Making Money the Easy Way in World of Warcraft

This is the most time-efficient way of making in-game currency for the popular MMO World of Warcraft.

Over 10 million people log into World of Warcraft (WoW) almost every day, playing in their virtual fantasy world in attempts to build up their virtual characters to their max and enjoy a (hopefully healthy) online lifestyle in addition to their everyday lives. How many times do you come up short though? You have the time to quest and level, but it seems like so many people have more time to work on their trade skills and make large amounts of money for their epic mount they have been trying to get for the past month. When it comes down to it, you just don't have enough in-game currency! You could buy that rare recipe or that epic item off the auction house if only you had a little bit more gold! You don't have the time, or the patients to sit around all day and grind endlessly in hopes of selling some vendor trash and maybe one or two greens you found in the auction house. There is a better way to make money in WoW, and it doesn't require spending your real life money on gold sellers that could hack you or wind up getting you banned.

I believe I first heard it from Scrooge McDuck years ago on the cartoon ducktails, but it changed how I look at making money. "Work smarter, not harder." Was his saying, and the same thing applies to real life and to Warcraft if you just put a little brainpower into the equation. Enough with the babble, this is how you do it:

Add-ons are created by WoW-players to solve and make easier many of Wow's features; the one I'm going to focus on is Auctioneer. Head on over to the Auctioneer Google it, just download it somehow, unzip it, add it to your wow directory (if your running vista it is C:UsersPublicGamesWorld of WarcraftInterfaceAddOns) and copy it into there. Now open up WoW and log yourself in.

Great! The only bit of technical know-how has been downed, now it is all in-game from here. First, we are going to run to your nearest auction house (preferably of your faction, the neutral auction houses run by the goblins has less accurate pricing information.) and from there you are going to notice that when you run and talk to the teller, the interface box that pops up looks a lot more complex! It's not, don't worry, it just has more features that give you the edge over anyone without the add-on.

The most important thing to do right now is scan the auction house, it will take a while (usually about 15 minutes, depending on the day) and once that's over, Auctioneer has literally scanned every item, its buyout/bid price and done loads of calculations for you to help you get the best price when you sell your items. That would have been a lot of manual work! I recommend you scan every day for a full week if you can, especially the weekends when the most WoW users are on to sell things. The more you scan (once a day is plenty) the more accurate your prices will be and the better your chances of selling things.

Now that you're ready to sell, click on the "Post" tab and fill out all the required info. Auctioneer will give you the value it thinks the item is worth, and if for some reason you have an item that has yet to be scanned, it will give you 300% of the vendor markup price. So you still make 3x as much as you would if you had just sold it to a vendor.

This is where the "get rich easy" part comes in. I started with a mere 40 gold to my name. When I looked at the auction house I thought "Everyone's willing to buy things" and immediately I started thinking of the best items to buy from the auction house (didn't matter if I needed it or not) and then turning around and putting it back into the auction house right away at a higher price! Now you may think that nobody will buy your items because there more expensive, that's where auctioneer is a champion. It knows that servers have an average price for items, and it will look for and find you the best prices for the item you look for.

The real money here is in the items people will always need and use. Trade skill items, ore, potions, items that help you gain reputation with a certain faction, recipes for any trade. Armor and weapons can be nice if you find a really good deal but can be harder to get rid of, so stick to the more reliable things at first. Make sure you have enough money to re-post everything in the auction house that you buy (they do have deposits).

I've been doing this for a mere few months and have made (although I've spent a lot as well) thousands of gold, literally in a few minutes of my time. The best part about it is you can create a separate character that just runs back and forth from the auction house to the mailbox buying and selling. Profits anywhere from 3 to 40 gold are frequent when looking at the lower prices and selling them as the normal price or even a bit marked up! This is literally passive income in Warcraft that takes you about 20 minutes for profits that can range in the hundreds of gold per hour. All without ever needing to grind your life away like everyone else! While your items are selling in the auction house and the "Successful Auction" mail is being sent to your mailbox, you can focus on leveling your character fast, and being able to join a guild and raid without ever worrying about having the money for potions, repairs. People pay real money to hear this, I'm giving it away for free, enjoy! I even made my auctioning character look suave to show off my prowess.