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It's a little remarkable that a virtually-real auction house (WoW AH) has better auxiliary tools than a real(ish) auction house (eBay). If only I could hover m

• Xurinos 16y ago
  The items are worth whatever people are willing to purchase them for in WoW and IRL. All you have to do is keep track of how various items are selling. You could implement a browser plugin to capture your hover and give you a floating window with stats from your database. About the point where I had this realization, I stopped caring about WoW auctioning and decided I would rather spend that time making real money.
• sliverstorm 16y ago
  The fundamental difference is eBay has non-trivial auction costs, and you have to think about shipping.
• albertsun 16y ago
  Doesn't surprise me that much. Yes the possible gains from the WoW auctionhouse are much lower than from eBay. But: 1. The WoW auctionhouse has a finite set of goods that can be sold and the titles and identification of the goods are unambiguous. 2. The cost of failure is much much lower if something goes wrong with the tool.
• joshu 16y ago
  They aren't the same kind of thing. On eBay, every item is separately auctioned, whereas items on the AH are fungible. The stock markets do have similar tools.