What is Auctionator

Figuring out a good buyout price when posting auctions can be tedious and time-consuming. If you're like most people, you first browse the current auctions to get a sense of how much your item is currently selling for. Then you undercut the lowest price by a bit. If you're creating multiple auctions you're bouncing back and forth between the Browse tab and the Auctions tab, doing lots of division in your head, and doing lots of clicking and typing.

How it works

Auctionator makes this whole process easy and streamlined. When you select an item to auction, Auctionator displays a summary of all the current auctions for that item sorted by per-item price. Auctionator also calculates a recommended buyout price based on the cheapest per-item price for your item. If you're selling a stack rather than a single item, Auctionator bases its recommended buyout price on the cheapest stack of the same size.

If you don't like Auctionator's recommendation, you can click on any line in the summary and Auctionator will recalculate the recommended buyout price based on that auction. Of course, you can always override Auctionator's recommendation by just typing in your own buyout price

With Auctionator, creating an auction is usually just a matter of picking an item to auction and clicking the Create Auction button.

New in version 1.1

Auctionator now allows you to quickly post multiple auctions for the same item. For instance, if you have 4 stacks of 20 Golden Fish Sticks in your bags and you want to auction them off as 16 stacks of 5, you would:

1. Create a stack of 5 in your bags
2. Drag that stack of 5 to the Auctionator window
3. If you like the recommended buyout price, do nothing. Otherwise, change the buyout as you would if you were just creating a single auction.
4. Click the Create Multiple Auctions button
5. Click Okay in the dialog that pops up.

New in version 1.2

Now you can customize the amount by which Auctionator undercuts. Auctionator undercuts by a different amount at different pricing levels. For instance, at prices over 500 gold, Auctionator's default is to undercut by 1 gold while at prices between 5 silver and 20 silver, Auctionator only undercuts by 5 copper. Now you have control over the undercut amounts at each of the pricing levels. Additionally you may set a fixed percentage discount for the starting price relative to the buyout.

Note that Auctionator rounds its recommended price so that if you specify an undercut of 20 silver at a particular pricing level, the actual undercut may be anywhere between 10 and 30 silver.

Auctionator also now handles armor and weapon "families" better. For instance, if you use Auctionator to find a price for your Gonzo Dagger of the Whale, Auctionator will now list all Gonzo Daggers (of the Whale, of the Eagle, etc.)

New in version 1.3

Auctionator now remembers the auctions you create. Whenever you select an item to auction, you can see a list of your old auctions and choose one of them for pricing your auction. You can also display a list of all the items you've ever auctioned and view their histories.

A new option allows you to decide whether or not Auctionator should automatically open your bags.

Another new option allows you to set a default auction duration. Whenever you select a new item to auction, the auction duration will always be reset to your default duration, even if you changed it for a previous auction.

This version of Auctionator should play better with WoWEcon Deluxe. Previously there was a conflict in the way tabs in the auction house were managed.

New in version 1.3.1

Auctionator now allows you to easily review your current active auctions and cancel any that are are no longer priced appropriately. Just select "Active Auctions" from the drop-down menu at the top of the Auctionator page, select an item, select the row that corresponds to your current auctions and click Cancel Auctions.