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Gavin Garretts Auction House Mastery Guide Version 1.
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TABLE of CONTENTS
Introduction Where the money really is Getting Set up to Dominate
Using this Guide Toons Mods Youll Need
AADV LS + ATSW Mail Mods Installation
New Tooltip data Getting Auctioneer Ready

AADV Base Settings Enchantrix Settings SearchUI Settings
Dominating The Market

First Steps
Scanning & Tooltip Basics Purchased Prices
Using Appraiser When to Buy, Sell, and Scan Terms And Rules Two types of Auctions How much to Spend
Best Buys Purging
Mastering the Market

SearchUI Buying For Resale
The Buying Rules The Ignore List
Using Enchantrix DE Mastery Using LilSparkys
Market Domination
Browse Buying
Blues and Epics More About Browse Buying and Price Pushing
Arbitrage Cornering a Market
Putting it all Together Action Plan Conclusion

Auction House Mastery Series Making money on WoW is pretty straightforward. Since WoW has an economy just like real life, all we have to do is apply some tried-andtrue economic standards to the way we think about making gold, and then use some really great tools to maximize our efforts. There are other guides out there that brag about having something like 256 pages of information. You would never be able to use all of that even if all of the information was good information and not just fluff to boost the page count. What we have done is break down the gold-making process so that it NEVER becomes your full time job. If we tell you to quit farming 10 hours a week and then teach you how to make gold by spending the same 10 hours at the AH then thats pretty worthless. Weve reduced the thousands of ways you can make money at the auction house to just 35 bullet points. Using these guidelines you can work at making gold as little as 30 minutes a WEEK and still make mountains of the stuff. In other words, we keep things simple. The same 35 secrets can be used by the guy who just bought WoW last week, and the dude who has been playing WoW from the very first day it was released.
Heres how making gold in WoW is simple. In any economy, supply and demand determine price (at least in free market economies.) When there is a whole bunch of something available for sale, the price will drop. When there is not very much of something, the price will rise. Both of these factors are also affected by demand. If a whole bunch of people want something, the price will rise. If nobody wants it, the price will fall. Overly simplistic, since these two factors play off each other a great deal, but you get the idea. What we are looking for is a way to take maximum advantage of the way the WoW economy works. We would love to sell low supply/high demand items, but those can be extremely hard to find (low supply.) On the other hand, we would like to avoid high supply/low demand items since theres not much profit in them. So the smart thing to do is stick with all the bits in the middle. In order to have something to sell, we have to be able to get our hands on it first. We cant sell something we dont have (this is not 100% true in real life, but in WoW this is a rule, people will just laugh at you if you try to broker an epic item.) So we either have to go get the stuff to sell from killing things, gathering, and crafting or we have to buy it from other players who got it from killing, gathering, and crafting them. We either become Jed Clampet, or buy from him. Simple economy, remember? When we slay mobs in the wild, they drop items. Those folks who go into gathering professions mine ore, harvest Herbs, and skin beasts. The entire WoW economy rides on
the stuff people got from adventuring in Azeroth, and then making other things out of those mats. What about the professions you ask? Well, all of the production professions rely on the things from drops and gathering to make their items. Tailoring requires cloth, skins and other materials to make things like bags, pants, hats and such. Engineers need metals, cloth, and leather to make their creations. So the whole economy rides on the back of the things people get while they are out killing and gathering.
Show me the money! Were not going to go into any real analysis of the WoW economic system and how it mirrors real life because were not experts in economic theory and frankly you probably dont care. What you want to hear is how to make lots of Gold, and we are experts at doing that. The real money in the WoW economy is from BOE items, mats, and crafted items in that order. But even more specifically, the way YOU are going to make money from these things is information. Normally, this would lead the average bloke to the following conclusion: I need to go out and get my hands on as many mats as I can and then sell them. Well, a whole army of Chinese gold-farming businesses do that very thing. But it takes the fun out of the game. If you are adventuring, youre not farming as much as you can. If youre not farming mats at a furious pace, youre not making great money doing it. But theres a way to farm without ever getting past level 1. And now we are getting to the real secret of WoW gold. By knowing what things SHOULD sell for (market value) you can buy those things from other players who dont know what they are really worth. In other words, you can buy Heart of Fire for 2 gold and then resell it at its true market value of 6 gold. Without the right tools, this is nearly impossible to do on a large enough scale to make big dough, but we can show you the right tools.
You see, the wonderful programmers at Blizzard did two things that give us the ability to make huge amounts of gold without ever doing a single farming run. And we mean piles of gold. They gave us an auction house, and allowed people to write modifications to the User Interface (UI Mods.) Between the Auction House (AH) and a Mod called Auctioneer, weve got everything we need to become a WoW mogul with a little practice. Youre not going to have to farm for hours a day any more. As a matter of fact, youll only spend about an hour a week (and only on weekends to boot) using this method. You will need a little start-up cash, but well show you how to just do that while youre just having fun questing to get your seed money.
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Setting Up To Dominate
Using This Guide This guide is written from the viewpoint of helping the brand new player navigate their way to making gold. In many guides you will find certain farming runs that a new player simply cannot accomplish because they dont even have a level 70 or 80 yet. Thats not much help. We have used the techniques we are about to show you to earn over 15,000 gold on servers where we dont have a single toon above level 20. All it takes is a little bit of gold to get started with, and honestly you can start with as little as 10 gold and still get to 10,000 gold; its just going to take a little longer. Also, other guides that rely on farming can give you maps of certain areas and preferred farming routes to take and which mobs to kill, but for certain specs like classes geared and tuned for healing or protection farming really sucks even worse than it always does. One of our favorite farming spots (way back when we used to do that sort of boring thing), for instance, is the Arklon ruins just southwest of Area 52 in Netherstorm, Outlands. The green drop rate is pretty good, and the demons there arent super hard to kill. But this area
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has its own unique set of problems that make it a really good place to farm for a few folks, but not so good for everyone else. Some of the demons mana burn there so it can be tough on casters. A mage or priest will have an even more difficult time since there isnt a lot of room to kite mobs around. If you dont have skinning on your toon your gold-making ability is going to come up short. So that basically leaves us with the thought that a rogue with skinning would be able to take best advantage of the opportunity at Arklon. Even with more than 9 million people playing WoW that leaves a good portion of them at a disadvantage if they want to farm this spot. We would estimate that maybe 1% of the people playing WoW have a level 70 rogue with skinning, so possibly 90,000 folks who could really use that spot to seriously farm for money. Throw in the fact that both Alliance and Horde have quests there, and the fact that there are less than 30 mobs in the area and it can be tough to get a good farming run in there that lasts long enough to make a dent in 150 gold an hour. Beyond these problems, who wants to spend their time doing that? Not us not any more. Well let someone else farm. Well buy what took them hours to get in about 5 minutes. Well turn around and sell that stuff for a healthy 25% profit while we are sleeping.
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So if you already have a main character past level 25, and especially if you have a decent pile of gold to work with already, you can skim parts of this guide. We tried to arrange things so that you can skim the information and pick out the bits you need and ignore the parts you already know. But we have to start from the position that the person reading this may not even know what an add-on is, or otherwise the information pertaining to the mod will be useless. For those of you sitting there with 500 gold or more, youre ready to do business and you can move right into getting AADV and working out the settings. If you already use AADV, get your settings to match ours and well give you the tools and knowledge we use to fill your mailbox with those nice little scrolls full of money. Dont skip the settings section in any case. Once you get the settings right, the rest of this program runs mostly on auto-pilot. All you are really going to be doing is analyzing deals and feeding all those items into the AH. The key is in getting the right numbers on your screen and making good buying decisions based on what those numbers tell you. The meat of this guide starts in the Section about using SearchUI, thats where well show you how to analyze potential bargains. But if your settings are off, its going to be a lot more work than it needs to be.
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So we recommend you at least briefly read all the way through the guide once (dont worry, weve thrown in a lot of pictures,) and then go back to the point you are starting from and practice the tools one section each week until youve mastered the entire set. There is a lot of information in this guide that will seem very simple once you see it once or twice. And, yes, its probably nothing you couldnt have done yourself. But weve spent years working the AH as WoW players, and have been working with Auctioneer since it came out. This latest version has some new twists and tools as well. Knowledge is power. What we are going to attempt to give you is how to read a short string of numbers and push 3 buttons at the right time. Its almost laughable really, but if you dont read the numbers the right way, or you push the wrong 3 buttons at the wrong time its the difference between having 500 gold and 5,000. So read all the way through the guide at least once. You may be able to use every tip and trick we are going to give you the very first night. You may be starting from scratch and have some catching up to do. It doesnt matter. What we can guarantee you is that if you will use what we are about to tell you in the way we tell you you will make a lot of gold in the auction house the very first time you apply any of the tricks we show
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you. When you can use them all you can earn as much gold as you could ever need.
Three toons you have to have In order to make these strategies work, you are going to have to do a little bit of farming to get your seed capital. It's called seed capital because we're going to plant it and then grow it into something far bigger. A Farming Toon On any new server we will start with a hunter as our farming toon. If you don't like hunters, any class will do, but hunters and rogues simply kill faster than other classes at low levels. A rogue will move faster than a hunter until level 10 (when hunters get a pet), and then they even out pretty much. A Banker The other toon you simply must have is a banker. Our bankers have never been over level 10. Just grab a character (odd looking is our preference) and run them up to their major city. A role-specific name like megamoney, wellsfargo, or moneybaggins is sure to get you lots of compliments. The arrangement of where the bank/ah/mailbox is located in certain cities is more practical than others, and since this
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is not a toon you will be playing, choose a toon from the list below to make it easier on yourself when conducting business. Alliance players; There is simply no better place to do banking than the Exodar. Its a long run from the starting area for Dranei toons, but there is a mailbox right outside the auction house. Add that to the fact that there is hardly ever anyone in the Exodar to make that huge crowd around the mailbox and we have a winner. Horde players should use a Tauren in Thunder Bluff. It's a longer run than most, and you might get eaten by a wolf or two, but TB has the most favorably tight arrangement of Bank/AH/Mailbox of any major Horde city. Next, get your banker a port to Dalaran. We know this seems a little odd, but its a great way to get around the entire world of Azeroth. Just set your hearthstone to one of the Inns, then take the portal back to TB or Ex. Now if you ever need to meet someone in another city to close a sweet deal, it will take you abut 1 minute to get to any major city in the world. Now that you have your farmer and banker, just start questing your farmer. Run your farming character through level 6 in the starting area. As soon as you hit level 6, go to your major city and grab skinning and mining as your professions. Continue questing and leveling, sending everything that drops to your banker to sell on the
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auction house. The only green items you want to keep are the soulbound items you receive from quest rewards. Spend a little extra time grinding in areas where cloth is dropping from mobs. Remember that mats drive the market, and cloth always sells in incredible quantities. This is why we also use skinning and mining as our professions. You'll be able to sell every stack of metal and skins you get. The whole point of starting this way is to try to build a pile of seed money as fast as we can. We are shooting for 25 gold; and you should easily be able to earn this before your farming toon reaches level 25. You can also level by grinding in mob areas with good mining/skinning or cloth drops, but you may end up with rather crummy gear if you don't do a few quests with green item rewards. The point is to kill as fast as possible so you can farm more mats, so the questing method is preferred. For those of you who already have some gold sitting around, this information may be a little basic, just remember that you should use a dedicated banking toon since it will save you a gob of time not having to fly to IF or TB to do your business activities. Another reason for using a bank is that you can use the mail system as a virtually infinite storage system. This will save us from having to buy a bunch of bags and bank slots to store items during the week; you can just leave stuff in the mail until you are ready to go to market.
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A Mule Youll also want a mule whose sole purpose in life is to stand next to a mailbox. Grab any level 1 character and run them to the nearest mail drop and let them sit there forever basically. When you are buying hundreds of items for resale during the week, mail them in bulk batches to your mule and just let them sit there in mass in the mailbox until Thursday. Then all you have to do is hit the return button to send them back. Youre using the mail system as your infinite bank/bags. When youre posting anywhere from 500 to 1000 auctions a week, youll need to use a mule or it can get a little confusing.
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Must-Have Mods
Auctioneer Advanced To get auctioneer go to http://auctioneeraddon.com/dl/#release and click the link to the download for AuctioneerSuite-5.1.3715.zip. Auctioneer Advanced (AADV from now on) will be the one mod you will never be able to live without once you use it. We have always found auctioneer to be the one thing we would chose if we could only have one mod, and the advanced version takes this to a whole new level. We're going to show you how to set it up properly, and how to use it like a professional stock trader to make amazing money without ever leaving the AH. Norganna and the team over there have done a fantastic job keeping this mod not only up-to-date with patches, but also improving functionality over time in really nice ways. After you download, unzip the file to a new folder on your desktop. Open the unzipped folder and copy all of the files inside. Now go into your world of Warcraft folder and click on the Interface folder. Inside you will see two files: Add-ons and Disabled Add-ons. Open the Addons folder and paste the files you just copied to this folder.
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LilSparkys and Advanced Trade Skill Windows In a much later segment of this guide were going to show you one of the most awesome gold making tools you will ever see period. There really is nothing that comes close to LilSparkys for sheer Domination. LilSparkys (LS) only works if you have auctioneer data, so we have to start with the big one. You also need a LOT of auctioneer data before LS can give you 100% accurate information, but once you do, its the all gold all the time channel. LS information is also much easier to read with the Advanced Trade Skill Windows mod that greatly up-sizes the profession screens. ATSW is NOT a requirement for making all of this work, but its very nice to have. You can get the latest version of LilSparkys from this page http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7663LilSparkysWorkshop.html and it has been updated to work with the latest versions of WotLK, ATSW and AADV. You should also use a lightweight vendor pricing mod such as informant, in order to get everything possible out of LS.
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Mail & Other Mods There are a few more mods that will make your gold-making enterprise much easier to manage. Frankly were not sure you can live without the mail mods listed below, and One Bag is a huge help as well. While there are some mod management tools out there, were not going to recommend them at this point for several reasons. Some are a pain, while others may be unsafe. For overall account security purposes we DO highly recommend you download all of your mods individually. Past that, you should really get a Blizzard authenticator for your account(s). The authenticator makes your account completely un-hackable, and considering you might soon have a whole LOT of gold for someone to take, its a prudent move to get an authenticator for maximum account security.
OneBag3 Turns all your bags into one big configurable bag. OneBank is also a really good tool to use. Postal Adds more functionality to your mailbox like a drop-down friends and guild list that makes typing in who you want to send mail to almost instantaneous. Postman Open all your mail with a single click. You really must have it.
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Mod Installation Once you get everything downloaded, You can unzip all the files to your Addons Folder. Or you can extract the files to your desktop and then drop them in your addons folder. There are lots of good tutorials out there about how to do this if you are having trouble, so here is the short version: Go to your WoW folder and open the Interface folder. Inside you will see another folder named Addons. All you really need to do is drop your newly downloaded (and unzipped) addons into this addons folder. Every now and then the folders you get with addons in them will have a parent folder inside. If the folder you drop into the addons folder has any type of version number, it wont work and youll need to grab the one inside that folder. Now even we are a little confused. You can only use the word folder in a sentence so many times before things go all wonky. 90% of the time installing new addons is pretty easy, and with a little luck you wont have any issues. If you do, there are good help tips in great detail at a number of WoW sites.
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New Tooltip Data Now lets look at what weve added to your UI. Your game tooltips looked like this:
Now tooltips will show this. Keep in mind that the tooltips are highly dependent on your settings so what you see at this point may not exactly match the screenshot below. But it will be very obvious that your tooltips have grown much larger.
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Now were getting a ton of information. Virtually everything you could ever want to know about what this axe is worth is now in the tooltip. It will tell you what types of mats you can get from disenchanting this item, and what those mats are worth in the ah based on the data we are going to gather from scanning auctions. Youre going to
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understand all of this a lot more later when we tell you what all those numbers mean. When you used to go to the ah your screen would look like this:
Now, when you go to auction you will see this:
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You can see that instead of three tabs, you now have 7. The four new tabs are Bean Counter, Post, Search and Appraiser. You will also notice a new set of four buttons in the top portion of the screen, Stop, play and pause; along with one that looks like a magnifying glass. These buttons control the scan functions of AADV as well as SearchUI. Youll also notice a BIG difference in the Browse screen Heres what it used to look like:
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Heres what you get now:
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You can see theres a lot more items in your screen and the prices are separated into colors. Now you can browse through auctions much more rapidly, and once you understand how we got the color coding, you can use the colors to search for deals.
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Settings For Auctioneer Modules

AADV Base Settings Before you run out and start using all of this new information, lets get the settings where they need to be to maximize your profit and minimize mistakes. If you look up at your minimap, youll see a light yellow bar hiding at the screen edge. When you mouse over the bar, it expands:
The little pile of gold gives you the settings screen for configuring AADV, the others from left to right open configuration for Automagic, Bean Counter, BTMSCN, Enchantrix, Enhanced Tooltips, Gatherer, SearchUI and Swatter. You may have all of these or not, but this is a quick way to get to your setting when you are away from the AH. To get started configuring Auctioneer, click on the Appraiser Tab in the Auction House window and then hit the Configure button at the top right of the window.
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This is going to take a while, since the newest version of AADV has 26 configuration screens, but it is important that you get all of these settings right. These settings form the backbone of everything we will be doing, so bear with this while we walk through it. We wont go through every single one, and it will be as short as possible and as long as necessary; kind of like our leveling guide. So just browse through these screenshots and make sure you set yours to match the pictures below. Well start with General, just under Core Options.
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Skip profiles if you like and moves on to the Stat modules. Then in stat modules select Purchased, and check every box like this:
Then do exactly the same thing for Sales and Simple, leaving the others (StdDev, WOWEcon and ilevel) at default values. You may choose to turn off some of these boxes later to shrink your tooltips, but we leave them all on. Under filters, make sure you do not check ignore own auctions
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And set the Outlier Filters like this:
Now we can get to the stuff that will really make you rich. Drop down a notch into the match modules and set Bean Count like this:
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Bean Count has come a long way the last few months. This module will make posting your auctions and getting them to SELL so much easier. Lets describe what you are seeing there. Every time you post an auction, Bean Count will track everything about that individual item. The first slider controls how Bean Count will deal with the price for failed auctions the next time you post that item. Since a lot of this system is based on posting an item only 4 times maximum, we set the first slider to 10%. Every time you post an item from a failed auction, Bean Count will tell Appraiser to mark the item down 10% from last time. This makes adjusting your price to match the true market value automatic. This is seriously sophisticated price point management, and once you set this here, you never have to worry about pricing your auctions properly ever again. The next slider is the successful auction markup percentage. You can set this as high as 10% as well, but we really only want to push prices up gradually and there is a good reason why. Theres an old
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saying that says you cant drop a frog into boiling water to cook him, hell just jump right out. But if you put the frog in the water before its hot, he will just sit there and happily boil. Its the same way with raising Ah prices. If we sneak the price up 5% at a time, in just one month we can push the price higher for the entire market on that item by as much as 100%! If silk cloth stacks are going for one gold buyout, over the course of a month we may be able to push them up to nearly 2g. But you cant just sell a bunch one day at a single gold and then double the price the next day. But if you inch it higher gradually the market will adjust over time. This gets even better when you realize that almost everything at the Ah has settled into a pricing rut. Almost every price at the AH can be pushed at least slightly higher. As you post auctions that are selling well, Bean Count will press the price a bit at a time until the auctions start to fail. Then it will ease the price back little by little until the market reaches a new equilibrium, and its almost always at least 10% higher. This system is built on trying to hit a profit margin of 25%, and if Bean Count can squeeze another 10% margin out of everything for you CHACHING! The third slider shows the maximum markup, we set it to the minimum. There is not a great reason for it to be higher than this because as your auctions press higher, it will show up in the AADV database that the market price is rising anyway. Since it would take a month to even get to a 100% increase, and we see that we will be
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using data from the last 30 days, by the end of the 30 days the market value for the item will have increased, thus also raising the cap. The fourth slider controls how far we will allow Bean Count to markdown an item that isnt selling. We show this at 50%, but you could set it at 40% as well. We just dont want to post auctions for much lower than this most of the time. Doing so would depress the price past the point of no return when it comes to profit, and it can take the market a while to return to normal if we kill it. So be conservative and careful with this one. By checking the show history box, you will get feedback for all of this in the Appraiser window when you post auctions. This will give you the exact reason and numbers behind every price for every auction you post. We also dont want to use historical data, but rather 30 days since the market in WoW is pretty fluid and 30 days of rolling data allows the price to flow for your auctions in line with trends and shifts. Now even though Bean Count is amazing, undercut is even better. These two modules work in conjunction to price your auctions perfectly every single time. Even if Bean Count is marking up prices, undercut will make sure Bean Count doesnt get out of line. Undercut more precisely controls pricing in a range instead of set values.
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You can see that we set it to undercut everything it can by 1%. You dont have to be the lowest price by a LOT, even a tiny undercut will normally do the trick. The Utility Modules come next, with Appraiser first (Appraiser has a long screen so remember to scroll through it to get all the settings correct). Be sure not to set your markdown for bid price higher than 15%. We are going to trust Bean Count and Undercut to set our buyout prices where they need to be so hopefully very few of our auctions will ever be won by bid. We want people to buyout our auctions, not bid on them. You could reasonably set the bid markdown as low as 5%, but 10% seems to work fine the vast majority of the time.
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You can leave the settings for Ask Price at default values and set CompactUI to the following:
Easy Buyout is really slick, and allows you to bid on items with a double-click, or buyout with a right click at the regular auction browse window with no confirmation screen. If you are all thumbs you might
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use the key modifier to make sure you dont buy a whole ton of stuff on accident. We also show the gold limit settings turned off, but you might turn them on until you get comfortable using this feature.
Item Suggest is another great tool. When you are trying to decide what to do with stuff that you didnt buy from the AH (BOE Items you picked up while adventuring) Item suggest will ad a line near the bottom of your uber tooltips that will tell you what you should do with
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nearly everything. We set the bias for disenchant higher than the others, since DE is going to be your big money maker. In other words, if the profit from auction and disenchant is close, we would rather DE than post the thing at auction. Auction fees are money out of your pocket, while DE mats have no fees. Also remember that almost everything is built on the concept of 4 listings and no more especially for items. So be sure to include deposit costs for 4 listings like you see below.
Price Level will help you to scan visually much faster, be sure your settings match the ones we show here:
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For Scan Button you should check all 3 boxes since this will turn off an annoying warning message about using the Getall fast search.
ScanFinish is something you can play with it has nothing to do with making money. Scan Progress should have both check boxes empty. Simple Auction and VendMarkup can be left at their default values.
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Enchantrix Base Settings Now go back to the icon that looks like a red shard; this is the button for the Enchantrix settings. This module is as complex or simple as you want it to be. Well just cover a couple of points before we move on.
Automation is a great tool if you are using this guide properly. A big chunk of your weekly gold will come from DE and a good bit of your time as well. We use this on our enchanter to cut down on the time it takes to get it all done. It will save you a lot of clicking. Just activate this module and then when your chanter opens his mail they will get a pop-up like this:
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As you can see, the automation module will ask you whether you want to disenchant anything that you pick up. So be careful loot Malygos and click the wrong button poof. There goes your wicked new epic. Just use the ignore button and it wont ask you any more about that item. But for the slight danger involved it will save you a lot of time when you are disenchanting dozens of items. The other settings you will want look like this:
You can also give some more weight to certain items that are selling really well. Its hard to determine how big a help these are but you can try them out. For out server, the following settings are used adjust according to your market demand.
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SearchUI Settings SearchUI is new, and its the replacement for Bottom Scanner. It is ALSO the reason that this gold guide was a little late coming out. We think SearchUI is going to be incredible, but for now its a little short of the power of Bottom Scanner. It has the potential to be faster, but its a little more confusing at this point. It has more sorting capability, but less information. In short, its a work in progress for the AADV team. Anyway, this is the tool we have to use, and well dominate with it anyway. Go to the browse tab of your auction house window and right click that little magnifying glass we talked about earlier.
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Go down into the searchers section and well start with the Disenchant Screen. Its going to be our biggest money machine, so lets set it up first.
Pretty simple really; just be sure to set your custom levels. You dont want to be buying things for DE that you cant actually DE. Also, when you get a big pile of strange dust and magic essences, you can pull the top slider up to a minimum skill level of 150 or so. That will put you into only the enchanting mats that make the biggest, most consistent profits. Although DE with these settings should never LOSE you any money, you may get tired of posting a lot of lower level goop for sale and just decide to can the noobie stuff for the higher level items. But since we dont know what level your enchanter is, youll just have to make this decision on your own. Another note on Disenchanting the real profit on DE mats is in higher level items. Enchantrix will rarely find items for DE that requires more than skill level 350. Items that require skill 350 or higher to DE are listed at higher than the DE mats will bring 99% of the time. With that said, you will need to have a least one toon with
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enchanting skill 350 to maximize profit potential from Enchantrix purchases. A 425 Enchanter can reasonably make 500-1000 gold a week on DE for mats alone, while a 175 skill may only make 250 gold. Disenchanting items is the bread-and-butter part of your business. Its the one place you can get mats and still not ever go farming. As a matter of fact, working up your skill in enchanting by purchasing items on the AH is by far the cheapest way to get the mats for your enchanter to use. If you were to buy all the mats you would need to go from 1-440 enchanting, it could very well cost you more than 1500-3000 gold. By purchasing items for disenchant over time you can lower that to less than 1000 gold! Mats drive the economy, and enchanting mats especially are in the very best position to make you serious money without farming. Take our advice and rush one of your toons up to 375 enchanting as soon as you possibly can. And yes, we have a guide to help you level your enchanting as well. By far the most important setting here is the Custom Skill and Profit settings. Remember that eventually you will want to make sure your minimum skill is not set lower than 100. DE items requiring a skill less than 100 return mats that are very high supply and low demand. If you are purchasing lots of low-level items for DE youll end up with piles of Lesser Magic Essence. Since the only people using those
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are folks leveling enchanting, and there are typically not a lot of people doing that its just not worth the hassle. Now go to the Resale Screen, this is where we really start getting to the meat of how to make some serious dough off of BOE items. Were going to set these a certain way until you get a big bankroll, say 4000 gold or more, then you may choose to come back here and turn down the requirements a bit. But these settings have proven to be the very best balance of not losing money on auctions that dont work, and finding the ones that can. Its not so much about either high volume or high profit, but a blend of the two.
Set the minimum Profit to 10s, unless you can make more than a dime its not worth the time. Set the minimum discount to 47%, but remember, you may come back later and turn this down to as low as 25%, but never lower than that. You can also go higher if you want 100% to start isnt a bad idea until you get the knack of evaluating buys.
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Enable the seen count to at least 5. We dont want to bid on things for resale until we have a pretty good sense of what people are willing to pay for something. And to start with 10 seems like a better number until you get a feel for how this works and an advanced database in your Bean Count. We dont ever want to buy something with only one entry in the database theres nothing to compare it with. Lastly, be sure to subtract both types of fees from the projected profit since these are hard costs. Its not profit if you dont earn it, so why look at profit numbers that dont include your actual COGS (Cost of Goods Sold for the accounting guys). We also figure that on many items we will have to re-list most things once and some things three times before they sell therefore the 4.0x average re-listings on the slider. You may set this higher to make sure you have some wiggle room, but 4 is our baseline, and its actually pretty conservative. Bean Count and Undercut will almost guarantee that most of your listings sell before this, so your average will actually be lower. We just want to account for costs on a maximum of 4 re-listings so we dont lose our shirt on crappy resale items. This setting will subtract 4 times the deposit cost from every item before it figures the profit potential. That way you dont get eaten by deposits and lose money. Price Valuation should use the values from Market Value. And the resale search criteria can have both boxes checked.
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ATTENTION: most of the time we actually turn off the allow buyouts box and Another tool that will give you plenty of the lower level enchanting mats to sell is the Converter module. This module tracks the
difference between prices for things that can ONLY bid on be converted, such as 3 Lesser Magic Essences make 1 Greater Magic Essence. Most of the time you will want to convert Greaters into lessers before you sell them. This module will search for auctions of essences, motes, eternals and depleted items to find those things you can buy just to convert and then resell for a profit.
Converter is a module where you can toy with the minimum discount a bit. We have set it as low as 15% when the market is hot for certain things, but youll have to use your best judgment if you are thinking about anything less than 25%. One way to look at it is that youll have a lot of DE mats on the AH all the time anyway, and converter just boosts your potential. For items like eternals and crystallized you can use this to nearly corner the market at times.
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This module has only recently become truly useful again. For a long time the information you need to make these decisions was gone. Now that its back, heres what to look for:
In the tooltip on the left we see that we will want to convert eternal fire to crystallized fire when we post on the auction house. In the one on the right you can see you want to convert crystallized life to eternal life when we put it up for sale. Be sure to check all your DE mats before posting for the conversion tip. This way you can squeeze even more profits out of your DE efforts by basically making one mouse click. Only use the next module Enchanting Mats if you are leveling your enchanting. This module will find items for you where you can DE items for their mats to use for your enchanter, but it is only interested in finding items that are priced slightly below the mat price. Using this you can DE for your mats for less than purchasing the mats
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themselves, but the module is not looking for prices low enough to resell for a good profit. It will save you gold, but not make you very much gold. We leave it turned off. If you have a high level Jewelcrafter you can set the prospecting page like we do below, if not you may just uncheck the Enable button.
We will cover using the Snatch module a little later on in this guide. The Vendor screen gets some odd settings. It doesnt matter how little we make off of vendor items, we will buy every single thing we can get our hands on in the ah that all we have to do is turn around and sell to a vendor. Thats the easiest money in the world. Sure, it will tie up a little cash at first, but later youll never miss it. And since its like getting money for free, why not do it?
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- First Steps Scanning & Tooltip Basics Now that weve got our settings right, we can begin building our database. Click the browse tab in the Auction House window and then push the fast scan button:
The scan button will go grey and you will see a new bar just over your AH window like this:
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Dont close the window while the scan is happening or it will pause the scan and miss a lot of items. As soon as the scan is done AADV will begin sorting the information into your current database and you will see a new bar like this:
At this point you can leave the AH and do something else while it processes, but youll have to have a pretty fast computer to get decent frame rates. Now, this method of scanning should take about 2 minutes if you have a good connection, server load is low, and your computer is pretty fast. Its much better than the other way, but were going to go over that as well in case the getall method disconnects you or takes a really long time. Its really simple, just push the play button.
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Weve used the pause button to stop on this page. This is page 87 of 372 pages AADV will scan this session. You can see our price point coloration beginning to show up. The first time you scan, most items will be in red since there is no historical data to compare the prices against. The rest of this page looks like this:
The items are sorted top to bottom according to bid or buyout price compared to market value. People that are selling items for less than market value show up in the blue, green, and yellow bands while orange represents fair market value and red is all the overpriced stuff. You can see how the lower down the page we go, the crazier the prices get. Lets take a closer look at a few things in this screen.
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In the green and blue segments we see prices that are much lower than market value. The Quickdraw Quiver is 93% lower than market value, and the Jousters Gauntlets are 66% below market value. Now, since the gauntlets are 59 silver bid and 60 silver buyout, this means even the buyout is 66% less than market value. Lets look at the tooltip to learn more about Jousters Gauntlets.
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The tooltip gives us the rest of the picture. It shows us that the price level of 33% is based on the difference between the buyout of 60 silver and our Simple database price of 1 gold 90 silver as seen in the dark blue circle. The estimated market value for our purposes is somewhere between 71 silver (the resale valuation in the red circle) and 2 gold 18 silver (the 14 day moving average price). Were also sure that this is a fairly accurate price point. In the light blue circle we see that this item has been seen in the auction house
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17 times in 16 days. Further down, in the red circle, we see that the resale valuation is 71 silver 84 copper. The resale value is the absolute minimum we can expect to receive for this item after all the auction fees and re-listing as many as 3 times. From these numbers we can also see that the price for this item seems to be dropping a bit over the last couple of weeks. This may be because there have been too many for sale, depressing the price, or just not enough demand at all. But in the last two weeks the price for this item has dropped 17%. Thats a pretty big drop. We like prices that are rising, not falling 8% a week. OK dont freak out. This is a lot of new information. Were going to cover all this several times. The most important things to understand right now are sample size, market value, and purchased prices. Purchased Prices Purchased prices are the real deal when it comes to making big bucks on the market. You should make it a point to scan the AH at least once every day. Twice every day is even better. This way AADV can compare what WAS on the auction house to what IS on the auction house. Items listed for 48 hours that are no longer on the AH were bought for the buyout price, this will add data to the Purchased part of the model. On items where you can see the purchased price, you can get a lot more information.
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Lets take a look at something that will certainly have those prices included in the tooltip: silk cloth.
We can see in the light blue circle that silk cloth has been seen 532 times in the last month during scanning. The red circle shows our average price for this stack at 45 silver. This is confirmed by the Purchased Prices in the Green section. A fair price people are willing to pay for silk cloth over the last two weeks is steady at around 45 silver for a stack of 20.
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You can see that the resale value is a bit low, since relisting mats can be expensive, but you can reasonably assume that if you can buy silk cloth for less than 45 silver a stack, you will be able to resell them easily for more than 45 silver a stack. We only bring this example to the front now so that when you see Purchased Prices in the tooltip, you know its gold in the hand. As long as you can buy the item for less than the Purchased Prices, you know you can find a buyer at the Purchased Price. Items with Purchased Prices are the safest buys if you can get them cheap enough.
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Using Appraiser To Sell Now that weve got a bunch of stuff to sell we can start making some dough. You have a banker at a major city and an enchanter working up to skill level 375. You should be running your farmer around questing up to level 25. Spend most of your time leveling your farmer and collecting loot to sell. Mail everything to the banker or mule and just leave it sitting in the mailbox. For about a week or so, just level and farm while having the banker scan the ah twice a day to build up your database of good pricing information. Once the bankers bank, bags and mailbox are full and youve been scanning for at least a week, its time to make your seed money. Wait until Thursday afternoon and then we go to market. The best method to use when collecting items for sale is to use the mule toon we talked about earlier. When you begin purchasing items for resale, it can get a little overwhelming if you try to manage them all in your bankers inventory. Mail all the BOE green items to your trade mule and just let them sit there. Youll need to send your mule a few bags and about 10 gold to make this easier. On Thursday, youll get all of your bankers bags
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completely emptied and then pop onto your mule toon and mail everything back to your banker in bulk batches. When you log your banker back on, all of your items for auction are just waiting to open in bulk, run straight to the AH and post in bulk. You are going to have some overlap between your selling auctions and some auctions you are buying for resale, and you dont want to accidentally post a couple of dozen items you bough for DE as resale. In order to figure out what to do with everything youve purchased, just check the tooltip. You can see from the screenshots below that we need to be a little careful when shuffling things around. Each item you purchase will have a line in the tooltip that will tell you what you bought the item for.
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So when you are arranging items, mail all the DE stuff to your enchanter, the resale items to your mule, and go vendor the vendor stuff. Once you get them arranged and mailed the first time it will be much easier to keep them organized. This is also how you will know when to DE the resale items. In the above tooltip you can see that we bought this item for resale 7 days ago. That means weve got one more week before we hit our limit for posting. Our system is based on listing each BoE green item 4 times. Two listings per weekend for 2 weekends means that we are going to DE everything with a purchased age over 14 days. This does not apply to Blues and Epics, however. In the case of high end items, youll just have to use personal preference for when you choose to DE them. Normally, we hardly ever DE epics, and rarely blues until we just get sick of relisting them. With all of that out of the way, lets go through your first weekend of selling to get your seed money. Once we can get you to 25 gold, you wont have to farm as much and you can go back to doing whatever is the most fun for you.
Take your items to the ah and open up the appraiser screen.
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The reason we spent so much time getting all of our settings correct is that it is going to save us a ton of time posting our auctions. Since we have experimented for months getting all of those settings just right, you can now simply use the tools and trust whatever AADV is doing is going to make you a profit with only a little effort on your part. But one thing you dont have to do any more is price all of your auctions manually. Take a look at the picture above and well tell you what that means. We have a few stacks of enchanting mats we got from purchasing items to DE and then resell the mats. We are going to let Appraiser set our price for us based on several variables that we could never possibly track on our own. This will help our items sell fast without giving up more profit than is necessary.
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In the red box we see the really important stuff. We want all of our auctions to run for 48 hours using the simple pricing model and we certainly want price matching in effect. In the tab on the right, you can see that Undercut has marked this stack of essences down 23%, but since our max undercut is 25% it cant mark it down enough to undercut the very lowest price. Most of the time your auctions will sell the first time out if the auction is the lowest price in the market. With mats, they sell so fast that we dont always have to be the lowest price, but somewhere near the bottom is good. If you remember our pricing coloration we set for browsing auctions, youll remember that orange values are just a bit below true market value. All of our profit calculations are based on 100% of market value. 100% or, market value will begin the red colored items, with orange and yellow just below that. We find that the max 25% undercut markdown normally puts our auctions somewhere near the bottom of the orange auctions which is just perfect. In the shot above you can see that there are only 2 lesser Nether Essences for sale for less than our 1g91s buyout in the light blue boxes.
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By letting Appraiser set your prices for you, your auctions will always be priced to sell. The AH market moves pretty fast, with prices fluctuating quite a bit from day to day and week to week. This allows you to keep pace with the market no matter how far or fast prices move in either direction. All we have to do to post these essences for sale is hit the Post Items button in the green box and it will place them at auction in whatever stack size we have chosen, on this server we post these in stacks of 5. Since we only have 3 right now its going to post a stack of 3. If we had 11 it would post 2 stacks of 5 and a stack of 1. One of the things you are going to have to decide for yourself is these stack sizes. For each specific item, AADV is going to remember everything about how you posted that item the last time you used Appraiser. If we set our stack size to 10, it will remember that the next time we post the same item for sale. You may certainly post all of your items in stacks of 1, but as you can see from our small sample above, this little run to the AH would give us 84 auctions. By the time we posted all of our mats and items we could have literally thousands of running auctions and it can slow us down. We choose stack sizes based on making our lives easier when it comes to the mail system. We would rather retrieve unsold auctions
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in stacks since its faster, as well as the fact that we get our money in bigger piles. That way were not opening and closing the mail a dozen times jut to get everything out of our in box. However, stack size can also affect your profits in a huge way. We will typically set our stack sizes to make sure people buy more from us. That means on things that convert, like essences from 3 lesser to 1 greater, we will post greaters in a stack of 2, and lessers in stacks of 4, 7, or 10. Ten is probably best for lesser essences. On motes and crystallized items, use stacks of 6. That way when they buy 2 stacks of 6 to get one Primal or Eternal, they had to get 2 extra from you. Its a little annoying to some people, but they will get over it since your prices are probably going to be lower than almost everyone elses anyway. So experiment with stack sizes. On things that sell really well and very quickly, go with the smallest stack size possible to ensure overpurchasing like we mentioned above. On things that sell slow, turn up the stack sizes so you dont have to handle as many auctions. Another great feature of Appraiser is the Batch Post option. You will see the check box for batch post in the upper right hand corner of the appraiser screen.
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It will take you some time to get most of your items added to the batch posting list, but it will save you a ton of time in the long run on your rolling auctions (more about this in the next section). So for a while, click on each item in your bags on the left, double check your stack size and pricing and then enable batch posting. Then repeat for everything in the list. It sounds like a lot, but again its a real time saver once this is done. Then when everything is added, you just hold down the keys Ctrl+Shift+Alt and hit the Batch Post key. If you have trouble remembering the keystroke modifier you can hover the batch post button to see it any time.
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Now all you have to do to post every single item in your bags is hold down the modifier keys and hit the batch post button. For the first few weeks, go through your list and enable batch posting first, then batch post. After youve done this a few times there will be more things with batch already enabled than without, so you can batch post as soon as you open the Appraiser tab and then just add whatever is leftover. It wont take too long before 90% of your auctions have Batch posting enabled, which allows you to run even more auctions far faster than ever before.
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When to Buy, Sell and Scan The basic rule of thumb goes like this: Buy Items, Mats, and Trash during the week when prices are typically lower. Sell Items on the weekends when demand rises and pushes prices up. Sell Trash and Mats every day. Scan once a day during the week to find things to buy. Scan as often as you can stand it on the weekends so that the weekend prices carry as much weight as possible in your database. Terms and Rules We separate everything we sell into one of four groups Items, Mats, consumables and Trash. We will use these terms to describe everything from now on, so be sure you understand the definitions here. Items are Green, Blue and Epic pieces of equipment (Armor, Weapons, and Trinkets anything a character can equip) as well as things like Tomes, Books and other usable items. Most Items will be used up or become soulbound. Mats are the best buys. Mats include the stuff from Disenchanting, Cloth, Leather, Metals, Herbs and one oddball Bags. Trash is anything not in one of the other two categories. Any grey or white ITEM is trash. We will never buy a white item for resale on the ah, the market is too erratic on whites. Grey items will normally be bought to just turn right around and sell to
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a vendor (thus the name vendor trash, but some people are silly enough to post this stuff on the ah for less than the vendor sell price anyway.) Consumables are things like potions, scrolls, recipes and such. The market for consumables is much like the market for mats. They move pretty fast, but can also be very volatile. Until our banking toon is working with more than 2,000 to 5,000 gold we ignore most of the consumables. Special Note Regarding Gems! Gems are always trash ALWAYS! The reason gems should never ever be purchased for resale is that their auction deposits are often higher then the AADV market value, making them nearly impossible to profit from unless you are a jewelcrafter who mined them and is cutting them to sell. Even if you ARE a Jewlcrafter, do not ever post gems under epic quality for sale on the AH. You should instead spam the Trade channel for buyers. You cannot overcome the high deposit costs of gems in the AH they will kill you, we promise. Gems should only be bought to vendor. Just as Enchanting mats are the very best money-maker, gems are the biggest profit killer for a reseller; avoid them like the plague unless you are a JC. Gems part 2 - There is one exception to the above rule. Low level gems such as Citrine and lesser Moonstone have prices and behave more like mats. Since they really are mats used by several professions, we treat them as such and the "no gems" rule does not apply. When we say gems, we mean those gems
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that are only used for Jewelcrafting. For the most part, any gem that comes out of mining below level 250 is a mat, and all the higher level gems that are used for socketing and Jewelcrafting only are the trash gems. Oddballs Recipes and profession use only goop like blasting powder, and basically anything you figure out doesnt sell well on your server are oddballs. 90% of the time we ignore all oddballs because we want to concentrate on the high value high profit or quick profit items. The only recipe we will ever purchase for resale are blue quality of above. So be harsh on oddball items. For the most part, you only want to sell items on the weekends when they have the best chance to sell. Mats will almost always sell fast, but items (such as armor, weapons and other stuff) need to be posted when we have the best chance of them selling on their first auction. The reason for this is deposits. Every auction you post costs you money, and unless the item sells you lose that money forever. If you buy some awesome blue youre sure everyone will want for 15 gold and AADV tells you it has a market value of 25 gold, youre already spending the 10g. What you didnt realize it that the deposit for this thing is 1g, so if you post it for sale every day for a week and it doesnt sell youve spent 22 gold on the thing. You can see how deposits can kill your profits.
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Thats why we separate our weeks into two stages. Buy everything you can get your hands on during the week, sell items on the weekends. You can buy and sell mats and trash all week and weekend long to keep the cash flowing.
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We will be using two types of auctions from now on Weekend Auctions Post all items for sale on the AH every Thursday and then re-list what doesnt sell Saturday night. The vast majority of all WoW players will check the AH at least once between Thursday and Sunday night, so this is our high traffic slot. Rolling Auctions - On all other auctions for things like mats and consumables, we are going to re-list them every time the auctions end. This gives us a steady supply of cash on hand for our main or just about anything else. Blue and Epic Items will also go into your rolling auctions when you get to that point. We dont want to use rolling auctions for items because it makes no sense to pay the listing fees for items unless there is a good chance they are going to sell fast. We have found that we can list the same 100 items all through the week and sell less than 20% of them most of the time. Those same 100 items on the weekend will sell at a rate approaching 50-75% meaning you can list 100 things and from Monday to Thursday you may only sell 20 of them. List those same 100 items on Thursday and by the time your auctions close on Friday night more than 50 of them will be sold already.
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How much to spend This may sound a little odd, but youre going to spend every dime you can every time you Use SearchUI. It may scare you a bit at first, but its the fastest way to build up your earning power. The more auctions you have to post, the higher your earnings will be each weekend. Typically, you will not be able to clear out all the bargains on most servers with less than 1,000 to 1,500 gold. On servers with a lot of auctions (more than 300 pages) it can take up to 2,000 gold to bid on or purchase everything worth reselling. Once you get to the advanced levels and begin browse purchases as well, you may find that it takes 5,000 gold to purchase everything that you can make a healthy profit from. But dont sweat it much, after a month or so youll get used to spending 1,500 gold every week; especially when you find that you turn that 1,500 gold into 2,000 or more consistently.
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Best Buys on any server Remember that this is a commodity driven market. All of the Mats are best buys. Cloth, Metals, Herbs, and Leather will always sell and there are almost always under-priced items to buy and resell. Honorable mention goes to bags which are always in demand. But the king of the best buys are enchanting mats. Your enchanter needs to hit skill 375 because thats where youll get the better part of your cash flow. You will need to get one enchanter up to level 375 so you can disenchant anything in the game. Even level 80 epics can DE to Abyss Crystals which may be the most expensive single trade item in the game for a while, and you can get them with just enchanting 375. Were going to show you how to know which items to purchase for disenchanting, but you can also buy under-priced enchanting mats any time of the week for resale. The reason enchanting mats rule is that they have no deposit costs. You can post them at any price you like and post them over and over and over again and it never costs you a dime. Your profit margin is secure no matter how small it may be. So on mats, buy them any time you find them under-priced, and sell them any time you like. We buy cloth, metals, leather, herbs and enchanting mats all week and during the weekend when we scan.
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We post these best buy items for sale all through the week to help us keep up our cash flow for purchasing other items to sell on the weekends.
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Operating a purge As soon as you hit 1,000 auctions, go ahead and do a purge even if you are still making decent gains. This will get your inventory back down to an easier to manage level. When you post all of your auctions and find that you have hit the 1,000 auction mark, wait until all of your auctions expire on Monday and then mail every single green item to your enchanter for DE. And we mean every single one. Price is not an issue. Since we bought most of those items for a very low price, this should at least get us our money back for what we paid for all those things that just wont sell fast enough. Remember that auction listing fees eat your profits, and at some point we need to just get our investment back. When you purge items this way, pay attention to how many enchanting mats auctions you have when you put all of the mats in your rolling auctions. When your rolling auction list has 500 auctions or more, you need to stop buying everything but items only until you sell out of consumables and mats. This may take a week or two of rolling auctions. Remember that all of the consumables and mats you purchase and get from DE should be left on rolling auctions continually and not just
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on the weekends. The very best number of total auctions you should have on the weekend when all of your rolling auctions and weekend auctions are up at the same time is about 500. When your rolling auctions alone get bigger than 500, it gets to be too time consuming to deal with and messes with the market price. You see, when you have 50 stacks of lesser magic essence for sale, the increased supply will drive the price down. You will need to sell out and let the market return to more reasonable market values before it is of any use to be selling them again. So when your total auctions get greater than 1,000, or your rolling auctions get to be more than 500, you will purge. Part one of the purge is to DE all of your green items. Part two is to turn off the Disenchanting module of SearchUI and buy no more items for DE until you have sold out of enchanting mats on your rolling auctions. Once you have very few enchanting mats left in your rolling auctions, or your rolling auctions total less than 100 listings, you can turn the DE module back on again and start buying items for DE. Once you have purged your green items, you can still be purchasing more for resale right away. All you wanted to do was get rid of the stuff that wasnt selling so that you can get back to purchasing things
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Mastering The Market

Using Search UI Buying For Resale Now were getting to the good stuff. This is where were going to teach you how to really use all the information in those tooltips to make mountains of gold. By now, youve been scanning for at least a week. If you can stand it, we recommend scanning only for two weeks to build up the most accurate database you can possibly have to start with. Youve also sold everything your farming toon collected on their run to 25 and sold it using Appraiser. Once those auctions are over send any BOE item you have left back to your mule for storage for the week. Use rolling auctions for all the mats and consumables you have to keep the cash flowing in. Now were going to get more things to sell. One thing we know for a fact is that some silly fools out there spent a good portion of their play time last weekend farming something. And we love them for it. The other thing we know for sure is that there is no way a human being can properly price everything according to market value without using a tool like AADV. Some of those farmers will be selling some of the things they got for prices that are far lower than they should be.
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Or maybe they listed it already at the wrong time of the week or for a silly price and now they are just giving up and setting the price too low. It doesnt matter how the pricing gets low, we just want to find all the auctions that are priced too low. Now, before we get started, we have to tell you that this is going to take some practice. Its pretty standard for us with the settings we have given you to take a profit of between 200 to 400 gold for every 1,000 we spend on under priced items. But even for us there will be weeks when we just break even. The key is in knowing how to really use SearchUI and know what to bid on, what to buyout and how to sort out the numbers from the reality. The numbers are real, but they dont always tell the whole story. A database is only as clever as the human evaluating the data, so youre going to have a lot of info to sort out in your own brain. After a few weeks of scanning, youll be able to read the data almost as soon as you see it, but at first its going to take some time. Normally a single scan through the AH will throw almost every possible variable at you, so dont be too upset when you make some mistakes the first month. So go to the Ah and do a fresh scan. SearchUI will run any time, but is only truly effective when it is working with a very latest database. The scans go stale pretty quickly, say 30 minutes, so you wont be
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spending a lot of time doing this, which is a good thing, but you have to be relatively quick about it. Your first time or two out, you may want to scan and then do DE purchases, then scan again and do the other modules one at a time with a scan between each one. But that can take a long time. It all depends on how comfortable you are blowing a big pile of gold in a very short period of time, if you want to slow down thats just fine for a while until you get used to all of this.
ATTENTION: We are going to go a little out of order here so that this guide wont be 500 pages long. We When your scan is done, right click the SearchUI magnifying glass again to get the window. Go to the Resale option and then click the little minus sign in the lower left hand corner of the settings pop out.
Then hit the search button you see just to the left and now your screen will look something like this:
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If you are doing this while reading, it still might not be done yet. If you have a really massive database, you might think about clearing it and starting over if these scans take more than 5 minutes. Of course, part of the issue may also be that your server and faction might have a 500 page AH and that means its just going to take a while. One of the nice things about SearchUI over Bottom Scanner is that you can focus on one type of purchase at a time. You dont have to mentally shift back and forth between mats and items. Well show you what happens in a real time scan, which you might prefer for a number of reasons. SearchUI also pretty much replaces another way we buy for resale, although we are going to leave the old way in the guide in case you like it better. You can see from our screenshot above that there are a lot of blues and epics for sale when we did the scan. When you first begin doing this we suggest you ignore these and only go with greens for a while until you have well over 2,000 gold and 5,000+ would be better.
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Blues and epics can be both volatile and slow moving, and you dont want to get stuck with a major portion of your bankroll in a bunch of purples that wont sell very fast. We also wish we could sort these lists by profit percentage and not totals, but oh well. You get what weve got, and well just get good at looking at numbers. We cant even begin to tell you how long this screen was, it would cover 10 pages easily, so its a lot of deals to work with. So lets get started. The first thing you are going to do is sort based on the second column Pct. This column tells us what the price of the bid or buyout is relative to the market value. When you do this first sort, bid or buyout everything up to the 40% mark, except for things that you will ignore, ignore price, or snatch more on this later. Remember that we suggest you do not use buyout your first few times, or if you are lazy, so adjust this accordingly. At the 40% mark the numbers will change from blue to green.
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There are so many things to cover in this one screenshot that its going to take a while. It basically tells you almost everything you need to know about how to work with this module for resale, which is what the majority of your scans will be about. DE is a lot easier, because you can just bid/buyout everything in the screen, your setting will take care of everything so its super easy to use. But resale is the toughie; there are a lot of decisions to be made on this huge list of stuff. First, you can see the purchase button in the lower left, thats the one to use the highest percentage of the time as you go down the list. Youll notice that items are removed from the list so that when we do our next sort, we dont accidentally try to purchase the same thing twice. You can also see the popup that you will be getting. Do I want to bid on this Mistyreed level 64 gloves for 4 copper? You bet! It should
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sell for about 4g, but the DE value is 8; an awesome purchase. Which brings up another point; youll want to run the scan for DE before you run the scan for resale to clear out all of these types of items. Once your bankroll is well over 2k, you may also want to begin using the snatch button in this screen as well. Every time you run a resale scan, hit the snatch button for all MATS you see at less than 40% market value. This will build you a really big database of things that AADV will automatically buy for you every time you scan the AH. Up until a few weeks ago, snatch was all slash commands, and its very hard to say how well it works at this point, but continue to add things to the snatch list anyway. One of these days it will all go ding and work like a charm, and you want to have your database all built up and ready to go.
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You can also see our break over point from blue to green at the 40% mark. Remember you want to bid AND buyout everything under the 40% level with some exceptions. And on those exceptions we have a new rule for you. In the middle of the bottom bar you see two other buttons: Ignore Price and Ignore. Use one of these on EVERY SINGLE ITEM YOU DO NOT PURCHASE. This will keep all the trash out of your sorts forever. We gave you a short list of things that you should NEVER buy for resale, such as gems. But you will also want to ignore all of the oddball stuff so that it doesnt end up in your scan cluttering up your screen with things you are not going to purchase anyway. Here is an example:
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Gems stink for resale. The only way to make money with gems is to prospect or mine them yourself, cut them yourself, and then sell them on the trade chat channel. This one is a definite Ignore at any price, and you can see from the tooltip that this is exactly what the ignore button does for you.
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Another oddball to be aware of is low level patterns. These things are just awful in most cases. Nobody makes these things any more so they dont want the patterns. The only time we ever purchase patterns is for vendor. You can see this pattern requires tailoring 270, but has a level requirement of just 49 and only has spirit blech! Another ignore every time.
ATTENTION: You are going to have to go slower than you would like. As you click along removing things
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\ We used to use ignore price a lot more, but with SearchUIs advanced filtering system its not really necessary unless you adjust your search criteria to a much lower discount. But youll probably find that youre finding more than enough good deals anyway, so why bother with the extra workload? Once you hit this green price level stuff its ok to still bid on everything, but well have to be a little more careful on the buyouts. The way to do this is once youve purchased, bid, snatched or ignored everything in the blue price range, the only thing left is to sort the list ascending on the Reason Column.
Now all your bids in the green 40-60% range will rise to the top. You can safely bid on everything down to the point in your list where bids
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turn to buyouts (taking into account the ignores and snatches of course). As you can see, there will be a clear place in the list where everything goes from bid to buyout. This is where you have to start making more sophisticated choices.
When you get to the buyout section of the scan you are going to want to slow down just a little bit and really think about using the ignore price button if the profit isnt over 100%.
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You can see on these two items that even the bid price is higher than the profit margin. As long as the number on the far left is higher than the number on the far right, youre ok. But even on the bid items you might consider hitting Ignore Price for things when the profit is less then the buyout or bid. If you accidentally hit the Ignore button on something you really dont want to ignore, heres how to fix it. Go to the Filters module and select Item Price. On the right hand side is a list of everything you are ignoring based on price. Items with an ignore price of 1c are going to always be ignored. As you can see, we accidentally ignored bolt of imbued Netherweave. To get this back in our purchasing for resale lists, all we have to do is hit the Remove Selected button to the right of the list and it will stop ignoring this item in the future.
As you look at our list here, you can also see some other oddball things you will want to ignore. Librams, Gurubashi Coins,
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Schematics would all fall into the ignore category. You will also see that the Ballast Maul of the Gorilla is probably not something we want to ignore since its a BOE green, so thats another mistake well take off the list. Just remember to scan your ignore list from time to time to get back something you accidentally deleted from scans. There are a lot of things you can do with the filters in this part of the module, but they are such a matter of personal taste that we wont cover all of them here. But you could very well choose to turn off the Rare and Epic items for all the modules and do your browsing manually like we will show you below. In fact, if you would prefer to use filters instead of using the ignore button it can save you some time. The shot below shows you how you can avoid most of the ignores by using filters in the Resale module.
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You can also run SearchUI in real time while you scan, but until they add more information to the popup tooltip showing more information we dont recommend that you do so. You dont really have enough
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control over the process in real time search as you do in the sortable frame, although you will be able to hop on deals faster. In both filters and real time searching, youll just have to play with both a little and see which you like best. We actually use the filter settings above and then also manually set the ignore list on anything that slips through and just do manual scans for rares and epics.
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Buying Rules At this point, weve covered the basics, so lets recap what weve learned when scanning for buys. Remember, we said that even though we were going to show you the Resale screen first, you wont want to scan it first when you go to purchase. Here is the order of operations: Scan for Vendor first. Bid or buyout everything no matter what it is. Next hit the Snatch search. This will grab all the very best deals of all types before your data gets stale. Be quick on this one to avoid losing out to someone elses bid on the very best buys. Scan for DE and Prospecting next. This will clear all the best greens and ores out so they arent included in the resale search. Next, move on to the resale module and bid/buyout everything in the blue price range after sorting the list ascending on the Pct Column After youve cleared the 0-40% value items, sort the list ascending on the Reason Column and grab all the bid items. And Last, Go through all the buyout items and buy out everything with a profit margin over 100%, and price ignore the rest.
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Dont use the NOT NOW button use Ignore and Ignore Price if the deal isnt good, or the item is something we dont want to ever see again. You can see that our scan order is: Vendor Snatch DE Prospecting Resale Scanning for Vendor is super simple. We use both bid and buyout for vendor scans since its virtually free money. Not much effort past the bid or buyout, just grab them from the mail and sell them all off. We dont go over scanning for vendor much because its very simple. A few passes and youll understand why it doesnt need much explanation besides just do it first. The Snatch scan will catch everything in your Snatch list. Review the section above to get more tuned in to what you should be snatching, but primarily use this for mats for your production professions on your main toons. The DE scan is also pretty much fire and forget. We have gotten to the point where we have the settings so precise that we bid/buyout everything the search shows, much like the vendor scans.
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The Oddball & Always Ignore List There are certain items you will always add to your ignore list. No matter what server you are on, it just hardly ever seems worth the trouble to try to resell the following items. Since weve talked about this some already, we thought we would give you a more complete list as a reference. Low level Patterns Special utility consumables like Bottled Nethergon Vapors Gems used only in Jewelcrafting (unless your server has many of these as vendor sale items be sure to scan for a few weeks to make sure) White items unless you are buying to Vendor Engineering Parts like Copper Tube Green Items that require a Profession to use like Green Tinted Goggles Certain consumables like Elixer of Detect Undead nobody uses those much All Alcoholic Beverages Librams and books like gift of the Wild. Coins and other special things from Pre Wrath Dungeons and raids. Most of the BC rep items like Marks of Sargeras. Nobody is grinding out those reps any more, so they will be basically junk for quite a while if they ever regain any value at all.
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Darkmoon Faire Cards these things just dont sell all that well even at half market price. You are going to need to keep an eye on certain items yourself to add to this list for your server. The market of each server has a very unique personality, and there are going to be certain items youre going to get sick of buying because they just dont resell. All you have to do to skip them in the future is put them on the ignore list.
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Using Enchantrix and SearchUI for DE This is going to be the shortest segment in this guide, but will make you the most money over the long haul. Enchanting mats always sell well and the prices dont seem to move around much. This section was once several pages long. But once we got the settings right, it works like a charm every single time. All you have to do is make sure that your Enchantrix settings match ours in the SearchUI Configuration and youre ready to go. We skipped this in the first section of using SearchUI because it is so important it needs its own blurb. Plus, it is a more advanced way of playing the auction house than just buying to resell. For some time, we monitored very closely how much we were paying for items to DE for their mats. It took quite a while to find a group of settings that were loose enough to always gave us a healthy profit but werent so strict that they ruled too many items out. The funny thing about DE is that its like that Forrest Gump box of chocolates. You never know what youre gonna get. All items you DE will reduce into one of three items in sometimes very different amounts. You could DE 20 of the very same item and quite possibly end up with ten or 15 different little stacks of mats out of them all.
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That variability is what makes getting your settings right on purchasing items for DE so difficult to determine. You may very well lose a little money on some items and get a 300% return on those same items the next time you DE them. So you cant just set your settings at a discount of say 67%, then you will hardly ever be buying things to DE. You also cant always trust the values you see in the Enchantrix part of the tooltip since the values cover such a broad range. What we found is that it all tends to even out in the end IF you are buying a LOT of items for DE. This turns the odds in your favor. So what you want to do is trust the settings we have given you as gospel and run with them like the wind. Every single item that SearchUI pops up for DE BUY IT. Send it to your enchanting toon and then mail the mats right back. Again, since enchanting mats have no deposit costs, you are going to leave all of your enchanting mats on the ah using rolling auctions 24/7/365.
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Using LilSparkys
Now, what this mod is going to do is tell you what every single recipe you know is worth to vendors, the AH and for DE. That covers every way you can possibly make money from a crafted item. You have to use a few other mods to make LilSparkys do this, just read the requirements in the download screen (I recommend AADV, Informant and ATSW) Once LS (LilSparkys) is up and running (and assuming you have plenty of AADV data to work with) all you do is open up your profession screen and you are going to see a wealth of new information.
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I'm not going to walk you through every single thing in LS, because frankly that would take a fairly long guide, and I figure you're all big enough to figure it out for yourself. But the screenshot above illustrates a couple of things I do want to point out. Whenever you see numbers in bold, bright letters that means there is money to be made on that item. On the top you see we can expect to get 116 gold if we sell Soulcloth Gloves at the AH (the little "a" next to 116 means 'auction,' a "d" means 'disenchant,' and "v" is 'vendor').
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The number to the right means we can purchase ALL of the mats to make Soulcloth Gloves either at AH or vendors for just 54gold 44 silver - a profit of 61gold 56 silver - so I just pop over to the AH and start buying up everything I can find for these little gems, knowing I will make a hefty profit in no time flat, plus get a few skill-ups to boot! Even better is the second example. Remember one thing kids if you hear nothing else in this post: ENCHANTING WILL MAKE YOU MORE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER PROFESSION PERIOD! Now we have a mod to help us make even more money from enchanting than ever before possible. I don't even have to wait for SearchUI to pick things up for DE, I can just craft them with the info from LS! I see here I can make Netherweave Belts for just 7g 19s and then turn right around and DE them and sell those mats for 21g 11s on average. Holy cow, that's about a 200% profit! I don't know about the Ah on your server, but I can probably buy 100 stacks of Netherweave at any given time. That's a lot of Netherweave Belts and a LOT of gold about to go in my pocket.
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Without LS I would never really know which recipes I can do this with so easily. Now it's right in front of me every time I open a trade skill window on ANY of my toons. Not only that, I can save recipes like this on one toon and it will give me a shopping list like this:
As you can see the shopping list tells me how many of each item I have on alts, in banks, and inventories on all my toons on the server. Then it will list which things I need to purchase from vendors - it will even auto-buy the exact amount of vendor items I need with the push of a single button at the trade merchants. Getting excited about this yet?
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This shopping list will appear on my banking toon when I log in - my goodness; am I in gold heaven or what? So I just log all of my toons, pop in a queue for all of the best recipes for each profession, log the banker and go on a serious shopping spree. As long as I buy the mats for each thing in the queue for at, or below 100% of ah market value, I win big. Or you can put all of those things in Snatch and catch them every time you scan. This will mean that you can make steady gold all throughout the week without having to depend solely on SearchUI to find everything for you. Put everything for the stuff LS finds into Snatch and you can do those any time you have a few free minutes to spare. Then I just mail all that stuff to the trade skill toons, make everything, send it back to the bank or enchanter for DE, and it's CHA-CHING, CHA-CHING, CHA-CHING. Don't waste another minute - go get this mod and start Dominating with crafted items right away.
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Complete Market Domination

Browse Buys Pro Manipulating the market You will be using the techniques above to get your first 2,000 gold. At first, we want you to stay away from most BOE blues and definitely Epic items. The reason for this is that the higher the value of the item, generally the more times you will have to list it and the higher your deposit fees are going to be. Until you have a few weeks or months experience evaluating green items for resale, we suggest you not buy many blues or epic items. You will want to have as much historical data as possible before you head off into the deep water. You should sell about 50% of your green resale items each weekend. With blue items you can expect about 25% of them to sell, and with epic items you just never know. We generally list epic items for two weeks before they sell, sometimes longer. You have to have patience to deal with the Barneys. With that being said, you will make big piles of cash from epic items if you purchase them using the same numbers we gave you before. The 25% rule applies to everything you buy. Most of the time the higher the price we have to pay for an item; the bigger we want our percentage to be.
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We will typically want to double our money from every blue and epic item sale. If we spend 500 gold to buy a Gyro Balanced Khorium Destroyer, we want to know we can get 1,000 to 1,200 gold for the thing. This gives us plenty of relisting fee room so that we dont lose money no matter how many times we have to re-list it. Once you hit 1,500 to 2,000 gold, things get a little weird. There seems to be a sort of glass ceiling at 2,000 gold and you may find yourself having trouble breaking that barrier. The way to fight through this is to never stop purchasing the little items for resale. The other way of getting over this is to periodically purge your inventory. After a few months of disenchanting and listing some items over and over again there will naturally be a number of things that will just be eating up your money. The inventory purge will get rid of all this dead weight and put you back on track again to 5,000 gold.
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Concerning Blue and Epics Since there is a limited demand for epic and blue items we want to cover how to deal with those now. These types of items can be very lucrative, but also a big waste of money if you dont handle them properly. When you first start buying Blue and Epic Items (B&E) you will need to only purchase those items which have Purchased information in the tooltip like this:
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This epic drop item has been purchased 2 times in the last 24 hours for an average price of 885 gold. You can see that Appraiser values this at 505 gold, which is the highest price we would see it in SearchUI. If we could buy this item for less than 440 gold, it would be a deal. This brings us to our next point Browse buys. Here is the Browse page containing the item we just looked at:
You remember that we said is we could get this item for 440 gold or less, we would consider purchasing it for resale. We know this is a safe price because 2 of these sold in the last day alone for an average of 880 gold. Remember that our price point for B&E items is 50%. So if we can buy a B&E item for half of the purchased prices in our tooltip it is a good deal.
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Here, we see two of them with buyouts less than 350 gold. Now were talking money. It will cost us 670 gold to buy these two items. We have a potential return of over 1,700 gold. This little example also brings up our next point manipulating prices. You recall our brief description about how supply and demand will help push the market up or down? Here is a classic case of making the price move up all by yourself. If we buy both of these Lightening Crowns and re-list them for their true market price, we will push the price back up where it should be. More than likely what happened here is that one of these guys found one of these and had no clue what the market value was so he listed it for 350 gold. To him that may be a ton of money. He had no idea it could sell for 850+. The other dude found the same thing and rushed off to the AH to post it and looked it up first to see how much he should sell it for and found the first guy selling it for 350 gold and decided he would sell his first by listing it for a little less 320 gold. Since we KNOW they will sell at 850 gold or more, we can very reasonably buy BOTH of these and get these silly prices off the market and replace those prices with prices of our own.
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If we look back at the first tooltip for this item, we can see that the 14 day moving average for this item is 615 gold buyout. If we spend 670 gold to get both of them we will reasonably be able to get back no less than 1,230 gold. You can push prices around this way any time you have the cash and the guts to do so. All it takes is a little practice looking at certain items and you will get the hang of inflating them all by yourself. One of the best areas to manipulate prices is with Twinking gear. Depending on the server, the prices for these drops will stay pretty even over time, and have a tendency to rise for a while and then drop back to normal. We love to buy twink gear. There is always some level 25 player who has no idea what the item should be worth dumping these things for half price or even way less. The other nice thing about twink gear, especially in the level 19 bracket is that it sells really fast the majority of the time. People with lots of gold are building a twink and they want all that gear and they want it NOW. In this picture we can see two examples of things we can use to press a market price higher all by ourselves.
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This one page has two good opportunities for us with four auctions of Magefist Gloves, and two Auctions of Thorbias Gauntlets. Magefist is used by caster twinks in the 19 bracket, and Thorbias by Warriors and Paladins in the 19 Bracket. Lets look at the tooltips too.
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We can see here that Thorbias should be selling for about 34 gold and Magefist for 38g. In the browse screen you can see two auctions only for Thorbias for a total buyout of 45. You can buy both of these and re-list them at 40 feeling pretty certain you will be able to sell them for well above market price because you own the only two on the ah. In the case of the Magefist you could buy out the three under priced sets for only 61 gold and post them at the same price as the 3rd set that is a little above market value for a price of say 40g each for a total of 120 gold return.
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What makes us even more excited about these two opportunities is that we have been on this particular server for over a year and we KNOW that Magefist gloves are few and far between most of the time. It is really odd to see four sets all at once here. More than likely we could buy all three low priced sets and resell them for 50 gold each and they would probably sell in less than 2 days. Its going to take you some time or some very specific wisdom about a certain aspect of the game to be able to do these last two techniques with confidence, but if youve been playing for a while you know more than you might think. As you scan for a few weeks you will begin to see things that you just KNOW are the wrong price because its something you used to sell when you used to farm, something you used to make to sell, or something you used to buy a lot of. You have more pricing knowledge than you can imagine, you just have to put yourself in a position to put it all to work.
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When to Browse buy and Price Push Dont try to browse buy or Price Push until youve cleared 2,000 gold. In all reality, once you hit 2,000 gold, you are probably going to have more than 500 gold left over after you do all of your purchases for the week, so you can make a few sweet moves like the ones we just showed you. When you find yourself running through SearchUI all the way and you still have a good pile of gold left over, dont just let it sit there collecting dust put it to work. When SearchUI is done, turn it off and do a scan with the rarity set to Rare:
Then just hit the search button. When you find items in blue, you can almost always buy them for resale. Items in green you will need to take a look at the tooltips and evaluate them further:
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On this page we would buy the blue item for sure almost without looking at it much. The other 8 we will take some time to check out the tooltips. We wont show you the whole process here, but it took us about 3 minutes to check all these out, and we bought out 5 of these for 1,274 gold, and had two bids totaling 941 gold. Our total out of pocket was 2215 gold. We were sitting on a bank of 14,500 gold; so no problem. We lost one bid for 441 gold - so we got that right back bringing our expenses down to 1774 gold. The total buyout on the auctions we posted for these items was 4246 gold. So we spent less than 2,000 gold to make almost 4,200 gold. Nice! Browse buying is power buying and you will need a LOT of gold to do it. But it can really boost your profits. Remember that it may take a while for all of these things to sell, but we can just re-list them in our rolling auctions forever until they sell.
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A Price Push is exactly what it sounds like. You are going to buy something and actually list it for higher than market value because you own the only one. If you find an item while browse buying with a good Purchased history you can generally turn right around and post it for up to 15% above market value if you are the only one in possession of the thing and you rarely see them at the AH. Our twink items from a previous example come to mind. If you find some goofball selling Feet of the Lynx for below market value, scoop them up and pop them in at above market value. Another Feet of the Lynx probably wont hit the market for a few weeks they are pretty rare since people dont spend a lot of time any more in zones where these will drop. If you watch the AH a lot, you can scoop up the next pair as well and just own the market for a single item posting them for whatever price you see fit. This leads us the granddaddy of them all, cornering a market.
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Going Big Time Arbitrage Arbitrage can make you some serious gold, but it can be tricky and time consuming to say the least. You probably noticed that we skipped the arbitrage screen in SearchUI, and thats because we want you to be solid on the basics before you jump off into the deep end. Ok, so what the heck is Arbitrage? Its the art of finding things that are cheap for one faction, and selling them to the other faction. The easiest example is the recipe for Savory Deviate Delight. Since SDD only drops in the Barrens really, Ally toons will almost never see this one. But you can often find this very rare recipe on horde servers for as little a 10-20 gold. If you can get it to an Alliance AH, it will rarely fetch less than 150g! Thats the essence of Arbitrage. Now for the bad news - in order to even consider this one, youll need to have a banker on both the horde and alliance side of a single server. And it will certainly work best of both of those bankers have cleared the 2,000g mark. Not the easiest trick in the world. You also have to have two accounts to do this since you cannot buy out your own auctions even at the neutral AH. If you dont have two or more accounts yourself, you might do this with a buddy. But dont tell him all your secrets!
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AADV will automatically check prices against cross factions on your realm when you do the Arbitrage scan. Since this is a pain in the back side, we want to make some serious gold on this stuff, so our settings are going to be severe. Take a look at ours:
Thats right; dont even mess with this unless you can make 20g a pop. But even though that sounds like a huge number, you can actually get scans with quite a few items to choose from. This has to do with population ratios between ally and horde a lot of times, but the sheer number of things you can make this kind of gold off of on one side or the other may very well surprise you. The types of items that go for big bucks on the other side can be odd as well. The scan below has us able to sell silly stuff like golden fish sticks from a horde price of 2g a stack, to the ally nerds for 34g a stack. Guess the ally guys dont fish. Maybe it gets their hands dirty
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or something. Who cares? Pop those things over a neutral AH and gouge the opposition in a whole new way. We only scan for this stuff once a week at the high point of Ah traffic, which is Saturday. Yes, we know it flies in the face of everything weve been saying to buy on the weekends, but arbitrage prices are fairly steady, and you should be a pro already by the time you get to this point in the guide. Heres the easy way to fence your goods across the neutral AH. Run one Ally and One Horde toon to Booty Bay. Thats one ally toon on your first account and the horde guy on your second account. This is a much bigger pain for Alliance, but unfortunately you have no better options. These toons can actually serve as your main mules for your bankers. Send each mule about 500g Purchase the Arbitrage Items from your banker and mail them to your BB mule (Lets use the example here of Ally fencing to Horde side). Log in both mules to the BB AH. Have the Ally mule post the Items on the neutral AH for a very low price so that neutral AH fees dont eat your lunch. Immediately buy the item with your Horde toon so nobody steals you thunder for next to nothing.
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Retrieve the item from the mail, send it to the banker and Viola, big wads of cash in a day or two. It also works best to post arbitrage items for sale only on weekends. Even though you can buy this type of stuff pretty cheap on your own faction AH all the time, you can actually charge a premium for them on the opposite AH on weekends. Arbitrage items are the king of buy low sell high. If you can put up with the hassle of doing this once a week, you can really up your profit potential.
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Cornering a Market A lot of you probably won't like this. Many of you may not be able to do it on a large scale. Most of you will need to practice before you can really use it like the serious weapon that it is. Almost none of you will have the patience to wait for the right timing. Depending on the size and prices of the AH on your server, don't even try this unless you have between 5,000 - 10,000 gold you can blow. In order to do this properly you are also going to have to use Auctioneer Advanced and have several months of daily scans in your database. You will also need to have the ability to watch the AH like a hawk. That means logging on every few hours to your banker to peel the newly posted items off the market before anyone else can buy them. This technique is only possible because the WoW economy is a closed market with limited fluctuation. What you're going to do is pick a niche of the market and OWN it; at least for a couple of weeks every month or two.
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Here's how this works - Pick an item type and buy out every single one that gets posted during the week (suck up the entire supply) and then stick it back on the market on Friday at +200% markup. In order for this to work you really have to be the only guy at the AH with that item type for sale. You have to buy every single thing so that you completely control the market segment. You have to have absolute and total power over supply. I normally pick enchanting mats. I have the most experience with those and the market tends to be fairly stable for these items. This technique also works best with the very highest end items, thus the need for so much gold in order to begin. In order to truly make this effective you need to buy up a complete niche such as Large Prismatic Shards, Planar Essences, Void Crystals, and Large Brilliant Shards - basically all of the high-end enchanting mats. You're also going to have to figure out what things actually go into a niche; that is why this is really risky unless you have a ton of gold already and don't mind losing a big bunch of it if you guess wrong. In my example above I found out that on several servers Arcane Dust just has too much supply feed to corner, it's almost impossible to do.
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But keep in mind that not every server is the same, so you're going to have to be a real gambler with serious skill to guess right every time. You will sell a few things the first weekend, and maybe get back 50% of what you spent the first week buying up your niche. You have to keep it up for at least another week. Keep buying everything and post it all up the next weekend. The next weekend you should clear back what you spent plus a hefty profit to boot. Why does this work? Because people have the attention span of gnats; when they need something, they would rather pay 2-4 times its market value than wait a few weeks hoping prices will drop. After two weeks of this, stop buying and just sell. Those folks who post the same stuff will by this time tend to match your new price and only undercut you a little bit. You will normally find that prices will restabilize at your much higher rate for some time. At this point sell down and stop buying for a while. You can watch while prices continue to drop until they reach the level they were before you did this. Now it's just lather, rinse, repeat. When prices
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return to historical averages, you can do it again. This is where the waiting part comes in. You see, as prices rose, you need to stop buying everything because your profit margin is shrinking. Once prices drop again the margin returns. When prices spike, you can move on to a new niche if you like or just take a break and do other things for a while. If you couple this with rare events such as a patch or the recent Season 4 arena start, it can mean wicked profits. We posted the experience of our editor - Lawbringer, doing exactly what we're talking about here during the Season 4 opening in Lithanial's article "Season 4 - A Unique Opportunity." Lawbringer began with 5,000 gold to work the market. He cornered the enchanting mats mentioned above and was able to turn 5,000 gold into a little over 12,000 in two weeks. Now, during the sell-down phase it's closer to 15,000. That means he tripled his gold in right at two weeks - not bad! We also have developed a system that makes us over 1,500 gold every single week with less than 2 hours spent working the ah. Oh,
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we also used this technique when Shaman got dual-wielding in a previous patch. I bought up all the axes for a few weeks before the patch and marked them up severely the day of the patch. I made about 4,000 gold in two days when all the Shaman rushed to the AH to get another axe. Once you get the hang of this, it's almost too easy.
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Putting it all together Once you hit 5,000 or more gold, you will hit a point on most servers where you cannot spend all your gold any more on auctions even if you are browse buying and price pushing. This is a good thing. You dont want to get too aggressive either. Keep the rules for 25%, 10%, 500 rolling auctions, 1,000 total auctions, and 25 B&E auctions in force as solid rules all the time. Remember to purge above 500 rolling and 1,000 total and youll continue to pull at least 25% above whatever you can spend almost every week. The whole point is to eventually be able to have plenty of gold to spend on things like the Epic flying mount riding lesson, which is 5,000 gold, and laugh about it. Some people can hit 10,000 gold in as little as 3 months with only 25 gold to start. For others, it may take as long as 6 months. Most of it is going to depend on the ah market on your server. On servers with low ah counts like 150 pages, its going to take longer because there are far fewer bargains available at any given time. Also on servers with low ah page counts, the prices tend to be more erratic because the market is just smaller.
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On servers with really big ah counts like 350+ pages, the sky is the limit. The prices will be more stable and there will be more types of items to choose from as well as just a lot more bargains to find. Now that youve read all the way through the guide, you can go back to whatever your starting point is and get started right away. Take your time the first few times you run SearchUI and really read all the tooltips and pops. The more you see the numbers, the faster you will be able to make a yes or Ignore decision. And just like in real life business, try to be as emotionless as possible when you are buying stuff to resell. Youll get to the point where you will be finding potential resale items with a POR to Price ratio of 24% and youll skip them without ever thinking twice. Stick to the rules and they will make you rich. And, as always, whatever you are doing be sure to Dominate!
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So lets recap everything you need to do to make this work: One banker One Mule One farmer (just to level 25 or 25 gold, whichever comes first, then you can sell the farm) One enchanter at level 375 Get AADV Get LilSparkys and AdvancedTradeSkillWindows Get Postman, Postal, OneBag3, and Informant Make sure all your settings are correct before you begin Scan every day, and more on weekends Scan for a week before you start to buy for resale (or anything else for that matter) Purchased Prices are King Mail all green items to your mule during the week Mail items back to your banker from your mule on Thursday Trust the Appraiser settings to set your prices for you, just post and relax Understand that your weekend auctions are for your mule green items Know that almost everything else goes into rolling auctions all the time Spend every penny you can each week on purchases Mats are always best buys
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Dont ever or very rarely use the Not Now button in SearchUI screens. Use the Ignore and Ignore Price instead to limit the trash so that all you see is the really good deals, or build a filter that suits you. Buy anything with a profit over 100% Dont be afraid of the ignore list for things that dont sell well on your server The Disenchant module will make you more cash than anything else until after you clear 2,000 gold Purchase every single item SearchUI finds for DE Purge when you have more than 1,000 weekend auctions or 500 rolling auctions During the purge Dont use the DE search Continue to purchase green items during the purge Purge all your previous green items Dont buy any mats or consumables during a purge You MAY purchase B&E items during a purge if you have less than 25 of them in your rolling auctions Twinking gear has some of the best B&E items for resale Dont carry more than 25 B&E items at any given time If you have fewer than 25 B&E in your rolling auctions: o You can browse buy B&Es if you run out of bargains before you run out of gold to spend o You can price push a market segment you have some expertise with
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On servers with small ah counts, its going to take you more time to hit 10,000 gold than on servers with high auction counts The more you do this on YOUR server the better you are going to get at it
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Conclusion Thats all there is to it. The rest is just practice. Weve given you the settings and the guidelines to use. Its taken us years to figure out when to use a purge to turbo charge our auctions again. There are even more advanced ways to use AADV, but we are reluctant to put them in this guide right now. There are so many little things that can go wrong, and using too many methodologies until you master the basics is a ticket to lost profits. Since AADV is still in a developmental stage, were going to wait on some of those things for a later update. But you can expect us to show you all the most valuable tricks that come out of AADV in the weeks and months ahead. Modules like Converter make for great quick cash, but the tooltip information is broken right now, so the module is pretty worthless. As soon as these things come back into play, well get them updated to this guide. Weve spent hundreds of hours fiddling with the new version of AADV to make sure the settings are just right so that all you have to do is plug them in and go. We have used this method to build up incredible bankrolls for our toons in really short periods of time and we know you can use these methods too. Its your turn now to go out there and Dominate!

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Gavin Garretts Auction House Mastery Guide Version 1.

Auction House Mastery Series

Making Gold - Made Easy

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New Tooltip data Getting Auctioneer Ready

Dominating The Market

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Mastering the Market

Using Enchantrix DE Mastery Using LilSparkys

Arbitrage Cornering a Market

Putting it all Together Action Plan Conclusion

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Now, when you go to auction you will see this:

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Settings For Auctioneer Modules

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