Your broke, your new or experienced or something in between and can’t seem to make money… what are the basics of getting you to those first couple of golds?

outside the AH
The first gold can be made at AH (i did on my first character) but it can be faster if it comes from something else, And i dont believe i’m going to say this but: Farming!
leather, metal and flowers can be easily gathered and put up on AH for quick profit, this is a great tactic for the leveler. just do your quests (= money), kill your mobs (=money) and gather every node you see along the way. it’s quick and easy money.
As a lvl 80 you can just do some quests to get your starter money. 5daily’s = ~100G. which is enough to start playing the AH.

Try not to gamble, try to forsee:
So the basic AH tips for the low-on-cash first timers:
Stick with what you know! if your a miner, you’ll probably know what the price of ore is on your server, and you’ll have no idea what that pretty flower sells for. (the auctioneer addon can help you with that after a week of scanning)

Be patient! If you see a lot of ore’s at half price don’t start undercutting, just wait untill trade pick’s up and sell your goods then. also if you have some left over cash for investing, buy some of the ore and sell it when the price is up.

Don’t overflow, i say this a lot but its very important, if you put up to much your goods wont sell, know how many to sell! (this you will learn in the process)
make friends! Yes make friends, guys who DE stuff, farm mats etc. for you at lower prices! (= Trade agreement)

Take advantage: If there are almost no X ores at the market, put up yours at 125% they will sell (if the demand is high enough) If someone is in dire need for your product and asking over /2 Trade WTB X ore.. w him with your highest price possible.

Get to know your server, your clients, your fellow bankers, … Take some time to get to know your AH. what is cheap and what is high priced, when to sell what and what is needed. when others are posting and who is posting waaay under the price. If you know this youll find some markets that are very profitable (at my server for example, cross faction pets are selling quite well, and almost nobody tries it.)

Those where my basic tips for today, i hope you find that gem you where looking for.
Every week there will be more and hopefully you’ll be here to find that winner for you!

We’ve all been there… we need to craft itemX to get some skillpoints but we don’t have the mats… You go to the AH and see that the prices are so high you want to cry in a little corner… *cough* i mean you want to Swear the hell out of it!
Now what do 90% of the people do… they buy it anyway…
Crafters are the most impatient buyers that have ever walked this earth. you know it, I know it, damn (!) even they know it! Well let’s make some gold out of it!

- Do not buy the mat’s when they are skyhigh! I know this looks like a no brainer but still half of uss do it. Ex. i’m at 435 lw with my newly dinged 80hunter. and i need 10arctic furs to lvl up to 440…(in total i need about 20) Yesterday the price was about 190% of value (130G!)… be honest now… how many of you would have bought it just to get that skillpoint? huh? am i right? Bad habit! go to rehab, don’t do it! it ain’t bad if you need to wait a day orso to get that skillpoint.

- Let the braindead and needy pay for your skill up. one of my advertisings are simple: Crafting [Proffesion] your mats 5G fee, free if I get a skill up!
Yes, i actually lose a little on this one. i lose Time… but that’s it. if you want to get to 450 and you are at 400+ it is a reasonable loss. (once you get to 450 the gold can come rolling in)

- Movement: charge for your time, as said in the former example, you lose time by crafting. okaj not much but still, let’s say your in dalaran, and someone at ironforge wants you to come. you can try to get a extra gold or even just 50s for the effort, 85% of the people will pay the 50s for your trouble!

- not the highest skill! This is so true that most of uss forget it! It ain’t true that only 450skills pay the bills… my borean armor kits and nerubian leg armor both sell well and are around 400 skill lvl… and they give about 20G profit a piece!

- buy mats when the prices are low and sell your stuff when their prices are high for some extra profit! easy and simple trick!

- know when to sell, kind of a duh, but still. sell your potions before raid nights, sell your armor kits/enchants just after it. and look at them fly out the door!

Well this was supposed to be a small post about crafters and AH but here i went and constructed a wall of text. Though i feel like this has a lot more info in it, i hope you all enjoy it.

Remember: A fortune starts with one copper!

Hello all,

i’m back in (near) full health!
the real post of today will be posted shortly after this one.
But as you all can see the poll is comming to an end, and the results so far are pretty clear:
You all want Video’s and a Weekly routine. The vids i’ll probably start making in the weekend (any idea’s are welcome!) but i’ll give you my weekly routine right here and now!

Monday Morning Hangover huh? how did i get here?
Thuesday: Group Therapy Interviews & thoughts from Fellow Goldmakers
Wednesday: Deep thoughts my thoughts about drama…
Thursday: Crafters Gold turn that metal/fur/linnen in to gold!
Friday: “1 gold plz” Starting out ain’t that difficult!
Weekend: ————— RL taking over, sporadic updates

I hope you all are a bit happy with this set-up?
if not, you may always comment.

Hello all,

Everyone remembers the guy that one-hitted certain dungeons right? you know using an item that belongs to a gm…
Well i’m not going to rant about that one, but a couple of days ago i saw the following on ah: Green woolen vest. it’s a low lvl item with +4 stamina and +1 crit rating… now the normal “colour” of the vest is Green… (if you dont get the joke: its an uncommon item). As i bought it with Damian though i saw it was bleached (common item) and that means that i can wear it and then sell it again at the ah…
ofc, after what happened to the gnome with his vest… i decided to report this, i dont want myself getting banned you know. And there the GM said, that i may use and resell it untill the next patch. I wonder if it would be the same if i didn’t report it and just did it like that? Would Bliz be as understanding then? Are they maybe other things that are bleached? bow of thousand needles perhaps?
hmm i’m going to stop this post right here, since my deep thoughts are full of sickness and seem to.. well they don’t make any sense…

Special thanks to my wife who posted this item.

Grtz
Seth & MissDavidson

Hey guys,
I’m sorry to tell you this but today and tomorow I wont be posting a wall of text. My wife got sick a couple of days ago, and it seems that I took over it over. So sitting up is a real pain right now.

Though i’m going to give you a little update about monetize.
yesterday i made a little 250G profit, a lot of the stuff came back from AH, and the prices dropped on a lot of things that i’m selling daily (armor kits, vision dust etc). So i’m waiting it out before putting the auctions up again. Instead i’m buying it all up.

Again i’m sorry that i can’t post a lot so here’s some reading material:
Zekta’s Blog which i find a good read anytime is prolonging her report.
While Markco is talking about the cost of buying low and selling high.
Also have a look at how funny money is, at WoWenomics.

again sorry for the short post.
I’ll try to write something while i’m lying ni bed orso and let my wife put it up if she’s willing.

Grtz
Seth

aaah heck…I’ve fallen in the trap… everyone keeps saying oooh inscription is soooo good for money making, it’s aaawesome etc etc. Curious as the human being is.(read: I am) I decided to try it…
others say…. ooooh grinding can be soooo goood, look at all the herbs i sell…. damn… oki, let’s see what it is then… So here I am… wanting to get herb/inscription. (no not mining, already got a miner/JC and not skinning since i already got a skinner/LW and i wanted something diffrent).
but hey, my main already has 2 proffesions… REROLL! (again…I’m seth and i’m an altaholic)
So here before you stands not only a lvl80 resto shammy, lvl80rogue (dmf mains) lvl77 hunter lvl45 prot warrior and a lvl26 resto shammy (ravenholdt toons) but also a supa imba facerolling OP awesome… lvl11 warlock. Feel my super hits of: 20?

I admit i have a problem rerolling everytime i want something new… Oh well this new toon will probably go unnoticed most of the time in this blog. (or you want to read about it : comment) But while lvling, i’ll “grind” (The horror!) for herbs and lvl inscription (*feint*).
As you all should know by now, i hate grinding and don’t like inscription, but i loved my lvl60 warlock sooo much… till my account got hacked that is (about 3y ago) and weeped in a corner like a little girl (just kidding guys… please don’t hurt me) So everyone will fear Damän the Warlock soon… well… after i get my hunter, warrior and probz shammy to eighty… and i got 100K gold on ravenholdt…

[2. Trade] Damiän: WTB Time!
[2. Trade] Braindead: WTF Nuwb ROFL LMAO!
[2. Trade] Whiner: that ain’t for trade!
[2. Trade] Discuss: Yes it is, he wants to buy it.
[2. Trade] interest: Damiän what did you want to buy
[2. Trade] 1337 : Scroll up, newb!
[2. Trade] discuss: Damiän didn’t you just lose time by asking and reading all this?
repeat this 5 times before you have the awnser:
[2. Trade] a “friendly” person: Sorr Damiän we can’t help you with that
[2. Trade] Braindead: just stp plaing, dud. reelly nuwb! ROFL!

…me: crying in a corner…

Ah well i’ll fix it.
Somehow

Grtz
Seth

ps: Again the real post of today can be read by clicking this link.

pps: The above is what actually happened yesterday in Trade to some guy, i reported all but the original buyer. Yes i know Time can’t be bought, but he may still ask for it. If you say wtb [BOP item] no-one has the right to report you just for making a mistake… same for this guy (sort of)

Hey all,
I see that the poll is getting some attention, so i would like to ask you all some Questions:

I see that most of you want a weekly routing of posting and some videos.
So my weekly routine will include the following,
Monday: Monday Morning Hang-over
Thuesday: ?
Wednesday: Deep thoughts
thursday: ?
Friday: ?
Yes i know a lot of questionmarks.. What i’m personally thinking is doing the following:
Thuesday: A fortune starts with one copper, just like my motto, to give some tips to starters.
Thursday: Expanding your wealth, for the readers with wealth to give info going from wealthy to filthy rich
Friday: Weekend Celebration, videos thoughts, mission updates etc.
Thue, thurs and friday may all be changed by your views, so let me know if you want something else

Video:
A lot of you also want some video’s, well what do you want? video’s for Tips, what i do (who i am ingame), getting the maximum of searchers etc?

Guest posts:
I’ve also seen that nobody wants guest posts.. i would like to know why that is?
loss of quality, originalism, style? A glimpse of what you all want would be nice!

You may make any suggestions by comment or mail (onecopper.blogspotATgmail.com) if you don’t want everyone knowing your suggestions.
also, if anyone wants a shot for a guestpost, you may always mail me with what you want to post, and your name(credentials) so i can give you full credit for the post.

for the Feedreaders: the Monday morning Hang-over post can be read by clicking this link.

Grtz
Seth

And remember a Fortune starts with One Copper!

Monday Morning Hang-over, is my newly created monday post. It will let you know what the weekend brought and more… or at least it will when my headache disappears.

It’s been a busy weekend. though for some reason Monetize, still has 4.5K and 7K worth… i think it was my shopping spree…
I bought all the bagsslots of my personal bank, including netherweave bags to match them.
I also bought around 300-500 borean leather (!) to lvl my lw on my main. It’s 433 now and have my full gear ready for lvl78 (im 77 3/4 right now). I’m also converting a lot of borean to heavy borean leather and making several armorkits, which are bringing me steady money (about 45G a kit, mats cost: 24G or so right now). I’m also using snatch more and more for cheap mats, though i will keep scanning manually. (yes i know this ain’t efficient, but i trust my eyes more then an add-on) So i kept my worth up but didn’t make a lot of profit.
Also my arrowmaker => saronite razorheads-bussiness has come down (again) since the guy knows what i’m doing (again), so i’ll have about 50G profit less a week. I didn’t start the Frostweave-bag selling since the prices keep hanging around 70G/piece. Though i did find a lot of resales. and had a stunning 50% bid-wins (!). i’m still waiting for them to sell.

How was your weekend? did the thursday-friday vacation bring some extra gold?

As we must adapt in-game, so must we in the blogosphere.
With this post (and the poll at the right side) I want you to say what you want in this blog…

More Videos?
Pictures next to the posts?
Another layout?
A weekly routine of posts? (ex: monda = deep thoughts, thuesday: starter tips, etc)
Guest posts?
nothing = it’s great already?

well let me know what you think!

Grtz
Seth

Hey all,
Since the blog is becomming more popular, i’m getting quite a few mails and even tells ingame, off people who like the blog but don’t know how to get started… Almost all of them are lvl70+…
For uss it’s simple, we know the market, and know where the money lays but for a lot of people this isn’t so clear.
That’s why i’m giving you crafters a little layout today:
So today… i’m going to give you some info about what sells REALLY well and what doesn’t.
Though, i must say, that this is easier if you have the required proffession, you can do without.

Sweet sweet candy:
Flask of Endless Rage: i bought them yesterday for 22G each, listed 10 and 2h later they all sold (for 27G each) no brainer here, you can easily sell 10-20 a day for a nice price in the week/raiddays.
LegArmor: the highest leg armor (nerubian and jormungar) sell for about 45-55G at my server and the maths (2 of chiting or jormungar scales) cost 10G/20stack + 35G for borean leather. so that means : 35G + 1G (the 10G stack can be used 10times!) that you can have a profit of 9-16G! and they sell pretty well! (about 4 of each a day).
Heavy borean leather: hmmm this is sweet candy right here.. (at least on my server) have a look at normal borean leather, at my server its about 7G a full stack. while heavy borean leather = 120G(!) You need about 6 (i think) borean leather to get a heavy leather sooo. 20×6= 120 borean leathers for a full stack of the heavy one’s. so 6stacks at about 7G cost you: 42G… and you sell it for 120G! this is a nice profit and sells pretty well, ofcourse, you’ll dry out the AH if you do this every day. So be carefull!
Titanium bars… this is a buy by stack and sell by ones.. which can get you a decent profit and can be done for about 6-9 bars a day. pretty simple, not too much profit (about 1-2G a bar) but it gives you a steady stream of money.

It ain’t that sweet, but it sure ain’t a vegetable!
Transmutes: The long cooldown transmutes can get you some money, even just the mithril => Truesilver can get you a pretty penny! ofc, this can’t be done very often (cooldown and all)
Titansteel: i’ve looked at this and the maths here are higher then the bar, so at my server this can’t be done, but you should have a look at yours and see if it can get a nice penny.
Belt buckles: you are certain that these sell, and they can be worth a lot. though from what i see, is that they sell slowly (about 1-2 a day).
Glyphs: Once you are in, you can get wealthy fairly fast. the problem is… getting in. Greedy Goblin and JM2C both are in it, and look at their money: HUGE! problem though is getting their, whats making money in glyphs right now? the glyphs that come from books…. so before you can get rich, you’ll be poor once more. You need some Northrend glyphs that gives you an edge, even if someone else has it, you need to be able to control it. Once your in control its a safe haven to money, its just the getting there thats hard. (and for me not worth it)
JC: low lvl JC (lvl10-19) can give you some nice gold, even at those lvls about 1G profit for a necklace ain’t bad. higher lvl gems are also nice for profit though it’s a bit of a search when you first get there.
Spellthreads: well look at the beltbuckles, they sell for nice profit, just a bit slower.
Shoulders… Yes shoulders.. but only the first you can make.. and for tailors this goes with headgear too. They sell fairly fast, and for a small profit. so low lvl crafter and need some money? => make shoulders!
Enchanting: barking it over /2 is a fairly common tactic, add a bit of flavor and you’ll be selling some in no-time.
Scopes: good sellers (all of them) though they need some time.

eeeewwww Daddy, i don’t like no spinage

Low level armor kits aren’t sold .. if you have the maths for free and need to lvl up try it some time, i’m not getting this moved even if i gave money with them.
some scroll enchants, sell very badly too. have a look at what sells first. put up an enchanting scroll and see if it sells , if it doenst, don’t put it up again.
gear (requires engineering 150): is probably the worst seller out there, why? ’cause they can make it themselfs! maybe an enchanter would buy these, but you’ll have to go very low with the price, and you can wave byebye to your profit.

I think this is enough for now, test these tips, and let me know what sells for you.

for comments: anything i forgot, or that you say, this worked really well for me?