Originally Posted by
guardian_titan
Gold making guides are the same as real life money guides. For some they work, for others, you might actually lose money. Look at enough sites like "You can make $100k a year with this simple strategy!" and you realize how much of a crock it is. The few that these things do work for are a lucky few or incredibly manipulative. Most likely, they're incredibly good liars. Many of these people get paid for you to try their method which then fails. How many actually go on to sue those people for false advertising?
Only sure fire way I've found to make gold? Dailies and soloing old content. Three runs of Old Strat for the mount netted me about 100g (although no mount which seems to hate me). Doing only the pet trainer dailies netted me 400g and I didn't even do them all. Doing a full clear of old raids like BWL, Kara, etc would likely net 1000g or better, especially if you net a pet to sell. Farming is variable and you might be able to sell what you get, you might not. Prices can change hourly. Dailies never change and soloing old content is pretty steady, too. This is no different than real life. There is no secret way to make thousands of dollars quick unless you're really good with the stock market, and in that case, you had a lot of money to start with. Other way is if you're a thief. The days of people going from $5 in their pocket to multi-millionaires is long past. You're more likely to go from $5 to -$100k or better than you are to go from $5 to $5,000. There's always a catch to these stories about people going from nothing to something.
People are gullible and others prey on it. Nothing new, really.