Merchanting in Diablo 3 (Playing the Auction House)

To be honest, the main way I make gold in diablo 3 is not by farming but by merchanting(buy low, sell high). Farming takes a while and in inferno its really annoying. To get started you need to research what items are useful to each class. Make sure you know everything about every class when it comes to gear. That way when you encounter a piece of gear you will know whether its useful or not. I cant tell you how many times I had messed up and sold/salvaged armor not knowing it could sell for more than a million. Plus, this will help you find good deals. You can't find good deals if you don't know its one!

The next step is to know how to refresh the data list in the auction house. In my experience with the auction house: it seems as though every search is cached, so when you click on the search button to attempt a refresh it usually just sends you the same data list. This is a problem if you want to look for some cheap deals. In order to somewhat bypass this I would slightly modify what I am looking for. This forces the data list to update to accommodate to the new specifications.

Something very important to take notice is that the items that will bring you the most profit are usually items that have just been posted. Items that say 1d 12h or 1d 11h under the "Time Left" tab are fresh and have just been posted. Keep in mind that just because you can resell an item for 200k more doesn't always mean that you will make profit. You must deduct the 15% fee when you sell an item so keep that in mind when calculating your profit.

Alright so you got a good item but you aren't sure how much it should sell for. The best way to figure out the items price is to search up the item. Look for all the qualities that your item has. Then, look at items that have been posted from 1d 9h+. Anything below is unlikely to sell. So you want to base your prices on that.

Since the game is new the prices are constantly changing quickly. So be careful! Thanks for reading! I will be posting more blogs soon about Diablo so stay tuned!