Want to get Gold Capped? This column will show you how, and is written by Basil "Euripides" Berntsen, also of outdps.com, the Hunting Party podcast, and the Call to Auction podcast.

Auctioneer has a myriad of uses. I've covered selling, and this week, I'll be covering buying. This addon has way more functionality than most people use, but because of the incredible quantity of complex options, many people never do any of the really cool things with it.

The best way to buy lots of types of items with Auctioneer is with their "snatch" search. The way it works is it goes through your most recent snapshot of the auction house, and presents you with a box that allows you to buy or bid on items you've defined as a "good deal."

Configuring snatch

First, we need to tell snatch what we want to buy. Click on the "search" tab on the bottom, and on the left menu, select "snatch." Here you will be able to tell the searcher what you're interested in, and at what price.


To the right, you'll see the stuff I've added in. Every time you add something, you have a choice between specifying a fixed value below which you are interested, or choosing a percentage discount of market price. I don't trust the algorithm for the percent off market -- if there's a change to supply and demand from a patch, there will be a period of a few weeks where I'm being asked to buy overpriced stuff. I always enter in a specific amount.

If you happen to have one of whatever you want to watch for in your bag, just drag it into the box and you can specify a price (right under the item name -- the other field only works if you check another box). If, however, you don't have one in your bag, you'll need to left click on a link to it. In case you're wondering, that's why when you're minding your own business at the AH, you see people just randomly saying things like "[Eternal Life]." They're linking it in chat so they can add it to snatch.

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