Just have to know how to work the AH. I can average around 3-4000 a week in auctions. You basically buy low and sell high, and run a monopoly on the AH. Sometimes you take a loss, but than again you can take a gain on other items. It's all in how you play it, not only that SM runs, and farming locations for those hard to get items that sell nicely, or knowing where to get BOE recipes from vendors you can put back into the AH. Also, I usually spend around 3 hours playing everyday give or take missing one, and no I don't use any bots to do it for me.