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    SICK gold, Control AH - what to buy low, sell high

    Want to make sick gold? READ ALL OF THIS, I'm not trying to bore you, I'm trying to help. Nothing of what I posted is useless, so please read to the end.
    Ok, so you guys have all heard the ever so famous method of making lots of gold with the AH; buy low sell high. But this is useless if you dont know what to buy, when to buy it and when to sell it. Here is how I've done it and made 1k profit in 20 minutes (every day) with an extra 800g that didn't sell yet. You will need the basic auction house addons (auctioneer/auctionator)

    Firstly, all servers vary and the demand of items vary. If you want to do it the safe way, monitor the prices for a few days at regular intervals. Key intervals are:


    • Morning (6-8am)
    • Midday
    • Raiding hours (6-8pm server time)
    • Late night (10pm-2am)

    Here is a list of items that I bought and sold

    • Silver ore (sells VERY well)
    • Eternal Water
    • Eternal Fire
    • Small Egg
    • Mageweave cloth (sells VERY well. Note this down)
    • Iceweb Spider silk
    • Netherweave cloth
    • Greater planar essence
    • Greater cosmic essence
    • Handful of copper bolts
    • Light leather
    • Medium leather
    • Heavy leather
    • Thick leather
    • Rugged leather
    • NOT BOREAN LEATHER
    • NOT FROSTWEAVE CLOTH

    I'll add the rest when I remember.

    Buying low
    I can't take screenshots to demonstrate so I will explain as best I can.
    Search for an item (light leather)
    Results:
    Item-------------------Price for each (this is all that you want to be looking at)

    2 Stacks of 3---------------40s
    10 Stacks of 1--------------43s
    2 Stacks of 20--------------49s
    1 stack of 2-----------------1g99s


    This is an ideal situation. Theres few items in total and you can dominate this. The gap between 40s and 1g99s will yield alot of profit.

    What you are looking for is an item where there is a big gap from the cheapest item posted to the most expensive item posted.

    So, buy them all except the 1g99s per unit item.
    Then just post it and undercut it by one copper. Move on to another item, rinse + repeat.


    Another way is controlling the AH by buying everything and putting it up for your own price. When to do this;

    Item-------------------Price for each (this is all that you want to be looking at)

    1 Stacks of 20-------------------3g40s
    1 Stack of 12--------------------4g40s

    What you can do now is buy them and post them for 9g per piece. This is a good indicator and it WILL sell.

    When NOT to buy items
    If you see this, dont buy them

    Item-------------------Price for each

    15 Stacks of 20------------------40s
    10 Stacks of 10------------------40s1c
    19 Stacks of 20------------------41s
    38 stack of 20--------------------42s
    3 stack of 4-----------------------42s
    12 stack of 20--------------------42s


    You will waste a a lot of money having to buy aaaaaaall those stacks to be able to put them up for your own price. And the difference between the cheapest item and most expensive item is a matter of silver. Not worth it.


    When to sell high
    You want to put them up when there will be people looking for that item:
    • Midday and for 12 hrs. If it doesnt sell, you dont lose a lot of deposit money. Let it run till past raiding hours and if it hasnt sold, put it up at late night hours for 24 hrs.
    • Early morning for 24 hrs. Check throughout the day to make sure no one undercut you.


    OH NOES, SOMEONE UNDERCUT ME!!!!1!1!!
    No worries :P if its a relatively cheap item and they undercut you by alot, buy it if your item is 250g and his is 249g, undercut him by 1 copper.

    My favorite items were the ones listed further up, but the ones that were miracle workers were silver ore and mageweave cloth. People would post silver ores for 4g a piece and I'd buy them all (since there were few) and post them at my price for 12g a piece. Monopoly ftw :P
    Same with mageweave, many people undercutting eachother ridiculously 50s, 40s, 20s. Id buy it all and post for 18g a stack of 20.

    So, no guide will give you 20k gold in one day, but the trick is to use different methods and combine them. This was my key method that helped me get 200k gold total on my two bank toons. Enjoy, and please, post negative + positive feedback, I will respond as helpfully as possible.


    (Edit: Forgot my useful AH location tip. Outside SW's AH theres a new mailbox. Stand on the crate/ledge next to it and use this macro:
    /cleartarget
    /targetexact Auctioneer Jaxon
    /cleartarget [dead] [noexists]
    Bind it to your bank alts action bar (2 on mine)
    Then go key bindings and look for "Interact with target" and set it to something simple. Now you can stand within reach of a mailbox, click 2 (target auctioneer) and interact with him to open AH menu. No more walking!)
    Last edited by pqs; 10-08-2009 at 05:04 AM. Reason: Adding macro

    SICK gold, Control AH - what to buy low, sell high
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    Pretty much common sense, really nice AH Macro though, helps a lot and makes things much quicker.

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    Not common sense. People dont usually know what to buy and sell and usually end up buying stuff that never sells.

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    It's all common sense except for the "What to buy" bit. I could have summed this post up in 4 words "Buy low sell high". Macro is awesome though.

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    Common sense for some, new for others. Not everyone has done it before. Glad at least the macro helped -.-¡
    Plus, people never properly know when to buy and sell and end up posting something that doesnt sell.

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    Not a lot of new info for me, except the Silver Ore, worked like a charm. I guess I made 100g on 1.5 stack or something

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    Then you should try the other ones I suggested, especially the mageweave cloth. Report back with feedback please

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    Originally Posted by pqs View Post
    Forgot my useful AH location tip. Outside SW's AH theres a new mailbox. Stand on the crate/ledge next to it and use this macro:
    /cleartarget
    /targetexact Auctioneer Jaxon
    /cleartarget [dead] [noexists]
    Bind it to your bank alts action bar (2 on mine)
    This macro wins

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    + Rep just for the macro alone

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    Good guide helped me alot +Rep

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    Other items you guys can try it with is Cobalt ore (monitor how it sells on your server first) and abyss crystals

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    +Rep x2 bro, cool guide

    EDIT: Must spread before giving again
    Last edited by Picaro; 10-10-2009 at 08:20 PM. Reason: Must spread before giving again :(

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    Just wanted to add, a good time to buy some items is after an arena season (where enchanting mats go through the roof) and this one website Wowecon its a price database for the AH (works on mac + windows) and has an addon for ingame use that collects info from the database and from your auction house scan. Has cool features like charts and stuff for registered users.

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    Really Good guide thx +rep

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    Originally Posted by aso0om View Post
    Really Good guide thx +rep
    Lol love it when people say +Rep you actually have to click the button for it to work btw. Big +Rep button to the right of my name :P
    Glad you liked it

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