A New WoW forum classic? (non-boxing)

[Ðeceased]

Oh dear


There was another one a while ago about this guy complaining about a certain player in particular, who was hogging the neutral AH to catch anyone selling rly cheap goods cross faction to other characters (PvE realms I guess)

The QQ went something like this!

"Blizzard, plz stop him from doing this!! he's stealing all my itmes and then selling them for money!"

then loads of players started shouting both ways and finally the guy came on as he heard he was being talked about and simply said "Meh" , which sent the OP into a murderous rage (for which i think the thread was eventually removed :S
I couldn't help but think to myself.. man the OP is such a dumbass.. If ppl are stealing your items because they are lowly priced.. what is the logical solution? Sell them for overpriced amounts!! /facepalm.. and then send back a cheap item at a high price to make sure the money is spread out equally...

pitty It was on the US forums or I would have been able to /slap him

[Hokusai]

Reason enough to justify boxing. I think I encountered maybe 1 or 2 people like this in all the years I played EQ, and they seem to make up the majority of the WoW population, and I am on an RP server, for what it's worth (i.e. nothing). Unbelievable!

[Molt]

I couldn't help but think to myself.. man the OP is such a dumbass.. If ppl are stealing your items because they are lowly priced.. what is the logical solution? Sell them for overpriced amounts!! /facepalm.. and then send back a cheap item at a high price to make sure the money is spread out equally...

The reason people do the trading via the neutral AH with low-priced items and take the risk rather than high-priced without risk is the cut the AH takes. On a faction AH there's a 5% take on auctions sold, on the neutral one this jumps to a rather steep 15%.

Take for example the cats which the mad Elwynn woman sells and which can (used to?) go for a decent amount on the Horde AH, were I to transfer them for 1c/ea then someone could happily buy them out and I'm out about 50s for the cat. If I listed it for 1g/ea then then I'd be guaranteed to be out 15s due to the fees but no-one'd buy them out before me. Overall though it's cheaper to take the rather rare 50s hit if they buy before you and stop doing transfers then for a bit than take a 15s hit for each cat.

The one major thing here is if someone's watching the neutral AH whilst you're trading, possibly using the BottomScanner mod which is part of the Auctioneer suite, and buying anything at low prices which appears. A useful piece advice I can give here is that if ever you wanted to throw an item of high-value over between the factions then initially send a few 'test auctions' of useful but low-value items, such as stacks of copper, at stupidly low prices to test the waters before you do the major transfer. If the copper goes through fine then you're almost guaranteed to get the big-ticket item through as well and if not you're only out a few gold instead of a few hundred.

I still agree with people finding the OP of the forum thread you talked about pathetic though, the cross-faction AH is meant to be for auctioning and not as a cross-faction postbox. It can be used like that if you're willing to take the risk but it's very much a case of seller beware, you're using a system for something that Blizz doesn't always look brightly on anyway and there's no guarantee that you won't lose out.

[Ðeceased]

hmm didn't know about the 15% :S

I still agree with people finding the OP of the forum thread you talked about pathetic though, the cross-faction AH is meant to be for auctioning and not as a cross-faction postbox. It can be used like that if you're willing to take the risk but it's very much a case of seller beware, you're using a system for something that Blizz doesn't always look brightly on anyway and there's no guarantee that you won't lose out.

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