For some of you, fathoming that amount of gold is astronomical, and making it in one flip? Well, that’s unbelievable. However, what if I told you it was true? What if I told you anyone with a decent amount of liquid capital and bargaining skills can do it to? What if I told you depending on your dedication you could do it multiple times without question? Well, that’s what I’m going to do.
When I was contemplating rejoining the gold blogging game, I stumbled upon this method. I took to twitter with one simple tweet:
“So I haven’t tweeted about gold making in awhile, but I’ve found the ultimate be all end all gold making method. Just made 90k in one flip.”
I got a lot of responses. Everyone wanted to know what I did. I wanted to answer for everyone, but I left it alone. Only because I found like I had stumbled on to something truly secret. However, this week in the Markets of the Week segment of the
Auction House Junkies Podcast I spilled the beans. So I may as well bring it to you here on the blog.
First off, your initial thought is wrong. I’m not flipping TCG mounts or anything related to collecting. I’m not flipping raw goods farmed from bots, and I’m definitely not flipping duped items. Nope. I’m flipping guilds. Level 25 guilds to be specific.
I’ve made the big flip twice so far. This is only because I haven’t actively worked at it on a daily basis. My first experience was expected, but the most recent one wasn’t. My first flip came from my server transfer; during a recording of
Auction House Junkies we talked about value of level 25 guilds, and for grins, during the show I tried to buy one on my small little server. This was several months ago. I landed one for what I thought at the time, was a lot, 70k. However, this was a deal I just didn’t know it. A few months later, I packed up all my gold, and most of my alts and transferred over to a high pop server. Arthas to be exact. (Do you play on Arthas? Let me know, I have no friends.) True high pop servers are very different then what I’m use to. Collectable mounts a plenty and all my gold could be easily spent. This was a first for me. So, out of the spirit of buying me a Heroic Rag mount, I took to the realm forums looking to buy a carry. Low and behold I found it. “WTB: Level 25 Guild”. “Double click” I said. Inside, there was a nice man offering to purchase a level 25 guild for 100k. 30k profit! Woot! Or so I thought. Then I read the responses. “Good luck, you’ll never get one at that price.” Loool, more like 250k” and the comments continued. 250k? Seriously? I didn’t believe it. So I headed over to the Guild leadership forum and they were every where. WTB and WTS ads all for level 25 guilds. Curiosity got the best of me, so I posted mine for sale. Horde side, Arthas 250k. Added my BNet account and waited. Two days later I had about 10 friend requests and plenty of offers. I settled on a deal of 220k and the guy transferred to me. 150k profit. Too easy!
This got my wheels turning, but I thought on a high pop server, I would never find another guild to flip. But, I did. Guy sent one spam over trade chat saying he was quitting and selling off his guild. I instantly whispered. “100k in hand” I said. He said…”Uh…I have to have 120k.” I said “Deal”. I probably high balled him and caught him off guard because most people don’t know the value, but nevertheless, I snatched it up. This time, I posted my listing on the guild leadership and realm forum. Next evening, sold 210k from someone on my server. 90k and it was a full internal server flip. I didn’t have to have anyone transfer. That’s when I knew, this method was really powerful.
In reality, you could hit the gold cap in as little as 10 completed flips, there is nothing in the game currently that offers that can of power. While it may seem intimidating to invest that much capital into something, if you can find them at the right price, I highly recommend it.
The buying and selling I’m going to leave to you guys. Take advantage of your server. Watch trade chat, use your realm forums. Find someone who has quit or recently be able to overthrow a guild because of 30 day none login. Those people may be willing to cut you a nice deal for a small sum of gold in the grand scheme of things.
Share your results!
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Wes
