Cross faction Supply and demand makes serious gold!!

[Galdivarn]

Ok, I’ve never seen this posted here and I’m reluctant to put it out because no doubt I’ll ruin my sweet business.

Ok, so your going to need a couple of thing to start off:

1- 2 accounts if your on a PvP server. – You ma find it easier to have 2 accounts anyways so you can log into them both and just swap between them (PC spec permitting of course)
2- A bit of gold to get you started, on either faction (I’ll explain how to transfer it over)
3- Two bankers on both the Alliance and Horde, sending one of each to Booty bay (a lot easier for horde than Alliance I know that ), however before you do so if your starting from scratch ensure that you kill a few mobs first to give yourself a few copper, you can use the transfer method detailed later if needed but need at least a few copper to post an auction.

With your other bankers go to each of your factions auction houses (I have one if IF and Undercity) and then begin to look for the same items on the AH, for examples Primals, gems etc. On my server I noticed that Primal Mooncloth for example was selling for 35g BO in abundance on Alli side, whilst it was in very short supply on the Horde side, and selling for upwards of 50g BO.

So here’s what you do, buy up as many of the item as you can afford, for me it was primal Mooncloth but I also noticed big gaps on a number of items (Primal fire – 16g on Alli – 25g on Horde etc etc). I’ve also noticed that there seems to be a hell of a lot of lower level epics on Horde side than alliance - remember this can work both ways.

Once you’ve bought as much as you can afford mail them to your banker at Booty bay.

Now here’s the part where you need to watch carefully!

Once your BB Banker has the item pop it on the neutral AH for say one copper starting and two copper buy out then immediately switch to your Horde banker (or vice Versa) and buy the item out.

Congrats, you’ve just bought a really expensive item for 2 copper.

What you do next (and I’m sure you can see where this is going now) is mail the item to your Horde Banker and list it on the AH in my case for 49g99s buyout (the price is entirely up to you), and then once it’s sold given AH charges etc, Bingo!! 14g profit. All you need to do then is transfer this back to your BB Banker. Log back to your Alli BB Banker and list one of your boar ribs for said 14g, then BO with your Hordie.

I did this with 4 and made just under 60g Profit in minutes as they were bought almost immediately.

Rinse and repeat – The above method can also be used to transfer some of your gold to the opposite faction to get them started!

A few things to note though:

A – This isn’t quick (the AH takes an hour to give you the money from your sale). You can transfer the item to the other faction quickly for the sale but need to wait for any cash returns.
B – This is entirely server economy dependant and won’t work for all items (I found Primal Water etc to be more or less the same price on both factions).
C – Timing is everything – when listed item on the neutral AH make sure your able to swap characters quickly to do the BO before someone else snatches it.
D – Keep a close eye on prices – if you suddenly raise the price of an item (i.e Mooncloth) then you can affect the economy of the opposite faction and thus raise the price of said item whilst encouraging others to lower thier prices to sell their items.
E – make sure you do this all at once, if your going to do this sit down and figure out what your going to buy etc and do it all at once, don’t buy some items, transfer them over and them list them later, the price may change leaving you with a load of stuff you can’t sell straight away but hey, isn’t that the case with Auctioneer etc.

All in all I’ve made over 550g from this method since Sunday for just playing the faction auction houses against each other.

Hope this all makes sense if not just ask.

Have fun.

[1337asusual]

+Rep hopefully i can get this going for me

[Rohi]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...eutral-ah.html
Lol owned.

[Galdivarn]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...eutral-ah.html
Lol owned.

Hardly, not if you have the two toons logged in at the same time and do it almost simultaenously. Gonna try that though

[TforTyranth]

+1 rep , its nice. but you need 2 accounts not many have it.

[Luthious]

Nice will try and thats +rep for you, cause i know thats got to work.

[Daeity]

Yeah, this has been posted before.

Does anyone know any servers where this is actually possible? ie, where the AH Prices are always significantly different and it's guaranteed to make profit?

On my server, it's a 2.5-to-1 ratio of Alliance over Horde. However, the prices on both Auction Houses are identical.

I've checked other servers, and the prices are the same across the board (I compared prices of Epic Recipes, Adamantite Bars/Ore, Gems, Trade Goods .. everything is the same.)

[hoboonaparkbench]

Most servers have fairly-close to equal prices on everything. But one good thing on my server is the pathetically low alliance PVE progression (no ally guilds in BT or Hyjal), so if you could buy gems and resell on ally side, you're all set.

[thedarkestnights]

i might try this unno kinda cool i guess

[Galdivarn]

Heh,

One thing to note, if you know people that you can trust you can actually make money out of them as well.

I had a mage may me 100g (plus AH expenses) to get him a 6 of Furies off of the Horde AH.

he must have been desperate.

[Chief]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...eutral-ah.html
Lol owned.

how boout you take notice of who bot the item then knowing only a machine could do it that quick report the sorry bastard and get him perma banned for bottin FTW

[ochimo]

how boout you take notice of who bot the item then knowing only a machine could do it that quick report the sorry bastard and get him perma banned for bottin FTW

Umm I dont think you get to see who "bought" the item when you get the cash.

[jvc1986]

Also remember that neutral AH takes 15% of the price in fees, so it may be better to transfer the gold as items and sell them again on your main banker.

[Dreadroth]

i know my friend does a bit of this on Deathwing.

its a very easy, and almost hassle-free way of making money ^^