Bags can make you quite a bit of gold. Just like fishing and cooking can make you some decent low-level money, using tailoring as your profession and making almost exclusively bags can also be a lucrative career between the levels 20-60.

Tailoring is one of those professions that is just not a fabulous money-maker overall. I know you can find people who say they make a pile of gold every week on it, but honestly, the materials for tailoring are hard to get in the quantities you need unless you are buying them at the AH. The problem with this is that on many servers the price for the materials will be more than the price you can get for the finished product. But there’s a little hope in tailoring, and it’s in making bags.

The very best way to take advantage of this is by using skinning and tailoring. This way, you can get almost all of the materials you need just by doing your regular questing runs with very little farming involved or purchasing from the auction house. The exception to this rule is going to be buying some (or massive amounts of) cloth.

Go get your skinning and tailoring training and save up every scrap of cloth you ever find. Using the Thottbot techniques you learned in a previous article, level up your tailoring to maximum as fast as you can. It will help if you are level 35 or better when you do this, otherwise you’ll cap out before you can make the best bag of all. It also helps if you know a leatherworker who can turn all those stacks of leather scraps into light leather for you, but otherwise just sell them and buy what you need for the bags. You won’t ever need a ton of leather for bag making.

Now you need to get a little more skillful about using the auction house. If you are not using auctioneer I highly recommend it, it will save you a lot of effort in this step. Look at the mats required to make your bags. After you have sold a few of them, you will be able to determine the maximum price at which you can sell every bag you make.

We’re not interested in the real maximum price, but the highest price at which they sell like hotcakes. You have to pay a deposit for every bag you place at auction, and if your price is so high that you have to re-list those bags more than two or three times, you’ve probably lost money instead of making any. Then figure out from that max price what you can afford to spend for a stack of materials and still make a profit from the bag.

For instance, on one server I know that if I buy stacks of 20 runecloth for 1gold 50 silver or less

Stacks of rugged leather for 3 gold or less

I can make 75s on as many runecloth bags as I can possibly make, selling them for 2 gold 95 silver bid, 3 gold 45 silver buyout. You can see that If I post my bags at 2g95s they will sell super fast compared to the other prices.

This may not be true on every server precisely, but you will be able to find this same sweet spot probably somewhere near this range. There are times I will buy 200 gold worth of runecloth and make 90 or 100 bags because I know that I will turn that 200 gold into 450-500 in less than a week for about one hour’s worth of work.

You see, everybody needs four bags (or three anyway for people opting for a quiver or other specialized slot container), and everybody wants bigger bags. You can get more than 400 gold on most servers for a primal mooncloth bag. Too bad the mats will cost you about 395 gold to buy if you don’t farm them yourself. I have found that the very best money-making bag out there is the runecloth bag. It’s the first really serious bag upgrade people do, and the price is reasonable for the amount of money someone usually has by the time they can use this bag.

The other nice thing about bags that makes people spend pretty freely for them is that in most cases for the lower level bags they do not bind on equip. Which means you can turn around and sell them back on the AH later when you get even bigger bags, or a similar size bag drops from a mob. SO people often see it as a push. “I’m not really paying 14 gold for a set of bags, because they will still be worth 14 gold three months from now when they get new bags!”

The neat thing is that they will give YOU their 14 gold! Next up - disenchanting for the big bucks.

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