Well then, whether you believe me or not, it was bought out automatically. That’s my issue here: I had no chance to fix my mistake.
Understandable, as a returning player, there is doubt and bias towards my issue here. I accept my mistakes and don’t play enough but at that point i felt there was a huge injustice. And it’s not right.
Just because you keep saying it doesn’t make it true or accurate.
Your auctions were not bought out automatically. They were bought out very quickly. Maybe even almost instantly.
Why are you asking me these questions? I was doing what other players have told me to do, including a GM. I tried using the mailbox to reach out to them, there wasn’t a player under that name anymore.
So I think at this point, you’re going to believe what you want to believe. And that’s fine - I can’t prove it wasnt a bot, all we can do is explain that it is very easy to do exactly this with just add-ons.
But, your only recourse at this point is to keep trying to contact the buyer and ask them for some leniency. If you can’t seem to get in contact with them, maybe watch the ah for someone who posts both of those items and ask if they happened to buy them cheap. They are not obligated to do anything, giving you the items or gold is totally voluntary, but you can always ask.
Reporting to hacks will not result in a refund of your gold or items. But if it was actually a bot, they will action them as appropriate.
I think the disagreement is whether the buying was automatic. The AH addons can immediately let a player know there’s a deal as soon as it is posted. The player has to click a button to buy it. That latter action is not automatic. Thus there is no automation.
In fact, something else you’re missing is that given the sheer volume of players in the AH at any specific time, even if no one had addons, someone would almost certainly have grabbed those deals ASAP before you could cancel the auction. You might think the coincidence of it being a single player for both is important, but really it’s not. It just means that after they grabbed the first good deal, they had full attention on the AH search and saw the next - where other players could have been distracted or had more limited searches going.
What this really should emphasize as a lesson is that the time to check for and fix mistakes is BEFORE clicking the button to post the auction. There is no delay after clicking to post an auction before it shows up as eligible to purchase by a player. This was equally as true in vanilla WOW and how people sometimes got their attempts to move gold between factions sniped in the neutral AH.
Really, the only things that have notably changed with the AH are:
(1) It is region-wide. You’re not only selling to the players of your faction on your realm.
(2) There is no AH app, so everyone in the AH is logged in and in a location or with an item to view the AH in-game.
I think my point was missed. It was an entirely rhetorical question.
Go watch a few videos on how auction house addons work. I hope it might clear things up for you
Are you on a merged realm? If so, did you use full name including realm name when you tried to mail the person? It’s also possible the person is on the opposite faction which would prevent you from being able to content him or her, although then you’d get a different error message.
It’s a harsh lesson to learn, but pricing an item incorrectly and having it sell for less than it’s worth is something most players have done at some point. All you can do is learn from the mistake and be more careful in the future.
I think this may be perhaps the second time nd most important point in this entire thread. The first of course is we all know it was an addon.
You likely are not able to mail the player because you are not including the realm in the in game mail.
It is not just sold to your server.
What I don’t understand here, is the fact, that two unrelated items with two different price points were bought out instantaneously. If you say, the volume of players matter, an x amount of player would get the same pop ups? Alert or not.
Is Tichondrius considered a merged realm? I did not see anything connected to their name-- server or otherwise. I took screenshots for this reason.
You’d be surprised how fast I can Ninja Swipe something on the AH. Using the completely legal , most popular, AH addon.
No rules were broken. Despite your assertions you only suspect. You do not know. You’ve been told this by a Blizzard rep as well as longtime players and posters here in this assistance forums.
But you do have the right to report your suspicions. You’ve been provided the information. Trying to convince others to your point of view is a waste. On both sides.
Report your suspicions and move on.
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First, they weren’t any more instantaneous than your ability to type in information for the second auction and click post. You had to decide what to auction, fill in the bid and buyout amounts, and click the button to sell To you it was instant from the moment of clicking sell, but between those two sales was your own actions - not instant.
Second, those AH addons have filters. Not everyone wants to bother with every item that gets posted on the AH. This one player may be scanning for everything. They may be scanning only for things they believe would normally be priced over 100,000 gold.
I am sorry you lost out on more gold, but that is the way the AH has always worked - and there have always been players who spend lots of time scanning just in case someone makes a mistake.
Again, the real lesson to learn is to slow down and review your auction before clicking the button to sell. That is your confirmation that you meant to set that price.
The way some of these AH addons work is like this:
You pick items that commonly go for a lot of gold and tell it to alert you anytime one is posted under a certain price (that you set). If you are at the AH when an item on your is posted it pops up letting you know what price it is at and you click “Buy” or not.
This can be done in a matter of seconds, but is not considered botting or automated because the player has to be there and click buy for it to work.
As for not being able to contact the buyer in question, the AH is now cross-faction for most items, so the buyer may have been the opposite faction and you’d need to try contacting them on a character of the same faction/realm.
I’m not positive, but you might get that message if the other player is on the other faction. All AHes are cross-faction.
I made the same mistake many years ago and lost a bundle, You have to be careful when you put things up especially more so now with cross realm auction houses and also it being the holidays means more are playing and if they see a deal they’ll snatch it up quickly.
Sorry for your loss as I know the felling because it happened to me too.
you had the chance… before hitting the button to create the auction.
It makes no sense to check after the auction has been created.
this isn’t a thing.
they’re cross faction, but not cross realm.
I think they mean connected servers.
Connected Realms share their Auction House.
They most likely weren’t bot but folks who have the AH in constant scan to make them aware of things put up below market value!
connected realms are… connected.
not cross realm.
the connection makes them literally the same realm with the same economy, and none of the cross realm restrictions.
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A Tauren liking beef. Cannibalism?