WoW Confidential

The best way to make gold in World of Warcraft usually falls under professions and crafting. However opportunities and niches arise in the auction house when an items demand surpasses the supply which causes that item to either go out of stock or spike in price.
This has occured recently on my server with Iceweb Spider Silk. [...]

I follow nearly every World of Warcraft gold blog on the internet (about 35 active gold blogs), from little blogs with 4 subscribers to the larger ones with 3,000+.
With anything in life I believe it is important to get different perspectives on a topic that may make you realize things you have been overlooking. I [...]

If you have more than 50+ mail in your mailbox you must wait 30 seconds before the additional mail is loaded into your mailbox which makes retrieving mail a timely and annoying task.
Even with the addon Postal which allows you to click “open all” to retrieve all of your mail automatically, you must wait for [...]

Along with my daily tips on how I make gold I wanted to share with you my progress towards the gold cap of 214,000 gold.
I am current at 75,000g worth, which is auctioneers valuation of all the items I have in my bags, inventory and currently listed on the auction house.
I have 36,500 in actual [...]

My main source of gold used to come from buying and selling on the auction house, buying items at a low price and flipping it back on the auction house at its average price.
While not as many deals exists anymore, due to the crash of the twink market, heirloom items, players utilizing auctioneer to let [...]

There are many shady methods that players utilize to make money on the auction house.  The methods try to trick a player with confusing quantity and price strategies that look like legitmate prices but are really just a visual trick that can easily go unnoticed if you don’t have certain auction house addons showing you [...]

There is a new site in the World of Warcraft scene which allows you to gather statistics on the auction house outside of WoW. Similar to what WoW Econ provides but it’s free! (WoW Econ charges for their service)
The site is over at www.wowoah.com (WoW Online AH) and there are some pretty neat features that [...]

You’ll notice in very competitive markets, such as glyphs, you go to check the mailbox for sold auctions and all you are getting back are expired unsold items.
You priced your item fairly, the item is in demand, so what went wrong? The problem is that you are constantly being undercut by 1 copper on all of your auctions [...]

I logged on after patch 3.3 went live to notice that my usual cycle of canceling and reposting glyphs was no longer working. Luckily the developer “Shadowed” of the addon Quick Auctions 2 was available online and notified us of a new rule put in by Blizzard.
Here is a quote from Shadowed regarding the change:

As with any business your profits come from the difference between sales price and cost of materials (hopefully the sales price being higher).
The lower you can get your material costs will not only increase your earnings but it will enable you more room to undercut your competition to the point that they may be going into the [...]