>>482174395i did the following - there was a free weekend to play and decided to abuse it - had 4k on my old character and asked a friend for a 3k loan, the token was 10-11k then, leveled another char for cata while lk was still the expansion and was ready for cata. from the money earned by leveling i had enough for 1 token to go after the free weekend
when cata dropped i leveled a healer, got alchemy and inscription to max, got it to raid ready ilvl before the raids dropped and used my first char to farm herbs with. for a week i managed to get 2 tokens and gold for 1 more worth just to have some gold if i decide to login again. made big bucks on trinket cards and truegold, at that time you could make 4-6k gold per h if lucky and 1-2k if not
just play with the auction house, find deals - i used that peacebloom was the most expensive herb item at one time, sold 5-6 stacks and bankrolled my professions