Controlling The Auction House in WoW
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. Find the most profitable item within the niche you want to control. This is going to be totally server dependent and you will have to monitor your niche for a while to determine what is worth your time and gold. Figuring out how to judge this is a guide in and of itself.
2. Once youve identified the item, make sure you have enough money to buy it out and to keep buying out any competitors.
3. Relist your item at an inflated price in relatively small quantities to create the illusion of scarcity.
4. Collect the gold from your inbox.
If you were clever about your niche selection, then that’s pretty much all there is to it. The next step is to scale up by broadening your item selection within your niche, or moving into a completely different niche if that is the more profitable option. Either way, from here on out your are set to keep on expanding until you run out of characters to store the gold on.
If youre not doing this 7 days a week, I would strongly suggest listing items for 48 hours starting on Saturday morning, and buying on Sunday evening when most of the weekenders have put up their items at reduced weekday prices, although this pattern may vary depending on your server.
