Make 500g / day with Auctioneer

If you’ve be even vaguely aware of addons and user interface modifications then you’ve certainly heard of auctioneer. If you haven’t, here’s the basics…

Auctioneer is an addon which dramatically increases a users ability to analyze the World of Warcraft auction house. The mod allows you search all items currently listed. Through multiple searches the addon then builds buying and selling averages for each item.

So what’s the point? Well, using this this information you can effectively make purchases on a large scale. Allowing you to buy low, sell high, and make hundreds of gold every day by simply taking advantage of other gamers who don’t understand how the AH works.

Though I can’t reveal all of my secret auction house strategies, I do have one tip for you. The item we are dealing with in this particular example is netherweave cloth. It’s an item with a massive supply and a fairly low demand, so low that people often put stacks of netherweave cloth below vendor price.

Price Tip: If you craft a stack of netherweave into heavy netherweave bandages you can vendor this stack for 3g, which is often less than the price on the AH).

While you can certainly just buy up stacks and vendor them, the real money is in crafting items out of the cloth. My typical strategy on netherweave goes something like this…

Basically, we’re going to buy materials for cheap off the auction house and craft them into something useful. In this case, we’re going to make Arcanoweave Bracers, most tailors should have this pattern.

Arcanoweave Bracers Materials:
Netherweave Bolt x 6
Arcane Dust x 12
Runethread x 2

Pricing Guide:
Netherweave Cloth: Buy stacks of under 3g per
Arcane Dust: Buy stacks for under 20g per
Runethread: Buy from vendor for 40s per

Cost Per Item:
Netherweave 5.4g (36 total netherweave needed = 1.8 stacks x 3 = 5.4)
Arcane Dust: 12g (12 total dust needed x 1g per = 12g)
Runethread: 80s
Total Cost: 18.2 gold

So you may be thinking, what the hell am I going to do with all of these stupid arcane resist bracers? Disenchant them of course! (arcanoweave bracers have a 100% chance to disenchant into large prismatic shards)

While netherweave cloth is very low in demand, large prismatic shards are extremely high in demand. They also sell for much more than the total cost of our materials we bought.

Just take a look at the current trends on large prismatic shards…
Total Prices: 1000
High Price: 1000g 99s 50c
Low Price: 18g
Average: 40g 3s 59c
Median: 30g
Most Common: 30g
Std Deviation: 90g 78s 19c

Even assuming you sell for 30 gold, that’s a 12 gold profit per item! And what have you done? Nothing really, you buy some items, get your friends to craft a few things, and bam, you’ve generated income that can be repeated every day.

Needless to say, auctioneer goes well beyond this example here. Using the mod I’ve taken hold of entire sections of my server’s economy for days on end. All it requires is a good understanding of the auction house, your server’s market, and basic economics. Using these concepts you too can start making easy gold with auctioneer and the auction house.

If you really want to get the low down on the auction house, check my gold mastery guide!

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