Otherwise you’ll have to wait that long to get the item” No Buyout – No Sale! If it’s running an extremely long time, you may wish to avoid bidding on that item. Player biddingĮven though playtimes are now longer than 6 years ago, I doubt any of your potential buyers are willing to stand around bidding against each other for 48 hours!īlizzard cautioned at the time: “Check out how long the auction is running. Unfortunately, the gold sellers loved and abused the system.

There was no 1 hour waiting time for receiving your gold in your mailbox, so both parties were happy. If special loot dropped, like a BoE epic, then you could advertise in the trade channel that you were running an auction for 2 hours, with a starting bid.īecause they were likely to hang around for the auction duration, players could place bids and actively bid against each other, similar to ebay.

If you look closely at thescreenshot for today you can see the old auction times. If you set the item at a more expensive price, it will not sell” Forgetting to tell us that you might waste your gold if you could have soll it to a vendor instead? naughty naughty! Auction House Historyīack in WoW Vanilla, when the Auction House was a novelty, and the biggest news in World of Warcraft gold making was “let’s team up and grind the elites at Tyr’s Hand for cash!” then Auction times were set to 2, 8 or 24 hours. You might laugh at Blizzard’s own outdated advice: “You should set the item’s minimum bid at a similar or cheaper price. You may laugh at the second advice, but it is possible to make a very decent gold with an Auctioneer addon scan and search for items to resell to a vendor for profit! Some guys just do not realise that merrily undercutting the other sellers leaves them open to exploitation. When you set your bidding price you need to check 1) that you would be willing to accept that price for the item, and 2) check that the amount is now lower than the vendor price. When you post an item to sell on the AH, you have the choice of setting a bid price, or setting the bid price and the buyout price.Ī bid price is the lowest amount that a seller would accept to purchase the item. A background for newcomers to selling on the Auction House: I restrained myself from answering your comment so that I could post the answer for everyone. Is it or is it not important to have a buyout price attached to your auctions? would i not attract more traffic without the buyout price? would i be excluding the quick buyer, or the impulse buyer? just your thoughts on the matter.

I have a question that you could possibly talk about to all your followers.

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