Auction House Basics and the Auctioneer Add-on

When you get to the auction house and right-click and auctioneer the Auctioneer add-on will kick in with an enhanced Auction House interface. From here we begin our empire.

If your an herbalist, type Peacebloom into the search box and look at the prices. You want to be the cheapest so yours will sell fast. You don't want to let it sit too long, or worse, not sell. Check the box that says Show stacks as price per unit. This will tell how much each unit of peacebloom sells for. You'll need to know this because you want to sell it just a little bit cheaper.

Now click Appraiser tab and highlight Peacebloom. The Appraiser will suggest a price, ignore it. In the Buy Per Item box put the lowest price per unit you found minus 10 coppers. (100 coppers = 1 Silver, 100 Silvers = 1 Gold). A low price on Peacebloom may be 20 silvers each so you would put 19 silver and 90 copper as the Buy Per Item. The Bid Per Item has to be lower than the Buy Per Item so make that 20% less than the Buy Per Item Price.

Stack size can be fairly important. If you sell a stack of 20 for 19.90 ea (3 Gold 98 silver) and someone else has a stack of ten for 21 silver each then they may buy the technically cheaper stack of ten instead of yours. I like stacks of 10 or 5 instead of 20 because you will appeal to more buyers.

If you gathered for the gold then sell everything you gathered. Don't smelt any ore or turn your herbs into potions to gain skill. If you want to gain skill in a crafting profession then sell half and use the rest.

This should get you some gold within 12-24 hours. Once you have some gold you can start the next step.