[Xyborg]

Now... this isn't a scam exactly, but it's something I noticed a few days ago.

Many of the sites sell gold to both Horde and Alliance faction and I know that some factions are more played than the other on some servers. On my server, Alliance probably outnumbers Horde 2:1.

Now you're probably wondering where I'm going with this. Simple.

On the website you're actually going to buy gold from, check both factions. On my server, most websites are selling 500 gold for about $59 on the alliance side which is what I play. Out of curiosity, I check to see how much the Horde was paying and found out it was a measly $42!

I immediately made a Horde character, got someone to escort me to Ratchet and then took the boat to Booty Bay where I stayed. Ordered some Horde gold and waited. Once I got the gold, I put some crap items in the neutral AH up for 100g each on my Alliance char and switched to the Horde char, bought the items (Who's gonna buy a stack of strange dust for 100g?) and BANG! I got alliance gold far cheaper than I would have if I actually bought alliance gold.

Now, I did lose a little bit because of AH deductions, but it wasn't enough to make me never do this again.

[EDIT]
As I forgot to mention this, you'll need two accounts. Most people don't really have a problem with this as they can always ask a friend to put a crap item up and then they trade the gold to your main or mail it.

[respect11]

Really nice post! +rep

[Xyborg]

I thought it was pretty kewl discovery. Cheaper gold means more hehe.

[mauzer]

nice post m8

[mosespeach]

This only works if you have more than one account, as you can't buy things from yourself, in Ratchet, using a single account. Just thought I'd point that out to people who want to do this.

[Vivid]

take a friend ... dont buy 2 accs :P

[Xyborg]

Sorry. Thought I mentioned the horde I made was on a friends account. Gonna edit the post now lol.

[Shadowcaller]

Do you say you can get money on WoW by paying???
Would it not be easier to be a GM then
Sorry m8 its good

Yeah, but blizzard don't let everyone to be a gm mate!

[Andr3asF]

dont u loose like 20g per 100g stack? seems like a waste.