Guide To Controlling WoW’s Auction House
You can control the auction house in WoW fairly easily if you know the formula for success. This formula applies to pretty much any virtual economy, in WoW or any other MMO, and can be used for total domination once you have the resources to do so. The steps are below:
1. Choose your niche and pick out the most profitable item available within that niche. This will vary from server to server, so you should probably take some time to observe how your niche functions to avoid wasting your time and gold. This is something that you will get better at with time, as you could fill a book with the criteria for judging this.
2. Once you’ve located your item, get together enough gold to buy it out and to lock any competitors out of that niche by buying them out.
3. Inflate the price of your item and list it in relatively small quantities, which will create the illusion of scarcity and drive the impulse to buy.
4. Collect your gold out of the mailbox.
If you’ve been smart about choosing your niche, then you’re pretty much done at this point. If you had to start things off small, you can start to scale it up by either expanding your niche or going into another one, depending on which is more profitable, and you can keep on scaling up until the next step is to buy a new account just so you can have more gold mules.
If this is less of a daily thing for you and more of a weekly thing, I would recommend putting your items up for 48 hours starting on Saturday morning, and buying out items on Sunday evening after the weekend crowd lists their items at the substantially lower weekday prices. This pattern may vary depending on your server, however.
