It is not difficult to control the auction house in WoW. It really comes down to a simple formula that you can use dominate pretty much any in-game market in World of Warcraft or any other MMO. Here are the steps:
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 you’ve picked your item out, ensure that you have the gold to buy it out and to keep any competitors from driving prices down.
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 the gold from your inbox.
If youve chosen your niche appropriately, thats really all there is to it. If youve started small, scale it up by broadening your niche (i.e. go from red +str gems to all red gems to all gems) or moving into another one (which is the better option if youre in a market with a lot of dud items) and keep expanding until you have to buy a new account to hold all the extra gold youre carrying.
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.
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