| If you have played WoW for any reasonable length of | | | | so you are more easily able to identify under priced |
| time you will have noticed that you can use addons to | | | | items. In WoW, auctioneer allows you to treat the |
| enhance your game play experience. There are quite | | | | economy very similarly to a real-world economy with |
| a few add-ons for WoW, auctioneer being one of | | | | fluctuating prices and changing conditions whilst helping |
| them. What they do is change the way the game | | | | you out by keeping track of all of that for you. |
| looks or behaves within a set of strictly defined rules - | | | | There are some items which are easier to make a |
| basically just to stop the game being automated. | | | | profit on than others and you have to take into |
| Auctioneer is an auction house add on which you can | | | | account the listing price as this can cut into your profits |
| use to scan the current listings - I would recommend | | | | on certain items. One type of item I recommend trying |
| doing this twice a day to start with and then once a | | | | to make a profit selling is shards as they don't incur a |
| day after that. What this allows auctioneer to do is to | | | | listing fee so you can work with much lower margins |
| collect data on how much items are selling for so that | | | | and not worry about them not selling first time. |
| you can get information on what to price your items at. | | | | Most of playing World of Warcraft revolves around |
| It also makes a process called "playing" the auction | | | | gold, without it everything is much harder and less |
| house much more simple as auctioneer does a lot of it | | | | enjoyable - sometimes even impossible. However, it |
| for you. | | | | can be difficult to generate any substantial amounts of |
| There are a couple of techniques you can use but the | | | | gold and many players spend much of their game time |
| main one is "Buy Low, Sell High" which is when you | | | | grinding away ineffectively at low-value mobs so even |
| find under priced items and re-list them for a more | | | | the smallest amounts can seem arduous. The |
| appropriate price and make a profit. Where auctioneer | | | | alternative is to buy gold and that clearly isn't the |
| comes in is that it allows you to have a better | | | | greatest idea as you can get your account banned, |
| knowledge of the true value of items that other sellers | | | | losing all your hard work in the process. |