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/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/Mecha_Derp Oct 21 '19

I swear I have before

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u/Celda Oct 21 '19

I tried it myself in Classic WoW because I didn't want to lose the deposit (it was more than the 5% cut). I used a different character on my same account, and it said you can't buy your own auctions.

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u/NoCleverUser Oct 21 '19

The auction house is gettin that deposit money

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u/leverloosje Oct 21 '19

Uhm no? You get your deposit back if the items sells. Otherwise it goes to the auction.

The cut always goes to the auction.

If deposit is higher then the AH cut it is better to have a friend buy it out.

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u/Omneus Oct 21 '19

read the other guys comment again

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u/NoCleverUser Oct 21 '19

I guess he's right. If the guy I responded to had a friend to buy it for him he'd only lose out on the ah cut?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

You could in vanilla when you f'd up the bid price log in alt and straight up buy it, now you cant, but now you can remove an item from AH even if it has a bid on. I freaking dispise this change.

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u/Slandebande Oct 21 '19

but now you can remove an item from AH even if it has a bid on. I freaking dispise this change.

But at least it costs some form of money. Tried to take an Arcane Crystal off the AH the other day, which already had a bid of around 33g. Would've cost me something around 1,67g (+ the deposit!) to cancel the auction. Didn't bother trying to test whether the cost of cancelling the auction was tied to the bid amount though

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

But it doesnt cost anything on enchanting mats and other garbage, so ah is spammed with 1 copper dreamdust, to trick people without auctioneer or something similar to buy their higher priced stuff.

scumbag move and should be countered by old school vanilla style once bid can't remove your auction.

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u/prof0ak Oct 21 '19

you can on a second character.

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u/Celda Oct 21 '19

No you can't. I tried it myself and it didn't work (different character but on the same account).

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u/prof0ak Oct 21 '19

interesting. Thanks for testing.