Best way to make real life $ (USD) from WoW???

[kev1br4]

I have been researching alot and am looking for the best way to make real life money(USD) off of WoW
Is it selling gold to gold selling sites?

(I have a great leveling/pvp bot (honorbuddy) a great grinding for items bot (Lazybot) and the best gathering bot ( Sgather) so I can pretty much do anything in WoW, get tons of gold,get a bunch of PVP gear, and get toons to 85.)

Is it making a great account from botting the characters and then selling the account on craigslist and sell only in your area(face to face transaction)?
What is the best way and when I say best I mean most safest,legit, profitable?
And how can I do it without making things really complicated??

[Jadd]

Reselling sites rip you off. You'll only get about $200 for a level 85 with no gear, even with the cost of original WoW and the expansions (about $100 all up..), so you're only making $100. And if it takes you 2 weeks of botting to get to 85 on each account, thats only about $7.15 per day.. which is terrible.

And as for selling gold, it's the same problem, they rip you right off unless you can find a private buyer (someone who would do anything to not lose their account). I personally wouldn't bother even trying to get into the whole RMT thing, it's waaaay too much effort, because you only really have 2 options:

1) Start your own account reselling website - problem: already a LOT of these websites, plus you need to be really good at marketing. It also requires some starting money for advertising the website etc.
2) Find a private buyer - problem: 99% of people just buy gold of gold selling sites.

There's no easy way to make money in this world. It's a sad truth mate :/

[colincancer]

I personally bot 2 different accounts almost every night, one with herb, and one with mining, I use Lazy Bot (IMO it's the best flying gathering available not to mention it's free!). Then I use my JC and Alchemy (Elixir Master) to play the AH with my botted mats, I bring in an average of $80 a week with only about an hour a day of actual play time.
Hope this helps!

I know it's not a lot, but that's over $10 an hour! lol

[Nothingless12]

Things are already complicated, If you don't want a complicated way of making money.

Stay away from Botting and WoW.

/End Thread.

[Clovian]

Selling gold while not very profitable unless you can run multiple accounts is still the most profitable overall. Selling accounts hardly nets any profit compared to running that account 24/7 gold farming. I only run 5 accounts and make close to $1k a month just doing that with some private buyers and excess sold the the chinese guys in the mmowned trading section.

[kev1br4]

Reselling sites rip you off. You'll only get about $200 for a level 85 with no gear, even with the cost of original WoW and the expansions (about $100 all up..), so you're only making $100. And if it takes you 2 weeks of botting to get to 85 on each account, thats only about $7.15 per day.. which is terrible.

And as for selling gold, it's the same problem, they rip you right off unless you can find a private buyer (someone who would do anything to not lose their account). I personally wouldn't bother even trying to get into the whole RMT thing, it's waaaay too much effort, because you only really have 2 options:

1) Start your own account reselling website - problem: already a LOT of these websites, plus you need to be really good at marketing. It also requires some starting money for advertising the website etc.
2) Find a private buyer - problem: 99% of people just buy gold of gold selling sites.

There's no easy way to make money in this world. It's a sad truth mate :/

I think I have eliminated the idea of selling accounts and expecting to make profit from it, but how would I get ripped off by selling gold to a Popular Gold Selling site? By them disputing the paypal?

---------- Post added at 10:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 PM ----------

I personally bot 2 different accounts almost every night, one with herb, and one with mining, I use Lazy Bot (IMO it's the best flying gathering available not to mention it's free!). Then I use my JC and Alchemy (Elixir Master) to play the AH with my botted mats, I bring in an average of $80 a week with only about an hour a day of actual play time.
Hope this helps!

I know it's not a lot, but that's over $10 an hour! lol

If you dont mind me asking, what website do you sell too and how do you do it?

---------- Post added at 10:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:55 PM ----------

Selling gold while not very profitable unless you can run multiple accounts is still the most profitable overall. Selling accounts hardly nets any profit compared to running that account 24/7 gold farming. I only run 5 accounts and make close to $1k a month just doing that with some private buyers and excess sold the the chinese guys in the mmowned trading section.

Yeh I think i just realized selling accounts is a horrible idea and doesnt bring in much profit. How do you get private buyers and do you sell to any websites, if so, which ones? Also what do you think is the safest way to sell? Get a vanilla account and make a guild linked to all the other farmers?

[Clovian]

All my private buyers are guildies who are hardcore raiders, they buy quite a bit each week usually. But on servers that I don't know people on I usually just unload it to people on the trading forum of this site who buy in bulk. The way I sell is having all my gold in a guild bank and having a normal account make the gold transactions.

[chikkin]

if you want to make money watching wow being played badly, get a job in a lan cafe.

[kev1br4]

All my private buyers are guildies who are hardcore raiders, they buy quite a bit each week usually. But on servers that I don't know people on I usually just unload it to people on the trading forum of this site who buy in bulk. The way I sell is having all my gold in a guild bank and having a normal account make the gold transactions.

So you do everything with one account then? Is that safe?

[Clovian]

So you do everything with one account then? Is that safe?

I do all my selling on one account, dont really care if its safe, if it gets banned like like $10 for a new vanilla key.

[kev1br4]

I do all my selling on one account, dont really care if its safe, if it gets banned like like $10 for a new vanilla key.

I ment if you do all your farming/raiding/pvp/ selling gold on that one account or do u have a seperate account just for selling gold