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I find that a lot of the guides here are geared toward players who have high-level characters that might be familiar with a lot of specialized gear. This made Auctioneer a little difficult for me to get a hang of, and I lost about 10 G that I borrowed from another player when I first installed it.

Much of the advice given here is “Know your market”. However, I think I would like to write something that’s geared for the person who’s just bought the game and is experiencing smelting bronze for the first time, or for the elf preparing for his first-ever run through the Deadmines, or for the Tauren woman learning about the majestic Barrens with her newly-tamed cougar running at her side.

Pricing your Gathered Goods

A lot of people use Auctioneer for buying and reselling. However, if you’re a fresh new player, you can install Auctioneer and use it for selling, as well. It helps price your goods so you can post what you gather for a good price, without the hassle of calculating prices on your own. Here’s a step-by-step guide to selling trade goods on the AH, aimed for a new player.

Choose a Gathering Profession

When you hit Level 5, choose a gathering profession. These are one of Mining, Skinning, or Herbalism, and to a limited extent, Enchanting. If you want more money, you can choose two, but I find that it’s less fun than choosing an appropriate crafting skill to go with your gathering skill.

At this stage, I’d recommend that you choose a profession that you want to do, instead of what makes you the most money. Every gathering profession gives you the opportunity to get rich. However, if you want to get rich quickly, I recommend mining.

Gather

Go out and gather a lot of stuff. It might be light leather, linen cloth, copper ore, rough stone, strange dust, whatever. Gather a few stacks of it.

• Copper ore and rough stone are acquired from mining veins and are common in newbie regions. If you’re Alliance, Dun Morogh and Elwynn Forest are loaded with copper ore. As Horde, explore Durotar and Tirisfal Glades, as well as the mountains of Mulgore for copper ore. Don’t forget to buy a mining pick!
• Humanoids drop linen cloth abundantly.
• Herbs, such as peacebloom and silverleaf, are available in rich quantities in the newbie areas. You may also be able to find earthroot and mageroyal, both of which sell for more than peacebloom and silverleaf.
• You can skin beasts and some humanoids (such as worgen) for light leather at lower levels. You will also often end up with ruined scraps, but these rarely sell in the auction house. Use them to make light leather if you have leatherworking.
• If you’re an enchanter, you can disenchant green weapons and armour to obtain strange dust and magic essence.

Posting Auctions with Auctioneer

Go to Auctioneer and do a scan. The scan button is at the bottom of your auction house interface. The process will take 10–15 minutes, and you cannot move away from the auctioneer at this point in time. It is best to take a break at this point.

Click on the “Post Auction” tab and drag a stack of whatever you want to sell into the Item Slot. Auctioneer will suggest a starting price and a buyout price. You can also change the number of stacks you wish to post (which makes selling large amounts very easy).

Now, there’s one section that people that I show Auctioneer get confused about, and that’s the text right beneath “Price Based On: Auctioneer Price” bar.

There is either:

• No Competition. This means that you’re the ONLY person selling this item on the Auction House right now.
• Undercutting by n%. This means that there’s competition, but your price is going to be cheaper than your competition by n%.
• Competition above market. This means that your competition is selling their goods for way above the estimated market price calculated by Auctioneer. Good for you — this means that your price is probably the best one.
• Competition below market. This means that your competition is selling their goods for way below the estimated market price calculate by Auctioneer. Bad for you as a gatherer. Good for you as a reseller.

If the text shows anything OTHER than “Competition below market”, then I suggest that you post your herbs, skins, or ore for whatever the price Auctioneer suggests.

The reason that Auctioneer is great is that it saves YOU time while giving you a good return on your labour. You’re going to sell your goods because your prices are low, but it saves time because you no longer need to calculate what a good price for your trade goods are. You can also post multiple stacks with one trip to the Auction House. The only thing you need to do is a scan every session before you post your goods, which will take about 10-15 minutes.

(A note. Many people suggest that you scan with Auctioneer for about a week before trusting its prices. This is true, but only when you’re buying. I’ve found that if you want to sell items with quick turnaround time, such as trade goods, then you can safely scan the market and post your goods immediately after. This is because Auctioneer takes a snapshot and sets your selling price based only on the competition on the AH at the time of your scan.)

Wait For Sales

Now, you need to wait for people to see your auction and buy it. Go do some quests, or logout. Wait a day or so. You’ll soon enough notice that your auctions have most likely sold.

So why is this? This is because when you did your scan and posted, your trade goods were the cheapest of anyone’s on the market at that moment, meaning that yours are going to sell first. As long as you keep posting items on the AH, you’ll be bringing in money, which is very important if you’re just starting the game and have barely enough money to train.

Just remember to scan the Trade Goods before you sell your herbs, ore, skins, or enchanting materials.

And that’s the most basic way that you can make Auctioneer work for you.

Later, I’m sure that you’ll develop a few variations of this strategy, like learning not to post too much when prices are low, stocking your materials in the bank and posting them only when the price is high, and so forth, but this is the most basic way to make lots of money.

Becoming a Reseller

I’d cover this, but many other people have covered it in the other Documentation sections. Take a look! They’re really good.

The only thing I recommend is that you gather a few gold pieces before you start. You can start reselling with as little as 5G, but make sure that is money you don’t need at the moment.

Miscellaneous Tips

Here are a few common mistakes I’ve found when using Auctioneer.

• Don’t buy anything until you know the market. This might require you to do a week’s worth of Auctioneer scanning, as well as a lot of investigation of what people end up buying and selling, as well as actually playing the game and listening to people you group with. The more you play and the more you pay attention to equipment that you want, as well as the more professions you get (with alts), then the more you will learn the general WoW market, as well as a few specifics.

• Since all characters of the same faction on the same server share AH data, create a level 1 alt and run it to the local AH. Configure the auctioneer to exit after a scan using the “/auctioneer finish exit” slash command. Each night before quiting (or in the morning before work/school) log in using your alt and scan the AH. Goto bed/work/school knowing you have up-to-date AH information when you return. For morning scans take it a step further and create a batch file that launches WoW and then calls shutdown (XP only). Now when the scan is complete, your machine will turn itself off.

• Some general tips to go along with your new-found AH data:
  • Turn on the trade channel. Pay attention to what enchants people are asking for, and see if you can get the materials for those. Also see what people are looking to buy.
  • Watch how prices fluctuate especially on the weekend. Note that Auctioneer doesn’t give you any data of cyclical trends, so you have to observe these yourself. What I’ve noticed most obviously is that trade goods spike during the week, and drop during the weekend.
  • Watch the Transactions page carefully before posting anything you buy from the AH to make sure you’re actually getting a good return. Many things happen in an hour in WoW and it’s easy to get less of a deal than you think.
  • Trade goods, especially basic goods gathered by gathering skills have an extremely fast turnaround time. They’re great if you need cash in 24 hours or less, but not nearly as good for making the big big bucks. Think of trade goods as your local bonds.

• If you can’t sell something, don’t just keep posting it again and again on the AH. Try the trade channel. Wait for a weekend before selling. Lower the price. Remember, if you buy something for 3G and can’t resell it for 6G, then try selling it for 5 or 4. In the worst case, you’ll sell it for a loss, but instead of losing 3G, you’ll only lose 1G. If you’re desperate, I find that going on Trade and threatening to Vendor something usually gets you a response (as long as you’re willing to actually accept a price around the vendor’s price). I bought a recipe for 5G, couldn’t sell it for two weeks, probably most an additional 1 G in deposits. Instead of keeping it as money sink, I threatened to vendor it for 1G and eventually got 2G for it. Sure, I lost 4G, but that’s not a big deal when you made 60G in the past week.

• When you’re selling items, generally, the order that people go is Trade Goods, then Recipes, then Weapons and Armour. The last one is where the real money is at, but it’s also the toughest to figure out. If you are not willing to take risky investments and buying out 10-25G items, then it’s best to keep doing recipes and trade goods until you have enough money.

Purpose

The Auctioneer Suite is a compilation of add-ons based on the Auctioneer core, that provide a number of enhancements and options.

Suite Contents

The add-ons below can be installed independently of Auctioneer via WoW’s AddOns screen; however, all of them except SlideBar require Stubby to be installed as well.

Add-ons

• !Swatter – is a debugging library that provides enhanced debugging information to help developers when you report bugs.
• BeanCounter – tracks the items you purchase, list, and sell; viewed on the BeanCounter tab of the Auction House (AH) interface
• Enchantrix – provides disenchant information in the item tooltip.
• Enchantrix-Barker – allows you to advertise your enchants in Trade chat.
• Informant – provides vendor price, availability, profession, quest, and usage information in the tooltip.
• SlideBar – creates an expandable bar that slides out from the edge of your screen, containing links to the configuration dialogs for our add-on components.
• Stubby – is a stub loader which allows load-on-demand add-ons to define the conditions upon which they will load.

• Auc-Advanced – The core library of the Auctioneer system.

Modules

The items below are considered by us to be Modules (though some can be selected in WoW’s AddOns screen), and require Auc-Advanced to function properly.

• Auc-ScanData – load-on-demand data store for Auctioneer’s scan data.

Auctioneer Statistics

Enabling one of the statistics module (under Configure, Stat Modules) listed below allows it to begin collecting data on each subsequent scan. Each module stores data separately, so enabling one will not allow it access to another module’s stored data. Disabling a module will immediately prevent its data from being included in the Market Price calculation, but it does NOT delete the data, so you can simply re-enable it to re-include its data (though these data will, of course, be outdated if you’ve performed scans with the module disabled).

Each module can be configured to display multiple values in the tooltip, or none at all. But if a module has no data for an item, nothing will appear in the tooltip for that module, regardless of the display settings. Changing the Show… and Display… settings will not affect whether the module’s data are included in Market Price; only Enable… does. Note that all your Stat Modules settings are saved per Profile.

There is no way to display a module in the tooltip and NOT have its data included in Market Price.

Market Price (in the tooltip) is a confidence-weighted average of the values provided by these modules that you have enabled. Each module has its own weakness, so Market Price is a good choice to offset any fluctuations due to those weaknesses.

• Auc-Stat-Classic – Deprecated in WoW Patch 3.0. Imported some of Auctioneer Classic stats into Auctioneer.
• Auc-Stat-Histogram – provides a median listed price (and IQR) for every item ever seen; no data are ever discarded. An item being listed at a price does not mean it sold for that price.
• Auc-Stat-Purchased – tries to provide prices of items sold by anyone via the the inference of items disappearing before they were set to expire. Accuracy is directly related to scanning frequency.
• Auc-Stat-Sales – provides prices of items sold by you. Displays data from BeanCounter on actual purchase and sale prices. Is installed with BeanCounter, not separately.
• Auc-Stat-Simple – provides a simplified average of listed data, providing 3-, 7-, and 14-day moving averages.
• Auc-Stat-StdDev – provides a normalized average of the last 100 listed price points for an item: finds the average, excludes those that are too high or low, and then averages the remaining prices.
• Auc-Stat-WOWEcon – Uses the WOWEcon add-on’s data (if separately installed) to provide the price to other Auctioneer modules.
• Auc-Stat-iLevel – provides a normalized average (see StdDev above) of listed price for all items of the same rarity, type, and iLevel (e.g., all green, level-10, two-handed maces). Useful for pricing random “of the …” items.

Install Instructions:

AuctioneerSuite-5.8.4723.zip download it. Click on a file link to start the zip file download. You would “open” the downloaded file or you can double click zip files to open them on Windows.

You unzip the downloaded zip file to the Game’s Interface\Addons folder and you are done.

Look at the shortcut (right click the Warcraft icon and select properties) you use to start Warcraft to get the path to where the game is installed.

Typical locations for the AddOns folder:

Windows XP: “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Windows Vista: “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
Mac: “Machintosh HD/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns”

Warcraft only finds addons when it starts. Close Warcraft before you install an addon.

We are pleased to release Auctioneer and the Auctioneer Suite 5.7, the KillerKoala, which is fully compatible with World of Warcraft 3.3.x.

AuctioneerSuite-5.7.4568

Install Auctioneer 1st.

The idea here is buy items on the AH, disenchant them, and sell the enchanting materials for a profit. There are two basic methods for doing this, the first of which is to use the slash commands to find items that have low bids or buyouts less than the resulting enchantment materials. The second is to browse the AH in a specified category (items that are likely to disenchant to a specific material), and sort them by buyout value, looking for items below a specified threshold value.

Enchantrix-tooltip

If you are using the verbose mode of the tooltip, you will get a display of what the item will most likely disenchant into, as well as the estimated value of the resulting enchanting materials.

Regardless of the way you look at disenchanting for profit, you need to take into account demand when you first make your profit calculations. Just because you have been able to sell one reagent at a particular price does not mean you will be able to sell 20 at that price. This disparity is likely to be the greatest on newer servers where more expensive items are not really “commoditized” yet. While 1 linen cloth is not very likely to sell for much more than 1/20th the price of a stack of 20 linen cloth (if it sells at all), a single high level disenchant item might sell for 1/8 as much as 20 of them in a stack, or more than double the unit price. This can be very confusing when you are first starting out. The point is, you will probably have to lower your prices when you want to sell larger quantities.

Here’s an example of how you can go wrong. When you first start disenchanting for profit, you get your first Greater Eternal Essence and are thrilled to sell it for 10 gold. Seeing a great opportunity for profit, you might quickly buy up 20 to 30 high-level armors for 2-3g each and end up with 10 Greater Eternal Essences (among other things). Having spent only around 60 gold, you now have material worth 100 gold! Huzzah! You can almost smell your epic mount already.

But all is not well. You put all 10 Greater Eternal Essences on the auction house and wait 24 hours, but nine of them come back unsold. You discount them to 9g and one more sells. At 7g you are able to move 2 more, but it’s been 3 days and you’re still stuck with 6 Greater Eternal Essences and quickly diminishing profits. What happened?

Your supply outstripped the demand, and you had to drop your price to continue selling the reagents. When supply increases but demand remains the same, the price will fall. The moral of this story is to try to gauge the demand for particular reagents before you get really gung-ho with disenchanting. If you had simply disenchanted 4-5 items with really great profit potentials instead of 20-30 with mediocre to good potential, you would have been more likely to sell your items for high prices and not have had to worry about sitting around on reagents while waiting for demand to return.

What is this scanning about?

Once a user moves to the auction house and beyond just buying and selling from/to vendors, the whole game changes. No longer is the user dealing with the static prices of the vendor to support their character’s income. We are now dealing with the fluid and hectic nature of a dog-eat-dog market economy.

In such an economy, which is in a constant state of flux, it can be difficult to select the correct pricing points for your item at the auction house. Sometimes the prices and value of your items can be wildly different to the vendor price due to many factors, the value of items that can be made from your item, the use of a particular item in a quest, the suitability of a particular weapon or armor to specific classes, and the disenchantability of an item to enchanters.

Primarily, the driving factor of the price fluctuations, as in the real world is supply versus demand. When supply is high, but demand is low, competition drives the prices down, and conversely then supply is low, but demand is high, the market is driven into a sellers market.

What can Auctioneer do to help me?

Auctioneer can help you alleviate this lack of market knowledge over time by watching the market evolve. When you go to the auction house for the first time after installing Auctioneer, you will see a row of 3 buttons along the top of the main “Browse” frame, click the “play” button to begin your first scan of the entire auction house. Auctioneer will begin recording statistics for every item it finds, including the bid, buyout, and more.

Once the market analysis has completed, you will notice additional information about the items in the tooltips when you mouse over them.

What happens when you go to sell items via the Auction House?

If auctioneer has enough data, when you try to put an auction up for sale, it will attempt to provide you with intelligent pricing points based upon the market data it has accumulated through scanning.

When you select an item in the full or simple “Appraiser” frame, Auctioneer will suggest a minimum price, a buyout price and display relevant data about it’s decision making process in the right, receipt window, including how it has arrived at its prices.

When you place an item in the SimpleAuction, “Post” frame, Auctioneer will suggest a minimum bid, a buyout price, and display relevant data, including the deposit and more.

Auctioneer Addon

First download and extract the file in the Plugins WoW Directory.

When you first open the WoW game client and login to the game, you are presented to the Character Selection screen. This is where you can choose which character you will play during the session and create new characters / manage existing characters. It looks like this:

Auctioneer Install

You will notice that down the bottom left of the Character Selection screen, there is a button labelled AddOns. When you click this button, you will go to the AddOns List. If you do not see this button, then your AddOns are not installed correctly

Once you are in the AddOns List, your screen will look like the following:

Installing Auctioneer Addon

You should make sure that the following options are set correctly.

• Configure AddOns For is set to All characters.
• Load out of date AddOns is checked.
• In the actual list, the Stubby and EnhTooltip AddOns should always be selected and golden in color. If they are not, none of the other AddOns will be able to load.
• Choose which of Auctioneer, Enchantrix, BeanCounter and Informant you wish to run in the game and make sure they are selected and golden in color as well. Since these addons can be configured to load on demand, there’s really no harm in turning them all on, and configuring their load behaviour using the in-game commands.

If some of the AddOns in the AddOn List are not golden in color in the AddOns list, that means something that they need is either not installed, or not enabled.

If the above AddOns are not visible in the list, that means that they are not installed correctly

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• In just 4 hours without “grinding” endlessly
• With a level 5 character on a new realm!
• With no hacks or cheats of any kind

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More info

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The Auctioneer Suite is a compilation of AddOns based around the Auctioneer core. The Suite provides for a number of enhancements and options due to the modular nature of Auctioneer.

From the beginner who needs to learn the “going rate” of items they encounter, to those with hundreds of auctions at a time, the tool set provides the information needed to meet and, eventually, exceed World of Warcraft monetary requirements.

Auctioneer Addon

Bid low, sell high. Pretty basicway to creat “cheap gold” in Auction House. You do not have to spend real money to get this gold! There are several techniques you can use to increase your gold currency with the auction house.

Once you have the wow auctioneer addon installed you will want to just scan the auction house a lot (not more than 3 times a day) for about a week to get accurate values on items. You must scan not less than once per day.
Now that you have at least a week worth of data you can start finding things to buy for pennies while you sell them for gold!

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