Hello,

If been scanning the AH for quite some while now, and happen to make a few buck here and there.
But there are some things I would like to know:

- What do you do if you got Example: primal might on AH for 80g's and some one is underbitting you all the time? do you simply buy that one and put it up again?
- How much will you invest in 1 item to get the price up for the items? (how many will you buy up to get the others to sell)
- What items have gotten you to the top;)?
- With what starting money did you start and where are you now?
- what do you do if a item doesn't get solf easily?

I would like to know these questions of you guys before I make any mistakes with some of them:)

Thanks in advance

I would suggest reading How we make our gold using Auctioneer (and part 1 of that thread) for some tips about how people are making their gold.

Until the wiki has been fully updated with info about Auctioneer Advanced, the best place to learn about it, short of actually using it, is to read the forums and the existing beginner info in the wiki . Read through that thread I linked above and feel free to ask any questions in it you still have. The forums are here to ask questions and get help, and plenty of people contribute their thoughts.

Try these in the wiki:

Auctioneer for New World of Warcraft Players

Beginner's Guide & Personal Experiences with Auctioneer

These forums are sort of a "learn as you go" experience. You read through both threads of How we make our gold using Auctioneer and you still don't have a better understanding of how people are making money with Auctioneer? There is a lot of good information in those two threads, including answers to questions you've asked in your original post.

If you've had more than 50k gold, you can't be doing too badly! I've been playing the AH for a long time and have yet to reach that plateau.

I've never had more than 10,000 gold total...
I've found it's really hard for me to _regularly_ make more than 1000g a week from the auction house, mostly because there is a limit to the demand for things. To make any more money I need to do a _lot_ of buying mats cheap to craft things to sell and it ends up getting very time consuming.

but there is one thing which I'm bad at and that is control the market fully how do you approach in such way to control the economy from your server? because untill now I've only be searching trade resale etc.


and what do you guys do if people are under bitting you always..? because spellcloth was quite good going @ beginning but now its back in AH alot so got loads for ?? nothing...

Posted By: deliciousmbut there is one thing which I'm bad at and that is control the market fully how do you approach in such way to control the economy from your server?

That's a risky business. You can "control" a market only if you control supply, which means grabbing every auction you see undercutting you. But if the ultimate supply exceeds actual demand - not the false demand you created by buying up everything - then you end up with a pile of stuff you can't sell quickly enough.

As soon as you notice that happening you need to stop buying so aggressively and think about cutting your losses, trying to sell your stock slowly - not all at once because that drives prices DOWN - or bide your time until the market rises by itself.

Just as in real life, you won't make many friends by telling everyone how much money you have. Not the good sort of friend, anyway. ;)

hehe, well only a few good friends in the game that I really help out to buy epic flyer etc, but ehmm yeah 1 guy told the guild.. and others keep my name a secret.
But yeah I never usually tell it to others, if they ask I just say I dont know can't even buy greenies...;)

But these people that encounter me with that our just random people ingame that whisp me if I'm idle/afk in IF/SW they say ur a ebay?
or the following beggers:

- I like you alot, gief gold!
- ur soooo awesome plx give gold now 60g
- ur gear is the best ingame are you in a movie?? all BoE , gief me epic now from AH
- I'm poor person from *country

but back to topic, If read the link you gave me but all I see is people talking about DE.
What settings do you for example have can you people make screen shots?
my starting bid will be 5000g to start making more gold using AH and you guys settings if possible want to see if that works out.
can you guys gives screenies from BTm Scanner + what your tricks are form AH in here? because that other topic was not clear to me...+ some people went alot offtopic

One question i just thought about was is it possible to use 2 different pricing models example: i want to use wowecon for looking up items since wowecon is normally lower then the market value and i want to use stddev when posting since i already have beancount adjusting the price. is this possible?

ok yeah now that i think about it it does make sense to use the same for all calculations i just thought that if it was a good buy with wowecon since its lower i could repost with stddev as it will be alot higher but still match the comp ill just keep doing what im doing. its working for now i think...

yeah sales has really helped adjust my market price which is very nice, and I have been using market for awhile because it, I think, would be better to rely on a mix of stats than on any one stat (to help adjust for possible scam data)

mattbnr, yeah, it is nice to buy with a stat that 'should' be lower and post with a stat that 'should' be higher but if you really want to accomplish that you can do the same thing by simply increasing the minimum discount. Best to use the same stat everywhere on any one item (its OK to mix stats across different items as long as its in unison everywhere for that item. <<< This is why I wanted appraiser pricing for... well everything... and why I was SOOO VERY HAPPY to get it as an option in enchantrix

It really gives you a better idea what you are paying for something, if my min discount setting is 50% and an item pops I know its popin' because its over a 50% discount... I can glance at the btm prompt and see how much I should make etc. I can quickly scan a tooltip (assuming I kinda know the item) and easily say 'thats a deal' by posting using a different stat, I would now have to compare an additional figure against everything, what AADV thinks I am going to sell it for (because this isn't actually the figure you are using to buy the item you need to manually do this math [in your head if you are able] to properly understand the full value of the item)... I'd rather let AADV do that for me and not have to worry about doing extra math, its difficult enough to make that buy or pass determination on items you don't know without needing the added difficulty of doing half the math twice... (although, its possible I look at things more than others do and they want that 'padding' but I would rather put a specific percentage padding myself by increasing my min disc % rather than getting an unknown padding percentage that is going to very greatly based on the volume of an item)

yeah on some of my items i have around 200-300 fails and it is only adjusting the price liek 7% but i have it set to .01% adjustment at a time so it takes 10? 100? fails to equal 1% change.

Rodgort/Nine,

What servers do you guys play on to have that much action in the auction house?

At best I'm pulling in 500-1k a week.. Maybe I'm doing something wrong... But I'd like ot think it is the auction house because ours seems kinda dead.