I’m not a goblin but I use the auction house regularly. By now nearly everyone has read at least one post about the tanking prices since the change went into place. I’m not upset about that, prices were out of control. I only bought a legendary for my main toon this whole xpac simply because 250-500k for a weapon on alts is not “fun” and I would rather spend my gold on a vendor mount or something I get to keep AFTER the xpac ends. So please don’t think I’m whining because I’m not able to sell items for 1M gold over its production cost, I’m not.
I am curious however, as to the reason why commodities are still being posted below the cost of the VENDOR materials required to craft them. At first I thought it was because people either had a stockpile of items they bought/crafted before the price changes or that they didn’t realize the price of thread went up.
Two months later these items are still being posted below the cost of the vendor mats BEFORE Blizzard increased them. Is this normal for end of xpac or is it bots or a larger pool of players who just don’t understand how to calculate their minimum price without losing money?
Will this self correct in DF with the new profession systems or is the AH a dying beast? It only takes 1 person in the entire north americas to mess up the entire market for everyone else and that feels like a broken system to me.
A lot of people don’t pay attention to vendor prices, even if it’s originally their own craft.
I will say, as someone who offloads a lot of trash to the auction house from the guild bank at the end of an expansion, I don’t care what the vendor mat cost is for crafting. I still turn a profit for the guild bank from it.
You can get vendor mats for below vendor prices from the AH sometimes, I don’t really understand why. I’ve seen a couple of sources that could trickle mats your way without you buying them, but not enough to sustain that kind of volume.
People go to dump and don’t check price. Like, if I’m emptying 1000 different items onto the AH and most of them are cheap I won’t look too closely at the numbers unless it’s some epic for 1 silver.
The best example I can think of offhand is the comfortable rider’s barding. It used to cost 36g in thread to craft and now it is 44g. The average price to buy since the region wide change is 33-40g.
I have made some decent “free” money on veiled augment runes and korthite crystals though, just buying them below vendor value from AH and selling to the vendor. I got 400 korthite for 21g each a few weeks ago, lol. I don’t know why you would bother with the AH at all if you aren’t gonna pay ANY attention.
I’ve found that since the AH change, I am more likely to be able to sell stuff than before, when everything came back. I don’t use any addons for AH, just check prices to see if it’s worth listing or I should vendor it.
Because people farm a lot and they can name the price they want to for their work I guess? I don’t know, maybe they just want to give back to the community and be nice. Or they just hate the people who kept shooting up the prices before and want to get back at them this way. /shrugs
You are seeing the entirety of the community in one place. People have always posted stuff for less than vendor, a few of the AH addons have searches specifically for that It may seem like it’s happening more now but really it’s just the entirety of the community in one AH doing it.
I understand supply and demand. Any item for sale is only worth what people will pay for it. Manufacturer’s aren’t going to keep selling something that doesn’t turn a profit however. That is a bankrupt business so no, my thinking is not errored.
This response makes the most sense to me. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens in DF.
All AH mods should be banned. AH rate limited to mess with scripting. Carefully monitored by trade police. And all auctions should be locked at 144 hrs. And token only accounts are basically used to manipulate the AH with millions of gold. I don’t know how to fix the last one… other than stop selling tokens entirely.
Also wow needs inflation. A new AH currency every expansion.
There’s actually a bot buying all the materials up. If you list spirits of harmony for 1s, you’ll see the same person buying them. They’re switching characters every couple of minutes so they can bypass the throttle but all of their characters have the same name format. The auction house needs to be changed. Sniping addons are ruining the economy.
There are so many on the AH that people are selling at a loss to recoup some of their cost. The items in question were more than likely crafted to power level their professions.
It may seem like it’s happening more now but really it’s just the entirety of the community in one AH doing it.