Getting Started with Auctioneer
Written by Jon.
If you haven’t started using the Auctioneer add-on yet, or you haven’t figured out how to use it efficiently to make heaping piles of Gold, this next preview video is just what you need.
This one is an excerpt from the Week 1 videos in the Massive Gold Blueprint package, detailing how to get started with Auctioneer. Find out how you can buy, sell and profit like crazy in the auction houses of Azeroth.
Plus, in this video I’ll be throwing you a big, juicy hint about one of the huge bonuses that you’ll be able to snag as an early bird, when the Blueprint goes on sale in April.
If you have any questions about this video, or any of the other preview videos I’m sending your way, please post a comment.
- Jonathan
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The video is great, except you never explained why you run Auctioneer Classic as well as Advanced. I can’t really understand why you’d want to see both.
Jeff A
Hi Jeff -
I prefer to use both, because they each have important features that are missing in the other.
In several ways, the Advanced version is better. I like the way items are displayed and sorted when you are browsing the auction items - MUCH better than the Classic version, with sorting up or down, by bid, buyout, bid each, buyout each and so on, plus integrated (and color-coded) display of how much each item is below or above the “market” price. I also like the constant incremental scanning that happens while you are browsing.
However: the Advanced version does NOT have a normal method of scanning the auction house, which is really dumb, in my opinion. In Classic, you click “Scan”. In Advanced, I guess you’re supposed to run Bottom Scanner as the normal method of scanning. Also, I MUCH prefer the auction posting interface in Classic - compared to Advanced, where you have to use a new interface called “Appraiser”. Once more, this doesn’t suit my style.
So I run both, so that I can have Classic scanning and auction posting, but use Advanced’s browsing, sorting and so on.
I understand that the developers are planning to add these key “Classic” features back into Advanced in future versions. I hope so.
Anyway, it’s certainly OK to use one or the other version. All a matter of individual preferences.
Hope this helps.
- Jon -
Hello. this video is great. I have installed auctioneer succesfully but i have a problem. The little icon that is supossed to be at the log in (The little icon, that says ”addons”) is gone! It simply isn’t there. If anyone knows what to do please write a reply on this site or you can mail me at soeren1995@hotmail.com
Soren -
The Add-Ons button at the lower left of the log in screen should always be there IF you have any add-ons installed. It disappears if the World of Warcraft installation doesn’t see any add-ons.
So make sure the add-ons (Auctioneer and any others) really are installed in the /Interface/AddOns folder inside your installation folder.
If the add-ons are installed and working in the game, but you don’t see the Add-Ons button at log-in, I think you’ll have to ask Blizzard tech support for advice.
-Jon-
Where do you get the new advanced auctioneer? I searched on curse but it’s the same addon with the same interface as always.
Hey Bjorn -
Get it here, this is the developer’s site:
http://www.auctioneeraddon.com/dl/
- click on “Preview Version”, and download the “AuctioneerFullSuite” package
Full Suite includes both Auctioneer Advanced and Auctioneer Classic, and you should use both of them together - install the whole package of add-ons, and you’ll be all set.
Jon,
I have got the same newsletter about Preview Video #2 both the 25 and today. Is that the intention?
A comment on the video, the “video button” on top of the Auctioneer window doesn’t start bottom scanner! The “play button” starts the same scan of the auctions as you did in the video by pressing the scan button but you don’t have to mark the check boxes of the categories.
/Mats
Sorry ’bout that. It was a glitch, I didn’t mean to send the same thing twice. A new video is coming very soon, you’ll get an e-mail to let you know.
About the Auctioneer buttons… hmmm, it sounds like maybe Bottom Scanner isn’t installed correctly? I don’t normally use it, so I’ll have to take a look and see if I can figure out what might be wrong.
-Jon-
the searcj auction display pct. now and all that but the browse menu doesn’t. Is that becuase I’m using classic too? Although you said I should go for the blue auctions which I can’t see. So there is no big deal in this addon for me
It seams like that the small “video” buttons on the top of the Browse tab scans Auctioneer Advanced. If I scan the AH using the “scan” button, as you did in the video, Appraiser don’t show up to date values. If I, on the other side, scan the AH using the “play” button Appraiser will show up to date values.
But what I found out today is that if I only scan AH using the “play” button (that is Auc Adv scan) the auctions in the “Search Auctions” tab wont show up to date values!
Bottom Scanner works perfect, if I start it by pressing the big “play” button in the “BtmScan” tab it starts scanning and as soon as a auction is found the “Do you want to bid” window appears.
/Mats
I was wondering, which version of the Auctioneer addon is being used here?
I have ‘a’ version of it but im not sure it is as up-to-date as this one…
For example, mine does not show the Pct when i am on the Browse tab
If possible could someone put a link to the download for it…?
THANKS in advance!
Auctioneer is kinda confusing right now, with the different versions. They are planning to combine both the original “Classic” version and the new “Advanced” version in a complete package that works properly together.
For now, I recommend using both Classic and Advanced together. But Mats is right that you have to scan BOTH ways (with the “Scan” button for Classic, and the “Play Button” at the top of the window for Advanced) to get accurate data in the different search and browse windows.
Basically, if you want to use “Appraiser” to post auctions, you need to use Bottom Scanner (which is the “Play Button” method, and part of “Advanced”) to scan and find buys.
But if you want to use the Search Auctions and Post Auctions tabs, or Browse to find buys, then you have to use the Scan button method (which is all part of Classic).
If you want to keep things simple, just stick with the Classic version for now.
The downloads are at:
http://www.auctioneeraddon.com/dl/
[ click “Preview Version” to get the current download packages ]
- Jon -
Auctioneer Advanced does have a scan option. The small “Play” button at the top of the auction house UI is the auctioneer advanced scan button. I prefer to use both, since the Scan button is very up front, and the advance scan option is very out of the way if you don’t know what you’re looking for. The most recent versions of both mods scan together when you hit Scan now, so it makes one touch scanning a world of a lot easier.
Always keeping up to date!
Mar
Jon,
I dont know if its just my age or what but can you please tell me what to do so I can do the cross faction trading. I have bought a couple whistles to try and sell and am anxious to try this out. I have both horde and alliance on same.
Many thanks, Valerie
Hi Valerie -
The trick to cross-faction trading is that you have to have your horde and alliance characters on different World of Warcraft accounts. Otherwise, you can’t buy your own auction lots in the Neutral auction house.
I use two separate accounts. If you don’t have access to 2 accounts, try to find a trading partner - basically, anyone you know who plays WoW, and is willing to help you (it goes both ways, they get a lot of benefit too).
Get your partner to create a new character of the opposite faction, on your server, and run that character to Booty Bay (this is easy… I show you how to do it fast in the Blueprint videos).
Then you just meet up online once a week or something, and do your cross faction trading in Booty Bay. Your Horde character puts up the Prairie Dogs for a few copper, the partner’s Alliance character buys ‘em out right away.
It only takes a few minutes each trading session.
Of course… you can always just sell your Prairie Dogs on the Horde auction house for a good profit too. Higher prices and bigger profits on the Alliance auction house, that’s all.
Give it a try, let me know how it goes.
- Jon -