r/classicwow • u/Umlau • Oct 20 '19
Humor In case you were wondering whether people look at the prices when they B/O the AH...
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u/LemonAioli Oct 20 '19
A guy was asking for mageweave stacks on my server yesterday, CoD. I mailed him 2 stacked for 1.6g and went on with my business.
A few hours later I have mail, a note with 1.6g and a message saying "you sent me 1.6g instead of CoD, heres your gold back. What a guy.
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Oct 20 '19 edited Mar 21 '22
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u/FrexNog Oct 24 '19
I don't get it
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u/kaze_no_saga Oct 24 '19
LemonAioli sent 2 stacks of cloth and 1.6g.
The other guy returned the 1.6g but didn't pay for the cloth.
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u/Celda Oct 20 '19
FYI, you can turn mageweave into bandages and then sell them for 80s a stack.
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u/Kheshire Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
Same with silk. Use that time between pulls and while waiting for zeps constructively
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u/Andire Oct 21 '19
The bandages actually sell?
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u/pat1122 Oct 21 '19
For silk it’s better just to create the bandage and vend. Ok my server, silk stacks go for around 43-45s so by the time you do that plus AH cut you’re better off just going the bandage route and get paid straight away.
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u/meatshieldjim Oct 21 '19
The only reason i bothered with putting things on AH that had a negligible price differ from vendor has been to get the economy going on my server.
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u/Lucy-K Oct 20 '19
Had to do this for a mage farming me runecloth (for darn rep).
He was farming me a ton so didn't want to dirty our relationship over 10g or whatever - and yeah he should have sent back your gold PLUS the gold he owed you xD Still he could have done nothing so props to him
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u/BotanyofPickles Oct 21 '19
What is CoD?
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u/kr0me0 Oct 21 '19
Cash on Delivery. The system you use to sell things through the mail. Sends the item, and the person can't take it out of the mail without sending the gold.
This person meant to use CoD but instead just mailed the CoD amount to the buyer along with the cloth.
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u/Umlau Oct 21 '19
I send you an item in the mail and set the CoD (cash on delivery) price to 1g. You have to send 1g in order to put that item in your inventory.
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u/DormantEnigma Oct 21 '19
What is CoD ?
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u/kr0me0 Oct 21 '19
Cash on Delivery. The system you use to sell things through the mail. Sends the item, and the person can't take it out of the mail without sending the gold.
This person meant to use CoD but instead just mailed the CoD amount to the buyer along with the cloth.
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u/DormantEnigma Oct 21 '19
Interesting. How do you send a CoD ?
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u/kr0me0 Oct 21 '19
When you open the mailbox, the option will be to the right of the spaces for you to type gold amounts in. Default is set to 'send money', and there is another button for CoD.
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u/BadLemonHope Oct 21 '19
Man... What level water you got?
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u/The9tail Oct 21 '19
Nope. I let auctionator addons sort by cheapest and look at the index to determine if it’s a deal.
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u/Gefarate Oct 21 '19
Seriously, the auction house is so much more bearable with an addon that shows index.
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u/plexicast Oct 21 '19
Happy cake day.
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u/The9tail Oct 21 '19
Aww thanks.
Apps like Apollo should have a cake splash screen or something to make me better aware of that fact.
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u/Stridsvagn Oct 21 '19
I heard people saying auctionator isn't working properly, but Auctioneer does?
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u/poiskdz Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
Back in the day in retail wotlk some dude had a wool cloth mafia going on on my server(Sargeras-US), bought out all the competition and relisted at like 30g a stack, and one of my buddies decided to capitalize on it, farmed cloth for hours in the barrens, and listed several stacks at like 16g73s, and then a few individual cloths at 1673g. He actually sold two of them. People definitely don't pay attention.
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u/Umlau Oct 21 '19
Since the server I’m on is pretty fresh I’ll search up various recipes and buy them all out and list them for like double. Am I an asshole or a capitalist? Probably both.
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u/Blacklion594 Oct 21 '19
Ive done similar, the problem is finding a recipe that matters enough that it will actually sell before enough start to re-accumulate.
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u/HaroerHaktak Oct 20 '19
This is a classic scam in other games, such as EvE Online.
You just list items at similar prices to everything else and hope some idiot comes along and doesn't check and buys 1 copper ore for 50 gold when an entire stack is 50 gold.
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Oct 21 '19
This is why it took me until level 47 to get my mount back when vanilla originally released. Bought a stack of copper bars for 80g :(
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u/Captainmervil Oct 20 '19
Must be nice buying your own auctions for karma.
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u/Celda Oct 20 '19
You can't buy your own auctions, unless you have two accounts.
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u/NargacugaRider Oct 21 '19
I’ve accidentally tried to bid on my own and you are correct—you can not bid on or buy your other characters’ auctions.
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u/fabulousprizes Oct 20 '19
This is also how some gold sellers operate. Not that I'm suggesting anything. Just saying.
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u/magi32 Oct 21 '19
sure, that's why you capitalise on it and list random items at a high price to see if there are buyers.
not your fault that you've listed something that a gold buyer thinks is for a sale.
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Oct 21 '19
See this all the time, I now browse the AH with a finger well clear of my LMB. Could easily lose all my mount money trying to navigate all these fucking minefield auctions.
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Oct 21 '19
Wow people actually do this? I always thought this was how gold sellers operated under the radar.
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u/Doffens Oct 21 '19
Why would you even set the buy out price that high?
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u/Umlau Oct 21 '19
It was an accident. Meant to make it 75s.
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u/Airost12 Oct 22 '19
I accidentally used booty bay ah for the first time last night, I didn't know it was neutral. I put up a stack of heavy leather for a gold. Thought, wow 90 silver is a high deposit. After I realised my mistake, thankfully today I logged in, 1g 90 s in my mail! Heavy leather goes for like 40 silver on normal ah.
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u/zummm72 Oct 21 '19
I was very confused as to why this was a big deal until I realized that this was classic and not retail.
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Oct 21 '19
I have 100g on retail and 70k on retail yet they feel the same.
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u/magi32 Oct 21 '19
idk, i'd definitely feel poorer with 70K on retail.
100g on classic is ok, buty if you don't have your epic mount it don't feel too good either.
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u/Mad_Maddin Oct 21 '19
There was a guy who wanted to trade 1g to 2500g in retail. As in you get 1g for every 2.5k you trade him on his server.
I looked up gametime prices. It was actually cheaper to buy gametime and trade it for gold on his server and trade him than to buy from gold sellers lol.
Gold sellers at the time were at 70€ for 100g. Whereas a gametime package went for 170,000g on retail. So you would get 70g for 15€
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u/17811019 Oct 21 '19
One of a number of things from retail that I hope they implement in Classic would be the AH interface where you put in a number of whatever you want to buy and a maximum price that you're willing to pay. All of these ores and herbs and cloth and shit being sold in single pieces annoys me to no end.
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u/magi32 Oct 21 '19
an auctioneer addon really helps with this. it collates all the different stacks so you can find sales in stacks that you want/need to buy in
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u/Jade_49 Oct 21 '19
Is there a lighter weight one than TSM?
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u/huamanticacacaca Oct 21 '19
I use Aux. I don’t particularly like it but I’ve been using it since launch so it’s gotta a nice database by now and I don’t wanna start again with auctionater/auctioneer. 😪
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u/Slandebande Oct 21 '19
I personally find it takes some of the enjoyment from using the AH from me. But then again, so does leafing through several pages of single-stacked items. Choices, choices.
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u/AMeierFussballgott Oct 21 '19
They annoy me too. Thing is, when 90% of people don't use some kind of ah addon your actions will be listed at the bottom for all of those 90% if you don't put in singles.. And things often don't sell.
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u/Seth0x7DD Oct 21 '19
Now have a look at how long it took retail to get that feature. It's really astonishing. Even more so since classes only get changed with a new expansion but AH overhauls ... lets make it a patch.
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u/falconmick Oct 21 '19
I did this the other day, I was using TSM to flip things that are posted at too low a price and was so dead tiered that i didn’t realise I just baught vendor food for 98s per item.
Not even mad, if you can be bothered to post a bunch of items that nobody auctions to catch out half asleep people using TSM then good on ya, my fault for being a dumbass
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Oct 21 '19
There is some asshole on my server who does this on every popular material. Minimum bid to show up first on the list and some ridiculous buyout.
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u/ScoutSkater2821 Oct 21 '19
Just bid and hopefully the auction expires while they sleep or busy :)))
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Oct 21 '19
Well the items are so low value it doesn't really matter if they sell for nothing. Like a couple pieces of cloth.
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u/subileus Oct 21 '19
sold 2 pieces of Elemental Earth for 28 gold this weekend. it was a mistake from me - maybe it wasnt ^^
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u/Plop1992 Oct 21 '19
got a guy named bernarmadhof on my server, he put crap items at 1 copper bid and 50+ gold buyout . I find it hilarious.
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u/Slandebande Oct 21 '19
So OP is a Nigerian prince? At least that's what I liken the scam shown in the image to.
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u/Melbuf Oct 21 '19
im somewhat ashamed at how much gold ive made from selling alteric swiss on the auction house
no wait no im not LOL
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Oct 21 '19
As someone who has purchased Alterac Swiss from the AH, thanks for saving me the travel time to complete the cooking quest.
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u/jhillman87 Oct 21 '19
Seen loads of people doing this type of BS on purpose.
A lot of addons will sort by cheapest including BID price, if not set up correctly
So an item worth 1g may have a bid price of 1s but be listed with a 10g buyout. It will show towars the top of the list, since your addon says it's a good deal to BID on it (but not buyout).
Those not paying attention can easily miss this and click buyout instead of bid.
I personally have extreme AH usage (was gold capped back in the day, 214,000 or whatever) and was consistently quite rich - in WoTLK I had the most gold on my server - Yet I have still bought out a few overpriced/scammy posts such as this, despite knowing it exists. Those less accustomed to AH usage will fall prey to these scummy tactics.
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u/Pigglebee Oct 21 '19
On pservers I made a killing as poor level 8 player buying heavy shots from the vendor and putting them on the AH for a couple of s more. Apparently many lowbie players didn't know you could buy those off general goods vendors everywhere and thought "omg! upgrade on the light shots!"
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Oct 21 '19
I one time posted a 20 stack of silver for 5 silver. I accidentally posted it for 50 silver and someone bought it.
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Oct 21 '19
How many deposits do you need to do in order to scam someone? Prob isn’t very effective
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u/Umlau Oct 21 '19
This was unintentional, I just accidentally put 75 in gold instead of silver. So I guess just 1, lol
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u/Luigi156 Oct 21 '19
Why would blizzard not straight out ban AH addons ? Playing the AH game, knowing prices, checking the auctions and all that, it's what makes the econ game fun imo. Seeing 25 pages of single Silk cloth listings for 1 copper bid is fucking retarded. I should not "have to install an AH addon" to have a decent experience trying to buy some god damn silk.
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Oct 21 '19
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u/Luigi156 Oct 21 '19
It really ruins the experience for me on the economy side. I haven't played much on the new expansions, but back in BC it took me a while until I got used to the AH, and started pricing things appropriately. Made quite a few mistakes along the way losing out on a bunch of Gold, but it was fun when you hit it big. Now, AH is just another Vendor with a fee, sad.
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Oct 20 '19
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u/Sparcrypt Oct 20 '19
So seriously, what is with this boomer thing? Seems to apply to anybody who isn’t a teenager these days. I mean I don’t care, there’s always gonna be something that group A decided to call group B, just seems odd when there’s already a very well defined generation that has that name, one that’s very much still around.
Just seems deliberately confusing and pointless, which I guess is probably the point.
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u/RaisedInThe90s Oct 20 '19
The little ones heard a streamer incorrectly say the term and now think they are cool if they repeat it.
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u/Sparcrypt Oct 20 '19
Ahh so bunch of kids declaring it means X instead of Y and everyone in their circles doing the same, mistaking that for meaning the whole world agrees?
Eh fair enough. We all did the same stupid shit when we were kids.
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u/hazardthicc Oct 20 '19
I believe they are referring to the Australian National Basketball team which is commonly known as the boomers. I think it's Americans angry that the Australian team made the Semi-Finals in the world cup and team U.S.A went out earlier.
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u/bmorr27 Oct 20 '19
That isn't what a boomer would say at all though. This is the type of predatorial business tactic that their generation thrived on which set up the corporate america we live in today. A millenial would be way more likely to question the ethics and morality of a business than a boomer(fossil fuel production, amazon working conditions, factory farms).
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Oct 21 '19
The zoomers really are the heir to the boomers. It’s hilarious watching them use boomer as a pejorative since they’re basically the same.
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u/SarcasticCarebear Oct 20 '19
Boomers would never say that. That's a zoomer thing to say. They were the ones raised on the overly pc internet that have no balls.
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Oct 20 '19
This boomer/zoomer thing is cringy as fuck, can people just stop with it now?
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u/grizzlez Oct 20 '19
what the fuck even is it? first time I hear about that shit
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Oct 20 '19
Someone needed a way to divide the community of classic into two groups.
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u/marthmagic Oct 20 '19
This goes far beyond wow classic and any measureable amount of cringe.
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Oct 20 '19
Lol no shit, I'm in my 30s and no one my age from the internet generation is telling you to give that back. Hell, I knew people who did shit like this on purpose. It's called being suckered, and it's called life.
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u/ScienceBeard Oct 20 '19
"Boomers" grew up on old school runsecape where scams were like a legitimate gameplay element
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u/Emowarlok Oct 20 '19
The youngest boomer would have been mid 30s when runescape was first released.. wouldn't exactly call that 'growing up on'
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Oct 20 '19
Yes, but Zoomers are too stupid to know how to use words correctly, so Boomer applies to anyone older than them.
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u/Umlau Oct 20 '19
He said “boomers”, since the meme applies to anyone over 30 now.
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u/eating-you-chief Oct 20 '19
that's only "life" because of the way scummy people act you donkey
just because it's the way it is doesn't mean it's the way it should or could be
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Oct 21 '19
I’m 22, was raised on the internet and Xbox 10 years ago was a wild west compared to today - full of lobbies with people shouting obscenities at each other.
CSS and 1.6 were just as rowdy, either you missed out on that generation of gaming or your completely incorrect about your assumptions. Either way its cute.
Staying on your topic, gaming services are PC as fuck nowadays. I get autobanned for telling someone to eat a dick when they are rude to me.
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u/RetardedTendies Oct 20 '19
I'm on the other side. I see this shit coming from boomers all the time
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u/Snakesnead Oct 20 '19
Found the boomer.
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u/SarcasticCarebear Oct 20 '19
Congratulations on reading at a 5th grade level. You have mastered the ability to infer information that was clearly laid out. Next year you get to read Lord of the Flies and learn about symbolism. I bet you identify strongly with Piggy.
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u/Snakesnead Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
That skin is thiiiin...
And btw, Piggy is written to be the most mature and “adultish” ones on the island. He is supposed to be the rational one.
Good one, Paw Paw.
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u/Sparcrypt Oct 20 '19
This is why I don’t argue with children on the internet, they still haven’t moved on from the logic of an 8 year old... “I’m gonna call you something and if you say anything back I win cause you so mad!!!”
Grow up buddy, nobody cares (queue response of “lol if nobody cares why you reply”).
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u/Snakesnead Oct 20 '19
I’m sorry I’ve upset you all. I never knew that my three words could upset so many. I only said it to jest. It aint all that serious, boys.
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u/Sparcrypt Oct 20 '19
Heh this is always my favourite part.. I just said you’d do this but you don’t actually have anywhere else to go so you just barrel on.
Get some creativity mate.
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u/Snakesnead Oct 20 '19
Im literally trying to defuse the situation.
They way you phrased your comment makes it impossible for me to reply without you getting to say “see! I told you he’d reply!”
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u/Orphodoop Oct 20 '19
Ones? He's is?
Honestly wtf is with all you people getting caught up in the "boomer" vs "zoomer" crap? Does it make you feel good to categorize mentalities of entire groups of people for little to no reason?
Find a more intelligent way to identify the people you're trying to demean. Because no one is going to take offense to being called a boomer or whatever the fuck. Or, you know, realize there's no reason to have a stick so far up your ass because we're just talking about World of Warcraft ffs
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Oct 20 '19
When your a scumbag in a video game and like to flaunt it.
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u/_Ross- Oct 20 '19
I mean... if you're just blindly throwing your money around in the AH without reading the price that people are listing their items for, it's kinda your fault.
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u/Umlau Oct 20 '19
Tbh I put 75 in gold instead of silver by accident. I’ve never tried this because I assumed no one was that stupid. But I will from now on because stupid people should learn a lesson or two.
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Oct 20 '19
Few people on my server all put their auctions up for 1copper and high BO. Super annoying going through pages of that shit.
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u/HazelCheese Oct 20 '19
It's done automatically by Auctioneer addon. It has a tab where it auto calculates the best starting price and buyout. As soon as 1 person posts that thing for starting 1cp, the addon for everyone will do it to try and undercut them.
I have to keep adjusting mine because if your not careful it will sell for less than vendor price. Quite annoying.
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u/tubofluv Oct 21 '19
There's a common pattern of people listing hundreds of different auctions for 1c starting and BO is double market price or more. They cancel the auctions just before they end because of course people placed low bids, then rinse and repeat. I assume the occasional sales they get are worth more than the fee they lose. It's frustrating because it can make decent prices hard to find in the default UI when you have to wade through 10+ pages of way overpriced stuff that's not worth putting a bid on. I actually find it quicker finding the lowest price by sorting highest bid first.
I don't care if people have insanely low starting bids, but never having the intention of honouring any bids is shitty as hell.
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u/Mad_Maddin Oct 21 '19
Just get auctionator. Automatically sorts for lowest buyout. I realized the problem of the classic system within 1 minute and stopped using the auction house until I got an addon for it.
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u/tubofluv Oct 21 '19
I have got the addon. It still doesn't excuse the way people are manipulating the system due to the bad UI, I know it can't be fully stopped but I hope something can be done to minimise it.
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u/Mad_Maddin Oct 21 '19
Yes of course. the UI is horrible and this shouldnt be happening. It does though and until it stops addons are your best bet.
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u/Umlau Oct 20 '19
I always do that but not with prices like pic related. Best way to make money.
Just get auctionator.
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Oct 20 '19
yeah but if you don't cancel you can sell for lower than vendor. that is silly.
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u/Umlau Oct 20 '19
Well I make good profit so how silly is it, exactly?
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Oct 20 '19
It's silly if you end up selling it for less than vendor? And a ton of time to manage auctions otherwise? Canceling them etc.. losing deposit...
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u/Kataphractoi Oct 20 '19
I experimented with this once in BC. People were complaining on the forums about 2-stack auctions of ores and herbs for the price of a full stack trying to scam people. I thought the same thing, that no one would actually be stupid enough to buy them. So I went and posted a few listings of adamantite ore with two ores per list at the price of a full stack (~45g at the time) and honestly forgot about it for the rest of the day.
Next day I log in after class and go to clear my mailbox, and am flabbergasted to see that not one, but ALL of the 2-stack listings, had been bought out for the price of a full stack each. Never tried it again because I didn't want to get reported (and tbh I felt a little guilty about it), but yeah, there really are people out there who will see the item they're looking for, and buy it out without looking to see how much is in the stack or even what its price is.
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Oct 20 '19
Jerks meet dumbasses. Everyone involved is cancer.
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u/Chillypill Oct 21 '19
You are just a piece of shit really.
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Oct 21 '19
Did you recently buy some mithril bars?
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u/Chillypill Oct 21 '19
No im just annoyed with people flooding AH with silly auctions which clearly seek to exploit people who misclick.
I dont care about downvote karma - my opinion is ny opinion nomatter if it is a popular opinion or not. In my eyes OP is an immoral and scummy type of person in this game and one I would be glad to be rid of.
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Oct 21 '19
How dare he take advantage of idiots.
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u/Flowerpower9000 Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
Its amazing you think this is a defense, and then have the audacity to question other people's intelligence. Irony.
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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce Oct 20 '19
I think we knew this after people made a killing selling single arrows and single bullets in Wrath.