Need help?

Gevlon, the writer of http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/ is inviting anyone in need of gold to apply for tips. What you need to do is go over to this post and follow from there on the how.

On the other hand, here is my list of things to stock for 3.2 that would be out in a month or so:

Titanium Ore - will be prospected by JC's for epic gems
Arcane Dust - Fly Mounts at 60 => less creatures killed => less greens looted => less of them on AH
Planar Essence- Fly Mounts at 60 => less creatures killed => less greens looted => less of them on AH
Prismatic Shards - Faster leveling => less blues D/E => less of them on AH
Arctic Furs - needed for quite a few LW (and not limited to) recipes
All types of flowers that can be mined / gathered from Outlands
Knothide Leather
I would not advise investing in Runed Orbs, but if you can get your hands on the new Crusader Orb you can make quite a few cash in the first few days (max a week).

Also Icy Dragonscales and Nerubian Chitrins are now usually under the vendor prices at AH . Get as many of them as you can, and in 3.2 they will sell for 4 - 500% percent more.

As i can see it, gold can be made in the first week after the patch hits live. And i am still sad that i've sold all my Titanium ore when it was like 25g a stack and now on my server it sells with 200 -> 300g a stack. Now time to restock.

Who i am making gold on :)

This is such a perfect example how stupid people are.
They were talking about Book of Glyph Mastery at the begining then they just went out amazingly prooving how much stupidity can be out there.

This is the perfect example of Mr. Trade Police Guy and the perfect example how they lose gold on AH due to stupidity. And the worse thing is that they are aware that this is stupid.

On another hand a quick tip on selling :
Buying low priced epics and selling them high is not allways a good choice. i've found that anything above 2000g sells very very hard (in 1 -2 weeks or so) and that something needs to be good enough versus farming its replacement in dungeons/raids.
This leads to a limited number of epics that sell.

Also the item enhancements sell good over the week but rarely or not at all in weekends. I will try to sum up a list of epics that are worth fliping / crafting as well with a list of item enhanchements that sell on week days and when is the best to post them.

Paying for confort, bragging!

It is just amazing how much gold can you make by just selling crap. Both in WoW and in real world.

Take for example this sweet ride: The Mechano Hog. The materials you buy from vendor is the gold sink. The rest of them is just about 1 -> 1.5 k g. But this baby is sold with 15 -> 16k gold and there is a demand for it.

There are people farming Stratholme (or it was Scholo) for the Undead Mount, doing arround 200 -> 500 runs, just to mount up on a city, and people to see that they own that mount. It is just like in RL. A car sole purpose is to transport you from one place to another at a faster speed than the one you would have by going on foot. Some more things apply to a car that do not apply to mounts that good. You will get more mounts for faster speed but thats it. For a car you would want to have good reliability, safety and some confort. All the rest is just vanity.

There are a lot of companies in the world that do not produce anything usefull to the basic needs of humans, but they are succefull because we like others to see how good we are doing, etc.
So it is only obvious for those companies to provide for that demand, and milk those morons.

Cheers

Making gold with proffesions

Many people just dont see how much gold you can make with their crafting proffesions, and not limited to theirs.

An good example is the Titansteel stuff. Sells pretty ok at AH:
Titansteel Shanker = 1000gold
Materials needed:
6x Saronite Bars =~ 15g
2x Frozen Orb =~ 80g
6x Titansteel Bars =~ 400g
1 Titansteel Bar =~ 65 g
3x Titanium Bar =~ 30g
1x Eternal Fire = 22g
1x Eternal Earth = 6g
1x Eternal Shadow = 6g

So a grand total of max 560g if you pay 10g for Titansteel Bar cooldown. This is 440g with 10 - 15 minutes of trouble. Or 240g if you decide to buy the Titansteel bars directly from AH.

There are also a lot of people that will buy BOE bracers for Emblems of Valor for you with as low as 800g. The lowest price at AH for one of these is 1000g. The highest can get to 2600gold.

Another trick is to buy enchanting materials from AH, pay a 50g fee for about 20 enchants on scroll for greater potency as an example.
The materials for it are:
2x Infinite Dust = 10g
4x Lesser Cosmic Essence = 16g
1 x Weapon Vellum III = 12g (ask an inscriptor, and for 20 or more you can get maybe a better deal)
2.5g fee to enchanter
Total = 41g
For 20 investment is 800g

The average price for it lately at AH is arround 80 -> 120g . So for 20 you get arround 1600 -> 2400g. Thats a minim of 600g profit over 30 minutes hassle.
So if you play with your bank 2 hours a day with crafting only and a bit of investment you can make arround 1500 -> 2500g / day easy.

If you got the proffesion, the profits are slightly higher. If you do i recomend getting LilSparky's Workshop Addon along with the usual Auctioneer.

Happy crafting!

Farming

I've leveling an rogue lately for some time, and doing some quests in Nagrand i remembered back in the days when i used to farm Mote of Water there on my Warlock to get that Frozen Shadoweave Set and i was farming those Motes all day long, in the morning before going to work. And let me tell you that the satisfaction of having all the set on was priceless.

Since then i leveled up an paladin, hunter and now rogue, and for all of them i got the materials for crafted items, or just bought items directly from Auction House, but never felt so good as i was then. Farming at AH is much more easy, less time consuming, but the reward is not that great.

I saw many people farming a lot of things for gold. There is even these chinese farmers that farm for RL money, but AH is much more rewarding gold wise, still no matter how much gold you make, no matter how much fun you have doing so, i never felt again that good as i was back then.

Making gold is somewhat easy, playing the AH, finding that very underpriced item is aswell a matter of luck but pretty easy with the given tools, keeping (spending) wisely the gold is not.

Mr. Trade Police Guy

As you might already know from diffrent blogs, there is a post at wow insider about Mr. Trade Police . This is the guy who knows all the markets, all the prices and allways knows that you are overpricing, no matter how low you sell.
I encounter one of these guys yesterday, while trying to sell Tome of Polymorph: Turtle for 400g. The price is very good considering is selling for arround 1000g if you stay enough with it on the AH or trade. Now this guy offered me 20g for it saying that it is overpriced. Whenever i encounter one of this guys the discussion goes something like this:

Trade Police Guy: How much?
Me: 400 gold
Trade Police Guy: WTF, that is so overpriced. It is not worth more than 20g.
Me: Hmmm. You are right. So i will sell it to you for 20g.
Trade Police Guy: Really?
Me: No. Bye :)

There is of course the type who just likes to annoy:

TPG: How much?
Me: 400 gold
TPG: 300 gold, because "n" reasons
Me: Ok. Lets say 350 gold.
TPG: 310, because etc and etc and etc
Me: Ok 310.
TPG: Nevermind

The /trade channel is just something that never stops to amaze me (no matter the realm). And as someone said on a diffrent blog, every server(faction) has a celebrity wanabe and Mr. Trade Police Guy is an well known candidate.

Runed Orbs

Hello,

Long time no see. Lately with the release of Runed Orbs i tried to get a hold of a few at low prices to get a boost of a few k gold on my stash. I've got 2 for 2500g and another 2 via bid with 1100g each. The problem is that 2 days after that some guy flooded the AH with 6 orbs at 1000g bid 1200 B/O.
There are several facts about these types of goods (they are into an extent the Sunmote of Wotlk):
1. There will allways be someone selling them each week (raids and pugs are made each week)
2. There will allways be someone buying them
a) Casuals that dont have time to raid , but want the gear :)
b) Raiders that want to consume DKP on some rare items rather than what can be crafted with orbs
c) Other business men

So i have several options here:
1. Sell them with little to no profit (even a loss) at 1199 g or something
2. Wait with them for a while to establish when is the highest request and the lowest offer (risk of the price fall even more)
3. B/O all of them and control (attempt to) the market
4. Just put them in AH with an extra 100 -> 150g profit for 2 weeks and hope they will sell eventually
5. Advertise on Trade, escape the AH cut, and sell with little profit

Out of these options 2 is the one with most chances of success, however this means ~ 5k gold that are on hold for undetermined time.

This was my mistake because i got greedy over a trade with someone and bought them with not a lot of chances of profit.

What i also noticed with this experiment is my lack of interest for low /small profit. I used to "transport" items, bid for 1-2 g profit and so on. With more gold the more greed, the more risks, and less interest to actually make a steady income.

So i finally concluded that this should never happend again, and i will slowly and steady start again transporting, and biding for small profits.

Have fun playing and remember that nice profits are not allways what they look like.