How to get enough gold to buy your mount at L40

[Ruvanal]

First Aid.

Let me say it again:  First Aid

Pick up this skill and work it up so that you can make silk and heavy silk bandages, and then just follow all the advice above.  With all the silk you come across in the mid 30s and up, you stand to make some decent money.  The bandages sell to vendors for more than the cloth from which they're made.
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hmm....
Vendors purchase prices of
silk cloth at 1.5 silver per piece.
silk bandage at 2.0 silver per piece (1 cloth to make).
heavy silk bandage at 4.0 silver per piece (2 cloth to make).
AH suggested starting bid price for silk is 2.25 silver per piece of cloth.

At least from what I have seen at the alliance AH on Stormrage, there are very few cases of players bothering to set their minimum bids to less than the 2.25 silver/piece rate. By placing a realatively aggressive buyouts (say 3.0 to 3.5 silver per piece) you have a good chance to sell the silk for a better return than just making bandages. If you set it an lower buyout, then you are almost assured that it will be bought out rather than returned later, even if there are a few hundred listing of silk cloth there. The market manipulators and bargin hunters will see to that.

P.S. there are some other 'creative' ways to raise some cash, but they are not very tolerent of having much competetion. I am already having problems with 2 such players (Piwacket and Cellit) that destroying 2 of those methods. But considering that a couple of others yielded about a 20 gold profit for about two and half hours 'work' (ha, it was mostly just running from spot to spot, no fighting). Maybe after I have money for the mounts for at least 3 of my characters, I will list some of them out.