What sells in HC Normal AH?

[Pzypro]

"I kinda wish they'd implement at 10% of buyout fee for AH listings, refundable if the item sells. Give people a reason to sell things at a reasonable cost."

This. I absolutely want to see something like this. 5-10% deposit of the buyout price that's lost if the item doesn't sell. Should help stop a lot of stupidly priced listings. 10 slots limit isn't enough of a deterrent it seems.

[Pzypro]

"I kinda wish they'd implement at 10% of buyout fee for AH listings, refundable if the item sells. Give people a reason to sell things at a reasonable cost."

This. I absolutely want to see something like this. 5-10% deposit of the buyout price that's lost if the item doesn't sell. Should help stop a lot of stupidly priced listings. 10 slots limit isn't enough of a deterrent it seems. Even WoW has such a deposit.

Also, they definitely need to get rid of the public display of auctions duration. (It's fine if the seller can see the exact time) I'm so sick of people outbidding me at literally the last minute of the auction and *stealing* the item while no one bids at all during the first 35 hours of it. The sellers lose out on a ton of money bids, legit bidders get kind of screwed out, people who camp the AH non-stop massively benefit from snagging everything much cheaper than they otherwise would have =\.

[thehipone]

Also, they definitely need to get rid of the public display of auctions duration. (It's fine if the seller can see the exact time) I'm so sick of people outbidding me at literally the last minute of the auction and *stealing* the item while no one bids at all during the first 35 hours of it. The sellers lose out on a ton of money bids, legit bidders get kind of screwed out, people who camp the AH non-stop massively benefit from snagging everything much cheaper than they otherwise would have =\.

You do know that you can put in your max bid and it will automatically step your bid up in increments, right? If someone "steals" an item at the last minute, it's because they were willing to pay more than you. Increase your max bid and this won't happen. It's how auctions work.

[Pzypro]

You do know that you can put in your max bid and it will automatically step your bid up in increments, right? If someone "steals" an item at the last minute, it's because they were willing to pay more than you. Increase your max bid and this won't happen. It's how auctions work.

Will need to look into that more. Not sure what you're talking about. I did notice that sometimes it tells me bid a certain amount, other times it doesn't say anything, and then other times it refuses to accept the minimum amount that it told me to bid... Quite confusing really.

[lanceuppercut]

Its like how ebay works:

-auction starts off at 100
-buyer a bids 5000 but AH will show current bid as 100
-buyer b bids 1000 but as there is a previous higher bid, current price is now 1100 (assuming it goes up in 100 increments)
-buyer c bids 1500 but again it will raise the current bid to 1600 as buyer a still has priority

Hope that makes sense? The AH instantly raises the current bid to the highest bid it has received and doesn't instantly bid the full amount right off the bat.

[Pzypro]

Its like how ebay works:

-auction starts off at 100
-buyer a bids 5000 but AH will show current bid as 100
-buyer b bids 1000 but as there is a previous higher bid, current price is now 1100 (assuming it goes up in 100 increments)
-buyer c bids 1500 but again it will raise the current bid to 1600 as buyer a still has priority

Hope that makes sense? The AH instantly raises the current bid to the highest bid it has received and doesn't instantly bid the full amount right off the bat.

Oh wow... I've been tinkering with the AH more closely lately and started to suspect that but it's nice to have some confirmation. So then the AH *automatically* decides your bid increments so long as they fall under your max bid? That's pretty cool; explains a lot of the last minute swipes I've been seeing anyway. I thought it worked more like the AH in wow where everyone manually entered their bids.

They need this kind of stuff documented somewhere. Can't wait for the new arreat-summit-wannabe they said they are working on.

edit: nonetheless, I still think they should get rid of the public auction duration display. The system they have in wow works better. Auctions are labeled as either very long (24-48 hours), long (~12-24 hours), medium (2-12 hours), and short (less than 2 hours). It prevents people from speculating based on specific time frames and forces them to actually make high bids because they can't tell precisely when the auction will end.