Originally Posted by
Unbelivabru
I tried a lot of these youtube tutorials on 'gold-making techniques' (like how to make 30k/hour and stuff like that), and what I've come to notice is that it highly depends on your realm.
About a month ago I was struggling to have enough gold just to keep myself raid-able and tried a lot of different stuff from these videos - skinning and herbs gathering, transmog farm etc.. and it didn't work so well as it was supposed to. So I watched this video talking about 'flipping', which is basically buying stuff that is under-priced and selling it again for a higher price, so I decided to try this out and it turned out to be really amazing - probably what you are looking for.
During weekdays I log basically for the raid and log out soon after, so I don't have a lot of time to farm anything really. What I do is: Everyday before raid time I log on my toon and I check the auction house for some items - again, this highly depends on your realm demands - for me those are Tomes and materials for it (dreamleaf and felwort), Augment Runes and some flasks, I check if the prices are lower than what it usually is and, if so, I buy everything. For example: Let's say Int Flaks are commonly sold for 300g and I see 100 for ~220g, I buy every one of them and place them again for the usual price. On my realm Dreamleaf and Felwort are sometimes extremely cheap - especially on weekends - I buy it and tranform it into Tomes. By doing "all" of this I've managed to go from ~30k to ~750k in about 3 weeks. It works pretty well for me.
TLDR: Learn the prices of commonly sold stuff on ah and flip it when you see it is cheaper than it usually is. Make it a routine to check the AH for it at least once or twice a day.
Also, recently I've started to level my alt's followers and send them in gold missions. I'm still in the process of equipping them so sometimes I can only get 150% and so sometimes it fails and I get only the ~500g from it - but hey, still a profit for doing basically nothing. I got 7 toons at 110 so I expect to be getting a lot more gold from these missions once I get them all well equipped.