I spent 6 minutes last night trying to buy an item but because people are spamming low prices for 1 mat in efforts to bait people to post there stuff cheap, the stack is always changing and it has to reload.
I don’t know the best way to fix it but this LIFO system is abysmal in high traffic.
EDIT: meant lifo, sleep deprived and also dumb.
The system is actually LIFO which is why it’s a problem. Agree that the “bait” bids are annoying, but I’ve made 30k or so sniping them so far. Not nearly as much as I made right after DF launch but it’s something. 
bruh what does FIFO mean? now does it apply to the experience you’re having? lmao no
first in first out
yes which is absolutely not how the AH works lol
You’re describing people undercutting with one mat. That’s not the LIFO system, that’s someone undercutting which happened before the AH update.
You’re more likely having an issue with the AH being region wide, vs only for your server.
Also, if you’re using TSM trying to buy high volume commodities, it can sit there constantly scanning before it lets you purchase. Just switch to the default wow interface for those purchases.
There’s a few things going on…
It’s an expansion…early access…so there’s a lot of people playing right now. It also means there are high demand and high thorough put through the AH right now especially for trade goods.
You slap on top of that regional trading and addons like Trade Skill Master and it’s incredibly difficult to facilitate buying from the cheapest stack on the trading post because its constantly changing.
With the regional action house system there needs to be a system of buy orders introduced to the AH. This would solve a lot of the problems.
Blizz needs to start banning people who abuse the AH. They need to have a limit of 100 items before you can post mats on the AH.
Blizz should limit cancel scanning too. That crap slows down the AH for everyone.
will not work well with one of the new rare mats you can get to make the engineering mount. no one is going to wait for them to get 100 of them just to post them on ah
Region wide is a helluva thing. I have issues on TSM. The default UI just buys whatever next priced thing there is.
How to solve the 1-stack buy? Make the AH like the stock market: let buyers place in an order to buy up to X amount under Y price by Z time. Then if people post 1-stacks of stuff to screw sellers, they automatically get swept up by pending orders.
Exactly…
Sellers can list to sell at a price or auction.
Buyers can list to buy at a price up to a certain amount but they deposit gold to cover those buy orders.
It works out better.
That exact problem is why I use auctionator. Love that add on. Your page isn’t full of spam posts.
While I do like the idea of buy orders, it comes with a host of its own problems I hope the developers consider before implementing.
The problem is the regional AH… I’d rather have it local.
i hope they not only implement buy orders but allow us to create derivatives like options
Ah yes, lets allow people with too much time to hold markets hostage on low pop servers. What could possibly go wrong xD
With warbank, that would be kind of hard to do since anyone can send gold to whatever server has the lowest price for a thing through warbank, buy there, toss items in warbank, pull out of warbank and sell on whatever server has the highest prices, rinse and repeat.
Can’t really go back to individual server AH now.
Just connect these low realms AH instead of making it whole regional
I rather have it local too. It helps with the bot problem too. Bots bot on low pop realms then they throw it up on the region wide AH. That’s why the market crash hard and fast in DF.