[Guide] The Extensive Guide to Make Real-Life Money out of Your Wow Career

[Aldun]

For some people this will be common sense, for others it will be a whole new way to get more money. I'll be explaining various way how you can turn anything you do in WoW into real life money.

I will start off by explaining how to get a good steady income for gold, which you can use to sell for real money again. Then Ill explain how to (Safely) sell this. I realize there are already many gold-making guides here, I'm just telling you what a good way is to use it to sell for money.

Contents:
Making the gold
1. Botting
2. WowInfinity
Making money from your gold
3. Selling your gold
3.1 Goldselling-websites
3.2 Private buyers
3.3 Becoming a supplier
Tips & tricks
4. Neutral AH
5. General tips on making gold
6. General tips on selling gold


Making the Gold
1. Botting
If you -really- want to earn some good cash, this would be your best investment. As for a bot that farms for you, I suggest Gatherbuddy, however if you can get your hands on a private one, you're best off.
Now, buying the bot costs money, so let's start making that back! Here's a small guide if you want simple gold (which you can transform into money, read on later). [b]This is not the only or "best" way. It all depends on what you want to do, can do, and want to risk to do. Obviously, it's also server-specific.

This step by step guide is the most simple, yet still effecient way:
0.5: Create/buy a new account with an 80, to make sure your main is save. The bot isn't detected, but you can still be seen botting or exploiting the economy.
1. Create a second (or use an existing character), which has to have all bank bag slots filled, as well as big bags. This will be your mule: it saves you much time and effort by managing your bags. I really suggest you try to invest in guildtabs on that alt ASAP before selling the gold you made.

2. Get one of the farming bots. It's a big help if it has a function that automatically mails to your alt. Download a path (See 3.) and make sure all settings is correct. Due the variety of bots I'm not going to help you with this: seek contact with the developer or check if they got a forum.

3. What you want to farm might be your biggest question. You could either go for Mining, Herbalism, Skinning, normal mobkilling or PvPing (WG or BGs). I'd suggest either Mining/Herbalism (both at once=pro), or normal mobkilling if you see there are too many other farmers stealing your herbs and ores, or if your auction house on mats is ****ed up. Hyacinth Macaw might be a good one to farm, if it goes for over 10k on your server. Killing mobs that don't drop special items might be a way too, even though it's most likely less fast.

4. Start your bot, get the items, store them, yadadada.

5.1 Assuming you farmed mats, you should now have a load stored on your alt or in his guildtabs. Do not place these on the Auction House, at least not more than a few stacks at a time: we don't want you to lose your account while there's a much easier way to always sell your mats: private buyers. Advertise in /2 with something along the lines of "Selling many stacks of xxx, for xx which is xx lower than AH". Now, you'd most likely get some whispers. Most of these -will- know you're a botter (if you say you got massive amounts), and your goal is to find a private buyer that keeps buying any stack. Lets say saronite is 13g per stack on the AH, sell it for 12g instead of 12.99g to your private buyer: this saves you the hassle of finding a new buyer if the old buyer thinks he's better off buying from AH.

The best/easiest way to confront a potential private buyer is just saying it directly: "If you want, Ill cod/trade you all my stacks each day for xx gold, I can get xx stacks a day, interested?". Now he obviously knows your a botter, but that doesn't matter: you're both making a profit here.

5.2 Assuming you went for PvP, it's easy: use all your honor for gems, and either sell them raw or cutted. Chances are way lower you'd find a private buyer (And it's not even handy at all here), so just use the AH.

6. Stock up the gold till you get to my part in the topic about the selling of it =].

WowInfinity
Note:This tool itself ain't good for making money, it's the way you can combine it with botting.
WowInfinity is a speed/fly/wallclimb/etc hack for WoW. Its not free, but can be a good investment if you use it well. This hack is (currently) undetected and allows you to fly under the ground at insane speed. Get it yet? Set this up together with your bot and you can farm loads of materials in notime. Obviously, this is more risky*** and it requires another investment, so it's up to you if you think it's worth it.
*** This might even not be entirely true: yes, you're suddenly flying at insane speeds, and people can see your nameplates. However, due the fact of being underground, chances are you'll get noticed even less than regular botting. I'm not 100% sure about this, but as far as I know a first ban for normal botting ain't perm, while botting with WI is, so choose wisely what risk you want to take. (Don't pin me on this though).

If you're really afraid of your account, you can obviously also use WI in a non-botting way. Some good tips:.
1. Freya's room in Ulduar. Get a pug or guild to clear this, then try to get them disbanded. Now, get in the room and gather all the herbs with WI, get out of Ulduar and wait for softreset, get in and gather again, rinse and repeat.
2. Normal flying around under the ground without botting. This might be less riskier since you can instantly reply to whispers so people will less suspect you, and you know for sure the bot doesn't **** up, only it's harder to farm (it's quite hard to fly underground manually..), and not even close to being as effective as botting.
3. This doesn't really fall under the less-risky category, but Ill place it here anyway since I wouldnt know a different place. PvP: by using this in pvp, you can complete objectives very easy without getting disrupted. If you're smart, you can use this in AV without getting caught, however I suggest you not to fly around with the WSG flag and turning it in within 2 seconds.. Really, that's not smart. At all.


Making money from your gold

Selling your gold
It's time to actually make money of the gold you farmed, by selling it! I'm sure you've been to gold-selling sometimes, or saw them spamming in /w or /2. Now, let me warn you about this first: a site that promotes in /2, usually scams. Not all, but most. You can choose to sell your gold in 3 ways: gold selling/buying sites, private buyers or supplying.

3.1 Gold selling/buying websites.
If you don't really have a steady income and just want a quick buck, this might be your best bet. Look for a site that buys gold, and sell it to them. I highly suggest you pick a renowed site even if you get paid less: there are -loads- of scammers on the less known sites. You can expect around $2 per k, even though I didn't sell for weeks so prices might've changed.

3.2 Private Buyers
A private buyer is another option. You'll most likely get paid more, but there's a good chance they try to scam, and legit buyers can be quite hard to find if you sell gold in this way (without a site etc). Your best bet is /2. Yes, /2. I know I said /2 spammers are usually seen as scammers, but this only counts for people advertising a site and are obviously a chinese company. (no offense to chineses, just telling my experiences here). A good macro (DONT SPAM IT), would be something like this:

/2 I made much money off the AH and am currently selling it. Add me on [email protected] and we can talk! No scammers please.

Now, there's a few reasons why this simple macro works quite well. First, you show you're just a regular player selling his gold: this gives more trust than a company spamming. Secondly, by directly giving your msn (newly created I suggest), they don't have to go to a site, which they can see as more trustworthy.
The "No scammers please" obviously won't stop scammers. However, it's again once an issue of trust: this shows once again that you're a regular player trying to make a quick buck.
Never go first in these kind of trades as seller, really.

Becoming a supplier.
In my own experience this is the easiest way if you got a steady income. [u]Don't expect to get the highest prices here, you'll probably get half or ~60% from what a private buyer will pay. Also, this is very server dependant: a high pop server with many goldbuyers will be -way- better for you, since you have to wait till the site you supply for contacts you.

So, what is supplying and how do I become a supplier? Simple, go to a (trusted) gold selling company, get to their livechat or msn and ask to become a supplier. Tell your realm, faction and name, plus how much gold you have and usually get per day or week. Not every site wants/needs suppliers since they got their own farmers, but there are enough out there that don't mind a few extra.


Tips & Tricks
Neutral AH
If you don't want to risk your account by botting/hacking, the Neutral AH might be something for you. I'm not going to tell you exactly how to do it since it's in the Elite Section o mmowned and I'm not going to break the rules by leaking that, but by sniping the neutral AH you can make loads of money, and with an autoclicker it's automated yet the chance of getting banned is very low.

General tips on making gold
1. Always loot grey items to vendor.
2. Check for vendor-bought vanity pets, they can usually be sold for a good sum.
3. Buy a Mysterious Egg from the Oracles each week: every pet from it is profit (up to 150g), Yolk is a very minor loss and theres a chance on a mount.
4. If you notice prices on mats are low, don't advertise to sell your botted mats till the prices went up again.
5. If you'r willing to take the risk, dominate a market by buying all items and re-listing them.

General tips on selling gold
1. Never go first at private buyers.
2. Never sell more than 1-2k at first to see if a site actually pays out.
3. Make sure people can't dispute if you use Paypal (Gifting is a good option).
4. Don't use Western Union.
5. Always call private buyers.
6. Don't post many mats at once on AH: many people have gotten temp and even perm bans for this.

[Jackie Moon]

Please change the color to something easier on the eyes so I can read it. IE the Red.

[Aldun]

Please change the color to something easier on the eyes so I can read it. IE the Red.

Heh, you must have quite some weird settings, its easily readable for me. Got suggestions for a better readable one? Most seem to flashy.

[Jackie Moon]

Use complementary colors, Purple and yellow etc (Google what others are if your not sure)

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[Captain Bad]

Why do you recommend against Western Union? I was under the assumption that money sent through Western Union cannot be recalled unlike Paypal.

Also, I was also under the belief that money as "gifted" through Paypal can also be recalled.

[wicked_joe]

I tried to sell gold on an account I used just for listing stuff on AH it was 10k then I get banned 2 days, any trick to selling to not get caught?

[Aldun]

Why do you recommend against Western Union? I was under the assumption that money sent through Western Union cannot be recalled unlike Paypal.

Also, I was also under the belief that money as "gifted" through Paypal can also be recalled.

I have never used WU before, but I heard many bad stories about it, about people being scammed etc. As for Gifting at Paypal: it can't be recalled, especially since its virtual goods.

I tried to sell gold on an account I used just for listing stuff on AH it was 10k then I get banned 2 days, any trick to selling to not get caught?

Some common methods are using items to transfer money, guildbank, (obviously) sending in small bits all the time (NEVER send more than 2-3k unless you really know you're safe). However I've done several 20k+ trades and never got a warning.

[wicked_joe]

guess I got unlucky all I did was put 10k in a gbank

[Shodokan]

guess I got unlucky all I did was put 10k in a gbank

Some guild banks are suspect, when dealing with websites you need to INSIST on not using common practice means and only do face to face trades, they have to trade you a Grey item or something. If the website isn't willing to do that they they don't care about their supplier's safety and move to another.

[kev1br4]

I have never used WU before, but I heard many bad stories about it, about people being scammed etc. As for Gifting at Paypal: it can't be recalled, especially since its virtual goods.



Some common methods are using items to transfer money, guildbank, (obviously) sending in small bits all the time (NEVER send more than 2-3k unless you really know you're safe). However I've done several 20k+ trades and never got a warning.

Im sorry ima bit dumb, can you explain what you mean what you mean by "using times to transfer money" and do u mean sending small bits to the people buying from you?

[Aldun]

Im sorry ima bit dumb, can you explain what you mean what you mean by "using times to transfer money" and do u mean sending small bits to the people buying from you?

It says 'items' not 'times'... And yes sending in small bits.

[Janube]

+rep for the guide. Would you recommend having a second account from which you trade the money, or would you say the risk of a ban is extremely low if you're smart?

[Aldun]

+rep for the guide. Would you recommend having a second account from which you trade the money, or would you say the risk of a ban is extremely low if you're smart?

If you got the 5€ spare for it, yes, use a 2nd account if you care about your main. And otherwise use my method from Share to gain free gametime

[CheeseProphet]

If you got the 5€ spare for it, yes, use a 2nd account if you care about your main. And otherwise use my method from Share to gain free gametime

The price is back up its not 5 euros anymore...

[kev1br4]

It says 'items' not 'times'... And yes sending in small bits.

Oh yeh you I ment items.. what do you mean by items?