How to get enough gold to buy your mount at L40

[Malakar]

I was under the impression that Pally's got their mounts for free. Or are you saving up so that you can float a buddy some gold to help with their purchase?
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According to my friends that play them, Pallies do indeed get mounts for free, and so do Warlocks.

As for making money, you have a few options. You can work the AH if you're into that. Put upgrading your skills on hold, except for the few you use the most. Put your tradeskills on hold. If you're a skinner, wait to upgrade to the 300 skill cap, cause it costs 4.5-5g and you can skin level 45 mobs with 225 skinning anyway. Stop buying equipment in the AH, rather just use old junk for a while, or if you really want to upgrade, run some instances. You can also run the instances just to get items to sell in the AH or to vendors. Seeing as how your whole group is nearing a mount, the instance running may be one of your better options.

But even after most of that, aside from AH wheeling and dealing, I found it nearly impossible to get 90g by level 40. <_<

Of course, if you have a high level friend, don't hesitate to ask for a loan. 50g is nothing for a level 60 character, or even 55, and you should be able to save up the rest yourself.

This is controversial, but some people opt to buy 50g to bump them up to the point where they can reasonably save the rest of it by level 40. A friend of mine did this, he said it runs for about 25$ on ebay and he got it from some Chinese business that runs all servers/sides and had good feedback. He said he received it quickly, so it's doable, it's just a question of whether you think it's acceptable or not.