Gold farming via AH Flipping

[eddytheone]

Now most of this thread will seem common sense to long time gold makers but I'll make the guide anyway as its an easy way to make relatively large amounts of gold for very little effort. Please feel free to move to elite if you want. Also my first time properly making a guide so please excuse the poor layout ¬.¬ Any suggestions regarding the layout please make suggestions for future reference ^^

Due to the gear scaling entering inferno most people will be desperately needing gear to survive the hits off mobs, especially tanks

1) Open AH and configure your search filters to find All Resistance gear, this is currently one of the most useful stats for tanks as it boosts your Effective Health an insane amount.

Personally I use the following settings but feel free to tweak them to your own needs and desires


You should also change the 3rd stat occasionally to Intellect or Dexterity and occasionally Armor or Attack Speed, these can be a little less lucrative due to monks being able to just stack one resist due to the talent but they are still profitable nonetheless

2) Keep clicking refresh, the AH appears to post new batches of items every 5 minutes or so

3) Pay close attention to the items listed as 2d, these are freshly posted auctions and usually the most lucrative, if you have the float gold to spend and your filters are set correctly, buy them straight away and check the stats later, every item you buy, you will be able to flip for atleast 100k, however you will occasionally get some items that are insanely underpriced and you will be able to flip them for 300k+.

For example



This will easily be flipped for 100k, for an easy 15k profit for next to no work whatsoever, and will sell almost instantly during high pop hours

Notes
You will occasionally get "This item is no longer available" as someone will have already beaten you to buying it. However perseverance is everything and you will in time get items before others. Just be ready for when the AH re lists its next batch of items


Just be sure to take into consideration the 15% AH cut when re listing and do some napkin maths beforehand if you are unsure if you will make a profit
For those who are, "not very well acquainted" with mathematics;

(Re-List Price) / 100 * 85, if this is greater than what you bought it for... you can work out the rest = P

If you are unsure of any prices of items feel free to post here or PM me for a price check

Happy sniping and good luck!

[7193]

great write up. Resist gear that popular now?

[eddytheone]

Yeah, you wont be able to progress in inferno as a tank without it at all^^

[PhantomDonut]

Do you buy everything under the threshold of 75k?

How do you know what to post the buyout of your newly flipped item? (Besides manually searching for an item similar in stats to the one you just acquired)

[decend]

This guy just made a killing from everyone buying his gear for 70K!

kidding... nice guide.

[Vortron]

This guy just made a killing from everyone buying his gear for 70K!

kidding... nice guide.

lol, this is precisely what I was thinking at first tbh XD Thought he was just tricking people into buying his.

Started doing it just to give it a shot, made a ton today in just a few hours.

Suggestion to anyone doing it: Now is a good time to buy, not as many buying now so when they go up cheap you've got plenty of time to look em over. Another suggestion, don't check them out first unless you know you've got time, if they match the numbers, just buy em and list em, you will make gold.

Good luck to everyone else.

[ruitcys]

Nice guide!

One thing I don't understand: I bought some items, and none of them went into my completed items tabs, but I did pay for them. Will they appear some time esle, or I lost gold?!

[phantom325]

They will appear eventually, you just have to wait it out. It's a problem on Blizzard's end.

[LindeCutah]

Are you really using those search preferences? I thought I'd give it a try and used identical values and ended up with 46 pages of items that have +30 All res and +40 Vit <=75k.

Can't make a profit like this, loads of items go for 20-30k aswell (even if shitty). Am I missing something?

[Oats123]

I bumped my values to 60 vit and 30 all res. Guess what happened. Lol

[case_sin]

damn you guys, let me dig in! lmao

[LordSuicidal]

Coming from someone who actually needs this gear, **** you all.

[Nugbot]

Coming from someone who actually needs this gear, **** you all.

u mad bro?

[eddytheone]

Actual values from what you can make on this, taken from an average over the past 3 days is somewhere in the region of 500k-1M per hour depending on how luck, or stupid the people posting items are:P