but not as reliable. So doing it might not be as profitable as the AH or even dailies or solo heroics but it is something different and fun to do as a diversion and still brings in some coin.

[zanthor]

A week or two back I ran Molten Core and BWL with the guild, we had 25 or so players so it was a total gibfest and took about 1 hour total for both... I walked away with over 1200G profit without having looted a single item.

[Talamarr]

"Playing" the auction house has been a fun diversion for me too. I started off with about 100g on my enchanter / leatherworking toon a couple of weeks ago and I'm up to 5000g on him without any other source of gold; just the AH.

Just to further the comments already made, you really have to pay attention to the market you are in. DE'ing greens and reselling the mats has been a slow but steady income in the AH for me but you have to know which level greens and when to sell. I imagine it varies greatly depending on servers.

I stay away from buying and reselling epics. I was able to do ok on a couple of transactions but it tied up my money for far too long. Turnover is the real key here. Moving your sales as quickly as possible so you can reinvest is what I learned to be the best catalyst for increasing my output.

I wouldn't ever advise anyone to try to corner a market; I'm sure there are plenty of people that have been able to make it work but you really have to hit a particular market at just the right time and that involves a lot of observation and time. It could work really well but like the guy on my server that tried buy out all the frozen orbs, it could end up costing you big. WoW is different than the real world in that commodities are of unlimited supply.

All and all though, I probably spend more time playing the AH, watching markets, performing scans and what not than it would take me to go do a full days worth of dailies. The benefit in my mind is that it is something different. It's an old cliche' but diversification of income sources really is the name of the game.

[Crucial]

A week or two back I ran Molten Core and BWL with the guild, we had 25 or so players so it was a total gibfest and took about 1 hour total for both... I walked away with over 1200G profit without having looted a single item.

lol nice - were you charging admission? I just 5 boxed MC (1 pally + 4 ele shamans) this sunday and cleared it in about an hour (skipped as much trash as I could) but I don't think I even came close to that amount. I will definitely be running it weekly, just for the hell of it. I did not think I'd be killing ragnaros when I tried it but he went out like a candle... it was a lot of fun and I got the achievement solo which was cool.