Suggestion: disable cancelling auctions that have been bid on

In short: please change the auction house so it is no longer possible to cancel an auction if a bid has been placed on it.

So, this idea is born from the fact that the auction house on some (if not all?) servers is flooded with auctions that have a very low bid price and an extremely high buyout price, usually 200-1000 times the regular buyout price. It’s getting quite annoying having to filter through these auctions, even when using addons.

Now these auctions are clearly there to dupe players or their addons into accidentally buying these items since the AH is sorted by bid price by default (or to transfer gold sales?). This kind of deception (or gold selling?) should be a bannable offence under the anti-scam policy anyway (https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/2563)

Making it so these ‘scammers’ can’t withdraw their auction if someone bids on them will defeat their entire system, without causing major problems for players that use the AH in a normal way. This small change could make the AH a much cleaner place for the honest folks among us.

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Agreed,
this sh** is getting out of control.

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Use Auctionator and never think about this problem again.
It wont be fixed until BfA.

Yes, bid items should not be able to be cancled. Put a real price or dont put it up at all.

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I hope this game does not progress past WoTLK. Whole point was to go back to how the world was before the Cataclysm.

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Dont get why you hope, just dont play after wotlk.
Everyone has favourite iteration of wow, Cata has its fans also.

Because after WOTLK it isnt classic anymore. The zones, quests and many other things gets overhauled and are complelty different from what they where in Vanilla, TBC and WotLK. At least players still have talent trees.

In MOP the game is not classic at all as the classic talent trees also get removed hence it should not be made as it has nothing to do with the current interpretation of WOW Classic.

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Its fine, that is your view of classic, nothing wrong with it.

Just dont get why you hope Blizz dont release post- wotlk classics, like you will be forced to play it, if they do.

you are very smart gnome /salute

pyrewood pve style ofc want go back to retail

Because if you want to play wow with new talent trees, new world and nice QoL features you can do that as we speak its called Shadow Lands no need to turn classic into it.

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Yea, HvH is sooo TBC.

I don’t really understand your position. I have 0 intention of playing past killing Arthas HC, but I am completely indifferent to the fact whether they make some followup expansions to try to milk more money from the few fans they have. I mean why would I possibly care?

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but mop has a whole other cc, utility and class gameplay mechanics where only a little part of that core is left in todays retail.

Personally, i play wotlk and i will play mop. but not cata and not past MoP

no, cause MoP is a completly diffrent game, in terms of specc/class identity/gameplay and pvp expirience compared to wod. the last good expansion without dumb systems

I’m using Auctioneer right now, but these auctions mess up the relative price feature sometimes, since the min and max are too far apart for it to make sense of it.

I don’t want to switch addons, I’d prefer it if Blizzard implements a simple fix.

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Dont switch, just install tsm alongside. 1 click to switch between auctioneer ui and tsm ui.

You misunderstand; I don’t want to use any other addon than the one I’m currently using, I think the problem is that the current system allows these kind of AH scams, not my choice of addons.

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