Bought a bunch of Tattered Wildercloth, which was priced at 6 silver a piece. Ended up buying 34,000 of it, but it was not priced at that price.
I don’t use any ah addons at all or anything like that.
Things in the AH are moving so fast right now you need to double check your quantities etc. And at 6 silver each that sounds like someone baiting buyers/sellers. Where they list one item super cheap people buy or list without looking and get caught spending alot more than they expected
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I have video of me doing it, which I can’t upload because it takes to long on my internet.
It was 8 silver a piece. I clicked buy. Even if I did buy 34,000 at 8 silver, it’s not a big deal because I would have got a ridiculously good price and just resold them for 20 silver.
To piggyback off Wolfess, you have to remember now every Retail auction house is connected now, no matter the realm or faction - when it pertains to trade goods. So you’re not just competing with your realm mates, you’re competing with every other player who just searched for that cloth and found themselves a deal.
And videos are not really accepted as evidence. I’m not saying you yourself are guilty of this, but videos and screencaps can be falsified. Blizzard only uses their logs of what happened. Likely someone just swooped in a split second before you did.
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When you tell the AH you want 34,000 pieces, it will purchase the pieces at the lowest price. But if there’s only a few at, for an example, 8 silver, and the rest are at 8 gold, then it will purchase for that price.
Right now, I see the Tattered Wildercloth for 8 silver, but there’s only 533 at that price. Putting in 34,000 pulls in cloth at 29, 30, and 35 silver per. That total right now is a little over 10k for 34,000 pieces.
I would bet that the full 34,000 pieces were not at 8 silver, only a few hundred or thousand, and that’s where the discrepancy comes in.
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I didn’t specify an amount, I just clicked buy.
Also, if that is how it functions, it should be changed because that is lunacy.
When I buy consumables, it lists how many are available at each price point people have posted them at. Easy enough to just glance at it before the purchase.
The AH sells by the quantity you order, not the price price point. If it can’t fill the quantity at the first price point, it moves on to the next price point.
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Ok - so if you want to by 1000’s of something that’s probably sold by 100’s of players at various prices - you want to sit there and make constant buyout orders until you have the quantity you want?
When you put a quantity in, it will highlight on the sell list which sell lots you will be buying from, so you can see it’ll start from the cheapest, then work it’s way up the list to fulfill the quantity you might be after. This can be seen before you finalise the purchase.
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Why would the auction house function this way?
That seems like such utterly bad design. There’s no way that it works this way.
Also, I didn’t intentionally buy 34000 cloth, it just happened.
I clicked, I hit buy.
Go test it for yourself if you don’t believe us. Select a common item, look at the list on the right hand side on the purchase screen, and add a quantity. You’ll see it visually highlight.
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Its not that I don’t believe you, I just can’t believe someone would intentionally program the functionality that way.
The other point that hasn’t been made yet, is that there is a confirmation screen after you click BUY that shows the purchase price and quantity.
So there are ways to double check before you commit to a purchase.
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The AH is designed to fulfill the quantity you want, not the price point.
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The price showed like, 3600 gold or something when I clicked buy.
So 9.4 silver per piece.
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Yes. but what I actually paid as about 20k.
Actually. I can’t say for certain if this is the base UI or if it’s because I use Auctionator, but I was buying some mats to send to my LWer, and I actually had an alert pop up about the price differential. Again, I don’t know if that is the add-on or the base UI, but it can warn someone who is paying attention to it.
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The base UI has this too (i use the base ui)
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Thank you. I was admittedly too lazy to go start turning stuff off to test the base UI theory, so I appreciate you saying so!
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I don’t understand your confusion. The functionality is that if you choose to buy 1000 widgets, the auction house sells you the 1000 cheapest widgets. If there 100 widgets at 1g each, 400 at 5g each and 20000 at 10g each, the AH is going to sell you 100 @ 1g, the 400 @ 5g and 500 @ 10g, and you are going to pay 7100g.
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