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
I know this! But I found out that Auctioneer and/or LootLink make the problem worse than without them. Again - I really love both AddOns and I would love to use them. I don't won't to talk bad about them. But what I've posted is simply a fact for my game (I got some mails from my friends veryfing what I said).
Archives the user extract himself are generally more 'safe and coozy' than a unknown dangerous .exe file.
I really like this addon, however, depending on some updates it seems that I loose Auctioneer support when I am in a trade window with a NPC Merchant, or when I am using AllInOneInventory.
Removed all .exe , only .zip are now avaible for DL :)
lol that's a general problem with the hunter, even with no addon loaded and the pet speed talent (+30% outdoor speed), the poor thing falls behind and eventually vanish when far enough
I read in a forum that a hunter had problems with his pet: It was too slow and sometimes even got out of range so that he had to call it again.
I noticed the same problem with my pet yesterday. As I were looking for another problem today I actually disabled Auctioneer and LootLink and guess what happend? Right - the problems were completly gone!
So for the moment I don't recommend using this if you're a hunter (or probably any other pet class).
Oh btw. - I actually love Auctioneer! It's a great addon.
both .exe and .zip file format are available on the author's site
Any chance you'll revert to a .RAR or .ZIP file. I dont want .exe files when it comes to MMORPGS... Call me paranoid :-)
I dont know if i should bring this up to you or Sarf. Whenver I run Auctioneer and AIOI, the Auctioneer Tooltips show up only for a second then refresh. All other tootips show the data, but items in my inventory wont. I believe it is only an issue with Auctioneer as I still get the Lootlink Sell price displayed, just not Auctioneers. This has been happening for a few builds now. The only way to fix it is to turn off AIOI. This is a great little mod even though I dont use the Auctions (only low lvl chars). Thanks for the work so far
No matter how many times i've scanned the AH everything shows up as "Never seen at auction".
I had 1.3, just tried the new version. config works great! exactly what was needed. the color coding still gets a bit confusing until you get used to it though.
I think configuration was added with v1.4 or 5, just type in /auctioneer and you can enable and disable the showing of certain data. Not sure what changes have been made in 1.7
hmmm it only mentions that 1.7 works with new lootlink. nothing about configurations :(
I have to agree with arc2055, some configuration would be nice :]
I agree with the above comments about the info being way overloaded. I'd love to be able to configure what shows and what doesn't. This is a great addon but it being near unreadable at a glance is annoying. I don't want to have to struggle to find the avg BO price.
Also a option to show the actual gold/silver/copper piece graphics rather than just color coded numbers would be great. Like the sell value thing at the very end of the tooltip in the screenshot.
It doesn't even have to be a actual UI, command based is fine. Although a UI based config page with on/off checkboxes, color code options and coin piece icon options would be great.
First off this is a wonderful idea for a mod. The implementation of the auction information itself is great. My complaint is that there is too much other stuff. Adding some customization to this would be great. The first thing I don't need are the buy/sell prices for each item, lootlink has sell price and that's all I really need. The second is the amount an item stacks into, while nice I don't usually need it. Finally the profession use is nice info and I actually do use it sometimes, but would still be nice to get rid of it if you wish.
In response to the first comment, the auction info appears on mouse-over although the current version doesn't look exactly like the SS provided.
The problem of having people post over/underpriced auctions could be dealt with simply by not using the outlying 5% of auctions on either end.
Do you people understand that scanning the AH will stress the servers quite much? Imagine all people doing it every day every now and then.
Really like this mod, have been testing it out for a few days now. I've been recording prices for crafting items for the past two weeks manually, this saves me a lot of time.
A problem I've found with it tho is that it's not accurate for some items. I think extremely large vlaues on starting bids and buyouts throw off the averages too much. with version 1.3 it was telling me that a stack of mageweave should go for around 3000 gold, probably caused by someone setting a huge buyout price that in turn messed up the averages for MW even though I had over 300 scanned. Same sort of thing today with silk, was suggesting a buyout price for a stack at 1.76g when there was nothing close to that buyout at on the AH at the time, most things were below 1g.
These are results from only a few days of scanning, I'm sure that over a long period of time the suggested prices would actually resemble what the current price on the AH is. If Norganna can implement a fix that would not count values that exceed 100% of normal prices or allow us to edit the data tables that store the scanned AH values to get rid of off the wall results.
Is there anyway to do that now? To look through the scanned data and take out anything that will throw off the averages?
Lastly like what you've done with version 1.4, can you list all the changes you made?
This is a decent mod that doesn't see it's full usefullness due to the fact that it does not show the averages directly from your inventory. Unless I am doing something wrong, this functionality would make it much better. But overall, it is decent though cumbersome to use.