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Auctioneer

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Project Updated:
Files Updated: Tue, Jun 2 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.1.0
Category: Auction & Economy, Mail, and Tooltip
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Project Manager: Nechckn
Additional Authors: MentalPower , Norganna
Current Version: Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4293b
License: GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 14,732
Downloads Total: 11,275,138
Favorites: 25,419
Comments: 2,419
  • About Auctioneer
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Auctioneer Suite

Auctioneer Suite provides you with the tools and data necessary to make those difficult auctioning decisions with ease.

From purchasing to posting, the Auctioneer Suite provides time-tested tools to allow you more time to actually play your characters or play the market. As you will soon discover, it is much more than a simple "Auctioning AddOn", the Auctioneer Suite also shows in-depth information for all game items, such as those used in quests or recipes, and much, much more.

Numerous other addons will also use the Auctioneer statistics you gather via scanning. This is especially true for many of the popular crafting AddOns, such as Little Sparky's Workshop.

Auctioneer Suite is a complete rewrite that has taken over a year to complete and we are quite pleased with the outcome and trust that, given a few days, you will find most tasks made easier and, importantly, faster!

Looking for Lightweight and Fast?

Try the "Auctioneer" download from our primary site, rather than the "Auctioneer Suite" we upload to Curse and WoWInterface. All of our downloads are accessible from our primary site at http://AuctioneerAddOn.Com/dl . This version offers a small footprint, with only the basic "Post" frame and tooltip information to assist in your purchasing decisions.

When updating, this time...

Be sure to remove all old files- follow the instructions at http://wiki.norganna.org/Installing . Once complete, please read http://forums.norganna.org/discussion/8100/ before commenting here or on our main site. We are being inundated with questions and requests that have been previously addressed.

As promised, a third, ultra-simple posting interface had been added. Even though it was planned to eventually include a means of stack-post-pricing, after a crazy effort by some of our volunteers, the new SimpleAuction, "Post" tab is included. Check it out!

  • Please, do not post errors here; instead, kindly visit http://forums.norganna.org/4/ , our Support Forum, and be sure to search before posting- many questions and errors reported are duplicates.
  • For the fastest service, various questions are addressed in the AuctioneerAdvanced FAQ, http://wiki.norganna.org/AucAdvanced/FAQ . We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the most common issues have been addressed.
  • Remember that Auctioneer Classic has not be ported to WorldofWarcraft 3.0 and will not be ported to WotLK. In its place, we offer the new Auctioneer Suite, a new, stable, modular build. There are differences, but all functionality has been maintained.

Questions, comments, concerns, alphas/betas (when available), bug reports, the occasional bit of praise?

Visit http://AuctioneerAddOn.Com

Basic Auctioneer Suite Details

Auctioneer is a ground-up rewrite of the Auctioneer code in order to provide a number of enhancements to the end-user, including:

CompactUI

An alternative to the standard auction browsing interface.

  • Displays more auctions per page
  • Displays more data per auction
  • Allows you to change column width by Right-Clicking in the column heading and dragging left or right to resize the column to your liking
  • Provides a percentage comparison with the Market Value Statistic of your choice
  • Allows auctions to be color coded by price level
  • Allows multiple sorting options not available on the standard interface

Appraiser

An intuitive auction posting frame.

  • Remembers your preferences for bid/buyout prices, stack sizes, and number of listings to post per item.
  • Allows queuing of auctions, so you can instruct it to list hundreds of auctions and alt-tab while it does so for you
  • Allows you to specify the value price of your choice and remembers your selection
  • Displays competing listings, the age of the data, and allows you to sort these listings and refresh them easily.
  • Provides a scrollable list of all auctionable items in your bags; allowing you to quickly post all of your goods.
  • Provides a "Match Competition" setting which will automatically undercut your competition when posting auctions, within your parameters
  • Provides the ability to change to a "Simple" view; a bit like the Auctioneer Classic posting interface.
  • Allows you to change column width by Right-Clicking and dragging to the column width of your choice.
  • Allows you to post multiple auctions with the single click of the Batch Post button
    • Alt+Left-Click == Refresh Pricing of all Batch Postable Items
    • Shft+Alt+Left-Click==Trial Posting, prints the pricing to your chat window, but does not post any items, allowing you to verify settings
    • Ctrl+Shft+Alt+Left-Click==Post all items that have the "Allow Batch Posting" checkbox selected (located at the top of the item information pane)

Statistic Modules

There are a variety of fully customizable statistic modules included with Auctioneer that can provide a variety of pricing information- all based upon your needs.

  • "Market" - a custom designed formula that merges the various statistics into a usable price. This is the default setting and is highly recommended.
  • Stat-Simple - A straight average of the last 100 listings seen per item, with averages across 3, 7, and 14 days
  • Stat-StdDev - Similar to Stat-Simple, this ignores listings that are outside of one standard deviation from the mean.
  • Stat-VendMarkup - This allows you to calculate a listing price based on a markup of the vendor sell price.
  • Stat-WoWEcon - This uses the outside addon WoWEcon to provide purchase-based data from it's database.
  • Any other stat module that you or others wish to create can be easily added to auctioneer functionality

BeanCounter

An associated addon that tracks your bid, postings, and mail to help you determine your overall and item-specific profitability.

  • Creates journal entries when you bid, buy, post, or retrieve AH mail.
  • Provides a searchable interface that can display all activity or only certain items
  • Allows you to change column width by Left-Click and dragging the column to the size of your liking

SearchUI

An Auctioneer Utility that prompts you when it sees auctions that fit your criteria for buying and, or, bidding.

  • Uses Searchers that you can customize for various desired deals such as:
    • Resale - Prompts you for deals based on discount from the market value, AH fee, and expected relistings
    • Disenchant - Prompts you for deals based on disenchanting armors and weapons
    • Prospecting - Prompts you for jewelcrafting deals from prospecting ores
    • Vendor - Prompts you for auctions listed below vendor sell price
  • The "RealTimeSearch" will continually reload the first and last page of the AH, within reason, as per your configuration, to find the newest bargains and auctions that are just about to come to an end. Both great times to find some amazing deals.
  • Piggybacks on your AH scans if allowed to do so

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.

What are the available pricing models, or statistics, again?

There are numerous pricing models from which to choose, they are discussed in the FAQ, located at http://Wiki.Norganna.Org/AucAdvanced/FAQ .

Conclusion

We hope this helps people to understand Auctioneer a bit better.

Please visit http://FishEye.Norganna.Org to view the current changelog.

Happy Auctioneering!!

Nikk and the rest of the Team at the Norganna Family of AddOns

  • Downloads (7)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4293b Release 3.1.0 468,641 6/2/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4270a Release 3.1.0 217,303 5/27/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.4.4157a Release 3.1.0 456,008 4/15/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.3.4105 Release 3.0.9 214,694 3/3/2009
  Auctioneer 5.2.4013c Release 3.0.8 270,203 1/24/2009
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  • Malvenue said 

    Is there any way for Auctioneer to notify us when our auctions are being undercut?

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  • I just installed the current version of auctioneer after deleting all my addons. The tooltip showed the suggested auction price after I scanned the auction house but when I try and create the auction it wont fill in the auction for me. It just puts in the amount for the AH as if I didnt have the addon. I couldnt find the option to fix this but I must be overlooking it. No error messages or anything just that one thing it wont do.

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  • Nechckn said 

    Deathgifter,

    For items that you have enough data, they will have the suggested price automatically filled in on either the Post or Appraiser tab.

    We do not modify anything on the default Auctions tab.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • How do i get the Color-coding listed in the tool tip like in the second picture you have posted.

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  • Nechckn said 

    Mattmann8,

    Not in-game to see the exact text, but if you mean the items showing the current scan/competition information, that is under the "General" set of options, after you press "Configure" on the "Browse", "Post", or "Appraiser" frame.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • ahh thanks so much.

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  • Yezz12 said 

    :D thank u, Nikk.

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  • Everytime I log in I get this message.

    Date: 2009-07-01 15:31:54
    ID: 1
    Error occured in: Global
    Count: 1
    Message: [string "AuctionatorOption_Enable_Alt:OnLoad"] line 1:
    attempt to call global 'ZT' (a nil value)
    Debug:
    [C]: ZT()
    [string "*:OnLoad"]:1:
    [string "*:OnLoad"]:1
    AddOns:
    Swatter, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucAdvanced, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucDb, v5.1.DEV.3583
    AucFilterBasic, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucFilterOutlier, v5.6.4334.2531
    AucMatchUndercut, v5.6.4334.2531
    AucStatClassic, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatHistogram, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatiLevel, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatPurchased, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatSales, v5.6.4334.2842
    AucStatSimple, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatStdDev, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucStatWOWEcon, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilAHWindowControl, v5.6.4334.3311
    AucUtilAppraiser, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilAskPrice, v5.6.4334.3175
    AucUtilAutoMagic, v5.6.4334.3142
    AucUtilCompactUI, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilEasyBuyout, v5.6.4334.3583
    AucUtilFixAH, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    AucUtilItemSuggest, v5.6.4334.3108
    AucUtilPriceLevel, v5.6.4334.2545
    AucUtilScanButton, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilScanFinish, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilScanProgress, v5.6.4334.2530
    AucUtilSearchUI, v5.6.4334.3655
    AucUtilSimpleAuction, v5.6.4334.0
    AucUtilVendMarkup, v5.6.4334.2530
    Auctionator, v2.3.5
    Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.130
    Configator, v5.1.DEV.190
    DebugLib, v5.1.DEV.130
    Stubby, v5.6.4334 (KangaII)
    (ck=48a)

    Can anybody help me? I use a mac.

    Thank you

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  • Nechckn said 

    Miklotran,

    Auctionator is not the current version, perhaps some issue with it.

    Zirco appears to have left, so not sure what to tell you. Try updating to the current version. If that does not work, try closing WoW and then deleting any config settings by deleting Auctionator.lua from ..\WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\{YourWoWAccountName}\SavedVariables and then trying again.

    Best of luck,

    Nikk

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  • sweet thank you Nikk, I just had to get the current auctionator version. now it works perfectly :D

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  • RochF said 

    For some reason I can't remove the tooltip. The closest I've gotten so far is to disable all the tooltips that go in that window individually, but that still shifts the WoW Default inspection tooltip as if the auctionerr tooltip window was there.

    Basically, I want the AH functionality (as it's great) but don't really want the Auctioneer tooltip window. How do I do this?

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  • Nechckn said 

    RochF,

    Simply go under the options for Auctioneer, Informant, BeanCounter, and Enchantrix, look for the "General" subsection, and then select the option to only show data when "ALT" is held.

    In that way, no data will show unless you depress the "ALT" key prior to mousing-over an item's icon.

    To select what information is displayed, simply look through the various options, especially Auctioneer's "Statistics" subsection and en/disable any values that you think are needed. The same for Informant, Enchantrix, and BeanCounter, although their options are a bit more condensed, since they do not rely on submodules to provide the data/information.

    The Screen Shot, above, http://media.curse.com/Curse.Projects.ProjectImages/89/10464/Auctioneer_Tooltip_Showing_All_Active.jpg , tells you which informational items are provided by which sub-AddOn of the Auctioneer Suite. Your best bet is to try them and see which you find of interest.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Rifton said 

    That would be my preferred option, as then I could still see it, but only when I want to.

    The problem is when I select to only show data when "Alt" is pressed nothing changes, the tooltip is still up regardless of if I press alt or not. Anyway to fix this?

    I can add that this issue is identical on both mine and my wife's computers, exact same thing.

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  • Nechckn said 

    Rifton,

    The Auctioneer Suite options control the Auctioneer Suite's tooltip information, you will still see the basic Blizzard tooltip information, we do not modify that in any way.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • what does the auctiorrner do?

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  • Nechckn said 

    Cureing123,

    The "Description" and screen shots, above, explains much of the functionality. In addition, our documentation, over at our main site, http://Wiki.Norganna.Org/Auctioneer expands upon each interface element and provides many hints, tricks, and answers many frequently asked questions.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Yezz12 said 

    I want to have the thing that gives information about a item but NOT THE CRAPPPY DESIGN OF THE AUCTIONHOUSEWINDOW

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  • Nechckn said 

    Yezz12,

    Since your comment contains nothing that can be used to help make the interface "better" in your eyes... If you mean the "Browse" tab, simply click "Configure" and then disable the "CompactUI".

    Granted, that reverts to the view with the bit larger icons, shows roughly half the items, and prevents use of all of the different sorts via Auctioneer by clicking the title of the column.

    Either way, it is up to you, the options are there to give you the most flexibility.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • ashful said 

    when i ctrl+click something in the auction house it almost never shows up with the window of me trying it on. sometimes i'll ctrl+click something like ten times and then it might show up. is this just a bug or what?

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  • Nechckn said 

    Ashful,

    On the Browse tab, you do not need to use any modifier key, just select an item and it will show in the dressing frame, as long as the "Display on Character" check box, along the top, is selected.

    For items from the bag, you do need to hold Control and that is a Blizzard function, with which we have no interaction.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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