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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Do you have alpha or beta versions I can use?
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
Here is the error I get every time I load in to game. Let me know if you need additional details or information to help with any debug process.
Date: 2020-07-31 16:14:40
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Auc-Advanced\CoreConst.lua line 229:
attempt to call global 'GetAuctionItemSubClasses' (a nil value)
Debug:
[string "@Auc-Advanced\CoreConst.lua"]:229: in main chunk
Locals:
lib = <table> {
ENCHANT = 26
LASTENTRY = 27
IEQUIP = 5
MAXSKILLLEVEL = 800
AMHIGH = 19
AC_ClassNameList = <table> {
}
FACTOR = 25
MINBID = 15
FLAG_UNSEEN = 2
AucMinTimes = <table> {
}
FLAG = 21
FLAG_DIRTY = 64
CompactRealm = "Stormrage"
ALEVEL_MAX = 5
EquipEncode = <table> {
}
PlayerName = "Martianbob"
MAXITEMLEVEL = 1100
ITEMID = 23
PlayerRealm = "Stormrage"
AC_SubClassIDLists = <table> {
}
DEP2 = 10
ISUB = 4
ALEVEL_HI = 4
ScanPosLabels = <table> {
}
ULEVEL = 14
BUYOUT = 17
MAXUSERLEVEL = 120
AC_ClassIDList = <table> {
}
ALEVEL_MED = 3
ITYPE = 3
ALEVEL_LOW = 2
AucTimes = <table> {
}
ALEVEL_MIN = 1
NAME = 9
FLAG_EXPIRED = 128
CURBID = 18
MAXBIDPRICE = 99999999999
COUNT = 11
SEED = 27
SUFFIX = 24
AC_SubClassNameLists = <table> {
}
CANUSE = 13
SELLER = 20
LINK = 1
ILEVEL = 2
FLAG_FILTER = 4
TIME = 8
TLEFT = 7
BONUSES = 22
AucMaxTimes = <table> {
}
QUALITY = 12
SUBCLASSID = 4
ALEVEL_OFF = 0
MININC = 16
PRICE = 6
CLASSID = 3
}
(for generator) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
(for state) = <table> {
1 = 2
2 = 4
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5 = 8
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7 = 16
8 = 7
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10 = 17
11 = 12
12 = 15
}
(for control) = 1
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classID = 2
(*temporary) = <table> {
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(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = 2
(*temporary) = "attempt to call global 'GetAuctionItemSubClasses' (a nil value)"
AddOns:
Swatter, v8.2.6511 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AAPCore, v8.1058
AucAdvanced, v8.2.6471 (SwimmingSeadragon)
SlideBar, v8.2.6509 (SwimmingSeadragon)
Stubby, v8.2.6510 (SwimmingSeadragon)
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v8.3.7.80300 <none>
(ck=e5)
In reply to Martianbob:
The 8.2 version of the suite will not work In 8.3+, due to Blizzard retiring the old AH and modifying the mail systems.
A beta release for 8.3+ is freely available from our patreon page or you can wait until it is eventually released here and at WoWInterface.
Due to all of the things Blizzard (finally) included in the default AH, the 8.3+ version supplements those functions, rather than providing them completely, as it has for over a decade, so it is quite different. The patreon post describes what you will see.
If you want to try it, be sure to remove old Auc* folders and Beancounter from ..\Interface\AddOns, then download and install 8.3 Beta 4.4:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/auctioneer-8-3-33266060
I have been having an issue with Stubby blocking item movement in my bags when I'm in combat. It actually caused an item to grey out and not be interactable until I looted another one to add to the stack. Obviously not the end of the world, but it is annoying. Is this a feature that can be disabled? I know that the issue stops when I disable Stubby, but I'd prefer not to have to enable/disable the addon all the time. Any help would be appreciated!
"Date: 2020-07-25 10:07:22
ID: 1
Error occured in: AddOn: Stubby
Count: 10
Message: Note: AddOn Stubby attempted to call a protected function (UNKNOWN()) during combat lockdown.
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: pcall()
Stubby\Stubby.lua:342:
Stubby\Stubby.lua:326
(tail call): ?
..\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1233: ContainerFrameItemButton_OnClick()
..\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:1137: ContainerFrameItemButton_OnDrag()
[string "*:OnReceiveDrag"]:1:
[string "*:OnReceiveDrag"]:1
Locals:
None
AddOns:
Swatter, v8.2.6377 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AtlasLootClassic, vv1.5.2
AtlasLootClassicData, vv1.5.2
AtlasLootClassicDungeonsAndRaids, vv1.5.2
AucAdvanced, v8.2.6430 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucFilterBasic, v8.2.6364 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucScanData, v8.2.6365 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucStatHistogram, v8.2.6366 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucStatiLevel, v8.2.6370 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucStatPurchased, v8.2.6367 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucStatSimple, v8.2.6399 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucStatStdDev, v8.2.6369 (SwimmingSeadragon)
AucUtilFixAH, v8.2.6371 (SwimmingSeadragon)
CharacterStatsClassic, v3.6
ClassicAuraDurations, v1.13.60
ClassicCastbars, vv1.3.9
ClassicCastbarsOptions, v
DBMCore, v1.13.53
DBMDefaultSkin, v
DBMStatusBarTimers, v
Dejunk, v8.3.4
Details, v
DetailsTinyThreat, v
Enchantrix, v8.2.6428 (SwimmingSeadragon)
ExRT, v4160
FarmLog, vv1.19
GatherMate2, v1.45.5
GroupCalendar, v
honorspy, v1.7.5
Informant, v8.2.6374 (SwimmingSeadragon)
InstanceCounter, v1.14.2.1
ItemRack, v
KuiMedia, v
KuiNameplates, v
KuiNameplatesCore, v
LeatrixMaps, v1.13.73
LeatrixPlus, v1.13.73
LortiUI, v1.1
MonolithDKP, v2.1.2
NovaInstanceTracker, v1.10
OmniCC, v8.3.5
Quartz, v3.5-classic-5
Questie, v6.0.2
RCLootCouncilClassic, v0.11.0
SpeedyAutoLoot, v2.0.29
Spy, v1.1.1
Stubby, v8.2.6376 (SwimmingSeadragon)
TinyTooltip, v8.2.1
TradeSkillMaster, vv4.9.38
TradeSkillMasterAppHelper, vv4.0.8
WaterDispenser, v1.10
WeakAuras, v2.17.12
WeaponSwingTimer, v4.1.0
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v1.13.5.11305 <none>
(ck=627)"
In reply to Elodin11:
This seems to be an evil taint issue - have gone in and successfully moved items in bags, while in combat, without seeing any issues.
Perhaps try with only Auctioneer, Stubby, and Swatter enabled and see if it still happens? It could be something else, so here is hoping.
First off.. a couple of things. I was able to get Auctioneer to work by deleting *all* previous files including swatter, slidebar and stubby. I see people were still having problems. Do this, then reinstall and it works fine.
My real question: Am I going crazy??? I was able to bring up a box that showed the "best" deals in the auction house (though not sure of the definition of best). I have no idea how I did that (was I dreaming?). Was I wishfully thinking or is this an option that I can't figure out how to reopen?
Thank you!
In reply to nektontwitch:
In retail, the deal finder should open on any realm for which you have enough data for it to make recommendations - scans over a couple of days*. If you are on a different realm, that you have not scanned as much or if you reinstalled, then you will have to scan a bit more before it will show up.
The quick and dirty is that any data obtained within a given hour fills a virtual bucket, once seven of those are full, then the deal finder should appear. You can adjust the percentage at the bottom of the deal finder window.
Suggestion: Remove outliers from the algorithm. Not sure if it happens on a lot of servers but on mine several people will list 20 wool for 1 copper bid, 950g buyout. Nothing wrong with this, accept 20 wool doesn't sell for anywhere near that high and its messing up the app. The moving average is closer to 25 silver a stack but the addon thinks its like 3g because of the few really stupid buyouts.
In reply to Sithari66:
The outlier filter does that, but it can only do so much. You can use /auc clear <itemlink> to reset statistics for items that have become poisoned. You can also set a manual price in appraiser, that will be used until changed, while you amass new data from scanning.
Just sold 20 elixirs of the mongoose, except it didn't post them at the correct price. Shorted me 7g each. I'm out 140g because of this. Maybe not a huge deal for others, but for me that's a lot. I'll have to double check my postings immediately from now on apparently and if this continues I'll stop using.
In reply to Sycoholic:
Not sure what you mean. Before you post an auction, the amounts that items will be posted for are displayed in the appraiser or post frame (whichever you are using). Auctioneer, then, passes that pricing, stack size, and posting time directly to the AH, there is no processing done that modifies them.
Date: 2020-07-15 11:52:45
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Auc-Advanced\CoreConst.lua line 229:
attempt to call global 'GetAuctionItemSubClasses' (a nil value)
Debug:
[string "@Auc-Advanced\CoreConst.lua"]:229: in main chunk
Locals:
lib = <table> {
ENCHANT = 26
LASTENTRY = 27
IEQUIP = 5
MAXSKILLLEVEL = 800
AMHIGH = 19
AC_ClassNameList = <table> {
}
FACTOR = 25
MINBID = 15
FLAG_UNSEEN = 2
AucMinTimes = <table> {
}
FLAG = 21
FLAG_DIRTY = 64
CompactRealm = "Blackrock"
ALEVEL_MAX = 5
EquipEncode = <table> {
}
PlayerName = "Discounterin"
MAXITEMLEVEL = 1100
ITEMID = 23
PlayerRealm = "Blackrock"
AC_SubClassIDLists = <table> {
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DEP2 = 10
ISUB = 4
ALEVEL_HI = 4
ScanPosLabels = <table> {
}
ULEVEL = 14
BUYOUT = 17
MAXUSERLEVEL = 120
AC_ClassIDList = <table> {
}
ALEVEL_MED = 3
ITYPE = 3
ALEVEL_LOW = 2
AucTimes = <table> {
}
ALEVEL_MIN = 1
NAME = 9
FLAG_EXPIRED = 128
CURBID = 18
MAXBIDPRICE = 99999999999
COUNT = 11
SEED = 27
SUFFIX = 24
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}
CANUSE = 13
SELLER = 20
LINK = 1
ILEVEL = 2
FLAG_FILTER = 4
TIME = 8
TLEFT = 7
BONUSES = 22
AucMaxTimes = <table> {
}
QUALITY = 12
SUBCLASSID = 4
ALEVEL_OFF = 0
MININC = 16
PRICE = 6
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(for control) = 1
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(*temporary) = <table> {
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(*temporary) = "attempt to call global 'GetAuctionItemSubClasses' (a nil value)"
AddOns:
MoncaiCompare, v7.2.0
Swatter, v8.2.6511 (SwimmingSeadragon)
ArkInventory, v30929
ArkInventoryRules, v20000
ArkInventorySearch, v20000
AtlasLoot, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootBattleforAzeroth, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootBurningCrusade, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootCataclysm, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootClassic, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootLegion, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootMistsofPandaria, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootWarlordsofDraenor, vv8.12.00
AtlasLootWrathoftheLichKing, vv8.12.00
AucAdvanced, v8.2.6471 (SwimmingSeadragon)
SlideBar, v8.2.6509 (SwimmingSeadragon)
Stubby, v8.2.6510 (SwimmingSeadragon)
BlizRuntimeLib_deDE v8.3.0.80300 <none>
(ck=26f)
In reply to Trinoo:
The 8.2 version of the suite will not work In 8.3+, due to Blizzard changing the entire AH and mail systems.
A beta release is freely available from our patreon page or you can wait until it is released here and at WoWInterface. Due to all of the things Blizzard (finally) included in the default AH, the new version supplements those functions, rather than providing them, alone. The patreon post describes what you will see.
If you want to try it, be sure to remove old Auc* folders and Beancounter from ..\Interface\AddOns, then download and install 8.3 Beta 4.4:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/auctioneer-8-3-33266060
Need an update
In reply to Lisq3:
If you select the option to 'load out of date' in the AddOns Control Panel, the suite will function normally. There were no changes from the patch that impaired functioning.
Did development of this addon die again?
In Classic it seems they never got around to fixing separating the Horde/Alliance AHs on the same server :(
In reply to Painstormx:
Not yet, no. Unfortunately with the pandemic and other life issues, folks have not been available.
If you or anyone else would like to lend a hand with that effort or any of the others, join the slack channel, up top in the description.
In reply to Nechckn:
Sadly I'm not an addon developer.
Seeing that Classic has been out for almost a year and this basic functionality still isn't fixed, I don't think it's likely that it ever will be :(
Anyone know of another decent and not too complicated AH addon for Classic?
In reply to Painstormx:
Sapu and the other Trade Skill Master folks put in a ton of time and effort. That works, well, for folks who take the time to use it.
Auction Master and Aux are other options.
Give one or all three a try.
You said use Appraiser, but here scam prices
Post: http://prntscr.com/tfld63
Appraiser: http://prntscr.com/tfldcu
In reply to segoitch:
According to the color-bands (red), all of the competitors in the screenshot are listed over the market price. Hold your mouse over the item to show the tooltip while the item is in the Appraiser frame to see what the market price is and why it is recommending the price for posting. If you hold 'shift' while doing it, the expanded tooltip will be displayed showing each statistic's value and the overall market price.
If you really just want to match whatever else is posted, and do not care if they are posted either too high or too low, adjust the Undercut under 'Matchers' in the options to allow it to move the price higher/lower.