Way to check auction status online?

eiresurg · Post by **eiresurg** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:49 am

As I can't play WoW at work and spend 80+ hrs/week here, is there a way to check my auctions using a third-party program?

Kaptain · Post by **Kaptain** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:48 am

I would strongly suggest you don't do that. In order to check what your auctions are using a program, the program would need access to your account and that's begging for a keylogger if you ask me. I suppose the other way is for someone to make a website which has a full database of what's in the auction house in each realm but that doesn't seem to likely.

Short answer: Nope, don't think so.

eiresurg · Post by **eiresurg** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:45 pm

In order to check what your auctions are using a program, the program would need access to your account and that's begging for a keylogger if you ask me.

oh yeah, that's true. forget that idea. it doesn't seem too unlikely that someone could tap the database so that you could sort things by realm, though. you can find info about all the characters online, so that doesn't seem like too much of a stretch. of course, i can't do it

well, thanks for your comment, anyway.

Post by **Rollie** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:04 pm

There was a site that was trying to do this, but I forget the name =/

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:05 pm

http://www.wowecon.com/ does have quite a large database of items and their prices on each realm. Not sure how up to date it is tho, I'm not a big fan of the auction house.

Dromic · Post by **Dromic** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:40 pm

I make 50 to 60 percent of my gold with the AH.

But stopped using auctioneer for the site DM just noted. The addon sends this data to that website and I have to wonder what other info it sends. So now I use auction master since it is not transmitting my data to a site that is ran, most likely, by IGE.
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Kosh · Post by **Kosh** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:44 pm

Dromic wrote:But stopped using auctioneer for the site DM just noted. The addon sends this data to that website and I have to wonder what other info it sends. So now I use auction master since it is not transmitting my data to a site that is ran, most likely, by IGE.

This statement puzzles me. AFIK, wowecon and auctioneer are not connected. I have never seen any request from Auctioneer (Classic or Advanced) to upload information to wowecon (or anywhere else), and no LUA add-on has the ability to upload data out of the game. The only connection I know of is Auctioneer Advanced has an option to get pricing info from the wowecon add-on, if you're also running it.

I just looked at the wowecon site, and it looks like, in addition to their mod, they have an executable "launcher" that automatically downloads updates, and quite possibly uploads data as you describe. Even if I was running the wowecon add-on, I wouldn't run their executable; as you mentioned, who knows what it might be uploading.

Auctioneer certainly has issues, growing too bloated being a big one, but on this issue, anyway, it is blameless.