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, GnomeWorks, and Skillet.
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If you want the latest cutting edge features from our nightly builds, or even if you just want to get our stable builds a few days before we release them here, you can find them in the downloads section at https://auctioneeraddon.com/ . If you're a developer or otherwise adventurous, you can also find details there about our public git repos. And hey, why not consider joining our team?
What happened to your old forums and site?
We had a change in web hosting, and decided to use it as an opportunity to refactor and rebuild our tools and site, but it is a slow process for us since we also have to spend time maintaining the addon, especially around expansion times. We hope to have forums up and running again in the future. The wiki had been frozen for some time, but we may eventually try to revive it as well. Issues are now all being handled at GitLab.
Looking for the slim non-Suite versions?
We currently do not offer the slimmed down builds we had pre-packaged in the past. If there is enough demand for them we may spend time building the packager for them again. Let us know in comments here or in our Slack channel if this is something you want, it will help us prioritize the work to know how large the demand for it is.
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 at a time. Note that Blizzard introduced a hardware event requirement to confirm each posting, but, with Appraiser's Batch Posting, you reduce the total clicks from two per auction, to one.
- 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 == Queue 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.
Happy Auctioneering!!
-norgs, dinesh, MentalPower, brykrys, ccox, Kinesia, and the rest of the Team at Norganna's AddOns
8.3 Update: Work continues on more features, integration/compatibility with other AddOns, and more - based upon developer and user requests and input in Slack, Patreon, here, WoWInterface, and elsewhere.
For the strong of heart, we have an updated beta, available at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/auctioneer-8-3-3-33360637
In addition to refinements in the statistics and addressing a few other bugs, this build includes Informant and Slidebar. If you do not want/need one of them, just disable in the AddOns control panel, for now.
You can follow along, more, at https://auctioneeraddon.com/ , join the Slack channel to help provide input on features you would like to see/errors you encounter, or you can post in a reply here.
NOTEs:
*Many changes, as the old AH was removed and the new one implemented. You will not see the usual added panels on the AH. The early betas provide for scanning via the AH search button and statistics in the tooltip that you can choose to use or ignore when placing items up for sale or deciding upon a purchase. The patreon page has some short screen caps/videos of what to expect.
*The deal finder will only begin to work after it has enough scans to make some initial recommendations - usually five scans, spread over five hours (this is to help ensure there is some basis for the recommendations, not just one scan to another).
*Beancounter will not function at the current time and will error if not removed or disabled. Due to the new AH and mail systems, it is nearly impossible to determine if a single item was successful or not. Unstackable items, more so but stackable items will need some creative engineering.
*Issues remain on the Blizzard AH and mail side of things. Even though a lot was added that folks have requested over the years, many issues that existed on the PTR were moved to the live game and are causing a variety of issues. This has been and continues to impact development, but the team is doing their best to work through and around them.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/auction-house-issues/411939
I really miss the ability to sort search results by % of market value. It was how I made 90% of my purchases. And BeanCounter.
Just like the .NET Core Framework, Blizzard doesn't seem to care about backward compatibility and brilliant mods like Auctioneer get hurt in the process.
Hello,
Since last game update, i get LUA errors.
Try'd reinstalling etc.
Simply cant it to work correctly anymore.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
In reply to estatenl:
Is this in Retail or Classic? If in Retail, Blizz removed the old AH and added a totally new one. Work is underway to complete an Auctioneer version that functions with the changes and takes into account features that are now in-game since the "old" Auctioneer will not function in 8.3.
If on Classic, please post error 1 and will happily lend a hand.
In reply to Nechckn:
Thank you so much for both the info on what went wrong and that folks are working on a new version. Like the poster below, the few things I tried to post on the AH didn't go anywhere and normally they do. I decided not to post anything that would normally go for a lot of money and I'm sticking to things that I can severely undercut as that's usually greens I would have sold to a vendor anyway. I think I may jump on that Beta and help test drive it for you :)
As repeated so many times: Auctioneer is 1/2 of my game play. I make piles of gold, farm, arbitrage, item research....and since the awful auction "upgrade" in 8.3 I haven't sold a single thing - even at rock bottom prices. Nothing. It's like players are avoiding using the auction house except for bare essentials. I can't even sell Sand Shifters or Redtail Loach at undercut prices - that stuff flew off the shelf.
Why doesn't Blizzard play nice with Addon devs? Addons are an essential part of the game.
In reply to dfsaund:
Blizz is having many issues, particularly on mailing the proceeds from successful sales that hopefully will be addressed with the extended Tuesday maintenance. Not sure about anyone, else, but have waited to list *anything* pricey or more than excess stacking items, just in case the backlog is not completely addressed. There are many folks who claim to have lost thousands of gold in the main forums. The official response is that Blizz is tracking all of that, but would rather save the anxiety for other things, myself.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/auction-house-issues/411939
The new AH is a huge change - with many good bits - so hopefully we, all, can adapt and maybe even prosper. =)
8.3 Update: If anyone is feeling adventurous, the early beta is available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/auctioneer-8-3-2-33266221 .
To test, first remove any Auc* directories and Beancounter from ../Interface/AddOns/ and then unzip the download as usual. This will start collecting statistics into a simple statistics module and show it in the tooltip in bags and while you mouse-over items at the AH.
*There is not a dedicated ‘Scan’ button. All searches kick off the collection of statistical data. It should be extremely quick, in comparison to the older page and GetAll scans.
*If you get an ‘internal auction error’ when clicking search, without selecting a category, try drilling down to the subcategories.
*The deal searcher will only work once enough data has been collected, roughly five ‘seen’ scans. Be sure to vet any ‘deal’ before nabbing it, since the historical pricing data is not available until you build it up by searching over time.
In reply to Nechckn:
Hello, So far the beta is doing fine on my end. I also would like to clarify to the ones who replied to my post a couple days ago. I do not work on this addon the thanks you gave need to go to the ones who put their OWN time in to this. I was just simply stating what they posted on their site.
That said i too missed the ability to value items via tooltip, but when i mouse over it does show overtime value, I miss the % on the ah i know you said give it time and i will. But so far no errors here.
Thanks
In reply to sanesyco:
Appreciate the information. It is bare-bones at the moment, but the team is working on more, now that most/some server issues have been addressed.
It helps to know what folks miss the most, so that time can be spent on the 'must haves' with other functions coming along as they can be crafted.
In reply to Nechckn:
SlideBar is missing from the new Auctioneer, it you are not going to include it anymore, could you at least publish it as a separate addon?
In reply to Adrian_G2:
Surely. Slidebar still functions and is in the existing zip, here, if you lost it. For the beta testing, all folks should remove are the Auc* and Beancounter directories. The rest should stay.
In reply to Nechckn:
oh... i see.
i cleared all the old Auctioneer - related directories, i used the latest zip file for 8.2.5 from curseforge as reference of what directories to clear... so i cleared too much :)
In reply to Adrian_G2:
All good =) It helps to know what folks want as we move forward.
In reply to vonn1:
Is there a way to block this guy from being able to update this addon?
What a dick comment.
You do know that even IF they had updated the addon, it most likely STILL wouldn't work because Blizzard borked the AH so bad, right?
Go learn some manners, Window Licker.
In reply to jwilliam87:
Where's the like button when you need one...?
How about a simpler move...? YOU uninstall the add-on...
In reply to vonn1:
I Second jwilliam. The writers of the Auctioneer addon have continuously updated and improved this addon over the years, and unless you are personally fully funding their work, its a little arrogant and completely ridiculous to make such a demand. I might suggest common courtesy, any kind of manners, appreciation, or politeness. My guess is, this is just plain old entitlement. Which is unfortunate.
- In response to jwilliam, thank you for speaking up.
- To our hardworking developers. I love this addon, have been using it for years, and appreciate all your hard work, especially in that in the case of the recent changes, you guys are willing to completely start over and recode this entire addon, especially given that you guys do this for free, on top of your lives. I appreciate your work, dedication, and look forward to your new addon. Thank you
8.3 Update: A basic scanner along with a simple statistic that appears in the tooltip is basically working at this point - when the servers are up and AH is not having issues. =)
What would be helpful is for anyone who has used the new AH to list what functions they miss the most with the current, default set up, compared to what Auctioneer provided (and still provides in Classic).
Folks can join the Slack channel via https://auctioneeraddon.com to help test the alpha (need to be comfortable finding and replacing files on your system) and to provide input, if you prefer not to post, here.
In reply to Nechckn:
I very much miss the daily scan and ability to value items via tooltip, the number of any given item seen in my scans, market value, etc. I think the biggest thing I miss is the undercut ability, which is a pain in the ass to do manually, 600 times. There are a few things I very much like about the new AH, one thing that has stuck out to me is Battle Pets, which previously might not show all of a pet, if something was purchased from a vendor it or if one had been levelled and others havent for example, you could only see some, now they all show up, giving a better picture of what kinda competition is out there as a while. I don't like the limited sorting abilities for my own auctions, and have put in a ticket to blizz to suggest the ability to be able to sort by time left on auction, so I can see whats coming down the chute, and if I have a bunch of auctions coming back in the next few hours... I know there's more Ill have, which I will edit this post and let you know as they come to me, thanks again, so much, for all you do.