https://www.5punk.co.uk/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=The_World_of_Warcraft_Auction_House The World of Warcraft Auction House - Revision history 2026-04-12T13:56:19Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.26.3 https://www.5punk.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_of_Warcraft_Auction_House&diff=3066&oldid=prev FatherJack: /* Low Risk Trading - Recipes */ 2009-06-16T23:01:58Z <p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Low Risk Trading - Recipes</span></span></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:01, 16 June 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l110" >Line 110:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 110:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; 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Calling your character &#039;&#039;Scrotum&#039;&#039; and starting an argument with the gold seller isn&#039;t going to get people queuing up to buy from you, neither is standing around in your underwear as &#039;&#039;JonBank&#039;&#039;.&#160; Be polite and sign guild charters if asked - this may net you some free cash, but at the least prevents people cancelling your auction window with guild requests.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Time for a bit of psychology.&#160; Create an attractive-looking female character and give them a nice, pretty name.&#160; My experience shows that this increases the chances of characters interacting positively with you, even when it&#039;s just a name in the auction list.&#160; When you can afford it buy some nice clothes, so you stand out in the auction room - but in a good way.&#160; 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This method is the reverse of the Zero Risk one, in that you buy items from vendors and sell them to people on the Auction House.  The trick is to select rare items which do not have a listing fee (which most auctions do).  However, we have now introduced Risk, so let's have a new rule and talk about that:
 
This method is the reverse of the Zero Risk one, in that you buy items from vendors and sell them to people on the Auction House.  The trick is to select rare items which do not have a listing fee (which most auctions do).  However, we have now introduced Risk, so let's have a new rule and talk about that:
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'''Rule #5: Know your Risks and know why they are Risks.'''
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'''Rule #5: Know your Risks and know ''why'' they are Risks.  Then mitigate or explain them away.'''
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While you will need a bit of cash to get started, you won't actually lose more money if you don't sell the items and have to relist them.  However you've turned your cash into Assets and you won't get your original money back until you sell them, so that means you have less cash in the meantime to put into other moneymaking ventures.
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While you will need a bit of cash to get started, you won't actually lose ''more'' money if you don't sell the items and have to relist them.  However you've turned your cash into Assets and you won't get your original money back until you sell them, so that means you have less cash in the meantime to put into other moneymaking ventures.
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