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Auctioneer

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: Wed, Dec 9 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Auction & Economy, Mail, and Tooltip
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Project Manager: Nechckn
Additional Authors: MentalPower , Norganna
Current Version: Auctioneer Suite 5.7.4568
License: GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
Development Site: CurseForge.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 2,149
Downloads Total: 13,094,987
Favorites: 11,710
Comments: 2,744
  • 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, enchanting, milling, prospecting and 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.

Looking for Ultra 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 .

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 Auctioneer FAQ, http://wiki.norganna.org/Auctioneer/FAQ . We have gone to great lengths to ensure that the most common issues have been addressed

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

Visit http://AuctioneerAddOn.Com

Basic Auctioneer Suite Details

The Auctioneer Suite contains Auctioneer, all of its modules, BeanCounter, Enchantrix and Enchantrix Barker, and Informant to help provide a comprehensive view of item data, whether at the Auction House or out questing. Some highlights are:

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.
    • Shift+Left-Click == Trial or List Posting. Does not actually queue any items to post but prints the exact pricing that will be used on the Auction House in an easily readable format in the "chat window". This allows a user to verify their settings and make adjustments if necessary.
    • 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).

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

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.
  • Auc-Stat-Histogram - Returns Median and IQR values, based upon a Histogram of pricing data. Essentially, a median value, based upon all prices ever seen; no data is ever discarded.
  • Auc-Stat-iLevel - Statistics modules that groups all items of same rarity, type, and iLevel together (e.g. all green weapons of iLevel 180). Useful for pricing random "of the ..." items.
  • Auc-Stat-Purchased - Statistics module that tries to infer purchase prices based on items disappearing before they could have expired. (Requires more frequent scanning of the AH)
  • Auc-Stat-Sales – Uses data from BeanCounter to display historical statistics on actual purchase and sale prices. Note that this statistic is installed along with BeanCounter, and cannot be installed separately.
  • Auc-Stat-Simple - Statistics module that performs simple averaging of data, converted daily to exponential moving averages of the orders 3, 7 and 14.
  • Auc-Stat-StdDev - Statistics module that keeps the last 100 price points for an item and performs a standard deviation on the data list to exclude outliers from the sample space and provide a normalized mean.
  • Auc-Stat-WOWEcon - Statistics module that uses the WOWEcon AddOn's data (if separately installed) to provide the price to other Auctioneer modules.
  • Any other stat module that you or others wish to create can be easily added to auctioneer functionality!

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 armor 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

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

Enchantrix

Enchantrix displays values for disenchanting, milling, and prospecting; plus suggested values for selling enchants. Enchantrix can also automate disenchanting, milling and prospecting. Some baseline pricing is built in, but Enchantrix also uses values from Auctioneer to provide up-to-date prices for your server/faction. Enchantrix also includes controls to let you customize the pricing by enchant material (fixed prices and weighting).

Informant

Informant displays additional information about items in their tooltips: buy price; sell price; item level; what quests, classes or professions use the item; the value of the item produced by a recipe; etc. Informant can also tell you what vendors sell a given item.

What Can Auctioneer Do to Help Me?

Once a user moves to the Auction House (AH) 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 AH. Sometimes, the prices and value of your items can be wildly different compared 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. The Auctioneer Suite can help you alleviate this lack of market knowledge over time by watching the market evolve. When you go to the Auction House (AH) 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 AH. 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 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/Auctioneer/FAQ .

Conclusion

We hope this helps people to understand the Auctioneer Suite a bit better. Visit our main site for indepth information and help - http://AuctioneerAddOn.Com .

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

Happy Auctioneering!!

Nikk and the rest of the Team at Norganna's AddOns

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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 5.7.4568 Release 3.3.0 472,779 12/9/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.6.4424 Release 3.2.0 817,063 8/27/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.6.4399a Beta 3.2.0 2,130 8/19/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4293b Release 3.1.0 989,809 6/2/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4270a Release 3.1.0 218,283 5/27/2009
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  • Ricostar said

    In the appraiser screen when i click on a listed item the add on does not auto-undercut the price. Is this normal? Also when i do manually put in the undercut on buy the bid does not change say within 10% etc. Ty.

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  • Nechckn said

    Ricostar,

    You have to scan for a while before Auctioneer has the data from which to make reliable pricing suggestions. Once you have enough data, it will then undercut and such based upon your settings, specifically "Configure" > Matchers > UnderCut and set to your desired amounts. It is on by default, but will not kick in until the statistics exist from which to make a recommendation.

    There is a request in the "To Do" list to allow picking a specific competitor to under/overcut but it is not currently in progress, so no ETA of when that might be implemented. We use a tracking system, http://Jira.Norganna.Org , to maintain statuses and requests. If you make an account, via the link in the upper right of http://Forums.Norganna.Org , you can use that login information to vote for existing change/enhancement requests that you would like to see sooner than later. The process takes all of a few seconds and we do not use anyone's information for nefarious purposes.

    In regards to the "bid", we used to jump through hoops to find one, but heard from a landslide of folks that they really did not care what the bid was - since nearly all auctions are bought out, long before they come to a close. So, to cut down on processing time, the bid is simply a configurable percentage "off" from the calculated buyout price. To see the defaults and/or change it, click "Configure" > Utils > Appraiser and set it to your liking.

    As to the manual or "fixed" pricing, once you begin to enter either a bid or buyout, Appraiser steps back to allow you to control what is done with the pricing. So, if you enter a bid or buyout, you will manually need to change the other - or keep the original suggestion.

    Happy sales,

    Nikk

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  • mojosmoke said

    Whenever I visit the AH for the first time after logging on, any action that requires the "AucAdv Processing: Stage 1" bar, causes a hang up for about a full minute or so. I use Quick Auctions also, so I realize there are probably some slight incompatibilities, but I have many friends who don't have any problems with the combo. Subsequent visits run smoothly, but logging a different character means i'll need to wait again.

    Am I the only person encountering this? Any configuration suggestions other than removal of one mod or the other?

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  • Nechckn said

    Mojosmoke,

    You just need to run a GetAll Scan or, if you cannot use the fast scan, two slow scans every couple of days to get your snapshot back to a normal size.

    With how QA does things, it causes added entries in the snapshot that exist until they are cleared via the full scan.

    If you do not care about the Purchased statistic, you can simply clear the Auc-ScanData.lua, found within ..\WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\<YourWoWAccountName>\SavedVariables every few days, but you should really be doing a full scan, anyway. Especially true for those who can use GetAll, since it completes so quickly.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • mojosmoke said

    Awesome, that fixed it! I wanna have your babies.

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  • Nechckn said

    Mojosmoke,

    Perhaps a baby... not sure about babies.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • vortesse said

    Great addon and only one suggestion. some type of search feature on the auctions tab the search the ah on what you have for sale and display if there is any undercutting in the auction tab as a percentage/amount, This way we can readjust prices if we want.

    Also seems that enchantrix is not displaying what something can be DE'd into. There is no option that i can find to turn it on. I am running the latest version, so mayb i am blin or something.

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  • Nechckn said

    Vortesse,

    You likely need to just turn it on. At the command/chat line interface enter:
    /enx load always

    That is assuming that it has a gold check next to it in the main WoW AddOns Control Panel, which it should, by default.

    As to the other item, the "Auctions" frame is Blizzard's default UI. If you go to Appraiser, you can enable the display of items you have posted by placing a check in the "Show: Auctions" checkbox. That way you can see if there are other auctions up and how they compare to yours. You simply sort by bid or buyout column and then cancel them on the "Auctions" frame, if you like.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • vortesse said

    Well tried /enx load always, stated for help type yada yada.

    I am runing the latest but for whatever reason I had to uninstall and reinstall it again.

    Thanks for the help

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  • Glukkglukk said

    Date: 2010-02-08 14:30:01
    ID: 3
    Error occured in: Global
    Count: 1
    Message: ...ngPrice_Wowhead\Libs\LibGoingPrice\LibGoingPrice.lua line 61:
    attempt to index local 'base' (a boolean value)
    Debug:
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: ?
    ...ngPrice_Wowhead\Libs\LibGoingPrice\LibGoingPrice.lua:61: callback()
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:95:
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:80
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:141: h()
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:322: OnTooltipSetItem()
    Enchantrix\EnxMain.lua:220:
    Enchantrix\EnxMain.lua:216
    [C]: ?
    [C]: func()
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:22:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:21
    (tail call): ?
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:43:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:25
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:163:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:163
    (tail call): ?
    Altoholic\Tooltip.lua:511:
    Altoholic\Tooltip.lua:509
    [C]: func()
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:22:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:21
    (tail call): ?
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:43:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:25
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:163:
    QuestHelper\manager_event.lua:163
    [C]: ?
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:279:
    ...AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:273
    [C]: ?
    [C]: SetBagItem()
    ..\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:750: ContainerFrameItemButton_OnEnter()
    Bagnon\components\item.lua:224:
    Bagnon\components\item.lua:206

    thats atleast the message I got when I hovered over a item

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  • Nechckn said

    Glukkglukk,

    Without knowing the first two errors in the session, that looks like an error when Going Price is attempting to add something to the tooltip.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Glukkglukk said

    Now it`s back to normal, thanks for the help.

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  • Hello again, long time reader, 2nd time poster..?

    Quick question:

    Is there a way to hide a item from visibly showing up in searches?

    example:

    I continually scan the specific page 5/20 at the auction house.
    Somebody puts up 40+ Refreshing Spring Water's in quantities (stacks) of 1 for 2 copper each.
    Those spring waters consume the entire page 5/20.
    I then configure an option to hide 'Refreshing Spring Water' from future searches.
    The next time I scan page 5/20, it would just show up as either:
    A) a blank page, or
    B) skip page 5/20 (because the refreshing spring water's take up the entire page)

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  • EDIT:::

    I read over my own post, and just to clear up some possible confusion:

    I understand that the SearchUI function 'the alternate AH window' has many options to Ignore specific items, and even specific items based on prices, etc etc...

    BUT -- Is it possible to do the previously mentioned action while using the Auction house window (Not the SearchUI window)

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  • Nechckn said

    The fatgiant,

    No, not on the main "Browse" frame, since those are "live" results from the Blizzard AH, simply formatted with a bit more information.

    Just wondering why you would be looking at such an odd page on the AH, why not the first or last - to see new auctions or those just expiring, in which case those silly ones are likely to be gone at the next refresh?

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • xc1639 said

    i got this error!!! please help


    Date: 2010-02-07 22:35:42
    ID: 1
    Error occured in: Stubby
    Count: 1
    Message: Error: Original call failed after running hooks for: ChatFrame_OnEvent
    ..\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua line 2594:
    bad argument #1 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
    Debug:
    (tail call): ?
    [string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
    [string "*:OnEvent"]:1
    AddOns:
    Swatter, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucAdvanced, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucFilterBasic, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucFilterOutlier, v5.7.4568.2531
    AucMatchUndercut, v5.7.4568.2531
    AucStatClassic, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatHistogram, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatiLevel, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatPurchased, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatSales, v5.7.4568.2842
    AucStatSimple, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatStdDev, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucStatWOWEcon, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilAHWindowControl, v5.7.4568.3311
    AucUtilAppraiser, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilAskPrice, v5.7.4568.3175
    AucUtilAutoMagic, v5.7.4568.3142
    AucUtilCompactUI, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilEasyBuyout, v5.7.4568.3583
    AucUtilFixAH, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    AucUtilGlypher, v5.7.4568.2545
    AucUtilItemSuggest, v5.7.4568.3108
    AucUtilPriceLevel, v5.7.4568.2545
    AucUtilScanButton, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilScanFinish, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilScanProgress, v5.7.4568.2530
    AucUtilSearchUI, v5.7.4568.3655
    AucUtilSimpleAuction, v5.7.4568.4553
    AucUtilVendMarkup, v5.7.4568.2530
    Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.130
    BeanCounter, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    Configator, v5.1.DEV.130
    DebugLib, v5.1.DEV.130
    Enchantrix, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    EnchantrixBarker, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    Informant, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    QuestHelper, v1.3.10
    SlideBar, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    Stubby, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
    BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v3.3.2.30300 <logon.naxpgaming.com>
    (ck=5c0)

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  • Nechckn said

    xc1639,

    That should not be happening on any of the live, Blizzard servers.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Tried to post this error in the proper forum, but ALL of your links above seem to be broken; says the server is not found?

    After updating today, I am getting an error message that says "Unable to confirm auction. Timed out while waiting for posted item to clear the bags." This effectively stops me from putting up any auction at all. It was working fine earlier today, before I updated.

    Any idea what is wrong or how to fix it?

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  • Nechckn said

    Lady_Lyssia,

    No problem, had some work going on is all.

    This version has been out for quite some time but that issue only came up for one person, recently, but there has been no way to determine a specific cause.

    Are you trying to post many, many auctions at once? Do you have one bag slot free so that the stacks can be unstacked, as WoW needs to do before posting?

    Let us know some details and we may be able to point you in the right direction.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • I was only trying to post one auction at a time, and I had most of my bags free. It turned out it was only happening on one character and it occurred even when I reverted back to an older version of Auctioneer; however, it cleared up this morning, so I suspect it might have been something with my computer or WoW itself, and the new update just threw my on the wrong track. I do apologize for the false error report.

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