You can control the auction house in WoW fairly easily if you know the formula for success. This formula applies to pretty much any virtual economy, in WoW or any other MMO, and can be used for total domination once you have the resources to do so. The steps are below:

1. Find the most profitable item within the niche you want to control. This is going to be totally server dependent and you will have to monitor your niche for a while to determine what is worth your time and gold. Figuring out how to judge this is a guide in and of itself.

2. Once you’ve picked your item out, ensure that you have the gold to buy it out and to keep any competitors from driving prices down.

3. Relist your item at an inflated price in relatively small quantities to create the illusion of scarcity.

4. Collect your gold out of the mailbox.

If you’ve been smart about choosing your niche, then you’re pretty much done at this point. If you had to start things off small, you can start to scale it up by either expanding your niche or going into another one, depending on which is more profitable, and you can keep on scaling up until the next step is to buy a new account just so you can have more gold mules.

If this isn’t a daily activity for you, I’d suggest putting items up for 48 hours beginning Saturday morning, and doing most of your buyouts on Sunday evening when the weekend warriors put their items up at the reduced weekday prices, though your mileage may vary depending on your server.

Tags: World Of Warcraft