I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with buying items from vendors and selling them for a profit on the auction house.

I started off selling almost anything I could find from vendors –  food, equipment, reagents, arrows, recipes, pets, trade goods (resilient parchment, star wood), mining pick, etc.. If a vendor sold it I probably tried to flip it for a profit.

I have trimmed the list down to items that sold consistently and for a nice mark up.

Flipping vendor items for profit is probably one of the best ways to make gold when you have no professions or little start up capital. I’ve used it in combination with WoW Schools guide to really give me an advantage on route to my next gold cap.

You can literally buy recipes and items for 20 silver and turn around and flip it on the AH for 60 gold.

The trick here to make it the most profitable and worth your time is to follow an efficient route so you get all the key recipes, many people even know that recipes sell from the vendor but would rather just buy it from the auction house for a mark up to save them the hassel of traveling. Our advantage is we can take 1 trip out to a remote location and pick up multiple of that item, store it in the bank and sell it off when there’s no or low supply.

Items that are far are either incorporated into a route or must be sold at a high enough mark up to justify the travel time as some of these items are sold in limited quantity and you can only get one while you are out there.

List of Profitable Vendor Items to Flip on AH

Here’s a list of the vendor items I’ve successfully sold and how much profit I’ve gained from each item. Some items don’t have a profit amount yet as I’ve yet to sell them but they were easy to obtain (from same vendor as another profitable item) I’ll include my spreadsheet so you can input any other items you find and delete items you find don’t sell on your server.

Some items sell right away while others may have a 50% sell through rate. I’ve sold some of these items multiple times (like star wood, I sell about 5/day) I will include a report of my best selling vendor items in a future post so you see how much stock of each of these items I move a week.

Experiment with your pricing as well. I usually start off with the market price and start doubling it after every successful sale. A lot of these items have sold each time and I increase the cost by 10g each time. I find that most recipes can usually get around 50-70g, and some rare ones like the Admirals Hat recipe can go for upwards of 500g.

Total Profit = 3,403g

Vendor Item Locations – Route and Maps

The above is all nice and dandy to show what sells, but you’ll waste so much time trying to track down each vendor individually. Here’s a list of where those items to flip are by Zone and Vendor, after this I’ll include the route I take.

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Maps

Here’s the route I take and the map for each zone of the vendor locations, bookmark this page and follow these stages each time you need to restock. Click to zoom each picture.

Outlands Run

Start in Shattrath > Terokkar > Shadowmoon Valley

Hellfire > Zangarmarsh > Dip down to Nagrand > Blade’s Edge Mountains

End at Netherstorm

Dalaran to Kalimdor Run

Dalaran > Teleport to Orgrimmar > Fly to Azshara

Winterspring > Moonglade > The Barrens

Stonetalon > Desolace > Thunder Bluff

Dustwallow Marsh > Feralas > Thousand Needles

End at Tanaris > Hearth back to town.

Eastern Kingdoms Route

Start at Undercity > Tirisfal Glades > Western Plaugelands

Fly back or hearth to Brill (Undercity) take zepplin to Stranglethorn

Stranglethorn > Booty Bay > Fly to Swamp of Sorrows

Alterac Mountains

2 items sell here, one that sells for about 150g profit so it’s worth the trip. I haven’t found an efficient way to incorporate it into the routes so for now I fly from Undercity to Tarren Mill walk east, just past river and follow path up mountain, takes 7 minutes to get there and visit both vendors.

Vendor Profit Spreadsheet

Here’s my spreadsheet I used to track everything, it’s a little messy but it’s a good starting point to keep track of your profits, inventory, and a place you can put in new items that aren’t in this list yet.

That wraps up this article. If you know of any other good vendor flips not listed here I’d be interested to hear what is successful for you in the comments below so I can add it to the list.

If you need more gold and want to leverage this method with another gold making guide I’d recommend picking up WoW Schools guide as this works well with it and teaches other flips.

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Every Tuesday we have maintenance on servers that last for 6 hours on average. During this time period bids are still ticking and if you previously bid on anything that was ending within that 6 hour time window where the server is down you’re guaranteed to win it as long as you are the highest bidder before the servers go down.

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 8th 2010 will be unique as a large amount of servers will be down for 24 hours, from 12:01 PDT Tuesday morning (Monday night) till Wednesday 12:01 PDT (Tuesday night). This brings a special opportunity as it will extend that window of bids you’ll win from 6 hours to 24 hours where all bids will end with the highest bid someone placed at 12:01 with a time left of less than 24 hours.

List of Servers Going Down for 24 Hours

So get out there, you only have 3 hours left as of this posting! do a quick auctioneer /auc getall and do a resale search with the bid option ticked. Either buy and resell items to flip or pick up a lot of stock well below your average price.

I have sold the majority of the frozen orbs I’ve had stockpiled to flip for profit back at the start of patch 3.3.3

I still have an additional 100 left and whenever the price goes above 20g each I sell them off, but recently I reevaluated if I am getting the maximum value from each frozen orb.

The top items to convert frozen orbs for profit has usually been:

1. Eternal Fire

2. Eternal Life – Usually the first couple days of the darkmoon faire when everyone is buying out the Eternal Lifes

3. Selling the Frozen orb itself when it goes above the value of  1 & 2

However when moving my mouse across all of the items to check their current market price here is what I noticed:

These market prices are averaged out over hundreds of recently seen items. So I decided to test this out and see if they actually sell at a decent rate.

Sales Results

On the first day I posted 1, then 2, then 5 and so on

I sold 10 frozen orbs for an average of 132g which equals 1,320g. If I had sold them individually or converted them to Eternal Fires I would have made only 888.80g, so I made a profit of 431g.

If you have already sold out of all your frozen orbs, check your AH prices and see if runed orbs are going for over 100g each. If they are and you can buy frozen orbs for less than 20g each give this experiment a try and let me know how it goes.

Keep in mind that these don’t sell in large quantities, I am on a medium population server and could sell around 5-8 of these a day (I only had 3-4 other runed orb posts to compete with each time) but if no one else is really taking advantage of this give it a try.

A great feature that was added to Quick Auction 3 a little later in its development is the ability to run a “status” scan.

What this scan does is look at the items you currently have in your inventory that you have set up a group for in quick auctions 3. It will report back how much the lowest auction is currently going for, what your threshold is set at, and how many are posted.

How can you use this information? If the price of the current lowest price is well below your threshold price you can buy up these items and essentially reset the market!

Resetting Markets

In this example I’ll use a case study of how it can be applied to Jewelcrafting, but I reckon it’d work for pretty much every other profession (except for glyphs, it is so easy for someone else to just craft another 5 glyphs and undercut your reset item prices.)

The problem we see happen a lot in many markets are the prices will be very juicy, up to 150% or 200% of the usual going rate. You have your Solid Sky Sapphires posted at 49g (having bought the raw gem for 9g) and looking to get a nice return on these. Then someone comes along and dumps 5 solid skys for 14g each, what a bummer!

You have two options now, you can either buy up the 5 solid skys the player posted, making your 49g auctions the lowest priced again, or you can just wait it out hoping that those 5 lower ones sell fast making yours the lowest again.

However, sometimes before you get ready to post your newly crafted stock of gems the markets are already low and QA3 will just say “Skipping item, below threshold” and you assume that the market is bad. But often times it may just be 1 or 2 items posted for 50% of the going rate that you could just buy out and then relist for 150% of the value!

Case Study of How I Reset the JC market

You can see from the image above that I ran the status scan. I then quickly compare the value difference between my threshold and the lowest priced auction. I also have a spreadsheet of the maximum price I buy each gem uncut.

If the price of the cut version of the gem is going for lower than the price I’ll buy uncut gems, I’ll buy those up (only ones that I know sell well) This not only provides me with more stock but it’ll raise the price instantly so I can make a larger return on the gems I post now.

Relentless Earthsiege Diamond

I buy earthsiege diamonds for 38g each, so I can buy up these 29g auctions.

I could just buy up those 29g items, but if I bought out the 39g ones too (which is 1g above my “buy” price) then there wouldn’t be any gems up and I could determine the price!

I chose to do this and relisted them at 135g. If one sells I’ll make 100g profit (covering the costs of 2.5 gems I bought)

Case Study #2 – Don’t Undercut All The Time

Other times, you’ll do your status scan and see that there’s 1 or 2 cuts posted but they’re posted just high enough above your threshold that you wouldn’t feel comfortable buying it to flip, but you don’t want to undercut that price, because you run the risk of having the market set at that price or go lower if others come to undercut.

My buy price for dreadstones is 130g, so 168g would only give me a 28g profit. With only 1 currently on the auction house I know that it will eventually be sold fast so I should post my stock higher as that will leave mine as the only ones left.

I posted that auction last night. Notice that my time left is 48 hours! (should be 12h post) I posted this with Auctioneer instead and it seems they have a problem with posting time as well just like Quick Auctions 3 did (but now fixed). I found that auctioneer posted a “beta” version of auctioneer that fixes this problem and I can confirm I’ve tried it and all is good now.

I checked back this morning and saw one of them sold at 215g, so I made 55g profit on that gem instead of only 28g profit.

Give this a try with other markets. As long as you only buy out items which are below material costs then you should always make a profit. Be sure of exactly what your lowest costs are. Buying low priced items and reselling for a bit of a premium is one way I’ve made a lot of gold using WoW Schools guide.

I was a little worried after patch 3.3.3 went live as a lot of items I invested in didn’t experience the surge I was expecting them to.

However all my fears were set at ease yesterday as I checked up on the Eternal Fire and Titanium bar markets, which were the majorty of my investments

Eternal Fire

I predicted the rise in price of eternal fire due to everyone wanting to pump out titansteel bars now that the cooldown has been removed. I was aware that many players would convert frozen orbs into eternal fires which would cause a temporary supply dump after the patch was released but now that the majority of the dump is over there is nothing left to mass supply the AH of eternal fires.

I invested 12,300g into 861 eternal fires, that’s 15g each. The price has now climbed to 50g each as the minimum price. I don’t expect this price to be sustainable but I hope that it will settle at my predicted 30g each. Which would give me a 100% ROI or 12,300g profit.

Titanium Bar

I also invested a good deal of gold into 250 titanium bars, this market I expected to go up also due to the titansteel surge in crafting however this price isn’t dampered down by frozen orbs. That means that the current price should be the highest it’ll go and I only expect it to go lower as a flood of titansteel will bring down the price of titansteel thus bring down the cost of the main material to make it.

BoE Engineer Pets

This is by far my highest profit so far in the patch! I’ve been lucky enough that only 2 other engineers are attempting to make gold from this method which is slowing down the drop in price. I am currently selling these at 380g each and they only take 35g to craft. I’ve been selling around 2/day so far which is a nice 700g/day profit boost in my earnings. I’ll be honest and say that I have been slacking off on creating the pet bombling though, I need to get on that.

I’m curious to hear, what are you profiting the most from so far in patch 3.3.3?

Auction house buying and selling is one of the best ways to make gold in WoW and can be done very quickly if you utilize the /auc getall command to scan the auction house in a couple minutes. I use this method with WoW Schools guide to make tons of gold flipping items.

However for those with deeper pockets there is a more lucrative side to buy low sell normal that isn’t done on the auction house but is actually accomplished via the trade channel, a channel I usually avoid since it takes up valuable time to barter when you could just through the items on the AH and move on with your gold making.

This method entails buying up high priced items with lowball offers via the trade channel but you must know a few vital things before partaking in this risky but potentially extremely profitable activity.

How to Find a Flip

Many high ticket items are announced for sale by players in the trade channel because they are so excited to have won a roll on a high priced BoE that they know can fetch upwards of 10k and are eager to get rid of it so they can buy up the other items they always wanted.

Most of the time you can count on people broadcasting items in trade chat to be a bit on the desperate and impatient end, many of these items take a little bit of time to sell since the niche of players that have 10k on hand to buy them are few.

You can usually lowball these offers but the trick in negotiating is to know what your profit margins are and most importantly is to know inside and out the average price and demand for that particular item.

Know When To Flip and How Much

The most important element of a successful high priced item flip is to be very sure of the items current value and if the price trend is stable (headed up, down or steady).

There are a few ways to accomplish this:

1. Obviously step #1 is to first check the auction house for the item and see if there are any lower auctions than the average.
2. Download the addon Market Watcher and run scans daily on a few high priced items, this will show a graph of the average and lowest priced item currently on the auction house in a graph. If the line is stable for a few weeks you can be sure the item won’t drop dramatically, if the graph has extreme high’s and lows be sure to grab it at the lowest point possible.
   Stable – Battered hilts sell for 10k or more almost always.
   
   Unstable – Artic fur can go from 25g to 75g overnight.
   
3. By following these graphs you will start to develop a feel for the item and know what constitutes a high price, an average price and a good buying price. You are now ready to act on any flipping opportunities announced in trade chat.

Figuring out a Price

Armed with this knowledge you are now ready to act on a flip, here’s a quick case study of a typical flip:

Battered Hilt

Price: Sells consistently for 10k – 11k gold on my server, never seen it below this price on the auction house.

Auction House Cut: 5%  or 500g

Acceptable Profit: 2,000g

Spot someone in trade channel announcing a high priced item you’re looking for.

Sometimes people will be tough, just know you’re desired profit margin and don’t go below that, reply with a polite “no ty”  they will either accept your offer or hold onto the item.

And other times you’ll get a desperate seller accept the offer right off the cuff

In the latter case, I knew I already had 1 battered hilt now for 8k and decided if I was to pick up another I’d go lower to 7.5k,  looks like it worked.

Potential Profit gained in 15 minutes of buying/selling flipped items: 4,500g

Suggested High Priced Items to Flip

Here are some suggestions I have based on current market conditions, make sure you keep in mind to not invest more than 30% (or a large portion) of your total gold amount into flips.

Battered Hilt

Primordial Saronite (Item is on a downward trend on most servers, buy at a very discounted price)

ICC BoE’s (These always fall in price a week before new content patch, so stop flipping or expect dramatic drop in prices beforehand)

Rare Gems (not usually found at a discount but a very stable and easy to flip item. Keep in mind that when Honor token change comes in effect that there will be a flood of players turning in tokens for gems thus lowering the price)

Darkmoon Card: Greatness and Nobles Deck (People desperate to sell Nobles Decks when the Darkmoon Faire isn’t on, hang on to these until you can convert them to cards)

Rare Companion Pets – ex: Razzashi Hatchling

Bulk Sales of Eternal Fire/Eternal Life – You’ll sometimes see players shouting in trade WTS 20 STACKS of eternal fire fast PST, great buying opportunity to lowball and offer 50% of value. (keep in mind frozen orb trade in change incoming 3.3.3)

That is it for now, good luck with your flips and be sure to take into consideration speculation on item demand and not to buy up items just before a major content patch, unless you know that item will go up in value. These are lessons I follow in WoW Schools guide to make tons of gold buying and selling.

The PTR patch notes for 3.3.3 were announced last Friday and has caused quite a stir in the WoW gold making community as there are many impacts involving the auction house, professions and trade good items.

These changes will cause a lot of items to drop in price while increasing the values of others, if you act quickly enough you can buy a lot of these items from the auction house and flip them for 200%+ profit come patch time, this is the main lesson taught in WoW Schools Guide.

How to Make Gold from Patch 3.3.3

Here’s some highlights of the patch that will effect the economy [NOTE: These changes are subject to change at any time before they go live, take the below recommendations and impacts with that in mind!] You can read the most updated and full PTR patch notes here:

Frozen Orbs as Currency for Trade Goods

- Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods.

I’d say this was the biggest change announced that you can profit from, I immediately released this news on Friday so that you could be the first to profit from frozen orbs.

Check out that post for a full item list of what you can buy, but the best items you can turn in are frozen orbs 1:1 for Frost lotus and Eternal fire raising the value of a frozen orb from 7g (just above the price to sell to a vendor) to 30g. I was lucky enough to grab 200 frozen orbs at 10g each.

Another impact this change will have is lowering the price of Eternal fires and making another avenue to attain frost lotus without herbalism! This is bad news for the other herb markets as normally an herbalist will go out looking for frost lotus and will get a ton of Adder’s Tongue, Icethorn and other Northrend herbs and just throw that on the Auction House.

With this new change there will no longer be those extra herbs and I suspect the price of Adders/Icethorn and other Northrend herbs will increase in price.

Titansteel Bar Cooldown Removed

- Titansteel Bar: Creating this item no longer results in a cooldown.

Whenever you remove a barrier to creating an item you’ll see a rise in the supply which means a reduction of price. Expect to see the price of titansteel bars to plummet.

With the lowering of the cost of titansteel bars you’ll now be able to make a Mechano Hog for much less, as it took 12 titansteel bars and Arctic furs also dropped in price last patch.

One thing I am stuck on with predicting here, if the price of titansteel bars go down, you’d think that the major reagent - titanium bars – will also drop in price? however I suspect in the first couple days of this change you’ll see a rush of players wanting to make a bunch of titansteel bars which means a rise in demand for the reagents (Titanium bars, Eternal Fire, Eternal Earth and Eternal Shadow) So I bought up 100 titanium bars at the current fair market price.

I wouldn’t suggest however to purchase eternal fires as with the new turn in for frozen orbs this will flood the market witheternal fires especially in the first couple days when this change goes live.

Most 2 Ink Glyphs now 1 Ink

- Most recipes that required 2 inks now only require 1.

While not a huge change because only a small portion of glyphs are 2 inks this will simplify the glyph making industry much more now that you have a uniform cost across almost all glyphs.

Previously I had to make separate groups of glyphs that were 1 ink glyphs and another one for 2 ink glyphs as the cost to produce each are significantly different thus the lowest price I’m willing to craft them are adjusted accordingly.

This is good news for scribes however as it’ll lower the cost to make those 2 ink glyphs.

Cooldown Removed from Moonshroud, SpellWeave and Ebonweave

• The cooldown and location requirements have been removed from creating Moonshroud, Spellweave and Ebonweave.

To be honest I do not have much experience in the tailoring industry but obviously you’ll find the prices of the above cloths to go down in price.

Adelleda left a great analysis of this change in my previous post about frozen orbs:

I expect the cloth prices to drop to around the cost of making them. So whats that, Imbued Frostweave cloth (16g or w/e your server has them priced at) + the cost of what ever eternal your using (Fire – 30, Life – 25, Shadow 15). Now I would expect eternal prices to rise in price with the cooldown being removed.

I’ve already sold any stock i had (not much mind you) and started buying up eternals in preparation for the patch.

Very good analysis, I would be careful about Eternal Fires as stated above with frozen orbs now being able to be turned in for them.

Crafting Items With Runed Orbs Materials Reduced

- Runed Orbs: Recipes which require this item have had their material requirements significantly reduced.

When costs are reduced to make any crafted item you should immediately be thinking about what those items disenchant into and if the cost to craft has now gone belowthe value of the enchanting materials de’ed from it.

Here’s a list of items that require Runed Orbs to craft, take note that the changes in the material costs haven’t gone live yet on the wowhead site as all of these changes are on the PTR and are subject to change at anytime. It looks like the majority of them DE into Abyss Crystals so the crafting cost would have to be lower than 20g (as Abyss Crystals are going for 20g on my server) to be profitable.

Various Changes to the Auction House UI

Many changes were announced to the auction house interface. I’d say the major change has been the ability to now post stack sizes automatically without having to do it stack by stack.

My major concern is with all these AH changes it may impact our beloved gold making addonssuch as quick auctions 3, KTQ, skillet, Auctionator, etc.. I am in the process right now of doing a video tutorial of how the new auction house compares to the old one and I’ll report back to you any issues with the addons I’m currently using.

Good luck with your profits, make sure you sell off those items that are going down in price and have had their cooldowns removed, and if you can grab frozen orbs for under 15g and maybe even titanium bars (a little more risky) I would do so.

Always be the first in the know of changes to the wow economy by subscribing to WoWConfidential and be alerted of news posts related to gold making. This will enable you to buy and sell items to flip for profit that WoW Schools teaches in their guide.

[Update 1: 10:05pm EST - Added list of items you can purchase with Frozen Orb Trade-in]

I am working on a post detailing all the profession and economy changes with patch 3.3.3 but I wanted to inform you guys of this change right away so you can pick up cheap Frozen Orbs before others buy them.

One key note is that Frozen Orbs will be used as currency to purchase items (listed below). So Buy them up!! and hold onto any orbs you do have. They are going for 7-10g on my server right now and I’ve already cleaned them out. Buying and Selling like this on the Auction house is how I’ve made a huge chunk of my gold and I learned it from WoW School’s guide.

- Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

Items you Can Buy With Frozen Orbs

For those curious, here are the items for which you can trade your Frozen Orbs to Frozo. These each cost 1 Frozen Orb unless noted otherwise in parentheses:

• Crusader Orb (6)
• Runed Orb (4)
• Eternal Fire
• Eternal Earth
• Eternal Water
• Eternal Air
• Eternal Life
• Eternal Shadow
• Frost Lotus
• Pattern: Frosty Flying Carpet [Tailors Only] (6)

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Two of the items on this list stand out to me, Frost Lotus currently sell for around 55g but that price will go down on Tuesday because of the increased drop rate. However you can expect Frost Lotus to sell around 30g meaning if Frozen orbs can trade 1:1 for this item then you can buy up Frozen orbs now for up to this amount.

I am being a little more conservative and buying up to only 15g, so far I’ve bought 160 at 10g but I really notice on my server that players have got wind of this at the price on the AH is up to 40g each.

A few more quick notes:

• Runed Orbs: Recipes which require this item have had their material requirements significantly reduced.
• Inscription
  • Most recipes that required 2 inks now only require 1.
• Mining
  • Titansteel Bar: Creating this item no longer results in a cooldown.
• Tailoring
  • Glacial Bag: Creating this item now invokes a 7-day cooldown.
  • The cooldown and location requirements have been removed from creating Moonshroud, Spellweave and Ebonweave.

Good luck with your profits, follow WoW Schools guide to learn about other flips like this and just keep in mind that these are notes for the PTR and are subject to change at anytime before the patch is released.

I made the decision in September 2009 to focus on making enough gold to hit the gold cap. I had a starting gold total of 1,500g and didn’t even have my epic mount yet. In that time, devoting 2 hours a night, I am now at around 140,000g worth (inventory stock + 73,000 gold liquid) *look on the right sidebar as I update my gold amount very frequently there.

As I work towards the gold cap I am always researching new ways to increase the rate at which I acquire gold in WoW. I only have around 2 hours an evening to devote to gold making activities, as I have a full time job and other social activities that I make time for (including posting here).

Giving myself this small time limit to make gold ensures that my gold making strategies can be used by all other players who don’t want to spend too much time making gold as they would rather be playing other parts of the game such as PvP and PvE but want to know how they can best utilize their time to get as much gold as possible.

These are all the gold making methods I am using as of patch 3.3 (January 30, 2010 at the time of this writing) and links will be added at the top here to any future posts I make when there are major changes in my gold making strategy.

The methods listed below are some of my highest earners, but I make a lot of gold using WoW School’s guide and developed my gold making skill after reading his guide.

Making Gold With Inscription

About 99% of my gold has been made from inscription, there have been really great weeks where the competition was low, and other weeks where I was selling glyphs for 3g each and was still getting undercut so I had to accept lower profits while I developed my undercutting strategy and at a point left the market to wait for the competition to get bored of profiting 20 silver per glyph.

1) Crafting Glyphs  = 62,644g

While the average price of glyphs can range greatly from 3g – 90g, I calculated my “rate” an hour to be 1,000g an hour at minimum, seeing as how you can craft 390 glyphs an hour this comes to roughly 3g 50s profit per glyph needed to maintain that rate.

Since the snowfall inks you get during the process of making glyphs covers the cost to make the glyphs themselves you can assume that the money gained from making glyphs to be 100% profit.

2) Darkmoon Cards = 32, 781g + 7,400g = 40,181g

The darkmoon fair happens once a month and this is the time when I really realize my profits. For 3 weeks I’ll start accumilating tons of snowfall inks in my bank waiting to be converted into darkmoon cards (since they rarely sell outright on the auction house)

I will typically get around 1,000 snowfall inks saved up before the next darkmoon fair hits and then I can turn in the decks for completed cards such as Darkmoon Card: Greatness, Darkmoon Card: Illusion and so forth.

Another source of income from darkmoon cards are selling the cards individually to those who are looking to turn them in for reputation and also for completing their own decks. This comes in handy when you find yourself having excess cards after making all your decks, trade or sell them off.

3) Armor Vellums II, III and Weapon Vellums I, III = 19,466g

While this figure does include all vellums I found the only ones on my server worth the hassel to craft were the ones listed here, the profit/time to craft Armor Vellum I was just so low given the amount of volumn I could move a day.

These are a very steady source of gold for me, competition doesn’t undercut these auctions as much and I usually sell around 100 vellums a day.

4) Offhands – Faces of Doom and Iron-Bound Tome = 12,951g

I sell maybe 1 of each offhand a day, but the profit margins can be significant as some days I am the only one selling them at my fallback price of 285g each. At a cost of 70g to craft this is a nice profit amount for something that is very quick to craft.

5) Snowfall Inks = 4,292g

When you mill Northrend herbs you get azure pigments and icy pigments. Azure pigments go towards inks of the sea to make glyphs and icy pigments are made into Snowfall Inks.

I use these inks in runescrolls of fortitiude, the offhands and darkmoon cards. However each month I have an excess of 1,000 inks that I need to get rid of no matter how much I try to use up in the other items.

That’s why I do sales outright on the auction house of snowfall inks, I will sell them at a minimum of 11g each (in stacks of 5) and the highest I’ll post them is 19g each. Not that many of them sell on the AH but that’s fine as I make good profit putting them into darkmoon cards.

6) Runescroll of Fortitude = 4,144g

A steady seller, not a ton of gold made from this but it is a great way to get rid of all those snowfall inks that build up in your inventory.

Making Gold With Engineering

7) Mammoth Cutters and Saronite Razorheads = 5,817g

I used to make a nice steady income from ammo, but when the new Iceblade Arrows and Shatter Rounds came out they took over the market and are now so cheap to craft (about 1g 50s per 1,000) that they only sell for 3g/stack and the profit is very minimal.

Auction House Flipping –  Buying and Selling

8 ) AH Buying and Selling = 4,210g for 28 days, Jan 1 – 28.

I used to buy and sell as my main source of income from auction house flipping but since I’ve focused on Inscription I have slacked off on my buying and selling activities.

I just recently started getting back into it as I found that /auc getall speeds up the flipping process a lot by taking only 5 minutes to scan the AH rather than 30 minutes. So we’ll see how much higher the profits go from this in the future.

Dailies

Haven’t done these in forever! The highest gold/hr daily I found to do was the Argent Tournament as you could sell off the pets and also choose to take sacks of gold coins as rewards as well but the most you could get from this is around 410g/hour.

It would be a great way for a player to make gold to put towards leveling Jewelcrafting, Inscription or Enchanting so they can start making a lot of gold with those methods.

I will continue to update this chart when big changes occur, in the mean time you can see my gold progress on the right sidebar to see how close I am getting to the gold cap and progress towards further gold goals and subscribe to the RSS to be alerted of new articles.

I will be delving into the Jewelcrafting and Enchanting markets very soon as I heard they are amongst the best for gold making. I also use a lot of strategies in WoW School’s guide to make a lot of gold, be sure to check it out.

Buying and Reselling items for profit is great because it hardly takes any time. The auction house scan only takes 4 minutes using /auc getall and you can quickly buy up any underpriced items within 10 minutes, post them and then go back to playing the game.

The barriers to entry are very low as well, all you need is a weeks worth of scanned auctioneer data, a little market knowledge and you’re good to go. I learned a lot of market knowledge after reading Luke’s Guide and applied what I learned there to make huge profits from the Auction House.

Be sure to read up on the Auctioneer Addon Guide before trying to make gold using this method, it will teach you a lot.

Everyone always asks me what items I buy and sell to turn a profit, these series of articles will share which items I profit from and I’ll continue to post my profit results on a regular basis. You can check out my first report I did back on December 15th 2009 here – my highest profit auction house flipping items.

I was so busy with inscription that I only bought items a couple times in the past month; however here are the results from the last 30 days.

Playing the Auction House – Most Profitable Items

BoE items have always been my highest earner as the lower level ones can be very random and no one knows the true value unless they’ve scanned the AH or checked wowhead for how popular the items are. Unfortunately since heirloom items have become so popular the under lvl 70 market has dwindled, there is still huge profit to make from level 80 items and some still for lower level BoE items.

Under level 80 BoE’s

Level 80 BoE’s

Crafting Materials and Enchant Scrolls

Another market that has been profitable in reselling has been lower level crafting materials that players use to level their professions and underpriced enchanting scrolls that enchanters dump onto the auction house when they are leveling up and just dump the scrolls on the AH without worry what the profits are.

Crafting Materials

Enchant Scrolls

Total Profit

The total profit from buying and selling over the last month comes to 4,210g 74s profit. I would estimate that I bought up items in 5-7 different sessions during the last month for a total time investment of 1 hour of scanning/buying and another hour and a half of posting.

As you get more and more experienced buying and selling on the auction house you’ll be able to spot profitable items better and seperate the good investments from the bad. Luke’s Guide was a good starting point for me to learn more about the different markets to gain this skill.

I’d be careful from buying things that are too risky, like the Circle of the Darkmender above that I was only able to sell for 2,450g but bought for 2,000g, I was worried the price would drop even further if I hadn’t gotten rid of it and made my gold quickly.

That’s it for now, be sure to subscribe to the RSS to be alerted when Report #2 is released as well as notifications for my other gold making posts.