We can all see the scammers in Auction house, yet I can’t find a way to stop seeing their sneaky posts. I’ve tried auction addons but hate their UI, Blizzard should implement Ignore to not show their auctions, thoughts?
Simple way to stop scammers & I imagine endless GM posts about being scammed
Cheers
If you buy an overpriced auction it’s on you.
Check the price before hitting buy.
The guys seeding peoples AH addons with low prices are cancer.
They drop desirable items regularly at a low price, as sacrifices, then pick up bargains when people undercut them.
Absolute pain in the bum
So because your addon isn’t set up properly you are losing gold. Good.
If you’re using AH without addons and expect it to behave reasonably, that’s on you. AH usage has been reliant on addons for the entirety of WoW’s existenace.
I don’t know how this could be labeled as scam.
And why would someone spam a GM over this.
And let’s assume you can ignore these “scammers”, how will this stop them? I don’t follow.
How can you get scammed on the AH? You see the item and the price you must pay, then you choose whether you want to buy it or not.
I would like this just to ignore the ppl who put 1c bid with overpriced buyout.
Silk cloth 1C bid, 900g buyout.
^ Is one example. You see this across the whole auction house. They’re blatantly trying to get you to accidentally buy it.
Now imagine if you could ignore those (OBVIOUS) bots, life would be much easier, no?
why would u buy it accidently? just be more careful jeez
If i put someone on my ignorelist it means i do not want ANY contact with that player in any way. This shoud include AH aswell.
A fast question,does ignore affect the battleID or just that character?
Just on a note, this hasn’t happened to me, but I know people that is has happened to. Why are you so against a simple fix? I don’t understand your problem. It’s a multi-billion dollar company actively asking for consumer feedback. If you lost 900g on 1 silk cloth, I’m sure you’d change you’re tune.
Luciran, just their character. But yeah I agree that would also be nice being able to ignore their whole collection of characters.
If I lost 900g to 1 silk cloth of course I’d be frustrated but I’d only have myself to blame.
Double check the price before hitting buy-out and then confirming your buy-out.
Dang, wish I’d seen this post before making literally the same.
I 100% agree, simple fix to an occuring problem.
Quick 2 cents of some points i’ve seen mentioned;
“They’re not scammers”. True, and false. They’re definitely not running an honest trade, and clearly rely on predatory mechanics hoping you’ll buy something you clearly didn’t want / need. Blizzard’s own code of conduct on scammers mentions “scams include trade through confusion”, which I’d personally say this is, but i’m willing to let them keep doing this so long as I can ignore their offers.
“Check your trade before pressing accept”. It’s certainly good advice, but we also know when the scammers trap is designed to work. It’s not when you’re buying the 1 expensive item, it’s when you’re buying 20+ single-stacked items. Sometimes it just goes too fast, and the accident happens. Is it technically your own fault? Yes. But would it be entirely unfair asking for a tool to ignore these vultures? I don’t think so.
At the end of the day, i’m sure these scammers have certainly ruined some newbies day, might even make ya quit if you lose 900g you’d spend ages farming. My problem with the whole concept, is how obvious the process is. We KNOW these are scammers, and I’m gonna stick to that definition. We KNOW some twonk is earning ill gotten gains on some level 1 alt, and far worse, an automated add-on is going all the work. I just don’t see how this is a bad idea, or how anybody would be against it. Certainly not as most people diagreeing are already using add-ons, so this will literally have no effect on them.
Anywho, 100% agree with the idea.
“A scam is the act of acquiring items or any other possession from another player through misinformation, confusion, or fraud.”, Blizzard’s own definiton. The way of putting up an item for 1 copper and an insane buyout relies on confusion in a hurry. You accidentally buy something you’d clearly never want when ya gotta buy lots of single stacks.
How does it stop them? It doesn’t stop them, but it ruins their business by letting people protect themselves from their offers.
So if an add-on can do literally the same as we’re asking, and is essential to using AH, why are you against it being added as an in-built feature? 
While it may seem as a scam it’s not really the same thing.
You have all the data in the AH to see and decide. If as you say you are in a hurry and don’t see or missclick that’s mostly your problem.
Like if you put gas in your diesel car. Yes it’s still possible. And what? you blame the car or gas station?
Or the prices of 999999, if you read them as 9 instead of 10 who is more to blame?
Yeah ok that’s clearly foul play here but not enough to be labeled as a vicious scam.
And there are way so many real life examples.
But here apart from real life you can just get an add-on to show only the buy out price if that’s an issue and problem solved.
No reason making a big fuss over this.
Well, you actually make a good point supporting this suggestion. If you were charged 999 instead of 9.99 for gas, you can get your money back, as 999 is such an unreasonable price it’s literally against the law. IRL you can’t price hike like that. Or even better, to really compare these situations, this is like a gas station charging 9.99 for the first 3 litres of gas, and then 999 for 1 liter, then 9.99 for the remaining litres. That’s obviously NOT legal either. IRL this concept simply doesn’t exist. Heck, you even have buyers remorse on most deals. This is LITERALLY the opposite, praying on you pressing the wrong button once, and being screwed over.
Now, better question isn’t why we’re making a fuss over it, but why are you against it? You clearly either never encountered this problem, or use add-on’s, so this fix would literally do nothing to your world
Also, do give me a RL example of where this occurs and can’t be contested in court, but rather just shoved out the way as “You should’ve paid better attention!” 
I did gave you 2 RL examples you just misunderstood them.
And I’m not against anything.
I do use add-ons for AH and I see just the buy out price. But also I do a lot of biding using the default UI so I understand what people are talking here.
If Blizzard would implement an add-on like I currently use would be great, and maybe it will actually work better as current add-ons are a bit jerky sometimes.
But I don’t see this as being a big problem needing priority as you can “fix” it yourself easily by installing an add-on if you are the clumsy type.