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The capital cities in Azeroth are where you can find the auction houses. It’s here that the most potential for profit and loss in Warcraft exists. The reason is the variability in price that you will find in here. One day Mageroyal is 5 silver apiece, the next it’s 10.

So it’s the variations that give you the player the opportunity to make and lose Warcraft gold. Selling to the NPC vendors that are dotted around the place does not offer variability. The prices they charge and buy for are fixed. SO if you have uncommon loot or decent crafting materials then these NPC vendors will not offer the best return for your efforts

Playing the auction house properly is something you should not try and do until you have taken the time to understand the variations. Is 2G for Borean leather a good price or a bad price? Unless you track prices over a period of time you won’t know.

My initial advice would be to download the Auctioneer add-on. This tool allows you to run a full scan of the auction house, and collect all the prices people are asking for every item in there. Run the scan, and then get on with powerleveling

Once you have run auctioneer once a day for about ten days it will give you some decent average averages that are being asked for items.

Once the scans are complete, Auctioneer will have worked out the average asking price for every item if found. When you open the auction house GUI you will now see a percentage displayed on the right. This is the ratio of that items asking price to the average that auctioneer has found in its scans. 150% means it’s 50% over the average asking price, whereas 50% means it’s half the average asking price.

Using this information, you can make decisions on which items to trade in. Following the simple real-world rule of buy low, sell high.

But I should mention some big shortcomings with Auctioneer.

Auctioneer records the asking price, and not the selling price. There can be a huge difference. Auctioneer does not know if an item sold. People put on extremely high prices for junk items (10,000g for 1 leather scrap for example) this happens quite a bit. It is a way of moving large amounts of gold around. Gold sellers use this method to give gold to the character who buys off them. Also some do it just in the hope that someone accidentally clicks on it and buys the item. Auctions are instant and none refundable remember. These huge prices can skew the average price. An item that should be 20 copper selling for 10,000g will ruin the average price that Auctioneer has taken.

Secondly, and more importantly, Auctioneer doesn’t follow the game dynamics. It doesn’t know that certain items will soon have a massive drop in demand because an upcoming patch is going to make them obsolete. Or that new items will be added that make the ones you have now pretty much worthless.

In summary, auctioneer is a good tool as long as you understand its limitations. It is not the only key to making Warcraft gold, but it does have a role to play. So if you plan on becoming a World of Warcraft gold generator, then download this addon now, but remember you will need more than this tool to make you gold rich.

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