Moving stuff from Horde to Alliance and back

[Desta_Bawz]

May be common knowledge for some, but I thought of this on my own. I also made a few mistakes along the way, which I will point out.

1. You will need two accounts, one with chars on horde side, one on alliance side. Move a character from each account to a goblin AH. One char must be horde, the other alliance. Don't laugh, but I made the mistake of selling alliance -> alliance just different accounts once :P)

2. Before you start your moving do /who Stranglethorn Vale, /who Winterspring and /who Tanaris. If you see any characters below level 10 in any of the areas, BE WARY. There are people who have an alt camped at an AH with a clicker addon (no idea of the exact addon name) set to catch people just like you Best to leave the moving for some other time.

3. With character A put the stack of stuff in the "Post auction" tab, set a price but don't start the auction. Make sure to put in a bid as well as a buyout.

4. With character B open the AH and type the name of the item you are about to move (eg Fel Lotus) - this is all to save you precious seconds.

5. Move to char A, click "Post auction", then quickly alt + tab to char B and hit "Search", select the item and hit "Buyout".

If done correctly, you should have the stuff on the char you wish.

Regarding setting buyout price:
1. If you put a high buyout you will lose gold due to the high % taken by those greedy goblins.
2. If you set a low buyout, you risk the stuff getting intercepted. As far as I know, the addons used to do this work by being to highlight/prompt you to buy any item which is at most X times what the vendor pays for it. The risk is of course nonexistant (I think) for enchanting mats, for example, which have no vendor value AFAIK.

The whole transaction is best done with both WoW instances in windowed mode and the windows made smaller so that you can see the full window of each instance at the same time. This makes for faster alt-tabbing than if you were to have both sessions in full screen. I assume a dual monitor setup would be best but I don't have that so I can't say.

Hope this helps at least someone.

[hatriz812]

This has been posted atleast 100x times now, i think everyone knows this

[Desta_Bawz]

Fair enough - kind to point out a more complete guide? Perhaps some stuff I missed? I'm always interested in learning more.

[finger]

lol... noob... every1 know this and you DON'T need 2 accounts... just put the item in ah logg in on the other character and buy -.- lol

[Mallak]

lol... noob... every1 know this and you DON'T need 2 accounts... just put the item in ah logg in on the other character and buy -.- lol

Lol, noob, a camper or even a person just browsing the AH could buy it out in the time it takes to log off, then on and search for it.

[Dawnte]

lol... noob... every1 know this and you DON'T need 2 accounts... just put the item in ah logg in on the other character and buy -.- lol

ya u do need 2 accounts cuz it says you cant buy your own items if your on same account

[wooow]

lol... noob... every1 know this and you DON'T need 2 accounts... just put the item in ah logg in on the other character and buy -.- lol

Eh no.. with the same account it should say that you cant buy your own auctions

[Obama]

This has been known since neutral AH came out.

[Dokita]

Yeah this is pretty well known. Thanks for trying to contribute though =]

[smudger]

I knew this already but, if you're going to do this I'd like to point out that it's easyest to do with a friend you know and trust. It's also easyer if you use google talk or something like that because it's faster than typing and when doing this speed is necesary.

[shadowslayer133]

I knew this already but, if you're going to do this I'd like to point out that it's easyest to do with a friend you know and trust. It's also easyer if you use google talk or something like that because it's faster than typing and when doing this speed is necesary.

look whose talking mr. 1post

[Desta_Bawz]

I knew this already but, if you're going to do this I'd like to point out that it's easyest to do with a friend you know and trust. It's also easyer if you use google talk or something like that because it's faster than typing and when doing this speed is necesary.

It is my firm belief that even with voice comm, you can do it faster on your own with 2 clients than with a friend.