Trying to upgrade my daggers on my rogue, a level 70, and go to the settings and set 65-70 as my parameters, and buy them out since a level 70 is what is required for them, only to find out - once I get them - that a level 80 is what is now needed. WTH? This has happened to me three times. Is this happening to anyone else?
Thanks
did you try to get to lvl 80 then equip it? it should work
I get your frustration.
I learned to click/hover over the item to see it’s actual ilvl.
That works. But only after you have been burned by buying the wrong stuff at least once.
What’s the point in the “usable only” filter? They need to fix this.
I’ve had some guildies with the same issue in the past few days. Not sure what’s up with that. I only saw 1 bug report that may or may not be from the same thing. Any work arounds?
I’m not saying I LIKE the solution I found 
Thanks, Lastarria. I meant to mention I had checked the “usable only” filter in addition to setting the other parameters. Guess I can sell them at a loss or save them until my rogue levels up. Ja, that’s a major problem and needs attention.
Just sell asap, I don’t think the value of that gear is going up, and you’re rogue might not need it
^ This is the work around.
Imagine searching “Gaming Monitor” on Amazon while having the price set to <$400 and just buying whatever the first thing is without even looking at the details.
That’s what every single person is doing when they complain about this particular AH Quirk.
The tooltip of the actual item you are buying says the correct level & stats.
It’s just the consolidated listing that isn’t filtering properly.
So yes, it’s a problem. Blizzard needs to fix it. But Christ Almighty read what you are buying before you Check Out.
AH has been hosed for awhile. Now you have to shop by ilvl to keep from getting 80 gear.
Greens are only valuable if you are new or a disenchanter.
You can buy a full set of 580 delve gear for 5k coins.
I’ve also had this happen on a level 70. For some reason when I moused over them, they said lvl 70 but after I purchased and it says level 80.
However, you can learn the appearance @ lvl 70 if you don’t have it and it turns into a Warband item.
So you’re going to have to look at Ilvl rather than level.
Try using the “current expansion only,” option and you’ll see how bad the AH UI is
Thanks, everyone! I will def be more careful before plunking down my g’s from now on. 
This. I learned the hard way that this is the only way to see the correct level
It’s been broken like this for years and years, many expacs. It seems to rely on some potential window of the lower bounds of what drops can scale to and for some reason thus always shows them as appropriate for the last expac’s max level. No idea why but it was an issue last expac and the one before.
File a bug report or make a post on the bug forum as that’s where Blizzard will see it but I’m guessing this one is low priority given how long it has existed. Perhaps complicated to fix and requiring touching too many things or overhauling a system.
When I worked in retail (many years ago), that was the attitude, Erolyssa, only worse. Things would get to the point where the manager would just “put a band-aid on it” and hope that either it would go away or someone else would fix it.
Problem with that was neither of those things ever happened.
As we are doing here, we developed a work-around and depended on that to get us by.
Meanwhile, back at the dike…another problem would develop, another “temporary fix” and pretty soon… well you know what happened, right?
I’m just glad I have friends like you who will at least discuss it and help old farts like yours truly figure it out. I really do appreciate that. 
To the OP… Of all the things messed up in WOW I agree AH is the most glaring messed up code in the entire game and I am sure they are not fixing it all because programmers have things to do way in advanced sometimes even years in advanced but sadly even I do not know the ETA when this will be fixed. Also May never be fixed if they are using this type of error to keep out private addons that nobody knows about so bad addons stay broken… but that is just my theory
Because of level scaling and item can have multiple different levels and ilvl for the same item name. Just got to be more careful looking at the listings and looking at not just the cheapest dagger in the listing for the proper level restriction.