Online AH

I just checked out the functionality of the online AH that is attached to the armory. There is some good functionality on there for gold sellers and and normal people who post a few auctions here and there.

It is not a good application for the incredibly psycho, obsessed with making gold, ocd players like myself.

Lets start with me, cause me is my favorite subject. I cant use the website/iphone version of the AH because I post in the range of 3000 auctions at a time on a 48hr or less cycle. Mostly that is glyphs but I am ranging into the world of scrolls of enchants. I need addons like QA3 and postal and auctioneer to be effective with my gold making and you can't use any of those with this version of AH access.

The other main problem is that my main poster of auctions is a bank alt. That bank alt is level 3 and no toons under level 10 shows up on the ah.

The last problem is less of a hassle than the first two is that you have to manually put in prices for everything you sell. My addons price my auctions at a set price or percentage of undercut from the lowest priced item on the AH at the time.

Now on to why this service is good.

For casual players it gives them a chance to play with the market and keep track of the items they are selling. More gold in the pocket of casuals means more they can spend on my auctions.

It would also be good for someone like me when it comes to buying in the specialty markets. Certain big ticket items or rare materials are only worth buying at specific prices. This online AH would help those of us who want to snag a great deal when we cant actually log on to our toons.

And finally, the controversial side of things.

Goldsellers. These are the guys who will truly profit from this application. One of the few ways to earn gold that has not fully been realized by the goldsellers is selling things other than base materials (like herbs and ore) on the AH. With this application they could monitor sales and keep on top of the undercutters without having to be online. I am sure there will be scripts and bots made to continually refresh the web page and cancel/repost as soon as they are undercut. Its much easier to exploit a web browser or even the iphone than it is the game.


All in all I won't be paying even the small fee of $3 a month for this.