Playing the AH game

[Fat Tire]

It has been my experience, the best way to make gold with very little effort is exploiting the differences in the server economy between alliance and horde.

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I make quite a bit of gold on the AH by monitoring a few things, but it helps that I have every profession capable of using high-end cooldowns. Auctioneer is invaluable. So is an alt with their own bank space & lots of profession-specific bags. Only list items when you can undercut the competition and stay undercut for a long period of time. (late Friday/Saturday nights are best, but late Sunday/Thursday nights have also been very good too.

- epic patterns:
Those Ulduar, ToC, and ICC patterns can sell for a ton, and there's usually a very limited supply. When auctioneer shows one for sale for under 75% average price, buy it and re-list it when 80% of the average price would be the cheapest one available.

- raw materials:
Always buy up all available eternals and uncut blue northrend gems when they're under 75% average price. You'll use most of them to craft stuff anyway.

- enchanting mats & DE:
Monitor enchanting mats prices, especially greater cosmic essence. Go through level 70-80 greens available and buy them if a chance to DE a GCE is high and auctioneer shows the DE value is significantly higher than the auction price. DE and resell mats.

Very valuable items that I always try to purchase when they are available at under 80% average price:
- ilvl 85 Epic LW/BS/Tai recipes
- Titanium Ore/Bar/Powder & Titansteel Bar
- Uncut meta gems
- Damaged Necklace (jewelcrafters pay a fortune to get a daily token faster.. around 200g sale price.)
- Book of Glyph mastery (on my server, I always buy these at 10g and resell for 20g.. and they're much more common than the Damaged Necklace).
- Frost Lotus
- Eternals
- Uncut epic gems.
- Dragon's Eye
- Crusader Orb / Runed Orb / Frozen Orb
- Arctic Fur
- Iceweb Spider Silk

BAGS!
- There are times when frostweave cloth is cheap enough to purchase and sell 20-slot bags at a big profit. Don't forget to include the cost of infinite dust (which you should get as a side product of DE'ing ilvl70-80 green weapons) and eternium thread. Frost bags are ALWAYS in demand, and glacial bags can bring in a lot of cash if you can cheaply make the mats with a few tailor alts.

Depending on server.. can be very valuable due to profession grinding (buy really low %-wise, sell very high when none available):
- Mid-level ores: Mithril Ore/Bar, Thorium Ore/Bar, Truesilver Ore/Bar, etc.
- Mid-level gems: Aquamarine, Citrine, Star Ruby, Azerothian Diamond, Huge Emerald, etc.
- Mid-level herbs: Sungrass/Goldthorn/Golden Sansam/etc

This was off the top of my head, but the main thing to look for is what takes time to find (stuff that require a cooldown to make, or instance runs to collect) and what is frequently used in recipes or gear.

[blindbudsmoker]

been in the ah for a few years now and figure some where between 1.2 and 1.6 mill has been made. i get asked alot and the couple of things i tell every one seem to be tried and true. \

first, slow and steady. thiers lots of money in the ah but u cant make it over night. keep on with the 2 scans a day, if your ah file is wrong then every thing u buy will be wrong. this to me has been the most important thing u can do. if i transfer or start a new toon i will not buy any thing for atleast a month unless its just listed wrong.

second, keep it small. when i go through every thing i sell every day i am lucky if i have a auction over 1k (kinda). but either way i will have 1k in 10-50g auctions, no matter what. not many people have 10k to spend on one piece of pixle but everyone has 50g to spend on some thing. stay away from high profile items unless u know it will sell.

my 2 cents