Using your chat box for gold!

I don’t know one player who doesn’t use the chat box in World of Warcraft, but are people using it correctly is the question.

I don’t know about you buy over the weekend I made a killing from players selling items in bulk, or just negotiating with them so that I can get a great price for the item.

You see, if you’re staying current with your Auction House scans, you have an advantage that most players don’t. Most players are too lazy to actually scan the AH on a frequent basis. This is awesome for us players who are trying to make gold because we get some steps ahead of them.

You will often see people spamming things in the trade channel, like:

20x Stacks of [RuneCloth] for sale. Now if you don’t know how much runecloth sells for (per stack) I would recommend taking a quick little stroll to the auction house just to update yourself. After you have a price set in your head.. get ready to negotiate!

Send that player a message and first ask him for what he’s asking for. A lot of times you will end right here, either he is asking for too much, or he is asking for a great price and you just take the offer right there.

Some times on the other hand, you will want to negotiate with him to get a better price. What I usually do is if I don’t like the price I will leave him with a message along the lines of:

“Well, if you don’t sell it – I will send ya “x” gold for it. Just get back to me if you want it.”

Most of the time people will be spamming in the trade channel for hours just to try and get rid of their items that they are selling at wholesale price. When you are friendly with the player at the same time of offering them a rediculously low price – they will easily take you up on your offer.

It works for me nearly every time! It usually doesn’t work with items that are hot (epics, or some big blues) because these players are fixed on the price they want – they usually go no lower.

But for materials like cloth, ore, herbs, or even bulk things like potions in stacks, many players will budge a little bit to avoid having to post on the auction house!

I have asked around to see why players do this, and their answers have usually been because they don’t know how to use the auction house correctly! I thought this was absolutely crazy. The auction house is so easy to manipulate and make gold from.. but it proves a good point.

Most players don’t have the ability to make gold like we can, so lets take advantage of it while we can (before some new add-on comes out and makes our style of gold-collecting wash down the drain!