Warning against scummy behavior on the AH

Sorry but you don’t even need tsm to do that. And the 1 silver trick is too obvious. The usual is to just cut it down to a 10th of its price to make it less obvious. Is it scummy? Maybe, but you are also at fault for not paying attention. Next time just pay attention… that “trick” is common knowledge to people using the ah frequently.

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who hurt you

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I had a blue item in classic that I wanted to sell for 5g, entered it in the wrong field and listed it for 5s, got bought up immediately
Sucks but it was up to me to check if everything was good before posting, as it was on you.
The people that do this are still scummy but they shouldn’t be punished because you refused to check what you were posting
Be happy this happened in a game and not IRL

although frowned upon, its a basic tactic on the AH.

Yes, basically nobody officially says what price X or Y item should go for. Just be mindful of what you post and how much you buy your wares for. Don’t sell low nor buy high. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

I like to buy up those low priced items and resell them. Sometimes people do it without the addons that sweep them up quick and I can get a whole stack of stuff that people have just listed without looking at the actual price.

I presume it’s the ones using addons like TSM that pick up every extra listed item instantly so that people can’t undo their mistake.

It is a scummy move to try and purposely bait and catch people out this way but it’s not against the rules and is not considered a scam in Blizz terms. It is an underhanded tactic to catch out anyone not paying attention.

TSM is not currently against the rules but there is no denying it’s an incredibly powerful tool if people know how to use it.

Bit close to home?

do elaborate

Honestly, there isn’t a good reason to have an API on the auction house. It never, ever benefits ‘normal’ players.

You are doing the Lord’s Work, sir!

If it happened to you id say you’d change your tune on a heartbeat, OP has a valid point.

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You just need to pay attention when people are doing this and just buy the items they are trying to snipe.

They’ll often keep relisting the item after you buy it and you can end up making a fair profit from it.

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Yea it happens all day everyday.

WoW would be a much better and more successful game if they banned all addons. There´s simply no reason to allow Auction House addons in their current form. They basically only benefit the 0.1 % of players who play the Auction House to an extreme degree.

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I’d say that addons such as hekill and trp3 shoulen’t be removed.

With your female void elf on AD and its profile i do think it should be removed.

Now that everyone knows about it, there will me more people doing it.

Femal high elf? I’m a human not a high elf maybe you need glasses

Everyone on forums knows you are Sáráh from Barbie on AD :slight_smile:

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