AuctionLite makes it easy to use the auction house!
With AuctionLite, you can:
Buy
Show all listings for an item on a single page, sorted by per-item price
Buy out multiple listings at the same time
Search for your favorite items with a single click
Sell
Suggest prices based on the current competition
Create multiple listings at the same time
Scan
Download all auction house data in just seconds
Track historical prices and find deals
Add tooltips to items with vendor, auction, and disenchant prices
In short, AuctionLite tries to make the most common auction house tasks as simple as possible, and AuctionLite strives for minimal overhead and clutter in its interface.
Quick Start
Buying items: Type an item name into the "Buy" tab and click "Search". (You don't have to fill in a quantity.) Select the listings you want to buy, click "Buyout", and then click "Approve".
Control-right-click an item in your bags from any AH tab to search on the "Buy" tab
Use shift-click and control-click to select and purchase multiple listings
Selling items: Drag an item from your bags into the "Sell" tab slot. Enter the number and size of the stacks you'd like to sell, adjust prices if necessary, and click "Create Auction".
Alt-right-click an item in your bags from any AH tab to load it into the "Sell" tab
Click on any competing auction to undercut that auction
Use the tab key to jump between fields
Hit enter to start the auction
Scanning: Click "Full Scan" on the "Buy" tab. When scanning is complete, you'll get a list of the best deals currently available at the auction house.
If you navigate away from the deals page, use "Show Deals" in the "Advanced" menu to return
If you are disconnected during scanning, try disabling the fast scan feature (use "/al config")
Other features:
To search for your own listings (and your competition), choose "Show My Auctions" from the "Advanced" menu
Click the checkmark next to any item in the "Buy" tab to mark it as a favorite, and then select "Show Favorites" from the
"Advanced" menu to search for all your favorites at once
Go straight to your preferred tab when opening the AH
Open all your bags when visiting the AH
For more details, read on!
Buying Items
To buy an item with AuctionLite, type the name of the item you want into the "Buy" tab and click "Search" (or alt-right-click an item in your bags).
If your search returns only one kind of item, you'll see a list of all auctions for that item, sorted by the per-item buyout price (or per-item bid price, if no buyout price is available). Your own auctions are shown in yellow, and auctions where you are the highest bidder will show the bid price in yellow. If you want to bid or buy out a listing, click on it, click "Bid" or "Buyout", and then approve the purchase. You can select multiple auctions by control-clicking or shift-clicking.
If your search returns multiple items, you'll see a summary of the kinds of items that your search encountered. Click on any of these summary lines to see all listings for that item, as described above. To get back to the summary page, click the arrow button in the upper-left corner of the frame.
If you know exactly how many items you want to buy, type the number into the "Quantity" field when searching. AuctionLite will then offer to fill your order by selecting the auction listings that minimize the total cost to you. AuctionLite is smart enough to find the absolute minimal cost in most cases, including cases where you can buy more items to get a lower total price. If you would like AuctionLite to consider the resale value of excess items when making this decision (e.g., you ask for 10 items, but you'd rather get 11 at 101g than 10 at 100g), then you can enable the "Consider Resale Value" option (use "/al config"). If AuctionLite suggests purchasing more items than you originally requested (for any reason), it will show you to the expected resale value of the excess items and the net cost of the items you requested.
AuctionLite will incorporate all of the price data that your searches return into its historical data. Thus, the prices for items you frequently purchase will always be up to date, even if you don't do full auction house scans.
Favorites
On the "Buy" tab's summary display, you can click on the checkmark to the left of any item to mark it as a favorite (click again to unmark). Then, you can choose "Show Favorites" in the "Advanced" menu to quickly search for all of your favorites. Your favorites will also get bumped to the top of the summary display in any future search.
Your Auctions
In order to see auctions that you're selling, choose "Show My Auctions" from the "Advanced" menu. AuctionLite will search for all your current auctions so that you can see your competition. On the summary screen, any items where you've been undercut will be shown with a red background.
If you'd like to cancel an auction, just click the item, select your listing(s), and click "Cancel". You can select and cancel multiple auctions by using shift-click and control-click.
If you'd like to cancel auctions in bulk, you can do this in a number of ways. First, clicking the "Cancel" button when nothing is selected will cancel all auctions on that page (and all auctions period, if you're on the summary screen!). Second, control-clicking the "Cancel" button will cancel all such auctions that have been undercut (i.e., auctions that have a competitor at a lower per-item price). Finally, you can right-click any line in the summary screen in order to cancel all auctions or cancel undercut auctions.
Selling Items
To sell an item with AuctionLite, start by dragging the item into the box on the "Sell" tab (or by alt-right-clicking an item in your bags). AuctionLite will immediately scan for all competing auctions, and it will suggest an appropriate price for your auction. In addition to setting bid and buyout prices, you can also tell AuctionLite to post multiple stacks of a certain size.
AuctionLite will display a list of competing auctions so that you can verify the accuracy of AuctionLite's suggestions. Any listings shown in gray are listings that AuctionLite considered to be outliers--that is, listings with abnormally low prices. AuctionLite typically chooses a price that is just less than the lowest non-outlier price, since this price is a reasonable estimate of the market-clearing price. If you disagree with AuctionLite's estimate of the market-clearing price, you can click on any auction in the display to undercut it by a few percent. Listings shown in yellow are your own auctions; clicking on them will fill in the prices you set for those auctions.
AuctionLite also shows some historical data for your item in the chat window. Every time AuctionLite scans for an item, it will incorporate the latest prices into its historical data, weighted according to the frequency of its scans.
If you want to sell items quickly, you can use alt-right-click even on the "Browse" tab in order to move an item into the "Sell" tab. If you approve of AuctionLite's initial suggestions, hitting enter will post the auction immediately.
AuctionLite's pricing scheme can be customized in the AuctionLite options screen (Escape -> Interface -> Addons -> AuctionLite).
Scanning
You can tell AuctionLite to scan all listings in the auction house by clicking the "Full Scan" button on the "Buy" tab.
After all auction data has been retrieved, AuctionLite will analyze the data and record the current market prices for later use. AuctionLite will take into account how frequently and how recently you've scanned, so there's no need to worry about how often you scan. Note that if you cancel the scan by closing the auction house, no data will be recorded.
AuctionLite also stores all price data from your scans in the "Buy" and "Sell" tabs, so even if you don't scan frequently, the prices for items that you buy and sell will stay up to date.
Deals
After you've completed a full scan, AuctionLite will search for all items in the auction house that are underpriced relative to previous scans, and it will show you these items ranked by potential profit. If you navigate away from this screen, you can recall the list of deals from the last scan of your current AH visit by going to "Advanced" and clicking "Show Deals". To set the parameters for this search, go to the AuctionLite options screen (in the "Advanced" menu) and set the minimum profit and the minimum discount relative to previous prices.
Tooltips
AuctionLite adds a few lines to the bottom of each item tooltip in the game to show the vendor sell price, the expected disenchant value, and the estimated auction house value. The disenchant value is based on the current value of the disenchanted dust/essences/shards at the auction house.
By default, AuctionLite shows the value for the entire stack. However, if you'd like to see the per-item price instead of the per-stack price, just hold the shift key. If you'd like this to be the other way around (i.e., per-item prices normally, and per-stack prices when holding shift), this setting can be adjusted in the AuctionLite options screen (type "/al config").
If you'd rather not see AuctionLite's information in tooltips, they can be customized or disabled in the AuctionLite options screen (type "/al config"). You can set each line in the tooltip so that it always appears, never appears, or appears only if the applicable data is available (e.g., if we have an auction house price for that item).
External API
AuctionLite supports Tekkub's GetAuctionBuyout interface, so any addon that uses this interface will automatically be able to retrieve price data from AuctionLite.
In addition to this standard interface, other addons that wish to use AuctionLite's data can use the following methods:
price = AuctionLite:GetDisenchantValue(link or id[, suffix])
price = AuctionLite:GetAuctionValue(link or id[, suffix])
These methods return AuctionLite's disenchant and auction prices, which are the same numbers you see in the tooltips. You can pass an item string, an item link, or an item ID, but note that if you pass an ID for an item that typically has a suffix (e.g., "of the Monkey"), then you need to provide the suffix as the second argument. AuctionLite doesn't track bid prices--just buyout prices.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to kolenka for contributing bug fixes and features, and thanks to the Curse/WowAce/WowInterface community for their bug reports and suggestions.
Many, many thanks to the folks who took the time to translate AuctionLite to other languages!
French: Pettigrow
German: nesta666, Farook, tholas1234
Korean: eljei, kdw112
Chinese: tnt2ray, wowuicn, a9012456, s8095324
Russian: Vampik, RustamIrzaev
Version History
Changes in v1.5.1:
Fixed bug when default stack size is set to 1
Updated French and Russian localization files
Changes in v1.5:
Click the "Cancel" button on the "Buy" tab in order to cancel all auctions of yours on the current display (clicking on the "Show My Auctions" screen will cancel everything)
Control-click as above to cancel auctions that have been undercut
Right-click items on the summary screen in order to "Cancel All Auctions" or "Cancel Undercut Auctions"
Confirmation screen when cancelling auctions with bids
Confirmation screen when posting items below vendor price
Chat window shows total value of auctions posted
Fixed bug in automatic stack size computation
Updated localization files
Changes in v1.4.1:
Fixed Lua error that appeared when one of your favorites is not found.
Changes in v1.4:
Suppress "Auction won" spam when buying/selling/cancelling auctions
Show how many auctions are yours in the "Buy" tab's summary screen
Auction data storage can now be disabled/cleared
Localization updates
Changes in v1.3:
Updated for WoW 3.2.
AL now uses WoW's built-in vendor data, reducing its memory footprint by a few megabytes.
AuctionLite:GetVendorValue() and GetSellValue are no longer supported.
Changes in v1.2.1:
Fixed bug in German translation.
Added Russian translation.
Changes in v1.2.0:
Specify one extra stack in the "Sell" tab to sell excess items as a smaller stack (e.g., if you have 50 items and you enter "3 stacks of 20", AL will create 2 stacks of 20 and 1 stack of 10)
When the number of stacks to sell is changed, the size of the stacks will be adjusted if necessary (e.g., if you have 20 items and you specify 20 stacks, AL will set the size to 1 automatically)
New options for customizing the default number/size of stacks
Vendor data updated for WoW 3.1.1
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Changes in v1.1.5:
Updated for WoW 3.1.
Changes in v1.1.4:
Fixed bug when sorting favorites that aren't currently in the AH
Changes in v1.1.3:
Much smarter algorithm for choosing listings in "Buy" tab
Buying/canceling the last listing for an item will take you to the summary view
Changes in v1.1.2:
Recently sold items no longer appear in "Show My Auctions"
All favorites appear in "Show Favorites", even if they're not currently in the AH
Updates to German localization
Changes in v1.1.1:
Number formatting fix in "Sell" tab
Scanner bug fix
Changes in v1.1:
Sortable columns
Improvements in auction searching/purchasing
Localized to French, German, Korean, and Chinese (many thanks to the translators listed above!)
Changes in v1.0.3:
Better error messages in "Buy" frame
Suppress stack-splitting dialog when shift-clicking in "Buy" frame
Added tooltips to mailbox items
Changes in v1.0.2:
Fixed Lua error
Changes in v1.0.1:
Fixed money icon flicker in tooltip
Fixed control/alt-right-click when not at auction house
Shift-left-click now works on the "Buy" tab
Changes in v1.0:
Implemented Tekkub's GetSellValue and GetAuctionBuyout
Undercut auctions are shown in red in the "Show My Auctions" list
Fixed some display bugs in tooltips
Save your place in the "Buy" frame when going to/from summary view
Allow zero buyouts (i.e., bid only)
Don't undercut historical prices
Miscellaneous config screen cleanup
Changes in v0.9:
Tooltips now show expected disenchant value
Tooltips use money icons
Better configuration options for tooltips
Changes in v0.8:
You can cancel your own auctions by selecting them and clicking "Cancel" (use shift-click and control-click to select and cancel many auctions)
See your own auctions and your competition by choosing "Show My Auctions" in the "Advanced" menu
Changes in v0.7:
Fast scanning: Perform a full AH scan in seconds!
Deals: Show profit opportunities after each scan
Favorites: Mark your favorite items and search for them quickly
Control-right-click jumps to "Buy" tab and searches
Alt-right-click jumps to "Sell" tab and searches
Jump to your preferred tab when opening the AH
Open all bags when opening the AH
Show time elapsed and time remaining on searches
Options GUI is available in Blizzard's interface options panel
Upgraded to Ace3
Changes in v0.6:
Items with jewels/enchants are labeled with a "+"
Add tooltips to merchant, buyback, and loot
Allow vendor multiplier to be set for when selling an item with no history
Compatible with AuctionMaster
Yet more bug fixes and UI tweaks
Changes in v0.5:
Select multiple items in the "Buy" tab with control/shift
Toggle per-stack and per-item prices in tooltips with shift
Add tooltips to item links
Allow users to set undercut percentage
Bug fixes and UI tweaks
Changes in v0.4:
Added "Buy" tab for easily searching and buying out auctions
Added alt-right-click shortcuts
Remember custom prices within a given visit to the auction house
Reuse previous auction prices by clicking on your own auctions in the display
Added external API
Numerous bug fixes and UI enhancements
Changes in v0.3:
Prices can be specified as per-item or per-stack prices
Undercut specific auctions by clicking on them in the "Competing Auctions" display
Tooltips can be disabled if desired
Preferences for duration and pricing method are now saved
When absolutely no data is available, we use triple the vendor price
Numerous bug fixes
Changes in v0.2:
Added tooltips with vendor sell price and auction value
Your own auctions are now shown in yellow in the "Competing Auctions" display
Pricing algorithm will no longer undercut your own auctions
Added warning when your buyout is less than the vendor price
Fixed bugs in the auction scanner and the auction display
Would it be possible to add an option to take off a tabard when the AH opens then put it back on when the AH closes? Making this an option would probably be best.
Reason: When trying on different armor types in the AH, the tabard covers it up and I'm unable to see what it looks like - thus having to close the AH, take it off, then redo everything in the AH.
If you don't want to add it to AL, I'll request it in the addon requests forum
Re: Fast/quick scans locking up game in latest release...
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Originally posted by DNBRMG I seem to be running into an issue with the fast/quick scan feature in the latest build. The wow.exe application process completely locks up right after the scan finishes; all on screen activity freezes but the mouse cursor still moves, mouse buttons and keyboard commands stop responding, etc. Unfortunately there are no error messages or any other indicators as to what could be causing problems, although my first thought is that is getting stuck in an endless or recursive loop of some kind. As far as I can tell the normal/slow scans work perfectly fine, it is just the fast/quick scans that are affected. I have tried erasing all of the store pricing data and that has not had any effect. I will be removing all traces and reinstalling an older version in just a bit to see if this doesn't fix the problem.
When I've seen problems like this before, the reason has been a cold item cache. WoW keeps around a cache of in-game items, and when you upgrade the WoW client or delete your WTF folder, it needs to refresh this cache. Doing a fast scan on an empty cache can cause hangs. Did you do anything that might have deleted the items in your cache?
If this is indeed the problem, the solution is to do slow scans for a few days and then switch back to fast scans. If this solves the problem, let me know.
With the above said, I'm not completely certain that the item cache is the culprit, and these sorts of errors have been lurking around for several versions now. If you have any additional information about when these errors occur or how to track them down, please let me know!
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EDIT: As it turns out I was using version 1.5 rather than 1.5.1, which seems to be the latest version available. Updating to 1.5.1 did not fix the problem. Now downgrading to the most recent 1.4.x release.
For what it's worth, the code for scanning is identical in 1.4.x and 1.5.x, so I'd expect to see no difference here. Did downgrading fix the problem? If so, maybe upgrade again and see if it still fails?
Fast/quick scans locking up game in latest release...
I seem to be running into an issue with the fast/quick scan feature in the latest build. The wow.exe application process completely locks up right after the scan finishes; all on screen activity freezes but the mouse cursor still moves, mouse buttons and keyboard commands stop responding, etc. Unfortunately there are no error messages or any other indicators as to what could be causing problems, although my first thought is that is getting stuck in an endless or recursive loop of some kind. As far as I can tell the normal/slow scans work perfectly fine, it is just the fast/quick scans that are affected. I have tried erasing all of the store pricing data and that has not had any effect. I will be removing all traces and reinstalling an older version in just a bit to see if this doesn't fix the problem.
EDIT: As it turns out I was using version 1.5 rather than 1.5.1, which seems to be the latest version available. Updating to 1.5.1 did not fix the problem. Now downgrading to the most recent 1.4.x release.
Originally posted by Drokk I am getting invalid stack size error when trying to auction 20 linen cloth in latest build. Switching back to previous version.
Should be fixed in v1.5.1, due out as soon as WowAce's packager starts working again.
Far liter and better than Auctioneering in my opinion.
I have a request if you don't mind:
First:
Number of items you have in bag is grayed and hard to see. It would be nice if you could see inside the Action Item Icon or a more visible place.
Second:
Bid per item in sell tab. Its very useful when you want to keep prices up.
Third:
In the buy or sell window when you see that someone has undercut your price (yellow item names), you could have an option to cancel and repost that item (if you have any in bag) to the default undercut pricing.
Consider the third one please. I could find any addon that do that.
Originally posted by icaruscollapse Edit: Another feature that I would love (Also never seen before in any addon) is the ability to have multiple favorites lists. I'm a Scribe, so I'm often searching for the cheapest deal on a variety of herbs, and the ability to create multiple favorites lists so I can have one for each type of ink (4-6 types of herbs, usually), I'd be able to find the cheapest herbs much more easily...
That would be awesome. I hate using Auctioneer but there is simply no other addon out there that does exactly what "xythian" wrote. And i guess there are thousand users like us.
You can set values in the stand alone enchantrix mod I use AuctionLite and Enchantrix but I do not use Auctioneer all you have to do is set static values in the Enchantrix options. Most of the time Enchanting mats are pretty stable for a few weeks.
On a diffrent note is there a way to isolate the function of the buy tab. It is the main reason that I use this addon and would love to see this as a stand alone addon.
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Last edited by pirplepig : 08-15-2009 at 09:12 AM.
Originally posted by xythian
The only feature of auctioneer that I can not seem to replicate in Auction Lite is the ability to scan for targets for disenchanting at a profit. This is an age old and classic method for low risk, moderate income of buying items priced less than their disenchant value. However, AuctionLite does not seem to have an easy way to replicate this function.
Anybody out there find a way to do it? Am I blind and completely missed it?
/push
That would be awesome. I hate using Auctioneer but there is simply no other addon out there that does exactly what "xythian" wrote. And i guess there are thousand users like us.
I love the addon, but there's one feature that I'm dying for that it doesn't have.
I use the "favorites" feature religiously, as I'm trying to finish getting all the recipes / pets / etc. that I need. There are some items that are very rare, to the point that I have never seen them, out of every time I've looked for them.
The feature I'm looking for is the ability to add favorites manually, without them being on the AH at the time. If this isn't a reasonable request, a point in the right direction of where to go in savedvariables.lua would be a godsend.
Thanks!
Edit: Another feature that I would love (Also never seen before in any addon) is the ability to have multiple favorites lists. I'm a Scribe, so I'm often searching for the cheapest deal on a variety of herbs, and the ability to create multiple favorites lists so I can have one for each type of ink (4-6 types of herbs, usually), I'd be able to find the cheapest herbs much more easily...
Last edited by icaruscollapse : 07-21-2009 at 08:09 AM.
Just wondering if you've thought any more about adding a price history or graph for favorites? I'm looking to see something like a stock chart for the last say, 2 weeks, one data point per day given that I scanned that day. I'm trying to get a feel for how the price moves over a week or two.
I really don't want to resort to writing the prices down and graphing them in Excel.
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Has been said several times already but options to reset (limit?) the size of the stored data from Auctionlite and usage of an external vendor price database would be optimal.
Auctionlite went to use 5.5MB memory for me, which is quite high compared to all my other addons (next one on 2.3MB).
Quick Question: Does AuctionLite store prices from your scans over days to give more of an average price in the tooltip for the AH, or does it just use the last AH price it found for that item?
Just curious cause I got an enchanting drop and it said it was worth 300g , But when i scan the AH they are going for like 50g.
Price history graph?
