


Auctioneer will begin recording statistics for every item it finds, including the bid, buyout, and more.

When you go to the Auction House (AH) for the first time after installing Auctioneer, you will see a row of 3 buttons along the top of the main "Browse" frame, click the "play" button to begin your first scan of the entire AH. The Auctioneer Suite can help you alleviate this lack of market knowledge over time by watching the market evolve. When supply is high, but demand is low, competition drives the prices down, and conversely then supply is low, but demand is high, the market is driven into a sellers market. Primarily, the driving factor of the price fluctuations, as in the real world is supply versus demand. Sometimes, the prices and value of your items can be wildly different compared to the vendor price due to many factors, the value of items that can be made from your item, the use of a particular item in a quest, the suitability of a particular weapon or armor to specific classes, and the disenchantability of an item to enchanters. In such an economy, which is in a constant state of flux, it can be difficult to select the correct pricing points for your item at the AH. We are now dealing with the fluid and hectic nature of a dog-eat-dog market economy. No longer is the user dealing with the static prices of the vendor to support their character's income. Once a user moves to the Auction House (AH) and beyond just buying and selling from/to vendors, the whole game changes.
