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If you undercut the lowest price by 5s you will still stand to make almost double the amount

So Linen isn't worth it?

The easist way to make money is to skin until you have as many stacks of 20 light leather as you want then sell each stack of 20 in the AH for 40s starting price and 1g buyout for long time period.javascript:emoticon(':roll:')
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If you're strong enough , solo SFK . Mob drops are decent and if Rare BOE's drop then u can auction it for good gold. If your an enchanter, you can D/E the useless BOP drops and then sell the essences or shardss

is it better to sell the plain cloth or bolts of cloth?

I'd say Plain, then bandagers will buy

In my opinion, Winterspring or Felwood are really very nice for farming (near end-game at least). You can get rep. money, greens, almost everything you could want from a farming spot. Tyr's Hand is also very good if you can solo that sort of thing, warriors and hunters are probably better off there but anyone can do it with a little luck/skill. Drops are grey-epic. The greys sell for 1-2 g and the epics (one of which is Krol Blade) may sell up to 500 gold!

Its needed for tailoring so its goes like hell on ah... buyout for 1 g and 50s... at least on my server

yer Tyrs hand is a great place to farm, i havnt tried soloin it yet but have gone a few times with a group, you get about 20s per kill so it aint that bad! i am friends with someone who farmed there for about 2 weeks and managed to find 2 glowing brightwood staffes, both sold for 500g, thats 1000g in a week! (plus the greys, greens, blues and also the silver drops, that would be nearly 1500g!!!)

SFK is the place to be around lvl 40. You get 3-5g each run and 0.2% chance from every mob to drop a wonderful twink weapon which can sell on some servers for more than 200g!!

Farming really depends on your class. IMO, the best farming classes are mages, locks, rogues, and hunters.
-Mages can AoE farm - the zombie farms in WPL and the wind elementals in Silithus are great methods.
-If you've seen the video of the lock soloing Dire Maul, then you'd know that locks can easily farm instances and mob-heavy spots like Silithus and Felwood.
-If a rogue goes enchanting, he/she can easily solo Ulda bosses to get lots of easy Large Brilliant Shards. If a rogue picks up mining, they can also easily farm Dark Iron nodes in BRD and stealth to the Black Forge to smelt it.
-Hunters can continously farm random mobs, this makes them the best to bot with. Hunters can also farm Librams in Dire Maul pretty easily too.

Well, I am not so sure AHing silk is worth it on some servers...on mine it was around 40s a stack, so with the fees and the trouble of waiting for cash, I ended up vendoring it all. Very dependant on servers and on horde I think it sells for less since of 1kn and the centaur dropping obscene amounts.

level 20 and up in Horde should mine copper ore in mulgore, Palemane caves are great and easy, mined about 6 stacks of copper ore/hour and sold on AH for between 35S and 75S per stack of ore If you do skinning, break it up into small stacks for the Engeneers and blacksmiths to buy, they will even pay a bit more/unit.

In this guide I will be telling you about how to make real money from 1-60. I have 3 epic mounts and around 2000 extra gold to spend. This is not a " farm SM as stealth rogue + disenchant = ez gold" This is how you really make money.
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The first thing you should do is get 2 gathering professions. Getting mining and skinning will help out A LOT at early levels, at 40 you’ll need your mount and your level 180/225 enchanting skill won’t look that great. So first tip of this guide is 2 gathering professions (skinning being one of them). At 40 cancel one of them and pick up a “making” profession.
Also, if you are following this from alliance get to the human zone after completing a bit of your starting quests. (10-12 )
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10-20.
Alliance: In Westfall there are birds called “Fleshrippers” They can be greater or young, the only difference is their level. These birds drop something of great interest to 60 priests and mages. The item is called Light Feathers which drop 30% from Fleshrippers. These are worth 20-40 silver and are sold pretty fast in general. Priests and Mages that are 60 don’t want to go to Westfall so they’ll buy it from you. Owls are found in Teldrassil that also drop light feathers fairly often.
Horde:
I highly advise being a miner at least till 40 mainly because of this cash cow I discovered one day. In Durotar there is tons, I mean TONS of copper veins that are ready to be picked. They also respawn at a decent pace. I would say you could get your mining up to 70 at least and make 2-3 gold in 30 minutes. So this is very useful. If you’re a tauren you can use the alliance method by farming the birds in Mulgore.
In the barrens the major asset is the humanoids, you can get linen off the ones in the north and copper coins which is decent ( 12-14 ) but later on it becomes more beneficial to kill them in the south ( wool cloth 1 g a stack, level 16 ). The real way to get decent money at 12ish is too go around skinning plainstriders. They are always dead pretty much (almost everyone does this quest and the npcs are within 30 feet of cross roads (the main town ). You can kill them if they pop up for a chance at light feathers ( 33% drop rate ) but they also drop light leather fairly often and I easily racked up 200 quite quickly.
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20-30
Alliance: Grinding at the skeletons and undead at the GY to the southeast of darkshire, gives very good exp an hour and also gets you some good silver and cloth. ( very nice if you’re playing a pally ) at around 24, you can head over to worgen farmstead and kill the worgens there. They drop 2 s or so and skin for medium leather and sometimes heavy I believe. To the west of the town is higher level ones for when your 28.
Horde: In the southern barrens grind on the quillboars, they drop wool cloth 2-3 silver or so and sometimes a rare. At 28 go to thousand needles and mine iron veins, sometimes you’ll find a gold one too.
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30-40
Alliance: Alliance have to go to STV, the tigers drop whiskers that can drop for 7s and you can skin them for heavy leather. Once 34 grind the trolls for silk ( 45 silver a stack or more ) and loot all greys ( 20-30 silver ). At around level 36 go to desolace and do some of the quests there. Killing the mobs there for loot and skinning etc. at 40 Head to BB and kill pirates for mageweave and other misc drops.etc. ( 1-2 gold a stack, helps BB rep and used in several quests.)
Horde: Grind the Turtles basilisks etc. to 34. Then head to Stranglethorn Vale and grind the raptors till 36 ( lots of vendor stuff heavy leather etc. ) grind the murlocs or trolls in the area to level 40 and then head to BB to grind the pirates for BB rep and mageweave. At this point you should have enough gold for your mount, if not ask for some money from a guildy and you’ll be able to pay him back after this next part.
40-50
Alliance: Either Head to tanaris and grind some of the pirates there ( level 40-42s used for some quests ) till 43 or go kill coyotes ( lots of thick leather ) in the badlands till 42-43. Head to Feralas after that and grind on ogres or yetis and when needed go back to town to sell the loot you get. At around 44 or 45 go to feathermoon stronghold and head south to the naga. Skip the ones on the same island as feathermoon and swim to the other island further south. There you’ll find a massive amount of Naga which drop clams that can have golden pearls in them ( 10-20 gold quite rare .) Also great for hunters because they can get the meat cooked and feed it to most pets. Another option is heading to azshara and killing the undead which are level 46 and drop mageweave and silver often.
Horde: There isn’t much gold to make here really, just grind the pirates to the east of gadgetzan and then when high enough kill the Dunemaul ogres in the south until 50. Another option is to Grind on nethargarde miners, they’re level 46 and there’s almost never an alliance in sight. The reason? They are alliance mobs, they still drop loot and give exp and don’t give DKs, but they are unable to be attacked by alliance. There’s tons of them and they drop lots of mageweave.
Alliance & Horde: 50-60 Choices, choices, choices. The best one for gold I think would be azshara, grind on the nagas till 52. Then travel north and grind on the satyr’s or the blood elves. There are 3 main Satyr camps. Another option is to go to felwood at 55ish and kill the mobs there at jaedenar or kill the elementals in the north for the chance of essence of water or essence of fire. You can also do BGs to level for fun ( 3.3k exp per winning game adds up. ) I made them both combined since everything is pretty much the same.
GOLD FARMING!!!!
At 60 you need your mount. There are many options.
1) Buying gold. Quickest way, but it costs 100 bucks or so for 1000 (varies, sometimes more ) and it also risks your account being banned.
2) Scamming people. Also risks you being banned and the risk is much greater then buying gold.
3) Running bots to farm a lot of cash. This is hard to detect true. But blizzard does notice when a character starts being online 24/7 and gaining tons of gold and making the same moves.
4) The last and most reliable way is to farm for it. Lucky for you I’ve already scoped out the best places to farm!
GOLD FARMING!
Now that your 60, you want you epic, maybe a boe epic, and you need to get that money somehow. You could grind on random mobs and slowly make it to 1,000 gold or you could farm the best mobs in WoW.
No farming spot is the “best” they all have pros and cons.
Blood elf farming:
Gold per hour = 20-40.
Pros: VERY LOW HEALTH (2k)
Cons: sometimes other people are there; if they are opposing faction kill them since they’re usually just farmers. If your on a pve server or you cannot kill them choose another spot in Azshara.
Essence of water farming.
Gold per hour = 30-50.
Drops:
Misc epics. .01%
Misc Blues .06%
Misc Greens 1.5%
Essence of water 6.5%
Pros: Massive money and doable for all classes. ( 30 gold an hour usually more
Cons: you should play on off times to make complete use which can be inconvenient (I’ve gotten 300 gold in 6 hours once)They also poison a lot.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=7132
Satyr farming:
Drops:
Misc epics. .01%
Misc rares. .08
Misc Greens 1.5%
Dark rune 5%
Felcloth: 3.6%
Runecloth: 25%
Gold per hour = 20-40 depending on felcloth drops.
Pros: 3 camps so not a shortage of mobs. They drop Felcloth which sells for 2 gold and can be transmuted to mooncloth.
Cons: 2.5-3k health means a bit slower grinding then blood elves.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=6202
Blue Dragon scale Farming:
Gold per hour: 20-30 gold.
Pros: not many farmers around, pretty decent cash
Cons: elite, need to have skinning.
Black Dragonscale Farming:
Gold per hour. Generally 10 a run excluding other drops.
Pros: who doesn’t want an extra 10 gold while running UBRS?
Cons: need to have 315 skinning to skin all of them, sometimes other players needing skins (use shift click to loot auto-loot after skinning =]) and not worth it unless you already need the loot there.
Thorium farming south winter spring:
Gold per hour: 10-40
Pros: almost never another person mining down there, decent gold and veins are fairly common.
Cons: elite mobs there, you need to be a druid, hunter or rogue.
Twilight farming:
Gold per hour: 30-100
Pros: very nice epics and rare drop rates there. Runecloth silver text ( 1 gold a piece or so ), multiple camps around silithus, who could want more?
Cons: mobs have around 3.5-4k health, do decent damage too. More like semi-elite then the normal they are marked as. Sometimes pvp, but there’s other camps you can go to if needed.
Rock elemental farming:
Gold per hour: 20-30
Pros: Drops elemental earth fairly often and essences of earth. Also drop epics and rare etc. very high mob value.
Cons: may be hard to farm as a melee character well, they have a decent amount of health (4k) but don’t hit too hard. Don’t farm if elemental earth sells for less then 50s on your server!
Auction House:
Explanation: Well the way this works is that farmers often change at around 6 am and 6 PM. Here’s how you can make money off this. If there’s a commonly known gold farmer selling something in trade, or maybe someone who you suspect, offer to buy the item for a pretty low price. Often they’ll reject you, but as 6 AM or 6 PM rolls around they have to meet their quota and they often don’t trust the item with their farming partners ( the person who works the other 12 hour shift ) as they have been known to claim the item is their own so they aren’t under much pressure to meet their quota that shift. Say, Krol blade is normally 500 gold. You can get it sometimes from a farmer for 300 gold and sell it for 400 gold pretty fast. That’s an easy 100 gold right their. It varies a lot though, so don’t count this as a consistent gold farming technique.
Pros: No one is ripped off or disgruntled and you won’t be banned for doing this.
Cons: Varies by server, luck based.

Since I can't get premium for this guide ( I forgot to link a picture -.-) I thought I'd share it with the general population, it's been updated a bit too =). It got formatted wrong in the copy+paste from word, but the info is still there. Enjoy!