Selling 12 recipes that are bought for avg. 12s each; for just under 5g a piece. There are apparently enough people still doing cooking leveling that there is decent demand. I’ve set up one of my alts at Booty Bay; so I lose an extra 30s per sale now, but I feel it’s worth it for the time saved (after AH cut, I’m netting right around 4g per recipe). Previously, the AH char was grabbing the recipes and flying to BB himself; and he doesn’t have a mount (lvl 20) so it actually takes some time to run from the AH to the vendor in SW, then to the flight master. I find the ~10 mins saved on running and flying worth the price.

I’m still monitoring armor, weapons, and recipes, but I’m trying to hold myself back a little so I don’t get burned like before. I did finally sell my one gem recipe for 950g after buying it for 750g. I was hoping for ~1150g; but there were three of us trying to offload the same recipe at varying times (over 2 weeks). I decided to eat part of the profit in order to free up some money. I think it was a good move because the other guys are still posting their recipes religiously.

GG was reporting he was selling Alliance cooking recipes and pets for 15-25g each on the Neutral AH, and they were selling moderately well. However, I see that market as only useful in the short term since only the Achievement hounds and cooking powerlevelers would be both interested and willing to pay the premium.

It will take some time setting something like that up on a new server, but could be a fun if not interesting challenge. Props to GG for coming up with something specific like this. Let us know if it works – either in the forum or here.

I’m considering looking at other servers to make money, then transferring characters to make use of the money. I was considering trying Greedy Goblin’s technique/challenge. Start on a server with a lopsided proportion of Horde to Alliance and sell bags (level Tailoring and/or Ench on a DK) and cross-faction recipes/pets. Plus, if the Alliance population is fairly low, low-level mats such as bars could be profitable. This of course runs the risk of having a lack of a market; which is why it would be easier to focus on cross-faction selling.

I’m going to go back and re-read where you started your experiment, too, Tyson, to try to grab some more info – not to hop on the same server, but to get some tips on where to start for moneymaking and check out other servers. I think this may be the easiest way for me to make money, since it appears things are pretty overrun on my server, with lots of competition (AH scan this morning yielded 14k auctions).

May I suggest being very frugal after you clear your inventory… and you will.

I’m hitting my wall and I’m not liking it. Maybe it’s just me not being patient, but it’s tough to feel optimistic when I’ve got about a half dozen items that just won’t sell. One is a Relentless Blade that has been relisted for its second full week (or is it third?). I’ve also got half my current money tied up in a gem recipe that won’t sell right away either.

Armor and weapons seems mostly flat right now, at least in Wrath gear; and the profit margins are comparatively low at lower levels of gear. There’s either a glut of the same item, or the unique ones are priced out of my current bankroll (which sucks because I saw a pair of best-in-slot mage boots last night that would have easily sold for double their value).

I’ve been entertaining myself by trying to sell off what I made to level JC on my main, and searching for a “profession market.” I think I’ve found one, but I need to do some more work to see just how good it is.

Perhaps the player baseon my server is almost too educated. If the price drops on a given item, it rarely sells where it should. I know for a fact if I set up an alt on another server, that I would be successful. However, there would be almost no vehicle to transport said gold to my server; short of continually rolling and transferring DKs (and costs real world money).

Sorry, I’m just frustrated. I may be looking at the AH the wrong way. Last night I worked my way through the AH on my auctioneer character and only found 2-3 items that seemed worth buying/relisting.

I know it can be profitable, but requires a lot of micromanaging too. There are certain patches that come with new recipe and honor requirements so if you can time the market and buy up lots before hand, that’s one way. That’s about all I can say about it, but good luck and I think most of us would be interested in hearing about your results!

One quick thing I think would be worth looking into is various commodities. Not necessarily cornering a market, but buy low / sell high. For example, buy ore on the weekend for cheap and slowly feed it back into the market during the week when prices go back up.

I’m mostly curious about the time involved to do something like this, and if the money is there; and how long it would take to set up a proper ceiling on purchase prices.

BC cuts don’t have much money in their recipes, but you can get lucky. I haven’t researched them much, though.