Comments on: Food Before Flowers: Making Money with Auctioneer

By: Stock Market Book

Stock Market Book — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:21:49 +0000

Great Analysis!

By: Leonal

Leonal — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:46:13 +0000

I am a long time user of Auctioneer and still love it despite the slow scanning. I’m definitely going to try the fast forward button. I am a hard core scribe and make somewhere between 300g to 1000g per day selling glyphs and I have auctioneer to thank for it. I have figured out how to automatically post over 120 different glyphs and undercut the lowest bid by 1 copper. It probably takes 5 minutes to do the necessary scan and post. As others have commented, some folks don’t know what they’re doing and post items for far too litte. I’ve found the appraiser feature that displays the number of items posted in color coded categories essential. Using appraiser I quickly scan over my list of 120 glyphs to see underpriced glyphs and buy them to prop the price back up to a healthy profit level. Beancounter is also extremely handy to help decide whether it’s worthwhile to support the price or not. Obviously I let slow selling glyph prices fall and strongly defend fast selling glyphs. This combination of features has proven to be extremely profitable for me. Let me know if you’re interested, Matticus, and I’ll send you the config screenshots. Oh.. and the quick buy and cancel feature is super helpful too. If anyone knows how to do a mass-cancel to automatically cancel ALL open auctions, I’d be most appreciative. I haven’t been able to get the macros on the auctioneer site to work. Thanks for the great blog Matticus!! –Leonal of Sentinal Server

By: lyssa

lyssa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:09:08 +0000

Another mention for AuctionLite. It’s much more memory friendly and scans when you search for an item, so you don’t have to sit and wait for full AH scans.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:56:59 +0000

AuctionLite is what Auctioneer was two years ago when I started playing. If you’re looking for down-and-dirty auction posting, just go with AuctionLite. I use it and love it. If you’re looking for more features, go with Auctioneer. I, for one, will be trying Matticus’ recommendations here.

Auctioneer is like ICQ. Was useful, became less useful, whoopsie, bloatware.

By: GigaFuzz

GigaFuzz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:32:05 +0000

I also use AuctionLite. I tried Auctioneer once and found a it a little too OTT for my relatively simple needs. I did grab BeanCounter (which is part of the Auctioneer suite) to keep track of what I’ve bought and sold, though, and it’s been pretty useful.

By: Budd42

Budd42 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:17:33 +0000

I also use Auction Lite. Ithato actually made a pretty useful post about the add-on on this site.

http://www.nostockui.com/2009/03/killer-combination-auctionlite-skillet-lsw/

By: Matticus

Matticus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:03:32 +0000

@Avatar: Auction Lite eh guys? I’ll need to take a look at that.

By: Avatar

Avatar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:02:07 +0000

I agree with the above poster. Auction Lite is much lighter and still provides a great number of features that are useful. To see a full list of the features as well as download it check it out on curse: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionlite.aspx
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By: Grimtorn

Grimtorn — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:23:38 +0000

Auctioneer tends to be a memory hog, and all too often, people use it to mindlessly list auctions – they know not the actual value of an item, they just know what Auctioneer says its worth.

I prefer Auction Lite as it’s much more compact while still giving me the features I want.
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By: Tordenflesk

Tordenflesk — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:02:17 +0000

“Here’s the key to making money with the auction house: buy low, sell high.”
No, that way you’ll never sell anything. The correct would be:
“Here’s the key to making money with the auction house: buy low, sell at market price, unless there is no competition, then you might consider a healthy markup.” but, i guess yours is catchier.