Researching Items To Sell

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I’ve had a few people contact me via email or on Twitter (@AlteracVolley) and ask me how I know what are the hot commodities currently selling on the Auction House. There are really two ways to do this: one requires time and some dedication and the other is served to you on a silver platter.

Do Your Own Homework

The hard way is to constantly monitor items on the Auction House throughout the week. Watch who is selling things, what they are selling and the price. Keep checking those specific sellers and their listings each day and see if things are selling before their time expires or not. If they seem to be constantly listing and selling an item that might be a market you want to get involved with.

My other tip, as far as doing your research on your own, is to constantly watch the Trade channel (channel #2) while you’re playing the game. Your gut reaction to this advice might be to keep an eye on what people are advertising they have for sale but I’m going to recommend the opposite. You want to watch for what people are offering to BUY on Trade, rather than sell.

People hitting up the Trade channel looking for a seller of an item are doing that for two reasons: first, the item they want is a fast mover and they want to get it before someone else does and second, they want to get their item at a cheaper rate than what they sell for at Auction.

You can keep your finger on the pulse of your own server’s economy by watching the various listings on the Auction House and keeping a close eye on what the buyers are looking for on the Trade channel. Of course, this takes time and effort

Have Your Homework Done For You

Luckily for us, the fine folks at Blizzard have a nice little tool on the official WoW website that gives you daily or weekly breakdowns of all the Auction House sales in the game. You can find Blizzard’s “Most Auctioned Items” Top List at: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/toplist/index.html?en,auctionsold

This site, which can be broken down and searched in a few different ways, can give you relatively current totals for sold listings on the Auction House across all of the servers in the game.

Of course, this list comes with some caveats. Just because something like Silk Cloth is in the Top 10 of all sales doesn’t mean it’s something you want to farm and sell since the average buyout price of a full stack is usually under one gold.

What this list is good for, in all actuality, is to give you a starting place for items you can do your own research into. Things like Infinite Dust, Saronite Ore and Greater Cosmic Essences are great items to watch like a hawk on your Auction House as they’re always on the move and the prices are usually worth the time and effort to farm them.

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