With blizz random number algorithm it’s possible to loot 7x nodes of dreamfoil in a row and to get 1 herb for chance 1-3. What is a probability of it? But today I experienced another funny trick.
I searched for medium leather. All is sorted by last % column. I have group of 10+ of 20x [Medium Leather] for 40s at 36% in last column and begin to mass buy it, At certain moment on a middle of my list of 36% I ninja receive out of nowhere 20x [Medium Leather] for 3g 50s @ 345% or so. Everything is possible with blizz algorithms. I was always thinking WTF people are posting something for ridiculous price. I guess someone is aware about this “brilliant” peace of failed programming. 
My only advice is to pay closer attention to the buttons you push.
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Attention is always important. But you have SORTED list. You buy item and it disappears. Your list supposed to look the same minus item that is sold. It’s default game AH UI. They build interesting game and cannot make AH UI to work properly.
Ten bucks says it’s user error.
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What kind of sorting algorithm of the list like:
36-36-36-36-36-36-36-36-36-36-36
will sort something like
36-36-36-36-365-36-36-36
This is STUPID. They sort 36 as it’s character and not number.
Even with this failed sorting why 365 in the middle between 36s?
My personal favorite is when I am scrolling down the enchant list and it keeps flying back up to the top. Soooo irritating.
BUT, and I am not making excuses for blizzard… Classic WoW has less than 5% of the bugs that retail does… Sooooo there is that. Retail has sooooo many bugs and just broken mechanics. Take for example Rogue nuerotoxin, a PVP talent that does like 8% attack power as damage (basically nothing), and adds 1 sec CD to any ability the enemy player uses. Sounds interesting until you realize the GCD exists making this utterly pointless.
Ain’t retail great!, such high quality!
Back to Classic here, their RNG mechanism is jacked too, 66% chance to crit with backstab, and get numerous strings of literally no crits, entire boss fights! then the next boss fight all crits, like 100%…
ill be the first to point out there is no such thing as RNG, its instead a predetermined string of numbers with a “seed” that is generated some how (no information on WoW’s RNG seed is known in the public) any how, the RNG string is then played out from a “Seed” point in the string. Trouble is the string has massive chains of nothing then massive chains of ON or OFF making the game play kind obnoxious.
Would be nice if Classic team went back and fixed up some of these tattered edges and crusty details.
It didn’t. You pooched it.
ETA: did you specify 36? Because that will also pull up 365.
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I sort my AH searches by last column which is PCT. And I’ve seen this many times before. Of course you click cancel when 3g appears instead of 40s. But when I looked on a list in a middle of blue 36% numbers I can see red 365% and this line is selected.
Then you probably bumped your mouse.
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Once again. You have list. all items are 20x [Medium Leather]
the only what’s different is price and PCT. I’m on a page 2 out of 3. List is sorted by PCT that’s why all crazy 365% are on a page 3. On my page 2 in the middle of blue 36% I select row (20-30 items with 36%) and clicking buy. Popup screen appears, 40s for 20 ML. I click OK. I did it 5 times. On 6th or so I see 3g50s. I’m clicking cancel and observing sorting like above. I clicked next to it 36% and bought it and now I can see TWO 365% items on a middle of my 36% list. There were no any red PCTs on a page 2 also after 36% there were MANY green 70sh PCTs.
Okay.
Good luck.
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If you have sorted by the ‘%’ column, then you are using an addon like Auctioneer since that column doesn’t exist in the Blizzard UI, so don’t blame Blizzard. With Auctioneer, for example, sorting by the ‘%’ column works well when there is only 1 page of stuff. More than one page, you’d better look through them all before you start buying because lower %'s can exist on other than the first page.
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And you’re correct. It’s a bug of Auctioneer. I just forgot about it.
There is nothing about this that can’t be chalked up to user error.
Also, items are ONLY SORTED BY BID PRICE and have never, ever, ever been sorted by buyout price. There is nothing random about what you experienced and nothing Blizzard did that hasn’t been the same this whole time. Why do you think people post massive blobs of items for 1s Bid 350g Buyout? So that their item goes to the absolute top of the list and is seen first. Tons of people will bid 1s, then 2s, 50s, whatever the bid price goes to, so that random stack of 350g buyout price will gravitate toward the middle of the pile as this trend continues and people think they can get leather for 1s.
This really does not need to be explained, but here we are I guess.