On my server, [Adder's Tongue] and [Icethorn] was going for 25-34G/stack on the Horde Side, while I found about 150 stacks of them for only 8-15G/stack on the Alliance Side. That's around an instant 2.5K profit!
So what exactly do you need to do this?
- Either two accounts, or a trusty friend
- Some starting gold for investing
Step 1. Make a character of the opposite faction on both accounts.
Lets say you are Alliance A, and your friend is Alliance B. Make a new alt called Horde B, and a have your friend make an alt called Horde A. As long as Alliance B and Horde B are on separate accounts (you can't bid on auctions on the same account) you are fine.
Step 2. Park Alliance A and Horde A in any major city beside the auction houses.
Step 3. Check for items worth transferring and buy them.
Some examples are: flasks, abyss crystals, greater cosmic essences, herbs, etc. Remember that there is a 5% auction house cut on all sales. However, this amount should be negligible.
Step 4. Send Alliance B and Horde B to Stranglethorn Vale.
Step 5. Alliance A sends items to Alliance B, Alliance B posts on neutral AH while Horde B grabs items immediately. Horde B then sends items to Horde A.
I like to transfer flasks because they stack nicely, but let's say you want to transfer cut gems. What I do is set up Quick Auctions 3 for epic gems, make the fallback price to 1 copper and mass post... but make sure your friend is ready to buy the items!
Step 6. Horde A sells the transferred goods, finds items worth selling on the Alliance side, and follows similar procedures listed above.
Note: You want to AVOID TRANSFERRING GOLD. You can transfer a little amount initially to pay for auction house deposits and such, but the neutral auction house has a huge auction house cut (15%), so if you transfer gold directly you will most likely end up with a loss.
Note 2: There are actually a couple of different combinations of alts that you can do this with. Find one that suits you best.
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you forgot to mention where we gonna get the money to buy items at the 1st place? I mean lets say horde has the items cheap in the ah and you can sell them double the price in alliance and your mains r all in alliance, which means you dont have any gold in the horde, you need to transfer some gold to buy items in the horde.... and when you transfer by AH, u lose %15 of it.
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ReplyDeleteYou may want to post your neutral AH toons at either Winterspring (ugh i know) or Tanaris AH's. Often times I've headed to BB to do some neutral auctioning only to find the auctioneer's dead due to some clown grinding pirate rep.