I laughed when Arbitrary told me how she’d been making money on her goblin, and suggested this post for Markco’s gold blogging carnival just to share it. Goblins have a racial bonus that lets them get large discounts from NPC vendors …
Arb says:
“Goblin racial discount ROCKS. I offered to buy expensive components for guildmates for a percentage (I’m on a RP server, goblin greed has gone to my head, I would NEVER charge anyone for buying something from an NPC, but they played along!)”
She’s been getting a cut for helping one of our alchemists by buying expensive components for vials of the sands. He has even started advertising that he’ll arrange for a goblin to buy the components as part of the whole service 
Whee, my in-game raving got quoted!!
That rather insane but very entrepreneurial of you.
Is Lord Sugar a goblin then?
hehe, to be fair when it came down to it I didn’t charge him, but he gave me a fairly hefty tip anyway
Lord Sugar is a failed goblin.. I’d say Theo P. from Dragon;s Den is more of a goblin entrepreneur.
I foresee two things happening PDQ:
1) Every Horde crafter rolls a goblin alt to buy their components for them.
2) There is a loud outpouring of angst that this is a nerf and a slap in the face – not only from Alliance, but from every Horde player who has already filled all of their character slots.
WoW players – making mountains out of molehills almost as long as goblins have been making gold out of opportunities