The Ultimate Gold Guide REVISITED. How To Sell Your Drops For Insane Prices

[balmora90]

Why does it keep posting like half of my items for 100g (exact amount), even though the tooltip states they are worth between 1-2k and i set everything up in "post" tab including 100% DBGlobalMarketAvg.
Any idea?

[r888]

ive made about 7k gold in 3 days between selling mats from alts , this guide and the "premier guide" though there doesnt seem to be alot of difference between the 2 so a little disappointing after paying for it. But i have 37k worth of auctions to sell too. overall happy , but wish i never paid for the upgrade for what i got. oh and you also get asked to upgrade again to the better version.....

[Firegone]

I created a new group with a new operation (like you mentioned in first post. Same values and stuff).

I added a bunch of WoD-Mats and Low-Level Mats, Greens, Blues, Some Recipes... Lets say, I added 10 WoD Mats, 10 Low Level Mats, 10 Low-Level-Greens, 10 Low-Level-Blues, 10 Low-Level-Recipes.
If I go to the auction house, the following will be scanned: 10 WoD mats, 3 Low Level Mats, 3 Low-LvL Greens, 0 Low-LvL Blues, 0 Low-Levl Recipes. Why is this the case? Does TSM only work with WoD Items and only Greens?

EDIT: Added 22 Items to the list. Only for 7 is a scan being made... What am I doing wrong. i dont get it

EDIT2: Screenshot added

https://i.imgur.com/sSThZ1e.png

EDIT3: Use stack size as cap.. Alright. Sorry and thanks xD

[alexis232]

well im using this addon for a week now and i got 79 greens/blues and if i sell 1 per day its alot so i dont know how u guys are doing this but i spend more to put them on the ah then i get from it xD 3

[sun_dance]

well im using this addon for a week now and i got 79 greens/blues and if i sell 1 per day its alot so i dont know how u guys are doing this but i spend more to put them on the ah then i get from it xD 3

Steve does state that you really need to do this with 500 items for a steady cash income, or at least 300 minimum. I don't think 79 items is enough. I started with 100 items and while I did sell stuff it wasnt much. I'm slowly building my stock and now have 300 items to sell and I'm getting more gold. Also it depends on the items you sell. I find bracers, belts and cloth leggings dont sell that well and I try to avoid them unless I see a really good deal or valuable xmog item. I started with buying cheap greens and blues for a few gold but now buy xmog items for upto 1k gold if i see a good deal. bigger the risk but greater the reward imo

[SAP_Pete]

Thanks for the guide, I've been using TSM for about a week now, and it's been great selling my farmed mats, greens and old stock, but buying/reselling has been slow. I bought a bunch of items that were insanely cheap compared to WoWuction and wowhead prices, but they're not selling at nearly the prices. Not dropping my prices yet unless I have multiple in stock, and will give it some more time.
Watch the average prices and the AH players before sinking tons of gold in buying high ticket items. I have just 1000 gold invested so far, and have done some rare mob farming in Blasted Lands and Ogres in Thousand Needles to get inventory.

Here are my highest % resale items this week:


I have 300ish auctions for green/blue items listed, and a separate banker for mats / consumables.

[alexis232]

how do u put 500 items into the ah? u have them on seperated chars or how do u do it ?

[placce]

how do u put 500 items into the ah? u have them on seperated chars or how do u do it ?

500 isnt that much. Arent you farming anything? sometimes i got 800 items up on the ah.

[SAP_Pete]

how do u put 500 items into the ah? u have them on seperated chars or how do u do it ?

Once you have TSM set up, posting is really quick. It takes a couple of minutes to post a bag full (100+) items, then go to the mailbox to reload. I repost 2-3 times a day, so I don't have all items expire at the same time. For the regular items (greens/blues etc) I have it set to "do nothing" if my minimum price isn't met, so I just click down the list after the post scan and i'm done. I have all things that stack in more than 1 on a different alt (mats, consumables), split by stuff I want to post as single items or stacks of 20, just because it takes multiple clicks per item, and I might adjust my pricing more often.

[stevesgamebox]

Steve does state that you really need to do this with 500 items for a steady cash income, or at least 300 minimum. I don't think 79 items is enough. I started with 100 items and while I did sell stuff it wasnt much. I'm slowly building my stock and now have 300 items to sell and I'm getting more gold. Also it depends on the items you sell. I find bracers, belts and cloth leggings dont sell that well and I try to avoid them unless I see a really good deal or valuable xmog item. I started with buying cheap greens and blues for a few gold but now buy xmog items for upto 1k gold if i see a good deal. bigger the risk but greater the reward imo

Yup yup. The more the better.

[stevesgamebox]

Update: Here's my findings for players who are having trouble on select high population realms:

Consulting with player across the spectrum I'm getting loads of feedback concerning what makes this strategy work. What I've been seeing are some players doing exceptionally well and other struggling depending on the server and not exactly the market.

But there is a cure all. for those finding lesser profits the key is upping the ante a bit. GET MORE STOCK. I can't say it enough. Yes it is unfortunate that those on select server would have to work harder than others, but that's just the reality of it.

Which servers, I cannot say, as it all seems very random to me.

And as always RP realms are amazing for a strategy like this (That's not to say that you can't successfully do this on other PVE / PVP realms - since I have)
But in summary, if you are having trouble the key is to get more items. I have some players who have joined "my circle" and are pushing 1700 auctions daily for 9000g+ and others pumping 800 auctions for the same amount. Then a smaller number who have 800 auctions and struggle getting 4k or more daily out of it.

Right now, I'll see if I can scrap up enough data from customers of my premium service to get a read on which servers this works best on - but I doubt i'll have enough.

The players I'm working with are a fair share from both the US and EU, so the data wont be as accurate as I'd like.

anyhow, the catch all fix remains - your profits (Or lack of) will scale with the amount of items you have

And double if you start to dabble in resale combined with this.

[SAP_Pete]

So, cross realm numbers from sites like wowhead and wowuction should even out outright manipulation and insanity, has there really ever in the history of wow been somebody paying 20k gold for Garneg's War Belt Garneg's War Belt - Item - World of Warcraft ? I realize it's just AH listing prices, but did anybody ever yield 5 digit buyout for obscure transmog items like this ?

EDIT:
Just seen Honey Bread http://www.wowhead.com/item=20857 is 7500g on wowhead, 10k on wowuction region median price. Tread with care.

[Flagg]

Hi Steve, great guide! Been rolling with it since the launch of WoD, my estimate would be that I have around 300 auctions up at a time. I do however have a question for you. With the introduction of the salvage yard I get a ludicrous amount of items all the time on my chars. This got me thinking about the items that I do not sell every auction-run. I have noticed that I am only selling around 5-6 items for every 200 posts, which got me the idea that perhaps I should vendor the items that I've had up on the auction house for many times without selling. That leads up to my questions;
1. Would it be worth vendoring the items which I have trouble selling on the auction house?
2. Is there an addon which counts how many times you have had an item up for sale?

Thanks in advance!

[SAP_Pete]

Hi Steve, great guide! Been rolling with it since the launch of WoD, my estimate would be that I have around 300 auctions up at a time. I do however have a question for you. With the introduction of the salvage yard I get a ludicrous amount of items all the time on my chars. This got me thinking about the items that I do not sell every auction-run. I have noticed that I am only selling around 5-6 items for every 200 posts, which got me the idea that perhaps I should vendor the items that I've had up on the auction house for many times without selling. That leads up to my questions;
1. Would it be worth vendoring the items which I have trouble selling on the auction house?
2. Is there an addon which counts how many times you have had an item up for sale?

Thanks in advance!

1. Yes, or better disenchant.
2. TSM_Accounting module - Failed Auctions

[front243]

Somewhere in the TSM settings you can set up the mouse Wheel to post auctions. It's extremely fast to post even a large number of auctions.