Making Money In The World of Warcraft: The Auction House

In World of Warcraft, gold (ingame money) can make the game more enjoyable. You will be able to not only imporove your characters gear, enchants, and trade with other plays for items. But you can also pay people to take you through dungeons (instances). In the game itself there are many ways to make money such as your two major proffesions or you can run through instances collecting all the loot. But if you truely want to make some quick money you should seriously consider using the Auction House.

In the game you can find auction houses in major cities, except the cities Shattrath and Dalarn. If you click on one of the auctioneers, a dialogue box will appear. You can than search for items by typing it's name or searching by category. By doing this you can get a very good idea of what an item goes for on the auction house. What I do is sell my items about 25% less than the lowest priced item, this will ensure my items will sell instead of everyone else's. If some person in the game puts an item on the auction house for a outrageously low price, you should buy that item and sell it at a reasonable price. However you will be forced to pay a fee for each and every sale you make.

A second way of using the auction house (AH) is to spend a good bit of time looking at one particular market. I suggest either enchanting materials or leather as almost every person in the game needs these at one point or another. Take some time and try to figure out what prices are charged for a particular item and how the prices vary. Once you have built up some knowledge about the items, you can see when the items are put on at too low a price. You can buy these items and then sell them for profit. You can also buy all the items on the auction house that cost less than yours and then re-sell them at your price. This will ensure someone will be forced to buy your items. Enchanting items/reagements are a good particular market to focus on because no fees are charged when you make a sale.

Also a good idea is to look at notes for upcoming patches, if a particular item is being buffed try to stack up on that item. Because of the patch is may begine to sell more on the auction house. Timing is also critical when it comes to the auction house. People in the hardcore raiding guilds may want enchants or potion before they start the raid. Many raids start around 7PM on Friday nights and Saturday nights. If you have items on the auction before 5PM you should be able to make a reasonable profit.

A good thing to look into is an addon, personally I do not use an addon but on Curse.com there are tons of addons that can assist you in selling items on the auction house. Prices however will tend to vary from realm to realm, so there is no substitue for spending time lokking at prices on your realm's auction house. You should pay close attention to the prices and how they fluctuate because over a period of 6 months prices can dramadically change. To ensure that you aren't wasting your time always check up on prices.