So quite a few people know the old "take good names and sell them" trick.
With the release of 6.0.2, any character that hasn't logged on since the launch of WotLK had their name made available, and this means there are some very rare, lucrative and profitable names floating around.
I personally play on a few very high population realms and I've managed to snag well over 150 names across them - selling them for anywhere from 2k to 25k a name simply advertising in trade chat, making over 200k spread over 4 realms in the past few days (admittedly sitting in trade chat a lot).
So here's the basic method:
Step 1) Trial accounts (you can skip this step if you have access to a number of accounts as is)
Make a new Battle.net account with whatever details you want, it doesn't really matter. I just use my real details, and then add a trial account.
You'll want a seperate account to the account you're selling on so you can collect your gold and sell names without having to log in and out of your main.
Step 2) Names
I've prepared a somewhat decent list of possible names which is by no means complete, so of course you're encouraged to try anything else you think of. In addition to these names, you can try common Name and Female names from real life, as well as random combinations of 2 letters.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday January February March April May June July August September October November December Spring Summer Winter Autumn Fall Second Minute Hour Day Month Year Decade Century Millennium Mother Father Sister Brother Dad Mum Mom Aunt Uncle Papa Mama Affliction Arcane Arms Assassinate Balance Beastmaster Blood Boomkin Combat Demo Demonology Destro Destruction Disc Discipline Ele Elemental Enhance Enhancement Feral Fire Frost Frost Fury Guardian Holy Marks Marksman Moonkin Prot Protection Resto Restoration Ret Retribution Shadow Sub Subtlety Surv Survival Unholy Thunderfury Atiesh Sulfuras Azzinoth Warglaive Warglaives Thoridal Valanyr Shadowmourne Alch Alchemy Arch Archaeology Bandage Blacksmith Disenchant Enchant Enchanting Engineer Engineering Fish Fisher Fisherman Fishing Herb Herbal Herbalism Herbalist Inscribe Inscription Jewel Jewelcraft Jeweler Leatherwork Mine Miner Mining Scribe Skin Skinner Skinning Smelt Smelter Tailor Tailoring Tanner Tinker Act All And Any Are Bar Boy But Can Car Dew Did Eat Far For Get Gym has Her Her Hey Him His How Ink Its Jet Key Log Mad Man Nap New Not Now Odd Old One Our Out Pal Put Ram Saw Say See She Tan The Too Urn Use Vet Was Way Wed Who Yap You Zoo Accept Allow Ask Believe Borrow Break BRing Buy Can Cancel Change Clean Comb Complain Complaint Cough Count Cut Dance Draw Drink Drive Eat Explain Fall Fill Find Finish Fit Fix Fly Forget Give Go Have Hear Hurt Know Learn Leave Listen Live Look Lose Make Need Open Close Organise Pay Play Put Rain Read Reply Run Say See Sell Send Sign Sing Sit Sleep Smoke Speak Spell Spend Stand Start Study Succeed Swim Take Talk Teach Tell Think Travel Try Type Understand Use Wait Wake Want Watch Work Worry Auctioneer Auction Auctions Awesome Bank Banker Banking Bargain Beautiful Beauty Belief Blush Bookcase Bookshelf Chair Computer Crush Dark Desk Disagree Dry Flirt Giggle Heart Heartbreak Heartbroken Heaven Home Hot House Keyboard Laugh Light Light Love Lovely Monitor Mouse Seat Sly Smile Table Wet Wink
I find it useful to keep a list of what names are on which account.
Step 3) Finding Buyers
Go to trade chat (preferably on a high level so people don't dismiss you as a scammer) and make an advertisement similar to the following
{square}{square} Interested in a rare name? {square}{square} I have (X) number of names for sale, including - (list some of the better ones here) - PST for more information and pricing! {square}{square}
Step 4) Selling
How you want to sell it is really between you and your buyer. I personally do the following:
Accept half the price up-front on my main account. Ask the buyer to hop on Vent if they don't have a second account, or to also log on their second account if they do.
Ask them to create a level one and type in the name they're buying but don't create it. Once they've told you they're ready, you delete the character and tell them to take it.
Collect your gold and GG.
Why does this work?
WoW is essentially ten years old now, and some of the servers have been out just as long. Getting a good or unusual name is becoming harder and harder as time goes on, and with a new expansion coming up and people sitting on gold - possibly thinking about rerolling a new alt for the next expansion, people are willing to fork out decent sums for a good name.
I can't guarantee you'll make any gold, but if you find yourself AFKing in Trade a lot on your main or alt account, you're essentially getting free money for nearly no effort.
Post a Comment