Easy money off the AH

[Plex]

What you need:

-Auctioneer (Auctioneer addon for World of Warcraft) with BottomScanner
-An disenchanter, doesn't matter what level enchanting (I started with level 1 enchanting).
-Some gold. The more you have, the better. You can probably start with about 10g, but with 225 enchanting I need about 300g if I just do a full scan every 12 hours or so, or 800ish if I scan overnight.

Extremely helpful, but not absolutely necessary:
-If you have InnerSpace, then these two scripts:

function main()
{
    while ${Me(exists)} && ${WoWScript[IsAddOnLoaded("BtmScan")](bool)}
    {
        if ${WoWScript[BtmScan.Prompt:IsVisible()]}
        {
            WoWScript BtmScan.PerformPurchase()
        }
        wait 5
    }
}

*Clicks "Yes" to buy an item when the BottomScanner window pops up
and

function main()
{
    variable guidlist Items
    variable int i
    
    Items:Search[-items,-inventory,-notsoulbound,-uncommon]
    echo "Total of ${Items.Count} to possibly DE"
    for (i:Set[1] ; ${i} <= ${Items.Count} ; i:Inc)
    {
        if !${Items.Object[${i}].Name.Find["Essence"]} && !${Items.Object[${i}].Name.Find["Dust"]} && !${Items.Object[${i}].Name.Find["Shard"]} && ${WoWScript[Enchantrix.Storage.GetItemDisenchantTotals(${Items.Object[${i}].Entry}),4]} > ${WoWScript[GetSellValue(${Items.Object[${i}].Entry})]}
        {
            wait 5
            while !${WoWScript[SpellIsTargeting()](bool)} && !${WoWScript[XLootFrame:IsVisible()](bool)}
            {
                cast "Disenchant"
                wait ${Math.Calc[${WoWScript[GetNetStats(),3]} / 10]} ${WoWScript[SpellIsTargeting()](bool)}
            }
            Items.Object[${i}]:Use
            echo "Distenchanting ${Items.Object[${i}].Name}"
            wait 40 !${Me.Casting}
            wait 30 !${WoWScript[XLootFrame:IsVisible()](bool)}
            while ${WoWScript[XLootFrame:IsVisible()](bool)}
            {
                LootAll
                wait 30 ${WoWScript[XLootFrame:IsVisible()](bool)}
            }
            wait ${Math.Calc[${WoWScript[GetNetStats(),3]} / 10]}
        }
        waitframe
    }
}

*Disenchants every unbound green in your inventory that DEs for more than it vendors.

-If you don't have Innerspace, you can use an autoclicker or equivalent, you can get one at http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...uide-more.html

Disenchanting

Low Level
Now, what you'll start out doing if you don't have much gold is buying cheap lowbie items that you can disenchant to get 50% profit (double your money), until you have enough money to clear the AH with lower profit margins, and move into slightly riskier items.

For this step, set up your BottomScanner (type '/btm' to open the config window, '/btm load' if it's not loaded yet) to only buy for the Disenchant and Vendor evaluators, using these settings:
Disenchant:

If you're not buying the items on your enchanter, remember to check "Custom levels" and set the levels appropriately for your enchanter.

Vendor:


If you're just getting started and are really low on gold, just disenchant everything you get and resell it. Otherwise, stockpile what you'll need to level your enchanting once you get past 50 through disenchanting.

Mid Level
Once you have a bit more gold, you can start lowering your profit margins. What I use at the moment is 25% minimum discount, which gives enough of a margin with enchant mat market fluctuations to still always turn a profit. You can also up your minimum profit per item, which will reduce the number of items you need to DE, and effectively cut out the lower level mats like Strange Dust. I use a 50s min profit, and only very very rarely get any Strange Dust or Magic Essences, and pretty rarely any Soul Dust. You won't want to do this until at the very least you have enough of them to level up your enchanting to above where you need them, which will also allow you to disenchant the items that give the higher level mats.

I recommend these settings for the 125 enchanting cap:

And these are what I currently use on my enchanter which is capped at 225:

Note that "Allow bid on items" is turned on. Again, you can turn this on once you have enough gold to afford having more money tied up.

High level
Well, I haven't actually gotten my disechanter above 225, but the above settings should work fine for normal disenchanting. You need 300 enchanting to disenchant level 60+ epics, otherwise you need 275 for blues/greens up to level 70.


Disenchanting I use as my base money-maker, its basically guaranteed profit, since you can relist as many times as need to sell off the mats, as there is no deposit fee.

Appraiser

Now that you have a bit of gold under your belt (or you started with it), you can move on to the riskier buys, which stand to make you a much larger profit per item, but won't necessarily sell, and have deposit fees. I go for underpriced blues/epics, and a number of twink items. To have BottomScanner pick up those blues and epics that are really underpriced, set up your Appraiser evaluator like this:


This will look for blues/epics that you can make at least 400% profit off of. This gives a very wide margin for cutting down the price if it doesn't sell. In short, you're grabbing items people have massively undercut so they can sell them quick, and/or they don't know the real value of.

Snatch

The last part of this guide is for the Snatch evaluator. Basically you set a price for an item, and BottomScanner will "snatch" any auction that has that item under the price you set. I do this for twink items, but you could easily add your own items to look for, for example low-priced primals, shards, whatever. Here is my list of twink item prices, you'll want to double-check the prices for your own server, but these should work pretty well for older, established servers:

(source: Norganna's AddOns - Watchlist)

-- 10-19 weapons
[1935] = 1000000, -- Assassin's Blade
[1482] = 1300000, -- Shadowfang
[890] = 350000, -- Twisted Chanter's Staff
[2567] = 350000, -- Evocator's Blade
[1318] = 340000, -- Night Reaver
[1484] = 300000, -- Witching Stave

-- 10-19 armor
[2059] = 510000, -- Sentry Cloak
[8350] = 490000, -- The 1 Ring
[1486] = 490000, -- Tree Bark Jacket
[1121] = 400000, -- Feet of the Lynx
[12977] = 300000, -- Magefist Gloves

-- 20-29 weapons
[776] = 920000, -- Vendetta
[4454] = 490000, -- Talon of Vultros
[8226] = 450000, -- The Butcher
[4446] = 410000, -- Blackvenom Blade
[13033] = 400000, -- Zealot Blade
[3413] = 390000, -- Doomspike
[7730] = 300000, -- Cobalt Crusher

-- 20-29 armor
[9491] = 630000, -- Hotshot Pilot's Gloves
[2264] = 780000, -- Mantle of Thieves
[1978] = 530000, -- Wolfclaw Gloves
[2039] = 500000, -- Plains Ring
[9510] = 410000, -- Caverndeep Trudgers
[13108] = 400000, -- Tigerstrike Mantle
[2278] = 390000, -- Forest Tracker Epaulets
[2292] = 390000, -- Necrology Robes
[9509] = 370000, -- Petrolspill Leggings
[1491] = 150000, -- Ring of Precision
[7728] = 320000, -- Beguiler Robes
[12998] = 300000, -- Magician's Mantle

-- 30-39 weapons
[873] = 2300000, -- Staff of Jordan
[2825] = 1200000, -- Bow of Searing Arrows
[870] = 1200000, -- Fiery War Axe
[9425] = 1100000, -- Pendulum of Doom
[869] = 1000000, -- Dazzling Longsword
[1982] = 1000000, -- Nightblade
[9424] = 580000, -- Ginn-su Sword
[868] = 550000, -- Ardent Custodian
[9426] = 430000, -- Monolithic Bow
[9718] = 410000, -- Reforged Blade of Heroes
[8223] = 390000, -- Blade of the Basilisk
[13034] = 380000, -- Speedsteel Rapier
[9384] = 380000, -- Stonevault Shiv
[9392] = 330000, -- Annealed Blade
[10570] = 320000, -- Manslayer
[6327] = 320000, -- The Pacifier
[13064] = 300000, -- Jaina's Firestarter
[5756] = 300000, -- Sliverblade

-- 30-39 armor
[10583] = 1500000, -- Quillward Harness
[2955] = 1400000, -- First Mate Hat
[867] = 1100000, -- Gloves of Holy Might
[9429] = 1100000, -- Miner's Hat of the Deep
[1981] = 930000, -- Icemail Jerkin
[7755] = 740000, -- Flintrock Shoulders
[10574] = 660000, -- Corpseshroud
[5257] = 540000, -- Dark Hooded Cape
[9420] = 510000, -- Adventurer's Pith Helmet
[10328] = 500000, -- Scarlet Chestpiece
[1204] = 490000, -- The Green Tower
[9431] = 410000, -- Papal Fez
[1980] = 400000, -- Underworld Band
[9396] = 370000, -- Legguards of the Vault
[10332] = 370000, -- Scarlet Boots
[13110] = 360000, -- Wolffear Harness
[1718] = 350000, -- Basilisk Hide Pants
[2277] = 350000, -- Necromancer Leggings
[2951] = 200000, -- Ring of the Underwood
[9375] = 320000, -- Expert Goldminer's Helmet
[10581] = 310000, -- Death's Head Vestment
[13117] = 300000, -- Ogron's Sash
[13084] = 300000, -- Kaleidoscope Chain

You'll need the item link to put these in, so either get an addon that can show you all the items you have in your item cache (eg Ludwig | World of Warcraft Addons | Curse), or if you use WoWHead.com, it can give you a /script you can paste to give you a link of the item. Once you're able to get a link of the item, type

/btm snatch [Item Link] 100000

to enter the item into the snatch list. The last number is the price to snatch it at, in copper. So 100000 is 10g, 5200 would be 52s, and so on.

Final Notes

If you're able to automate BottomScanner and the disenchanting of the hundres of items you get, this all becomes much easier, but you can still make a tidy profit if you choose to do it manually. Per day, you can probably make more money farming, but per hour, this method can make you a comparable amount of cash compared to farming, or more depending on how you set everything up, and this can be done at any level. I spend probably about 30 minutes to an hour a day doing this, and made about 1500g over the last 7 days (keep in mind I automate BottomScanner and disenchanting with scripts, however), with my level 28 druid.

[Rohi]

The snatch is the thing im thankful of

[jjaa]

nice guide +2

[macintox]

rep cookie when i can

[smor9876]

mm yes i think i can rep u lol well i clicked it

[GKV]

I like the snatch idea as well +rep

[Ic3fuzion]

Very very nice, I've been using auctioneer/disenchanting for a while, made 1200g in bout a week and a half, with this guide I can even make more, thanks alot
+rep

[bkizzl3]

Cool man! Helped me make some gold Making my way to my mount now.

[AdamSWFC]

Nice guide mate, I have a great technique using DEing to make cash, Ill post it when i get 5 posts :P

[aggros]

Yes the snatch bit is really great info to have. Thank you. +rep

[KKTHXBYE]

Really cool didn't even know the Snatch thingy

[Equ1N0X]

Awesome guide, one note: set your addons to ignore the engineering trade goods/consumable section, as the things rarely sell and cant be disenchanted, same for potions. if you ignore these, saves you money+bag space.

[Jotylyn]

Nice the snatch thing should come in handy thanks.

[JadoJodo]

Dumb question but...How do you setup/run scripts in InnerSpace?

[too803]

Thank for the guide and i wish i could give yuo rep