Please disable posting/cancel scanning features in AH addons

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Thank you for posting this. I used to sell crafted things on the AH on my little server because it was a way to make a little more gold over selling region-wide things like raw materials, but I’ve stopped selling crafted things on the AH because of this.

I found that I was spending more and more time re-listing my auctions against off-server sellers and making fewer and sales.

The frustrating thing about this is that one of the promises of the new crafting system was that it was supposed to give those of us who invested time and effort in it an advantage over those who didn’t.

But I’m not competing with crafters on my little server — I’m competing with players who buy things cheap on the bigger servers and then come to my server to flip them for a profit. You don’t need any points in a crafting tree to do this, just gold and a working understanding of TSM.

I guess this is capitalism, etc. and more power to them, etc. I make far more gold now selling delve reagents and all the things I loot from chests, etc. And I don’t have to re-list my auctions every fifteen minutes….

At any rate, I wish that they’d either make the entire AH region-wide or make it so that things bought from the AH would be account or warband bound.

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Good thing I never claimed that TSM is botting.

I said people are taking advantage of it to flood an insane amount of servers with auctions and ruining it for your average player.

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yeah for months there was someone undercutting key items on the AH, posting every 5 seconds, same toon, for months. I put in a ticket on it, and was told that if i wanted them to take action, i needed to track down this toon and right click report them, OR i could send video/screenshots to an account address.

They wanted ME to do their investigation for them, that’s the amount of effort blizz puts into things like this. Literally 0. They couldn’t even be bothered to communicate internally. Here’s the response:

So I checked this, and, from what I could gather by reading what you wrote us, is that you mentioned you believe that a player is using a bot for automated sales.

With that on the table, I can honestly understand why you decided to contact Customer Support in this regard.
Having said that, I took a look here, and in this case, we would advise reporting using the right-click report feature.
To report a player in World of Warcraft:

Select the player’s character and right-click the target character portrait or right-click the player’s name in chat
Click Report Player
Select the most appropriate option
Click Report

To file a detailed report, including videos and screenshots:
Email Hacks@Blizzard.com
Provide as many details as possible about the situation.

Due to the volume of reports, you may not receive a response from our team. However, all reports very seriously investigated.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us and for your patience through all this.
*If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us back. *

I wish you good luck on your adventures
Best Regards

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I’m going to sound incredibly selfish here, but here goes.

I personally love that this exists. I love that stuff is dirt cheap and I truly could not care less for WoW’s economy. The worst thing about a new expansion is how expensive stuff is early on, and how much this means I need to be doing sales throughout the expansion to save up a stockpile of gold to be able to afford the beginning of the next expansion.

As far as I’m concerned, anything that pushes prices to the floor is good.

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Yeah, the difficulty is reporting the obvious bots because you have to locate them and target them in the 60 seconds or so that they are online. It makes it rough.

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The thing is, this doesn’t lower prices. They often just offer the same price, just constantly relist so the only change is who gets the gold. The price wouldn’t change much, if at all, if they weren’t there. In fact, if they drive other sellers a way, prices would increase sometimes because I know I sell things at lower prices than their defaults.

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Found another multi server AH auctioneer that was willing to have a conversation.

I blacked out part of the character name to make it harder to track down but left enough that you can tell they are just making characters with server names.

Certain AH addon functionality and the warbank can be a problematic combination, which more and more people are taking advantage of.

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they dont really cancel their auctions most the time you can sit there spam buying their item and it keeps getting reposted but they are getting more than you ever will with that buying 50-5000+ each time someone mistakenly undercuts the item

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Just had two more pop up on my server today with xxxxservername. Checked both, both are in guilds with a bunch of characters doing the same thing.

It’s beyond ridiculous at this point because when it comes to things like profession equipment and bags, we easily have more people from off server selling them on our server than we do people from our own server.