Starter Cash: Buy From The Vendors
Markco recently put up a post that deals with this topic, but it’s a good one that new players often don’t realize. It’s very simple: the vendors in town sell stuff (usually limited spawn items) that you can resell on the AH for a lot more than you paid for it.
Capital cities are usually the best place to do this (because that’s where the AH is), but it can work in almost any town. The idea? If you see a rare-spawn item, buy it and resell it on the AH. What kind of items are we talking about? Generally, just raw materials and schematics/recipes.
See this guy above? This is the most famous vendor for this trick, Mr. Kendor Kabonka. He is the vendor in the Inn in old section of Stormwind that sells about half a dozen recipes that you can’t find anywhere else. Buy them there for a few silver, sell them on the Neutral AH to the Horde (or, if you have two accounts, move them over to the Horde AH) for 10-20g each, lather, rinse, repeat, and laugh all the way to the bank.
However, it doesn’t even need to be that complicated. Maybe you’re starting out fresh, without a Deathknight, and the run to the neutral AH is a true hassle. Remember, there’s tons of stuff to buy and resell from vendors: Enchanting vendors sell strange dust and essences. Some of the Alchemy vendors sell herbs. Engineering vendors sell engineering parts (which are riskier because demand is spotty). As you get into the Outland, you’ll find vendors that sell Primals as well. And, as you are out and about, questing and leveling, various vendors stashed across the world are the source for rare recipes: the Engineering vendor in Winterspring, the Alchemist vendor in the middle of the Ogres in the Alterac Mountains, the vendor that hangs out with the pirates east of Booty Bay… the list goes on and on.
So don’t just use the vendors in town as a place to clean out your bags. Look and see what they’re selling. If it’s a recipe or a commodity, chances are it will sell for a lot more on the AH than it will cost you to buy… so buy it!
GL! /bow
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August 26th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
As I rolled my first toon years ago it took me until at least lvl 30 before I dared to enter the AH. But once I did it I quickly found a small but steady income. I bought steelflowers at the herbalist/alchemy trainer close to the mage tower in SW and sold it at AH. Even if you only got a couple of flowers at a time, it stacked up. To me just one gold was a huge sum at that time. Easy business for players who like me don’t find the AH game any fun. It required so little time and effort. Just buy it and then post it. Done.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
One of my Favorite Vendors is Lhara at the Darkmoone Faire. Shes has some super sexy deals!
Also vednors that are hard to reach in a remote place or that take special quests to unlock are great for flipping as well. Examples:
The goblin in STV that is hard to find that sells the scope pattern, the ghost vendor that takes a quest chain/trinket to even communicate with outside of Scholomance, or the vendor hidden along the cliffs of southern ashara are all good options. The more remote the vendor location, the less competion, and more mark-up you can get away with.
It one thing to be lazy and not pay to go downt he damn road and buy your copper rod, but its much more feasible to players to pay to save time having to run up and down the damn cliffs and coast till you find that little wench out in nowhere!
August 26th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Nice write up, that goblin in alterac mountains really is a gold mine. So few players even travel that way while questing any more, let alone to the far north end and up the rampart where the goblin hides out.
Another ok spot is in winterspring just inside the entrance of dark whisper gorge. There’s a little demon imp in there selling gromsblood and felcloth for super cheap.