Transferring characters for recipes

[John Smith]

Thanks for the replies guys, especially the one with the offical blizz stance. So lazy, I should've looked that up. My plan is to use 2 different accounts because I want my pally off of Illidan back to Ghostlands. Maybe I'll just make a dk on the same account and transfer that way. I'll start a guild on Illidan, deposit all gold that character A transfers from ghostlands with, withdraw with character B, and then transfer character B back home.

It feels slimey, but it started off more about getting the patterns than anything else and not having to pay 8k for something I see at 350g, then I got greedy thinking about it. If I end up going through with it this weekend I'll post back and let ya know what kind of g i make off the deal.

thx again.

[daviddoran]

Sounds like a good idea.... kinda like the real world economy.... stuff that is abundant in some areas is very rare in others, and in a capitolist economy, with supply and demand running the show, selling the right thing in the right place can be very profitable. Are there any reliable ways of viewing another servers economy without making a bunch of lvl 1s (and looking very suspicious IMO, tons of new lvl 1s running straight to the AH..... looks like gold spammers to me...) I bet tons of us have a toon that they could do without for "business trips"

[Ualaa]

It's the same idea of using the neutral AH to transfer higher selling items from one faction to the other.

I believe it was the opening of AQ..
The resources to gather were different for each faction.
And one guy was buying the alliance turn in items, horde side cheap.
Transfering them alliance side, selling them, purchasing horde turn in items cheap, pocketing a chunk, transfering items back to the horde.
Then selling the horde turn in items, pocketing a chunk of the proceeds and repeating.

He posted that he made 25k over the few weeks the opening of the gates event thing was going on.

This is the same principle, just with transfers of toons, instead of playing a neutral AH.
Actually Blizz allows character transfers with up to 20k gold.
And they don't let you trade with your own account, even across factions.
So this is a more legitimate method.

[John Smith]

I did end up doing this. In the end the deciding factor was that I wanted to get my 2nd pally onto my main server. So I figured, what the heck the extra $25 to transfer the gold over on another character wasn't a big deal. $50 invested, from what I have seen from advertisers in trade chat gold sells for $9-10 / 1Kg. I felt I needed to make a 5g gold profit from doing the transfers.

I bought crusader orbs, i245 crafting recipes, and a few eternals. I learned the patterns I wanted, used the orbs and posted the items. I am slowly posting the recipes. Once the patch hits I'll start making items for my team, but want to stay with the market right now before prices drop a bit.

I'm looking at a conservative estimate of a $20Kg profit. I wish I have been more detailed oriented to give you guys an exact breakdown. The key has been getting the orbs so cheap, learning the recipes, and posting the items. Additionally leatherworking patterns have been incredible. i245 leatherworking patterns were bought for 50-100g and I am undercutting the market on my main server and selling them for 1200-1500. Being able to buy them so cheap....I have a lot of them to sell.

Have a good weekend