Make money with 1 Enchanting and as little as 1 silver! Works in patch 2.3+!
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Submitted by Willshammy on Mon, 2008-01-07 16:34.
It's Will back for his second guide and yes, you saw the title right!
Now, you used to be able to disenchant anything with low low low enchanting on a level 1 character but that is no longer the case! Things have an item level which needs a higher enchanting level to disenchant. How does this affect me; a relatively low player? Alot! Before, you could buy something for 1 gold and sell what it disenchanted into for around 5 - 10 gold. Due to it only being 1 gold, players at low levels could do this. Since this is no longer possible new strategies must be born.
What you will need:-
Enchanting skill 1+
Minimum 1 silver - Recommended 10 silver.
A nearby mailbox and an auction house.
Let's get started with the money making. Let me tell you now, there are rip offs in that auction house, which is why you FOLLOW my instructions. There is a slight difference in different servers economies so you may make more/less gold than me. This guide will be aided with screenshots as it is primarily for new players and it is easy to explain with pictures 
If you see any broken pictures or them not loading properly please message me on wow-pro or post a reply saying whats wrong.
Go to the auction house with your silver and:
On the left hand side there is a load of tabs. Click armor. Then up the top of the auction house window there will be a pull down menu with Rarity typed above it. Pull it down and select uncommon. Then hit the lovely red search button. Most likely a load of epics will appear costing way too much gold and generally not what you are looking for. So to get the things we are looking for:
Just as I have on the pic, on the top right of the auction house window click 'Current bid' and make sure the little yellow arrow is pointing down.
Bid on as much as you can, on things which have a level requirement to use below 10, try not to spend more than 8 silver on them or however much Strange dust is worth on your server (These low things tend to break into one of them)
Here I have found a bargain. Buyout anything you find cheap. Don't buyout anything with a minimum level to use under 10 for more than about 8 silver and never, no matter what, for more than 16 silver.
Go to your mailbox and pick up anything you did buyout and disenchant them. If you didn't then skip this part But remember that you should check your mailbox whenever you can without it obstructing your normal play too much so you can collect money when you have been beaten on a bid and place a higher bid or if you have won something. Also, later on you will need to check your mail for successful auctions!
Next, put up anything that you just got from disenchanting or if you didn't buyout anything wait until you win an auction then disenchant. Try to wait until you have quite alot of the same thing e.g, lots of strange dust. Put things up 1 at a time and for 48 hours. 1 at a time as people need 1 for an enchant and 1 at a time because there is NO DEPOSIT! PRICING: Knock off 1 silver from the next lowest sellers bid and likewise for the buyout. I put mine up for 9 silver bid 12 silver buyout and the next lowest seller sold theirs for 10 bid 13 buyout. Give the seller some dignity and don;t knock off 1 bronze from their price as chances are you will gain a reputation and regardless of price you will be avoided.
Normally from the things you are bidding on you will get 2 - 5 Strange dust which sell for around 10 silver and you are bidding on things from 1silver - 8silver normally. So say you bid on it for 5 silver (That's what it normally comes to) And it disenchants into 3 strange dust thats 30 silver. 25 silver profit FROM ONLY 1 ITEM! 4 is 1g. 40 is 10g! It's LOW RISK, SIMPLE, EASY AND FAST!
And guess what, not only does it make money, it levels enchanting!
Enterprising luck,
Willshammy. 
PS: Post your thoughts and opinions!
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Dising the enchanters
Strange dust goes for higher...much higher on our server. And as far as someone messing up the economy and people griping \about it...so what!! Its first of all a game, and second of all supply and demand set the price, not the enchanter. I work the AH for gold and I am one of those people that realize things fluctuate. As a matter of fact, at night, Strange dust only goes for 4G 55S a stack but mid afternoon its hitting 7-8G a stack!!
its the nature of a market and people should realize that competition keeps us all on our toes. I have made about 75G in the past 2.5 days jsut buying greens cheap and DE them and selling the mats.
Free enterprise reigns!!
lvl requirements
you might want to add that in order to get enchanting yo have to be lvl 5 so people dont make a lvl 1 and head straight to their major city and find they cant pick up the profession
Thankyou and PLEASE READ! ^^
Thankyou for the comment. Now I did say that realms vary and everyone when you follow my guide DO NOT USE MY PRICE! I said to knock about 1 silver off the next lowest sellers sell price. But if strange dust goes for something small like 5 silver on your server 50c might be better.
Now I apologise to gwynfrnd or however it was spelt (Sorry
) and to the enchanters of Ahn'Qiraj EU. If strange dust goes for 20s a stack meaning 1 strange dust is 1s then really this guide isn't for you as there will be almost no profit. 
Unless you wish to level enchanting and profit isn't needed then you could sell reagents to make back a small amount of the cost. I must EMPHASIZE once again to INSPECT THE OTHER PRICES ON YOUR AUCTION HOUSE AND TAKE OFF AROUND 50C - 1S! (This isn't meant to be a telling oof, the CAPS was for emphasis 
)
Thankyou for taking interest in my guide. Any other things that need answering please post here.
Thankyou again!
Will
Willshammy - Kilrogg EU
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I'd be careful about that
I'd be careful about that 'Low Risk' part at the end of the guide.
A guy called Gwynfrd, or something like that, tried this method on my realm, just as I was about to do the same thing. The trade channel exploded with comments which aren't really suitable on here, or the trade channel for that matter. Seeing as there were no real fixed strange dust prices, and people had never put on one stacks of anything, (because one stack of Strange dust on our server is about 20s, and considering the prices that the guy was putting them at, they added to about 2g40s a stack, and people weren't happy) people weren't very happen >_<""!
Nevertheless, a good guide. However, this could make you a very unliked person amongst the trade channel, because people, especially enchanters, which I found out today, don't like their economy being messed up by people.
Use with caution.
Baíley - Ahn'Qiraj EU