When posting items to the auction house you have the option to list the items for 12, 24, or 48 hours. When I post items to the auction house I post all my items at once and post them for 24 hours at a time usually at around 10pm. It can take me up to 15-30 minutes to post 200-300+ items. This allows me to setup a schedule and a known time for when I have to log into the game and re-post any items that did not sell.

I try to stay away from posting items for 48 hours because the market can often fluctuate and you may find that posting an item on Monday for 48 hours at 100g that item may only be worth 50g by Wednesday and many other people will more then likely have under cut you. I post all my items for 24 hour periods because I can log in once a day and re-post any item that did not sell on a fixed schedule.

I try and stay away from posting items for 12 hour periods because it would require me to spend another 15-30 minute session re-posting items. You have to balance out how much time you are willing to spend managing the items you have on the auction house verses how much time you plan on actually playing the game or raiding etc.

Posting an item for 12 hours is good for when you want to undercut your competition and almost always have your item listed as the cheapest item available. But it requires that you re-post the items every 12 hours or twice a day. 

The idea here is to ensure that you always have items on the auction house for sale at all times. If you schedule your posts every 12 hours at say 8am Monday morning but you forget to log in and re-post the items later at 8pm Monday night, you will probably not get around to re-posting those items again until 8am Tuesday morning. That means that your items were not listed on the auction house for a full 12 hours resulting in a potential loss of sales during that time.

Another trick to try and price bump an item on the auction house over time is to post multiple items of the same type using different characters.

Each character undercuts the previous character by a slight margin. To the purchaser it will appear as though a number of people are compeating on the auction house but in reality all purchases of that item will be buying it from you!

Another auction house tip is to keep an eye on price history for an item. If an item was selling for 100g last week but has slowly gone down in price to say 50g, but there is no more of that item on the auction house. Try re-posting the item on the auction house for 125g. If anyone posts the same item they will generally undercut you at around 123g. Which is still more then what the item was selling for a week ago at 100g.

Repeatedly do this and try and figure out what the maximum people are willing to pay for that item before they attempt to aquire it by other means.

This will be the first of many posts relating to how to make gold using the auction house.

Cocoa Beans come from Imported Supplies which can be purchased using Chef's Award from Bario Matalli next to the stormwind cooking trainer (The one close to the stockades).

Currently on the Proudmoore realm Cocoa Beans sell for about 2g each. You will typically get 2 stacks of beans from the imported supplies, so I make about 80g for the cost of one Chef's Award.

Depending on AH prices you can also try and purchase Crate of Tasty Meat for x2 Chef's Award and sell the meat.

Generally you will want to stick with just getting Cocoa Beans because when you factor in the number of Chef's Awards and meat items Cocoa Beans will still be more profitable.

The site has been on hold for some time now and I keep meaning to get some work done on it but can't seem to make the time.

I am planning on creating a new section just for tracking the auction house items over time etc for the various realms but again I need to make time in order to get it done.

In the mean time I have been thinking bout doing a periotic blog posts about how to make gold with the auction house. At least then there will be some new content being added to the site.