Thought any readers who want to see this site continue would like to know that I passed safely through the 100k gold barrier several weeks ago to sit somewhere between 110-125k with several epics still in inventory. This is the combined earnings on my two main AHers – one on a lower population horde side and my lvl 14 ally podcast druid with over 80k. After a few weeks of boom, it was slower going for the most part with Wrath of the Lich King once the market and server, and therefore flow of epics (both amount and quality) stabilized.

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Disclaimer: this is an opinion piece….

With patch 3.1, World of Warcraft took another breath. Features, items, a new dungeon, changes – what’s now commonplace in the MMO patch paradigm – these game upgrades are but a small tick mark in the huge timeline that is the World of Warcraft phenomenon.

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This will be a dual part article. First the bad news. As some of you have noticed in the rare weapons/armor and epic market, business has slowed way down. For each of my AH alts, the epics that I would actually invest in are few and far between. Many a login later and I’m still in roughly the same spot, albeit one of my characters had a rash of good fortune. Just a rash though.

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Just earlier today I was responding to a reader who was having trouble hitting a new money plateau. This evening, I finally reached one of my own – the 50k gold barrier after a few tough weeks within the realm of 40k.

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If you’ve spent any time selling in the auction house, you’ve undoubtedly encountered spans of time where your items just don’t seem to sell, even if priced below typical “market value.” The reasons can be numerous, so let’s look at your options in order of what you should try to make your sale.

• Price too high: First, double check that the price really is at or below market value. Find it at wow.allakhazam.com for a good measure of whether it’s at or below the median price. Even if your server is a little different, this is a good baseline to follow for the current market. And if your item is above or even at, try going anywhere from 5-10% lower and relist.
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This article is going to teach those of you with 1000g or more how to buy an epic weapon or piece of armor in World of Warcraft with minimal risk. This method can be applied to any expansion, but will work best with the latest, whatever that is at the time you read this.

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I’ve seen it time and time again. I make huge profits and I stake them out whenever they appear on the auction house because I know I’ll get a deal. The higher value the item, the better.

Non-buyout bids are the heritage of real life auctioneering such as eBay or live auction houses. Start very low price to get increased competition and interest, then let humanity, jealousy, and greed take over. Instant profit, right?

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On Celwyn, a level 14 druid and 50 total hours on the character played, he now has 22k in the bank, up from 2k since I bought Lich King about a month and a half ago. With my other character at 7k and 2 epics listed for another 6 or so, I’m sitting at 29k disposable over both. She had 1k to begin with when Lich King came out but that character is horde side. This is without using an add-on like Auctioneer, nor buying out a specific commodity and thus increasing the market value, but by simply finding good deals and reselling them for profit.

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Thanks for coming in 2008, listening to the podcasts, and for all of the great comments and support. Not sure what topic yet, but it is in the plans to start a new series of podcasts for the current market. It was exciting to start from scratch, so perhaps I’ll start anew with different parameters.

Best of luck to everyone for the new year, and many happy returns!

As I do every day at some point, while searching on Digg I came across an interesting article by the Zappos CEO (popular online shoe dealer) that actually relates to making money in the auction house, as well as real life. His many points are spot on so please enjoy the article!