In the recent posts from Markco & Gevlon they questioned and analysed the usefulness of Quick Auctions 3 and Auctioneer and why not to use either or when to use either or both of these add-ons.
However both of the discussions are focussed on selling your ware, I'd like to pinpoint out the importance of being able to buy things in bulk, when you want to sell things in bulk yourself (one needs a stock to craft any of the selling products).
When it comes to buying, I feel that another add-on is left out when it comes to this, mainly for buying and quick cancelling your supply on the auction house.
Whenever I'm stocking up on a specific product, I use Auctionator to do the bulk buying, it's buying feature is a lot nicer than Auctioneer (it's confirmation window is annoying till no extend and for me it's too slow).
Auctionator has this really neat future to create Shopping Lists, similar to default AH "Browse"-tab, but it displays items you'd like to watch to buy at any price and how much stacks at that price.
For example I created an "Eternals" shopping list to have quick access to Fire, Earth, Shadow, Water, Air & Life.
I recently bought 337 stacks of Adder's Tongue to mill, it took me a few clicks and no annoying confirmation window asking if I really wanted to buy it for each item/stack, as you would need to do in the Auctioneer Search tool.
It's selling feature is something I haven't used often yet, I have to be honest that I still am too used to Auctioneer's Appraiser or simply posting bulks of items (glyphs, enchanting scrolls and other items I sell in bulk) with QA3.
Once I'm more aware of it's usefulness, I will certainly make a post about it, as there are people on wowecon's Hall of Fame who merely used Auctionator and a few other addons(mail, item tracking etc) to reach the gold cap(several times).
The "More..." tab is really nice, you have all your auctions listed there alphabetically, once you click one of your auctions, it'll display the query, how much and which of those are yours.
If you're not on top (lowest price) you can choose to cancel the auction (cancels all of that item in 1 click), I love this feature for my best selling items or top selling glyphs, so I'm not reposting all 440 glyphs when I use the cancel option from QA3.
You can also check for undercuts of all your auctions instead of doing it manually for each item.
That's all for Auctionator, it's a small and handy add-on, but it should be used more.
I leave the QA3 vs Auctioneer discussion to the more experienced and gold-capped bloggers, Markco, Gevlon and who else feels to voice his/her opinion about it.
In my case, it's all about preferences and I mix the usage of both, neither is wrong if it is capable of producing more gold than your starting amount.
Use QA3 & Auctioneer both, next to, obviously, Auctionator!
Go ahead and try Auctionator out and keep your copper coins rolling!
Auctionator link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionator.aspx
Your blog looks promising keep up the great work.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, I'll do my best.
ReplyDeleteYou're on my blog list for a reason, nice post. I was a little vague but I tried to touch on the basic nature of being able to use auctioneer snatch to buy in bulk and qa3 summary to get a current market snapshot in my post.
ReplyDeleteI found out it's hard to write a constructive post, I made it last night and edited about 5 times today.
ReplyDeleteAs long we get our point across it should be alright I suppose.