Tired of being poor? Make over 200 gold a day quickly, easily, and legally!
If you’ve read my article on WoW Auctioneer, you’re probably wondering about the most profitable items you can buy and relist at the auction house. Here are some items I buy and sell that help me make me over 1,500 gold a week.
Herbs
Especially herbs needed in potions used by raiding guilds and lower level herbs used by players leveling up alchemy skill for their alts. Farming and selling low level herbs (especially Briarthorn) is a very good way to use WoW Auctioneer to earn gold if you’re a lower level player.
Enchanting Components
The great thing about enchanting supplies (Strange Dust, Mystic Essence, etc.) is that there’s no listing fee associated with them so auctioning them off is free. Enchanters always need more components and typically have plenty of gold to spend on them. In fact, one of the best advanced strategies I use involves buying low demand magic items (like swords with bonuses to Spirit) for very low prices, disenchanting, then selling the resulting components for big profits.
Quest Items
Another set of items with no listing fees and high profit potential are quest items. One of my favorite gold making strategies and World of Warcraft mining tips is to farm Bloodstone Ore (needed for a 30s level quest) and sell it at auction for 20 to 30 silver each. Considering the quest rewards over 3000 experience, most players are willing to spend a gold to just buy the materials (four ore are need for the quest) instead of going through the hassle of gettting the quest items themselves.
Recipes
Recipes are another big gold maker. Their listing fees are typically very low and many people without WoW Auctioneer undervalue recipes when they put them up for auction. It’s not unusual for me to make over 100 gold each when buying and relisting high level recipes.
Ore and Bars
Raw ore is a great seller for those looking to level up mining (especially lower level ores like copper and tin - another great gold maker for low level players) and is always in demand at the auction house. Metal bars (made by smelting the ores) are also good sellers but here’s a quick trick to really make gold with metal bars.
Buy out auctions of stacks of metal bars - especially gold and mithril (and other very high level metals if you can find them). Then, break up those stacks into single bar stacks and relist them. You can typically get stacks for much less per bar than single bars are selling for (check WoW Auctioneer for how much single bars sell for) and then relist the single bars and make gold on the difference.
It may seem counter-intuitive that single bars sell better and for more gold than stacks but there are so many crafting recipes that call for one or two bars of some metal that, even if stacks of bars are priced for much less gold per bar, players will still buy the higher priced single stacks because they just don’t need 5, 10, or 20 gold bars for their recipe.
(Notice that this screenshot was taken before I auctioned off the Mature Blue Dragon Sinew (worth 85 gold) and the stacks of Primal Water (worth 430 gold per stack) you can see there in my backpack.)
Here's another screenshot showing a few of my other auctions. I bought that Schematic: Healing Potion Injector for only 20 gold earlier in the day. When the auction clears I'll make at least 75 gold for just a few minute's work because I know what and when to buy and sell at the auction house for maximum profits.
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