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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): 993
Downloads Total: 13,124,335
Favorites: 11,902
Comments: 2,770
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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 3.3.0 499,587 12/9/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.6.4424 Release 3.2.0 818,506 8/27/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.6.4399a Beta 3.2.0 2,257 8/19/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4293b Release 3.1.0 990,503 6/2/2009
  Auctioneer Suite 5.5.4270a Release 3.1.0 218,357 5/27/2009
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  • hey everyone,

    hope someone can help. is there any way for auctioneer to keep batch preferences seperate for different alts so that when i use auctioneer with a new character and try to batch post, it wont use the batch preferences for my original character ?

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  • huldu said

    Is there any way to "trim" the scan data created by auctioneer? Why i ask is because its growing and growing.

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  • Hello and thanks in advance for your help. In the last two weeks, Auctioneer has been locking up. Either on AucAdv: Processing Stage 1 or Stage 2. It makes the WoW window nonresponsive for multiple minutes and often ends up disconnecting me. (I've used Auctioneer for more than a year previous to this without this issue.)

    It can happen at any time. Put an item name in and hit search and it might happen. Move from one search results page to the next and it could happen. Move an item into the Post tab and it might happen. I'd say one in three times of doing anything with Auctioneer it happens (and about half of those times becomes a disconnect).

    My computer is new (barely a month old), so I'd be surprised if it were something hardware related.

    I'm using Auctioneer Suite 5.7.4568.

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  • Nechckn said

    ThisleChaser,

    Your ScanData, which records the current scan information, is likely corrupt.

    Simply close WoW, find, and remove/rename ..\WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\<YourWoWAccountName>\SavedVariables\Auc-ScanData.lua.

    That has no effect on the other statistics, so you should be good to go.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • InkySquid said

    *-*-*-*-* Search Filter Request *-*-*-*-*

    sorry if this is in the wrong place, but something missing from your very fine addon is trade searches - for example, bid / buy rare wotlk gems for < 4g50s since when they're cut with Jewelcrafting the resell value of the gem jups from 3g to 4g50.

    Just one example, and probably most use will come from JC's buying the gems to cut and vendor, but if trade recepies were included in the vendor price for items I could get alot richer...


    I guess it's alot of work to add that search filter so I understand if you aren't willing to do it, it's just a thought.

    anyway - thx for keeping this addon up-to-date through all the patches, you're doing a sterling job that's greatly appreciated.

    Regards,
    I-S

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  • ahduth said

    Hi,

    I'm not sure how I did this, but my installation of auctioneer is no longer showing deposit costs in the post frame. Everything comes up with "unknown deposit cost," and for the life of me I can't figure out how to turn it back on.

    Any ideas? Thanks much.

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  • Nechckn said

    Ahduth,

    You most likely disabled Informant, which is the AddOn of the Suite that provides the deposit cost and other information.

    Ensure that there is a gold checkmark next to its entry in the main WoW AddOns Control Panel.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Hello,

    I have been using this addon for quite some time, and find that it has been working perfectly until this most recent version. Basically, the problem I am encountering isn't any LUA error or anything like that, however, I do find this severe in nature as it affects other addons that rely on this information.

    Items that are BoP have been showing an Auction price. This is all items that are BoP. I have tried clearing my cache, deleteing the addon, and re-installing, all to no avail.

    Could you please look into and correct this at your earliest convenience.

    Thank you.

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  • Nechckn said

    Myrddinwylt,

    That is due to the iLevel statistic providing an input, since it is based on the iLevel of the item, so it provides a "value" for comparison purposes.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • otis147 said

    - Are there any errors reported during a session?
    No
    - Do you see the progress bar appear when you begin scanning?
    Yes, but it does not move, I have let it set for an hour. (Note this all starting happening at 3.2, previous to 3.2, i had no issues, been a long time user of ~2 years)
    - Does the game actually disconnect?
    Nope, I can still talk whilst it is sitting there.
    - Which scan are you using the "slow" regular scan or the "fast" GetAll scan?
    Tried both, and each one does the same.
    - From what city are you scanning?
    Tried both Orgimmar and Undercity.

    I shouldn't be my connection to server as i usually have around a 60 ms ping, and it's not my machine (3.88 GhZ, 16gb ram)

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  • Kandoko said

    Are you alt tabbing or minimizing wow during a scan?

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  • Nechckn said

    Otis147,

    Okay, since the scan bar is coming up, that is notable.

    With those symptoms, it likely is your machine, specifically, your ScanData, which records the current scan information, is likely corrupt.

    Simply close WoW, find, and remove/rename ..\WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\<YourWoWAccountName>\SavedVariables\Auc-ScanData.lua.

    That has no effect on the other statistics, so it should, otherwise, be fine.

    Let us know of your results.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Xioden said

    One issue I had while trying to have the auctioneer related tooltips only show while alt was pressed was that I could not find a way to disable to default Informant portion. Beancounter and Enchantrix both show in the Auctioneer config, but there is not a single reference to informant itself there.

    I was left with the following always showing in the tooltip:

    [Item name]
    Item Level: ##
    Buy from vendor $$$
    Sell to vendor $$$
    Sold by no known merchants
    Class: Weapon - One handed Mace

    The actual information of course varied by item of course.

    I eventually took a shot in the dark and just tried /informant config and finally found the config menu for it where the "Only show extra tooltip if Alt is pressed" option is. there is no mention of that slash command at http://wiki.norganna.org/Informant/en/SlashCommands so I'm not sure if this may break something down the road or not.

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  • Nechckn said

    Xioden,

    All the AddOns in the Suite create an entry on the SlideBar, which is the intended method of seeing/changing the options. Informant, Enchantrix, and BeanCounter do not show in the main Auctioneer options, since they are all independent AddOns, even though distributed as part of the Suite.

    The slash commands are pretty much the same for all of the AddOns, as well, for the few who do not use the SlideBar for one reason or another.

    The option to "only show when Alt is held" is, also, purposefully included in each of the AddOns, so that you can do exactly what you have done.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • Xioden said

    Ah that's weird, the slidebar wasn't enabled for some reason. BeanCount is under Match Modules, and Enchantrix has an icon around the mini-map so it wasn't immediately apparent something was missing.

    Would it be possible to indicate somewhere that the slidebar is used? Until you mentioned it in your post here there was no indication at all it is supposed to be used. (In going back through comments I was using the find tool so never ended up reading any comments with mention of slidebar).

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  • ener19 said

    hi im having a problem with my auctioneer. if its enabled and i mouseover any item my wow crashes. iwe been using the app for 2 years and it started doing it aweek ago. i love the addon and i hate using the AH without it.
    hope you can help me

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  • Nechckn said

    Ener19,

    Your ScanData, which records the current scan information, is likely corrupt.

    Simply close WoW, find, and remove/rename ..\WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\<YourWoWAccountName>\SavedVariables\Auc-ScanData.lua.

    That has no effect on the other statistics, so you should be good to go.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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  • ener19 said

    ty :) good to have it back :D

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  • Hi, I keep getting a few bugs with Auctioneer and Enchantrix. These bugs seem to be lowering my FR for some reason from 30 down to 2. Here is the !Swatter report:
    Date: 2010-03-02 15:28:46
    ID: 1
    Error occured in: Global
    Count: 1
    Message: [string "..\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."] line 2:
    attempt to index global 'ScriptErrors' (a nil value)
    Debug:
    [C]: ?
    [string "..\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:2: message()
    Enchantrix\EnxCommand.lua:101: AuctioneerLoaded()
    Enchantrix\EnxMain.lua:127: f()
    Stubby\Stubby.lua:737: EventWatcher()
    Stubby\Stubby.lua:960: Events()
    [string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
    [string "*:OnEvent"]:1

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  • Nechckn said

    Daemonseed80,

    That is caused by a typo on Blizzard's end.

    We have a temporary workaround in-place, the Auc-Util-FixAH module. Ensure that it is enabled, with a gold check in the main WoW AddOns Control Panel.

    The issue is supposed to be corrected in WoW 3.3.3, but we shall see.

    Happy Sales,

    Nikk

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