Most of the players in WOW choose crafting profession based on the profession bonuses, to learn new things in the game, or to fill their guild need for a particular craft. They might craft and sell the items they get from crafting, but they seldom focus on making WOW gold. Additionally, they usually earn gold through spamming trade chat with their services, asking buyers to supply materials (mats) and making gold solely on the tips.
Most of the players would like to get the items they need or want at once, so they are more likely to go to the Auction House (AH) and pay for what they want directly rather than accumulate mats for the item and ask or wait until a crafter advertises their services in trade chat. Then, this is your chance to make gold of WOW.
You can setup a system to maximize your gold profits, targeting the buyers who go to the AH to buy items they want right away. You can get crafters who advertise their services in trade chat crafting to suit your needs, then post them on the AH for the buyers who go straight to the AH.
First, keep watching the trade chat for the particular items players want. This will most often be immediate consumables (potions, flasks) or intermittent consumables (gear, gear enhancements). Record the items which are frequently requested.
Then, check the items on the AH for any selling amount and general price. Keep watching the price for a few days or weeks to know the average price.
Make a report of every single crafted item that sells well and also the mats required to create that item. If you don’t have a crafting profession, you may more likely have a gathering profession. Players should have a gathering profession because this will maximize their gold profits by reducing the cost of the mats needed to craft the items that sold well. However, you can’t have all gathering professions, and some mats (cloth, for example) don’t need a gathering profession- so you have to check the costs of the base mats for the crafted products on the AH. A superb tool for checking prices and listing auctions on the auction house is the add-on, Auctioneer.
As soon as you list for profit in the AH, do not list all of your products at once. Based on demand and the total amount of active auctions, you should only list among the 1 and 5 of your item. This could preserve the perception of rarity (which keeps the pricing high) and will prevent the crafters of that item which DO sell them for the AH from getting angry with you for flooding the market.
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