WoW Rookie: The art of conducting business in [2:Trade]
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic. Just spent half an hour fruitlessly spamming the Trade channel in hopes of getting your new gear enchanted? Maybe (just maybe) the players on your server aren’t the most unfriendly, unhelpful people this side of Silithus. Maybe you simply haven’t figured out the most effective way to use [2:Trade]. According to loyal WoW Insider reader Sarabande, there’s more to successful in-game transactions than simply advising someone to “use the Trade channel for trade.” We agree – so this week, let’s cover some basic tactics to get your sales sold, your portals ported and your enchantments enchanted. Link it. Links get noticed. Whether you are buying or selling an item, linking entices players to click. Once they click, you’ve caught them in your (nether)web. To insert a link into a chat channel (which works in whispers, party chat, guild chat, raid chat and Trade), hold down Shift and left-click on the item. Other players can click on that link to bring up the item’s tooltip. You can
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