The title is a bit misleading since what this advice is about is the opposite. What a lot of people do when they are going to sell things on the auction house is to just put full stacks of things out. This is fine in certain cases and doesn’t really hurt, but there are situations where there´s a bunch more gold to be made if you sell things in smaller stacks, or even item per item.

In previous articles I have brushed upon this subject concerning enchanting materials for instance, and I will elaborate that and other things in this post.

As mentioned, enchanting materials are always useful to sell item per item since people who are just buying materials to get one item enchanted will be more inclined to buy small stacks or single items over buying full stacks. The benefit of putting single items on the auction house is that you can ask for a higher price per item most of the time since people will see it as not using as much gold as on the full stack. This is again, due to the fact that us World of Warcraft players have a tendency to be very lazy.

The people who are after the few dusts or essences to get an item enchanted could just as well buy the full stack where they pay a lot less per item, and then they could sell the remaining materials on the auction house again. But I did mention that we tend to be lazy, right?

When it comes to enchanting materials, this tip will work on everything from the lowest version of enchanting materials to the highest one. Many times I have had more success selling mid-level enchanting materials, such as Greater Eternal Essence and Illusion Dust over selling Infinite Dust for instance. This is due to the fact that infinite dust, being the “current dust”, exists in a much greater number than for instance illusion dust and because of this, the market is more competitive which in itself leads to the prices dropping. And the prices can drop A LOT sometimes.

You can make a bunch of gold buying and sellling the current materials on the AH though but you have to be careful not to buy a too big stock and then lose gold when the prices drop the next day. If you buy stuff to resell be sure that you can get it all out in a matter of minutes from when you buy it. This however is only true about certain items with very high demand.

When talking about enchanting materials it´s impossible not to go into vellums and scrolls of “whatever”. If you’re on a server where the prices on dusts and such have dropped very low and you’re an enchanter, it can be profitable to make scrolls of this and that to sell on the auction house, instead of trying to sell the materials themselves.

Next thing to think about is blacksmith materials. This is something that is often forgotten or overlooked and it shouldn’t be, especially not now with Eternal Belt Buckles. These things require 4 saronite bars each and they are often crafted by blacksmiths for free (or a low fee if you bring the materials), which leads to small stacks or single bars of saronite selling like water in the desert. Not that well, but it does sell really good and the funny thing is that not a lot of miners think about this and just sell their full stacks of 20 saronite bars at once.

I have been able to buy saronite bars in full stacks and then reselling them one by one for double the price I payed for the bars in the stacks. The profit is not double though since you will have to pay the AH commission but you will still make pretty good profit on this. Of course blacksmiths might make a better profit selling the belt buckles right away but I have not tried this myself yet.

Another item you might want to look into reselling is Frozen Orbs. However, as with infinite dust, the price on frozen orbs can vary a lot and fast. This does lead to you being able to make a good profit if you’re fast and able to buy a few frozen orbs to dominate the market.

I’ve noticed a trend on my server where there are tons of frozen orbs cheap on AH after weekends, probably because more people have time to play heroics. And towards the end of the week the amount of frozen orbs are quite a lot lower. Which means that you can buy cheap orbs at the start of the week and resell the for profit at the end of the week, but this is risky business and you might end up with frozen orbs that you can’t sell.

Just to point this out again, these strategies does work on other materials as well and not just the ones mentioned here. Of course the idea about saronite is hard to do with other mats. But remember that people leveling up their professions might not want to have to buy full stacks of things either if they just need a few items for that last point before the next orange recipe.

I hope this helps get some more gold rolling in. Happy easy grinding until I write again!