GoldFinder

GoldFinder adds a GoldFinder tab to the auction house that finds crafting materials listed well below their usual price. Click a deal and it opens in the Buy tab, ready to buy.

How it works

1. Scan as you normally do. Run Auctionator's Full Scan, or search the Buy tab. GoldFinder never searches the auction house itself — it quietly records the results of scans you already run, so it never uses up the scan cooldown.
2. GoldFinder builds a price history for trade goods and reagents: the lowest listing each time it sees them.
3. Open the GoldFinder tab. Any material listed at least 30% below its typical price shows up, deepest discount first, with its current lowest price, typical price, discount and quantity listed.
4. Click a deal to open its listings in Blizzard's Buy tab. You buy there, with Blizzard's own confirmation.

Hover a deal for its prices; hover the grey line at the bottom of the tab for details of the last scan.

What counts as a deal

• Typical price is the median of an item's earlier prices, so one listing at 1 copper or 999 gold barely moves it, and a new cheap listing cannot drag its own baseline down.
• An item needs three earlier prices, taken at least 10 minutes apart, before it can be judged. Your first few scans show "Building price history" instead of a list — that is expected.
• An item not seen in the last 30 minutes is not judged; it has probably sold.

Tested, and not yet tested

Tested on WoW: Forever build 70009: the tab sits alongside Auctionator's tabs without overlapping, prices are recorded from Auctionator's Full Scan, deals are listed from real scans, and buying from a clicked deal works.

Please check a deal in the Buy tab before buying it. On a small beta market, three earlier scans can make a normal price swing look like a bargain. A click takes you straight there.

Not yet measured: whether prices for materials that are not commodities are per unit or per stack.

Compatibility

• WoW: Forever only (Interface 16001).
• Works alongside Auctionator (tested): GoldFinder shares the auction house tab row through LibAHTab instead of drawing over other addons' tabs. It is also built to warn you if an addon adds a tab without that library, where tabs could overlap — not yet seen, since no such addon was installed.
• GoldFinder is not based on Auctionator and contains none of its code.

Credits and licence

MIT licensed. The tab uses LibAHTab (MIT) and LibStub, both included. The source and the issue tracker are on GitHub — see the project links.

Not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.