Auctioneer Guide – What is Auctioneer?

I’ve been using Auctioneer for months and months, well over a year now.  Without any shadow of a doubt this add-on is the most popular in WoW.  I can’t really think of anything else that so many players use on the sheer scale of Auctioneer.  But what exactly is it used for?  How can you use Auctioneer to make fairly large sums of gold?

Think of this post as a type of mini guide giving tips on how the add-on can be used.  I’m not going to try and write a complete article outlining everything there is to know about Auctionner as I simply don’t know everything!  The beauty of this mod is you can use it in so many ways to make money it would be almost impossible to note them all down.  Please continue reading if your looking Auctioneer information!

Just what is Auctioneer?

Auctioneer is an add-on designed for World of Warcraft.  This add-on takes all the information the auction house provides then sorts it and saves the data within database.  The standard auction house ui is not very helpful when it comes to quickly taking the information on item prices and comparing the cheapest to the most expensive.  Auctioneer however scans the auction house (hit the scan button!) saves the prices of all items into its database for future reference.  The main benefit of auctioneer is the fact it will constantly update its database and over time you will have a very accurate image of your servers economy.  This will allow you to quickly identify if items are overpriced, or in fact under priced so you can buy them and sell them on!

How can you make money using Auctioneer?

Let me start by saying making gold using auctionner is the easiest thing in the entire game.  It takes no skill, just time and gold.

There are quite a few ways I’ve used Auctioneer to make gold.  One of the best ways is to dominate entire item markets.  If you for example buy the entire Runecloth market up at a time when your Auctioneer has identified the Runecloth is being undersold by most people selling it.  You have the potential opportunity there to by all the Runecloth then re list it at the higher (normal price according to your Auctioneer database) price.

Another method is to monitor specific items that will appear on the auction house from time to time.  Certain low level twink items can be put up for shockingly low asking prices compared to what your Auctioneer database will say.  Buy these items then simply re list at the higher price, which your Auctionner will inform you of.

I don’t have a list of items at hand, but its easy enough to find out what the twink items are.  Simply perform level range searches in the level brackets your looking to buy items in.

Finally you have the random item searches.  Once you have scanned the auction house for around a week I’d imagine you have a pretty good picture of what your factions economy looks like.  Using this data you are able to search the auction house to find items which are listed under there actual worth.  Sure this will take time, but once your waiting around all day to raid or PvP it’s time you will have to spend.

Other advantages of Auctioneer

Make more money on the items you are selling.  Random stuff you pickup along your travels will have at once stage or another been scanned on the auction house by Auctioneer.  You can use this data to make sure your items are listed at competitive prices.

You can also use Auctionner to seek out bargain on trade good you use yourself.  If your looking for some ore there’s a good chance somebody will at some point under price that item.  Using Auctioneer you would be able to pounce at the opportunity and buy the materials.

Auctioneer Game!

Lets end on a fun note.  If you have never used Auctioneer before then head over to here and download it.  Once you have the add-on installed, make up a new character, send him/she a small amount of gold.  5-10 would be a nice start.  Then start using Auctioneer to play the auction house.  See what you can make within a week.  I’d love to hear peoples results in the comments if you give this a try.  I’ve done this before and the result have been very surprising indeed!

I hope you have found this quick guide of use, and I look forward to seeing you next time!

Grim.