02-02-2005, 03:27 AM
Two words: Auction House.
First if you are a profession like leatherworking or a blacksmith, make good items and sell them here. Price the buyouts a silver or 2 below what other people ask. (Higher population servers it's not as easy to pull this and drives the returns into the dumpster. It might be better to just sell to venders in that case.)
Second trade goods (leather/ore/cloth), even the lower level ones, can sell for 10x what a vender will pay you for them. Why even the lower ones? People get level 50 and decide they want to change professions and need some grinding material. Just collect things professions use, look what other people sell them for in the AH and put up your own. Be sure to have a reasonable buyout (175%-200% of your starting bid price usually). People don't want to wait 8 hours for their stuff 9/10 times and this is almost always a better price than what you will get if the auction expires.
Third know what is valueable that you can make and sell them. Some quests requrie items made by professions or there are just some items that certain other professions require (for instance elixer of defense and toughened leather gloves = elixers are 30+ silver each. Drop a stack of 2 of these for 60 silver buyout I bet you never get them sent back to you in the mail.).
Fourth fish around for deals in the AH. A good example is right now I'm selling 5 of the 8 strong troll's blood potions I bought (the rest I'm keeping for my own use). I bought them for >15 silver for both the stack of 5 and 3, obviously some alchemist was just grinding and didn't know they were required for a quest. I've already sold 2 at 30 silver each and it's been less than an hour since I bought them. (I probably priced them low but at the profit margin I'm getting I'm OK with that. :whistling: )
The last thing I have not tried but I've seen recomended, is a lot of the engineering stuff is suppose to disenchant to expensive enchanting material. All you would need is a low level enchanter to mail it to and then they drop it in the AH.
First if you are a profession like leatherworking or a blacksmith, make good items and sell them here. Price the buyouts a silver or 2 below what other people ask. (Higher population servers it's not as easy to pull this and drives the returns into the dumpster. It might be better to just sell to venders in that case.)
Second trade goods (leather/ore/cloth), even the lower level ones, can sell for 10x what a vender will pay you for them. Why even the lower ones? People get level 50 and decide they want to change professions and need some grinding material. Just collect things professions use, look what other people sell them for in the AH and put up your own. Be sure to have a reasonable buyout (175%-200% of your starting bid price usually). People don't want to wait 8 hours for their stuff 9/10 times and this is almost always a better price than what you will get if the auction expires.
Third know what is valueable that you can make and sell them. Some quests requrie items made by professions or there are just some items that certain other professions require (for instance elixer of defense and toughened leather gloves = elixers are 30+ silver each. Drop a stack of 2 of these for 60 silver buyout I bet you never get them sent back to you in the mail.).
Fourth fish around for deals in the AH. A good example is right now I'm selling 5 of the 8 strong troll's blood potions I bought (the rest I'm keeping for my own use). I bought them for >15 silver for both the stack of 5 and 3, obviously some alchemist was just grinding and didn't know they were required for a quest. I've already sold 2 at 30 silver each and it's been less than an hour since I bought them. (I probably priced them low but at the profit margin I'm getting I'm OK with that. :whistling: )
The last thing I have not tried but I've seen recomended, is a lot of the engineering stuff is suppose to disenchant to expensive enchanting material. All you would need is a low level enchanter to mail it to and then they drop it in the AH.