U.S Real-Money Auction House Now Available!

The Real-Money Auction House is here! It's finally been launched after nearly a full month of being pushed back, according to Blizzard this time was needed to iron out some problems with the Auction House. And as anyone might have guessed, the RMAH is being flooded with items listed at outrageous prices; upwards of 100$ US for some items! Which when you consider that 1 million gold has been being sold for anywhere around 7$-9$ on other sites and on the Diablo 3 forums, you can see how inflated these prices are. So if anyone has been hoping to try and make some money from the RMAH now is the time, until the inflated prices start to drop and settle down to a more reasonable average.

Now you might be wondering how to get started using the RMAH, well its fairly simple.  Once you open up the normal Auction House window there's a button on the top right that says, "USD."  Just simple click that and your AH will switch to Real-Money.  However from that point there isn't too terribly much to do yet, in order for you to buy anything you must first add funds to your Battle.net account.  This is the first way Blizzard is making money from you (after your initial purchase of Diablo 3 that is).  In order to add funds to your account you must click the green + sign at the top of the RMAH window, this opens a webpage and directs you to Battle.net where you must login and are then able to purchase money (sounds counter-intuitive doesn't it?) to buy items/gold.  You are given a few options of what "packages" you can purchase; 10$, 20$, 50$, and 100$.  You can expect to see your money show up on your account anywhere from instantaneous to 3 days after your purchase.

So you've bought some money so you can deck out your character and finally be able to beat Act 3 and 4 on Inferno, but how do you use it?  That part is easy, simply find the item you want, then bid on it or buy it out.  Congratulations! You've bought you're first RMAH item!  Now don't be discouraged if your item doesn't show up immediately for you to use, there can be a review process while the transaction is processing(as we are dealing with real money now), but have no fear your item should show up "soon."

However as for now all buying and selling of gold in exchange for real money is unavailable as Blizzard lets the RMAH stabilize and monitors the transactions and how the RMAH actually plays out and effects the game.  Until that time enjoy the RMAH as it is and get farming!  There's monies to be made!

Source: Real-Money Auction House live!