Networking Your Way to More Gold

The Gold Network

Here's an example network. This idea is covered in far more detail (on video) in the Massive WoW Gold Blueprint, but this will get you started and is pretty much the same for Horde and Alliance.

If you have gold on your main charcter then go to step 2, this step is if you are starting fresh on your server. This character will be your gatherer. Start up a new class that can kill fast. I'd recommend a rogue since you won't necessarily be leveling past 10 or so. Nothing wrong with it if you do go past 10, though.

As soon as you can (as soon as you have some cash) head off to the nearest city and get two of the gathering skills. I suggest skinning and either mining or herbalism. If you're a Night Elf then skip mining, since there is no ore in your starting areas, though you'll find plenty if you level up enough to hit Auberdine (in Darkshore.)

Once you have your skills then start some mad gathering and mail all stacks of stuff off to your...
Bank Alt Character: This will be the main buying/selling character of your network. Everything that is gathered by any of your characters is sent to this character to sell on the Auction House.

I like Silvermoon and Stormwind for these characters since the AH, Bank, and mailbox are all pretty close together. Any city will do, though my characters complain about Darnassus, since everything there is so far apart that their legs get tired.
Buyers: All of the big cities have limited items which you can buy and then resell. Put a buyer in any of the cities you choose and then buy and send stuff to your bank alt for resale.

Cross Faction Trading

If you are not on a PvP server, or if you are and you have two accounts, then you can make two more characters. The idea is that you will be buying and selling cross faction. If your Horde character aquires stuff that sell for more on the Alliance AH than the Horde AH then you ship it to the Alliance side. Or if something in one side's AH sell for a little, but is selling for a lot on the other side, then you buy it, ship sit off, and resell it to the other side.

For example - Some farmer dumps a pile of Sunfury Signets on the Horde AH for 5sp each (I wish.) You buy all of them and ship them to your Horde Booty Bay character. The items are placed on the neutral AH there and then you log into your Alliance Booty Bay character, buy the items, and ship them to your Alliance banker where they sell for around a gold each.

Or perhaps primals or eternals are selling cheap on one side and for a high price on the other. Buy the one, ship it over to the other side, via the neutral AH, and sell it for a nice markup.

Since you cannot mail items directly from Horde to Alliance, or Visa Versa, you will be making a bridge to get stuff back and forth. You will need a bank alt for the other side and each side will need to get a character to the neutral Auction House. This means that you will need to get two characters to the neutral AH in Booty Bay... It can be done with level 1s, but it's a long swim. The Massive WoW Gold Blueprint has a video of how to do it, but I'm sure you can figure it out.
As an example: Your Alliance character finds/buys something to be sold Horde side. Mail it to your Booty Bay character, post it on the neutral AH (for pennies,) log in your Horde Booty Bay character, buy the item, and send it to your Horde banker for resale.

The only hitch in the plan is getting to BB, and the chance that someone might buy your neutral AH item before your other charcter does.

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