Balancing the need to progress in Warcraft while also making sure that you have enough gold to be effective is a balance. One that sometimes requires a little help to maintain.
Trading at the auction house is a good way to work. After all, your primary resource at the auction house is your skill, not your time.
I have just read of a system that uses primarily cross market trading to make gold. That's comparing the Horde price for any given item with those at Alliance auction houses. You then buy from the cheaper, transfer to another character of the opposite faction (via the neutral auction house) and sell at the market where the price is higher.
Seems a decent idea? But hold on there are massive drawbacks with this, and you should be aware of them before you commit to any system that advises this as the primary way of making WoW gold.
Firstly, the game will not allow you to put an item on the auction house and buy it with a character from the same account. So using this system as a lone trader, or at least a trader with only one Warcraft account is not going to work
You need to buy a second Warcraft account. Even the ten day trial accounts won't work. You need a full second Warcraft account, with the game and play time paid for if you are going to do this yourself. The second option is to use a friend to do one half of the deal with. Of course that will probably mean splitting the profits (not to mention you really need to trust the friend). Suddenly what looked like a great idea has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
That's not the end of the problems though. Just buying massive amounts of cheap stock is not going to work straight away. You risk flooding the market, you need a large (and by large I mean several hundred spaces) areas of storage. Your own storage that no-one can steal from, then drip feed to market. Also, this is a common method used by far eastern gold farmers (who have many accounts). You need to be quick. Remember it costs gold to put items on at auction. Flooding the market will end up losing you gold very quickly.
At the end of the day there is a place for cross faction trading. But any system that relies solely on it for profits needs to be scrutinised carefully. There are some very big issues with setting the system up, and ensuring you are careful with your stock levels.
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