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What is Auctioneer?

Auctioneer is an addon for the game World of Warcraft that is authored by a team of developers led by Norganna. It was started originally in early 2005, a few months after the public release of the game and has undergone five major revisions and countless minor revisions since then.

What is the purpose of Auctioneer?

Auctioneer really has three primary objectives:

1. Scanning the AH to assist in finding the market value of items
2. Providing a means to post auctions in a fast and efficient manner
3. Providing a method to identify good deals on the AH that you might profit from

What is Auctioneer Advanced?

Auctioneer Advanced is a ground-up rewrite of the Auctioneer code in order to provide a number of enhancements to the end-user, including:

• CompactUI - An alternative to the standard auction browsing interface
  • Displays more auctions per page
  • Displays more data per auction
  • Provides a percentage comparison with the Market Value Statistic of your choice
  • Allows auctions to be color coded by price level
  • Allows multiple sorting options not available on the standard interface
• Appraiser - An alternative way to post your auctions
  • Remembers your preferences for bid/buyout prices, stack sizes, and number of listings to post per item
  • Allows queuing of auctions, so you can instruct it to list hundreds of auctions and alt-tab while it does so for you
  • Allows you to specify the value price of your choice and remembers your selection
  • Displays competing listings, the age of the data, and allows you to sort these listings and refresh them easily
  • Provides a scrollable list of all auctionable items in your bags and allows you to select them for listing quickly
  • Provides a "Match Competition" setting which will automatically undercut your competition when posting auctions, within your parameters
• Stat modules - These are customizable statistic modules which can be added to provide different types of pricing information through Auctioneer
  • Stat-Simple - A straight average of the last 100 listings seen per item, with averages across 3, 7, and 14 days
  • Stat-StdDev - Similar to Stat-Simple, this ignores listings that are outside of one standard deviation from the mean.
  • Stat-VendMarkup - This allows you to calculate a listing price based on a markup of the vendor sell price.
  • Stat-WOWEcon - This uses the outside addon WOWEcon to provide purchase-based data from it's database.
  • Any other stat module that you or others wish to create can be easily added to auctioneer functionality
• BeanCounter - An associated addon that tracks your bid, postings, and mail to help you determine your profitability
  • Creates journal entries when you bid, buy, post, or retrieve AH mail.
  • Provides a searchable interface that can display all activity or only certain items
• BottomScanner - An associated addon that prompts you when it sees auctions that fit your criteria for bidding
  • Uses evaluators that you can customize for various desired deals such as:
    • EvalResale - Prompts you for deals based on discount from the market value, AH fee, and expected relistings
    • EvalDisenchant - Prompts you for deals based on disenchanting armors and weapons
    • EvalProspecting - Prompts you for jewelcrafting deals from prospecting ores
    • EvalVendor - Prompts you for auctions listed below vendor sell price
  • Scans the last and first page of the AH if configured to do so
  • Piggybanks on your AH scans if allowed to do so