Auctionator: a great addon for your AH arsenal!

As promised, today I will be highlighting one of my favorite new addons to use: Auctionator. I currently use this addon to supplement my QA sales for appropriate items, such as Disenchanted materials (ID, GCE) as well as flasks, bags, and runescrolls. I also use it to buy items in bulk, in replacement of Auctioneer's "Snatch" function (something I find to be entirely too complicated to setup / use easily).


Buying Items

Buying items with Auctionator is fairly straight forward. First, you search for the item you want to buy. The search is then saved to a list and is opened in a box below the search field. Items listed in the field are listed by the lowest price-per-unit (1 of whatever it is you're searching for). To the right of this, you will see listed the number of stacks of the item, followed by its stack size. Further to the right, is the actual price-per-stack.



Once you've decided to buy something, the following box pops up:



This box allows you to enter the number of stacks that you want to buy (with a max available number listed below it) and the price listed to the right. The price will increase to the price-per-stack multiplied by the number of stacks you want to buy, ultimately letting you know just how much your spending. Then, simply hit the "Buy" button and it will begin purchasing the item for you. On a large number of buyouts, it will buy in intervals - all you need do is continue to click the "Buy" button to continue buying the item.

Selling

Selling items is almost mindless in its ease-of-use. Simply drag the item you wish to sell into the box in the upper-left corner (much like Auctioneer). From here, a detailed list of the current value of the item pops up in the box to the right. From there, simply edit the number of stacks you want to sell, the stack size, and the duration you wish to use (which stays at whatever you set it to, until you change it. Otherwise, it will sell all items at the current duration you have listed below).



Another cool function of this "sell" section is that it will also allow you to buy out items on the "Sell" list. This is great if you know your competitor(s) have listed items at less than their value. Lastly, undercutting values can be set through the addons interface settings, seen below:




So yeah, other than incorporating this new toy into my list of addons - my pockets have been doing well! With the use of both this and QA2, I managed to double my money Tuesday night. I've learned that Netherweave Bags, though not the highest-profit item I can make, sell like hot cakes. I literally couldn't keep them up on the AH. I also learned that enchanting mats have a "sweet spot" for stack sizes. Some stack sizes sell out exponentially faster than others - do some research and set some lures, because once you've found it your stock will sell out FAST. I'm still recuperating from my sell out of infinite dust and GCE's. Flasks are selling well, but not for uber-high profit at the moment (Frost Lotus is WAY too expensive at the moment). Lastly, the glyph market is still under water from my flood of low priced glyphs - hopefully my competition will drown soon enough.

Cheers,

GG