[Tip] Making easy gold with the Auction House

[Eski]

Hello again MMowned,

I am working towards my contributor status and I thought I would share with you my little trick I use the make some additional gold. I have been using these forums since 2006 and I have personally never see this guide exactly. Some might say it is "Common Sense", flame me. I don't care. I am trying to contribute.

The basis of this tip is supply and demand of Herb's on the Auction House.

Some people do not farm their own herbs, or do not have the patients to wait for more items to be posted on the Auction House or do not know the average price per stack. This is why this works!



What the idea is, You find Herb's on your Auction House that has a low supply.

Step 1) Search Trade Good's -> Herb.
Step 2) Search for a low supply of high end herb's (Outlands).

Example:

(On my server I see that Mana Thistle has a decent supply. I would prefer it be a lower supply but for this guide I will buy them out.)




Step 3) Buyout all the of stacks of 20's - (Mana Thistle in my case).


Step 4) Visit Wowhead and search for the Herb that you had bought out.



As you can see, 3 Mana Thistle's are used in each flask and 7 Mana Thistle per Cauldron. Post some of your Mana Thistle in these amounts. I am going to do 5 stacks of each. (Note: Post the rest of the stack's in 20's or wait for the stack's of 3's and 7's to sell out.) I will be posting the rest in stack's of 20's.

If your worried about people flaming you for raising the price of the item, you can also post them on different characters. (I bought 12 stacks of Mana Thistle each, split up the stack's between different characters. So that one character doesn't repost all 12 and appear to "Flood" the auction house) And if you go to this extent you might as well undercut yourself by a few copper to lower suspission. I personally do not go to this extent because I personally don't care.

Note: I bought the Mana Thistle at 12g-15g. I will now be posting the stack's at 19.99g. It is not as big of a profit I would like but it is still a profit. I normally work with more expensive herbs (Nightmare Vine, Fel Lotus etc). To where I have gotten 10-15g more per stack. (Not stacks of Fel Lotus).



Here are the Mana Thistle's Re-posted. As I am the only one on the Auction House with Mana Thistle's they should/will sell out quickly.

I hope someone found this tip useful. Please post any comments/questions you may have.

Thank you for spending the time and reading this.

[Eski]

[rhizx]

Not a bad idea.. Worth a shot.
+rep

[Tiro22222]

I do it for a long time !
+rep

And a question : what's the name of the addon you use for the auction house look like that ?
Thanks

(Scuse my bad english, i'm French)

[Ginchy]

auctioneer

[mastapreest]

Very nice guide, detailed enough. Like you said some might say that this is common sense but to others or new ones its not. +Rep from me for a decent guide!

[Eski]

Thank you for the comments and the Rep.

Blue here I come! 6 Rep to go /gitty


<3 [Eski]

[DnessWolf]

thats not a bad idea at all

[marwin1234]

k ver nice ill take a try +rep

[ScytheN]

worth a try !

[imtel]

Ok i saw what you posted but i just cant resist. Common sense!

[terradragon]

Ok i saw what you posted but i just cant resist. Common sense!

Maybe try to get more rep before saying this post was common sence. This kind of posts are helpful and it may be common sence to some, but not to others! An example is me. This was a great post. +rep btw!

[Kindles54]

Very nice, +rep, This theory is also possible with cloth, did it tons of times!

[Eski]

Wow, Thank you everyone!

5 more to go!

Thank you for the positive feed back aswell, it means a lot to me.


[Eski]

[geometro916]

+rep not bad really

[temporar]

nice eski i envy you,you can write "readable" :lol:...+rep


BTW hope you get contrib soon ..