Cash Cow

**Just call **1-877 Cash Cow**

Cash Cow is a **Retail / Midnight / Classic / BC / Mop** Auction House helper. It scans **its own** AH prices, shows the highest-value sellable stock in your **bank and Warband**, lets you pick how much to sell, stages that pile into **one sell bag**, then gives you a **Posting Desk** so you can list everything with a real click each time.

**Checked AH lows — dump listings don’t set your price.** A rogue 5g post will not make a 5000g item look worthless.

**Vendor overpay warning — don’t buy shop items off the AH for crazy gold.** When Cash Cow knows an NPC vendor sells an item, it shows the **vendor price** on the tooltip, marks the list icon with a **red outline**, and puts a **red strobing edge** on the tip so you notice before you overpay. Example: **Arclight Spanner** is about **~10g** from engineering vendors — people still list it for hundreds of gold on the AH.

**Easter egg** — Cash Cow hides a little surprise. When you find it, it’ll make you happy. No spoilers.

Prices come from Cash Cow only. It does **not** read Auctionator, TSM, RECrystallize, or any other addon.

Open AH  →  Scan prices  →  Visit bank  →  /cc pick what to sell
     →  Fill sell bag  →  Post auctions  →  mash POST NEXT

## What you get

**How vendor prices work:** Blizzard does not give addons a simple “is this sold by a vendor?” flag on every item. Cash Cow ships a seed of common shop tools (Spanner, hammers, picks, …) and **learns more** whenever you open an NPC merchant — gold ask **and** merchant name + zone (atlas of shops *you* visited).

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## Complete newcomer tutorial

Follow the parts **in order** the first time. After that, use the short everyday loop.

### Part 0 — What you need

- World of Warcraft **Retail** (Midnight / current expansion)
- About **10 minutes** the first time
- An **Auction House** and your **bank**
- One mostly-empty bag as the **sell bag** (slots 1–4, or backpack = 0)

You do **not** need Auctionator, TSM, or any other pricing addon.

### Part 1 — Install

1. Download the Cash Cow zip from CurseForge.
2. Extract to:
   `World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\CashCow\`
3. Character select → **AddOns** → enable **Cash Cow**.
4. Log in → type **`/cc`**. The gold banner window should open.
5. Press the flashing **Tutorial** button (top-right) or **`/cc help`** for the spotlight walkthrough.

### Part 2 — Open Cash Cow

### Part 3 — Get prices (Scan)

1. Open the **Auction House**.
2. **Auto when AH opens** starts a scan by default.
3. Or click **Scan AH** (full) / **Price my stuff** (faster owned lookup).

Full scans are throttled by Blizzard (~**15 minutes**). Cash Cow uses **checked lows** — dump / typo listings are ignored so they don’t wreck your prices.

After a scan, hover items for **Others ask**, **You’d ask** (after Cheaper %), and **You’d pocket** (after AH cut %). Toggle with `/cc tooltip`.

**Vendor overpay warning:** when Cash Cow knows an item is NPC shop stock (seeded tools like **Arclight Spanner**, plus anything learned when you open merchants), the tooltip gets a **red strobing edge**, the list icon gets a **red outline**, and the tip shows **Vendor asks** plus **Last shop:** when Cash Cow has seen the merchant. Browse learned shops with **`/cc vendors`**.

**Sell bag ready / refill:** after **Fill**, if Earn is met (or the bag is full), the bag title becomes **CashCow READY**. After you claim mail, if Earn is still short, chat nudges you back to **bank → Fill**. Nothing auto-opens — you still Interact / click.

### Part 4 — Teach it your bank

Open your **bank** once (and Warband if you use it).  
Leave **Bags too** **unchecked** unless you also want bag items listed.  
**Default = bank + Warband only** — put auction stock in the bank, then sell from there.

### Part 5 — Read the list

`/cc` shows sellable items that already have a Cash Cow price **≥ Skip under**.

**Sort:** Price (total gold) · Each · AH low · Rarity · Qty · A-Z  

Check rows. Edit **To sell** amounts. Hover for bags / bank / Warband counts.

**Short list is intentional.** Unpriced hidden. Under Skip under hidden. Bags off by default. Soulbound never shown. This is “worth auctioning,” not “entire bank.”

### Part 6 — Goal & Rules

**Goal**

**Rules**

### Part 7 — Fill the sell bag

1. Open the **bank**.
2. Check what to sell.
3. Click **Fill sell bag**.
4. Stock moves into **Sell bag #** — that bag is the only auction pile.

**Put back** returns staged items to the **bank**.

### Part 8 — Post auctions

Blizzard requires a **real click** per post.

1. Open the AH.
2. Click **Post auctions** (or `/cc post`).
3. On the **Posting Desk**: **Sell** / **Hold** / **Swap** per row.
4. Mash **POST NEXT** — one click lists the next item at your planned price.

Empty desk = empty sell bag → Fill first. Expired / unsold posts get tagged (“Didn’t sell”).

### Part 9 — Everyday short loop

1. Open AH → auto-scan (or Scan / Price my stuff).  
2. Open bank → `/cc`.  
3. Sort **Price**, set **Skip under**, check rows.  
4. **Fill sell bag**.  
5. **Post auctions** → mash **POST NEXT**.

### Part 10 — Tips & gotchas

### Part 11 — Commands

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## Price math

```
Checked AH low
  − Cheaper %   →  what you'd ask
  − AH cut %    →  what you'd roughly pocket
```

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## This addon does not

- Use other addons’ prices  
- Auto-post without your click  
- Post from anywhere except the Cash Cow sell bag  
- Put items back anywhere except the bank  
- Show unpriced / soulbound junk by default  
- Support Classic Era / TBC / MoP yet (Retail first)

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License

Personal License — free for personal play only.
No sale, commercial reuse, or republishing without direct contact and written rights.
See LICENSE.txt in the zip.

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(c) Tracy Howard (Dez) / Cash Cow — not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.
World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment.