AutoMagic, autoselling your junk.

So today I am going to discuss another section of the Auctioneer Suite, known as Automagic. The module is designed for selling items to vendors automatically, well sort of. Like anything in the game the developers want abilities to be triggered by keypresses, so you'll have to hit a confirm button. This is a very cool module, it save alot of time, and comes with some cool functions. We will start our discussion on how to turn Automagic on or off in Auctioneer's Config UI.

Breakdown:
1. Enabling/Disabling AutoMagic
2. Selling Junk (Greys)
3. Selling Junk to You (Whites)
4. Selling Items Bought from the AH (for Profit)


1. Enabling or Disabling AutoMagic:
This is pretty simple, we start by pressing the gold pile icon in the Auctioneer Slidebar (or push the config button when at the auction house). This will open up our Auctioneer Configuration menu, and by clicking on the AutoMagic option in the Util Modules we can turn it off or on and configure the different options available.

Once enabled AutoMagic will allow us to do a variety of things such as,


2. Selling Junk (Greys):
This is primarily what I use AutoMagic for. It works by opening up a confirm sell list once you click on a vendor. Click yes to sell, and whala, all you grey items have been sold. There are a few competing Mods on the market such as SellJunk which add a button to the Vendors UI to do something similar. However after having tried both I am firmly convinced on the usefulness of AutoMagic. AutoMagic is more flexible, is proactive vs passive, and sells everything in one go. SellJunk has a limit, and occasionally needs to be pushed multiple times to sell all the greys in your bag.

Add in the fact that Automagic is built into Auctioneer which if your an AH Trader your already using and you get a win win situation. AutoMagic also goes one step further. While SellJunk will sell everything grey named in your bag, AutoMagic has a feature that allows you to,

3. Sell Possible Junk (White level Items)
White named items in the game have some use or another, but most of them are now pretty pointless. There are a number of glyphs that eliminate the need for regents (which are white items). There are a variety of food items that drop from mobs, but we really want to carry around 1-2 full stacks of food, not a dozen stacks of one of each different food item. Add the things like stones, and rocks from mining, and there are quie a few items that can be used... but are probably better to sell and clear up that bag space.

AutoMagic meets this need by allowing us to add items to the Autosell list, so you do alot of mining, grinding, etc and get alot of the same white item which you always sell anyway? Well add it to the list and bother with it no more!

4. Auto AH Vendor Sales
Finally AutoMagic has one other funtion, there is the ability within Auctioneer to buy items on the auction house to sell to a vendor for a profit (the poster posted it for less then the Vendor will buy it for). But often if your buying a variety of items it is easy to forget which items were bought to be sold to the vendors. This is where AutoMagic come in again. AutoMagic will automatically remember the items you bought to be sold to the vendor and the next time you open a vendor window the confirmation box will pop up to sell those items! It is a big time saver, especially if your searching that auction house for vendor sales on a regular basis.

So get out there my loyal readers and start AutoMagicing away! Save your self an extra 2 minutes every time you visit a vendor!
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How to Snatch!

This article will talk about using the Snatch function of Auctioneer. Snatch is one of the many functions of the mod auctioneer. Snatch allows you to instantly bring up a list of items that you are interested in and then basically click and buy them almost instantly.

The first step is to of course do your scan for the day. Without a recent scan, Snatch will not work properly and be pretty much useless. With the release of the latest version of Auctioneer Advanced you will note a double arrow scan button like the one circled in the image below.




This button will allow you to scan the entire auction house in about 20% of the old scan time. I am personally able to scan my entire AH in about 2 minutes. So step one is to do your scan for the day. Next we need to go over to the Search tab which is circled above. Within the search tab you will find a rather large list of different modules all listed on the upper left corner. For now under the Searches heading choose Snatch (section #1). One you have chosen it you should see something similar to the image below.

The next step is to build a list of items you want, this would usually be items you buy a lot of. Personally as I am playing around in the glyph market at the moment, I buy a lot of herbs. The list is built through section #2 below and will appear in section #3 when you have added it correctly. Items can be added to section #2 by shift clicking them, dragging them from your bag or even shift clicking items links in trade chat. Once a picture appears in the box of section #2, add the price you would be willing to pay and then push the add button to add it to your growing list in section #3.

Our final step before we make use of Snatch is to save this list. This is done by typing a list name in the bar in section #4 and clicking the save button. If you do it correctly the name for your snatch list will turn green. From now on whenever you want to search for this particular list of items, simply select it from the the down arrow in section #4 and your ready to go. The main purpose behind Section #4 is to have the ability to make and manage multiple lists of items your interested in buying.

Finally your ready to click on the search button which you will find on the lower left side of the Search AH UI.



Once you have done a search your screen should look something like the one below this. If you have set every thing up properly, you can hold done shift, ctrl, and alt and click on the Purchase button (the one circled below) and que Auctioneer to buy every item on the list!



Pretty simple huh! That is pretty much it, there are a few more options such as the ability to only see items that meet your prices range and can be bought out immediately. You can see these options by scrolling down on the options pane (Picture #2) which you can always reopen by clicking on the plus sign (the one circled in the picture above).

I hope this was informative and useful for you, if you have any questions please leave a comment!

Here are a few links on other similar articles that also discuss Snatch.

Tales of a Priest: Auctioneer



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