Everyone knows auctioneer, right? Most people use it.
And most people who use auctioneer do a refresh on the item they want to sell, to adjust to market prices, before posting the auction.
Let's take advantage of that.
For this example I will use embersilk cloth, since it was suitable on my server. Basically you need an item that stacks, and that has high supply and demand on AH.
Start with obtaining (buying/farming.. whatever. doesn't matter how) about 5 stacks.
Then, post the goods piece by piece (ie not a stack of 20 cloth per auction, only 1) for a ridiculously low price. (unfortunately you need to fill buyout as well, which is why we need 5 stacks). Post about 30 of these 1-piece auctions. Then go do something else for a while. If/when the auctions are bought, wait 30 minutes and then post 30 more the same way.
Personally, I only had to wait like 18 hours before AH was totally flooded with embersilk cloth at about 40% cost compared with when I started.
Next step, of course, is to buy all this dirt cheap cloth and start to sell them of at normal market price.
Voilá! Profit.
I know this may be old news to some, but it still works, and I haven't seen it mentioned here before.
Also, this is one method that blizzard simply can't fix, as it exploits players blindly trusting auctioneer's suggestions.
And most people who use auctioneer do a refresh on the item they want to sell, to adjust to market prices, before posting the auction.
Let's take advantage of that.
For this example I will use embersilk cloth, since it was suitable on my server. Basically you need an item that stacks, and that has high supply and demand on AH.
Start with obtaining (buying/farming.. whatever. doesn't matter how) about 5 stacks.
Then, post the goods piece by piece (ie not a stack of 20 cloth per auction, only 1) for a ridiculously low price. (unfortunately you need to fill buyout as well, which is why we need 5 stacks). Post about 30 of these 1-piece auctions. Then go do something else for a while. If/when the auctions are bought, wait 30 minutes and then post 30 more the same way.
Personally, I only had to wait like 18 hours before AH was totally flooded with embersilk cloth at about 40% cost compared with when I started.
Next step, of course, is to buy all this dirt cheap cloth and start to sell them of at normal market price.
Voilá! Profit.
I know this may be old news to some, but it still works, and I haven't seen it mentioned here before.
Also, this is one method that blizzard simply can't fix, as it exploits players blindly trusting auctioneer's suggestions.