Is it just me or is this really wrong?
Last night I was checking the AH and I saw some armor items at a lower price than the sell price that was shown if you hover your mouse over the item pictogram.
For example:
You hover over the item, and you see an item (green belt nothing special) which marks a sell price of 11g34s (on the spot where the price is listed what an NPC vendor will pay) and it is listed for 5g.
You can think seems odd, I can make a quick profit.
So you bought it for 5g.
Then you picked it up from you mailbox and where the price was stated 11g34s on the AH is now only 36s30c.
So is it normal that some people can change the vendor price of an item on the AH.
I think the only way to do so is by hacking into the code of the game.
I’ve checked another item which was priced in the same way and checked the item on Wowhead where its vendor price was less than 1% of the vendor sell price that was stated on the auction house.
So again is it just me or is this really wrong?
Or am I the only one whom have noticed this?
Is this a specific kind of items, in particular equipment?
There’s an Auction House bug with wearables dropping in scaled content (Chromie Time etc.) as they’re issued within a range of required/item levels. This results in various vendor prices as well.
I believe what happens is that instead of this specific price, some sort of „default” is chosen.
It’s definitely something that should be looked into as even while I am aware of it I got baited a few times.
If it’s any comfort at all, there’s a way to get the correct value: link the „suspicious” item in the chat.
That’s real gotcha! I was curious so tested that on an item Willow Belt of the Quickblade (ilvl 16) seeling for 5g 6s
In the overall list it shows a vendor price of 11g 25s 22c. The item in question has different versions (different stats variations) so i clicked on the item to see the list of variants. There was only the one listed.
Hovering over the item in that list which is showing the tooltip for the exact variant doesn’t show the vedor price in the tooltip at all for some reason. If you hover over the large icon at the top it does though but still at the 11g 25s 22c.
I linked it in chat and the tooltip says the vedor price is 27 copper!
Not at all. The item i tested on didn’t even have a bid price. The buyout was 5g, the vedor price in the tooltip said 11g, yet once you buy the item the tooltip will tell you the vendor price is 27 copper.
No, it is the sell price on the item that changes…
Like If you go in your backpack and hover over an item in there there will be a sell price which te vender will give you if you sell it.