I am wondering how an addon can scan a hole marked in a second, when manually can only get 50 hits in each search which takes a little second.
How can I do the same as the addon without using it? If I can’t maybe we should take the talk about banning it? 
You can’t. Scanning the whole AH takes a while.
Can you manually scan it just as fast as the addon?
Can you manually write down your damage from the combat log during a boss fight to know your DPS as fast as an addon? Or equip a certain gear set? Can you beat the computer sorting your bags? Are you faster adding up the +hit stats from your gear than a macro?
No but the data comes just as fast the addon collects it. It doesn’t count anything that hasn’t been locked.
Equip gear is possible to fo with Marcos in same haste as any addon.
Every descent player who knows his gear knows his hit chance and how to regulate it faster and more effecient than an addon
Ah, so now we’re getting somewhere, because you’re starting to justify how some things would be acceptable and some wouldn’t depending on what they are and not whether they do it faster than a player.
Well, you asked how auctioneer can scan the AH in a second and the answer is it doesn’t. It takes several minutes because the server doesn’t magically react faster to search requests from an addon.
If you have specific complaints about how you think this addon is unfair, be my guest, but elaborate using real arguments.
Okay - Once I get back from work I’ll make an equation for you - download the addon and times it.
I am sure that it somehow gain data differently than a player does.
As far as I know, there’s an API function in modern classic to download all the data at once which addons use to scan the AH in 15 seconds or so, but to actually display the results the scanning takes longer.
Can I download an API manually? Well for me it seems a bit over the top and polarize the marked in huge favor for those who uses it.
Not sure, must be a way to do it.
How is that gonna polarize the market though?
If you have specific complaints about how you think this addon is unfair, be my guest, but elaborate using real arguments.
33,333 items on AH - shows up to 50 each - therefore 667 pages.
Each reload takes 1.53 second - there for 17 min.
So if your addon takes that long for every time you go check AH - well when you got me - I’m sorry. 
Sure, that’s about what an addon needs.
Do you understand the difference between scanning the entire AH to record all prices and looking for a specific item?
How is that gonna polarize the market though?
It makes it way easier to control the marked against those who doesn’t has addon and use Excel to keep track on a small range of items.
Do you understand the difference between scanning the entire AH to record all prices and looking for a specific item?
Do you understand having such a huge advantage?
And again, that’s an entirely different thing. You said you could scan the whole market in a second, I told you it’s not true, and now you agree with me. Why are we still discussing this?
Well, to your point, it usually takes about 30 seconds. I’m not sure why it matters so much though.
And again, that’s an entirely different thing. You said you could scan the whole market in a second, I told you it’s not true, and now you agree with me. Why are we still discussing this?
Okay it takes a while - such a short while that it is next to nothing compared to if you manually had to do the same. What not to agree on in this matter?
It depends on the size of the AH.
It doesn’t, but OP started the thread under a wrong premise. You can’t ask for something to be banned while providing false information.
An addon that does things faster than humans can!
How far we’ve come! Progress is amazing.
Up until now I only used addons that did things less efficiently than myself.
Wait until the boys hear about this one! A whole new era of addons is coming! Beware of Skynet
An addon that does things faster than humans can!
How far we’ve come! Progress is amazing .
Up until now I only used addons that did things less efficiently than myself.
Wait until the boys hear about this one! A whole new era of addons is coming! Beware of Skynet
Well we can easily make a bot which can play better than most players.
I just prefer to play fair. I know that you might have lost your right hand and therefore need extra help, but I doubt most addon-users is somewhat handicapped.
People on this thread don’t understand the point of your post.
Try to browse the AH without TSM for example, pure Classic AH, research “Runecloth”, you will experience a cooldown while you browse each page. The total time to browse each page is massive.
Use TSM now, and scan the same thing “Runecloth”, you’ll get all pages 100x faster.
Now, try to do the same research with “Auctionner” or “Auctionnator” (doesn’t matter, both are useless addon if you compare with TSM speed), you’ll get slow result but faster than Classic Auction House, but 10x to 30x slower than TSM.
My response about that seem simple : TSM is made by more experienced developpers that seem to understand the LUA API of WoW better than others AH addons, and they made a better addon than everyone else. And anyway, the Classic Auction House is just a joke with a ridiculous cooldown.
I started with “Auctionner”, but since it require 15mn to 1 hours to scan the whole AH, I switched to TSM, and now I can scan the whole AH in less than 1 minute … plus the TSM Desktop App that share the scan with everyone else, you don’t need to scan because other guys is doing it for you constantly lul.