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A New Realm Is About To Find Out Who Moneybaggins REALLY Is

There is a way to make gold in WoW that is so easy you’ll never believe it.  You probably don’t know it exists because you would think that anyone who would make this opportunity available just ain’t right in the head.  But it happens all the time.  If you’re leery about becoming an auction house guru, this is the place to start.  You might catch a fever for it if you try this one small taste for a while.

I took a lot of heat last week for talking bad about Jewelcrafting and then again here.  It’s like I was bad-mouthing somebody’s sister or something.  I was accused of using stupid arguments and being an idiot and some other things that I’ve already blown off.  But one dude apparently thought I was worthless because I banged on JC but didn’t give an alternative, therefore I suck.

I can live with that, and far be it from me to not give out a good tip.  And to a degree he was right, in spite of the fact that we’ve been handing out free tips here for three years.  What have you done for me lately eh?  Fine.  The problem is that the only reasonable way to teach people how to work the AH is to make them commit to it completely.  And the only way they will even come close to committing to learning the process is to pay to learn the process.

For those of you unwilling to do so, we feed you the best we can.  The system is incredibly complex, but we’ve boiled it down to a few clicks here and a few clicks there.  It couldn’t be any easier, but you do have to read through all 130+ pages and work at it pretty good every day for a month to get it down.  It’s not for everybody, but everybody who does it our way makes more gold faster than anything else they’ve ever done before.

We used to be a little secretive about our methods, but we’ve figured out that even AH pros don’t do everything we do.  The guy who isn’t even close to ruling the AH isn’t going to figure out the whole system from a tip here and there straight from the guide.  It’s a system that took us over two years of research to develop and over 130 pages to explain.

So here is one of our favorite steps – it’s the very first thing we do every single day.  We never EVER skip this one.  It won’t make you a ton of gold, but it’s the safest investment you can possibly make.  as a matter of fact – it’s the only market play we will ever recommend that has absolutely ZERO risk involved.  You CANNOT lose gold on this one.

You’ll need AADV (Auctioneer Advanced) and it doesn’t hurt to have Lil’Sparky’s and ATSW (Advanced Trade Skill Windows), but they are not necessary for this step.  But you can’t do without AADV.  It’s the back bone of everything we do.  Without it you can’t do this at all, there is no way.  With it, the whole world becomes a veritable tree from which to pick glorious bunches of golden fruit.

Yeah it’s cheesy as hell, but it’s the truth.  You can run around farming all you want, I’ll do my 15 minutes at the AH and make the same amount of gold (or more than likely a LOT more) thank you very much.  Anyway, load up AADV, fire up the game and then run straight to the AH.

The next cool thing about this tip is that you can do it while you build your database.  Normally we recommend people do nothing at all with AADV for a week or two except scan.  This is the only exception.  You can start doing this day one.

Open up the auction window at your favorite auction house and the hit the little Fastforward button (yellow circle) at the top of the AADV window and tell it you don’t care if it boots you off.  If you’re on a slow connection you might never get the fast scan to work, if that’s the case just hit the regular play button (red circle) and go grab a drink or something.

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Once you’re done with that just right click (that’s RIGHT CLICK) the little magnifying glass (green arrow) to open up the window where we basically print money all day long.  Click on Searchers (red arrow) and then select Vendor (yellow arrow) from the list.  Set your vendor Minimum profit to 10s and the minimum discount to .5% (that’s point 5 percent, NOT five percent).

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Leave Allow Bids and Allow Buyouts checked and then just hit Search near the bottom left.  Your screen will fill up with possibly the most amazing opportunity to make crazy gold off of folks just not using their heads you’ve ever seen.  There is simply no duplication for this is real life.  If there was I wouldn’t be writing articles about WoW let me assure you.

The things you see in the list below are items that people have listed on the Auction House for sale BELOW their vendor value.  Catch that?  It means you can buy them from the AH, turn around and sell them to a Vendor nearby for a profit.  How silly easy is that?  All we have to do to bid or buyout every single one of these items is hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt and hit the “Purchase ALL” button.  In this case we spent 20g, 92s, 62c on 18 items with a vendor value of 28g, 47s, 49c.  And yes, you have to spam click the “Yes” button on each one, there is no way around it without botting and getting banned.

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It only takes about 2 min to scan the AH, another 12 seconds to scan for vendor, a minute or so to hit Yes a few dozen times and then you can go back to doing dailies or mining or whatever else you’re going to do today.  But I just made about 8 gold in 4 minutes.  And I was writing this article as I did it.  Now I can log out and go back to work on the podcast and the Alliance leveling guide.

The above example is on a very low pop server.  On high pop realms there may be hundreds of items for vendor.  I consistently make over 50 gold a day on one of my bankers from this little trick alone.  For the AH nub or new toon on a new server this is the easiest way to turn 10 gold into 100 gold in a week we’ve ever found.

And because you are bidding or buying these items below vendor cost, you simply cannot lose a single copper in the process.  If someone outbids you above vendor price you just get your investment back and no harm done.  If you buyout the item you can get your gold back plus a bit from a vendor in about 20 seconds.  It’s simply amazing how much gold you can actually make from this.

I find that on average I make a good 100-200 gold a week on every banker I have that does this several times a day.  That’s like doing an extra 5-10 dailies every week, or mining for an hour or two.  Plus I probably only spent about 20 minutes total on the whole deal which means that gold per hour spent earning it is still way higher than anything else I might be doing.

Now, buying for vendor is only one tiny part of our complete system.  But if I told you that there were dozens of ways and thousands of items that could turn you profits just like this for such a teeny tiny bit of time would you want to know how we do it?

That’s the perspective I’m coming from when I say farming is schlub work.  That’s what I mean when I say JC is a little too much on the work side.  If I can make a couple hundred gold here for 10 minutes worth of clicking, and a couple hundred there and a couple thousand over there and . . . .why would I spend time buying, prospecting, selling, making, de’ing and reselling THOSE mats when I can do the same things and make even MORE gold by just flipping all that around just a little bit.

I buy ore all the time, but I never prospect it for gems.  if I get it at a low price my best gold per hour spent is to merely resell it at the right price.  If I want more enchanting mats to seel or more things to DE I don’t go make them I buy the greens.  I don’t ever sell gems because they deposit costs hurt my feelings – there are simply too many other things that have very low or no deposit costs out there to make it worth taking a 15% profit margin for an hour of my time when I can do a dozen other things that will get me a 25% or higher margin for 15 minutes of my time.

Normally the profession that’s best for crafting to DE is Tailoring (yes, I will explain why next week).  The profession that makes the most consistent high profits (for actually making things to sell) is Alchemy, the profession that means the most work for the lowest return is normally Leatherworking, but those are just averages and your server may be different.  But no matter what server I’m on I can earn thousands of gold every week with only one profession using the techniques we’ve honed until a toad could use it – and JC isn’t in it.  Matter of fact, I don’t even have a JC on any realm (although I will soon have several of them, but not to make gold – for the tasty +a ton to stat X :wink: ).

You can learn everything we do in the Auction House Mastery Guide.  But at least this way you can see what we mean by free money.  People are just giving it away basically.  And you don’t even have to work for it.  All you do is clicky-clicky, and it rolls in.  Try this one out for a while and see.  It won’t waste more than a few minutes of your time and just might convince you that there really IS a much more Dominating way to make gold in World of Warcraft.