Auctioneer

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What is Auctioneer ?

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Auctioneer is an addon that allows you to view information about an item that may be useful in helping you determine what it's worth.

Straight out of the box, Auctioneer knows much about many items in the game, and will tell you many things about the item when you move your mouse over the item in the game.

Right at the start, the information that is provided (via the Informant addon) to the user is:

An example tooltip:

• Linen Cloth
• Buy 3 (0.55 each) 1s65c
• Sell 3 (0.13 each) 39c
• Stacks in lots of 20
• Class: Trade Goods
• Used for: Smithing, First Aid,Engineering, Tailoring
• Quest items in 4 quests

So what does this tell the user ?

1. It tells the user that they are looking at the item "Linen Cloth"
2. The buy price (that you can buy this item from vendors for) for three of these items is 1 silver and 65 coppers. (which is 55 coppers each)
3. The sell price (that you can sell this item back to the vendors for) for three of these items is 39 coppers. (which is 13 coppers each)
4. This item can be stacked together up to a maximum stack size of 20 items
5. Blacksmithing , First aid , Tailoring and Engineering professions all use this item in their trades.
6. It is a quest-item in 4 quests.

Note: Items that you may not actually be able to buy from vendors still have a value in the game. This value determines things like deposit price and starting price at the auction house and repair costs for durability damage.

What is this scanning about?

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Once a user moves to the auction house and beyond just buying and selling from/to vendors, the whole game changes. No longer is the user dealing with the static prices of the vendor to support their character's income. We are now dealing with the fluid and hectic nature of a dog-eat-dog market economy.

In such an economy, which is in a constant state of flux, it can be difficult to select the correct pricing points for your item at the auction house. Sometimes the prices and value of your items can be wildly different to the vendor price due to many factors, the value of items that can be made from your item, the use of a particular item in a quest, the suitability of a particular weapon or armor to specific classes, and the disenchantability of an item to enchanters.

Primarily, the driving factor of the price fluctuations, as in the real world is supply versus demand. When supply is high, but demand is low, competition drives the prices down, and conversely then supply is low, but demand is high, the market is driven into a sellers market.

What can Auctioneer do to help me ?

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Auctioneer can help you alleviate this lack of market knowledge over time by watching the market evolve. When you go to the auction house for the first time after installing auctioneer, you will see a new button marked "Scan" at the bottom of the Auction window's browse pane. Clicking on this button will put the Auction window into an automatic scanning process which will look at the current market snapshot and record statistical data about the prices and quantities of items at the auction house.

Once the market analysis has completed, you will notice additional information about the items in the tooltips when you mouse over them:

An example tooltip:

• Linen Cloth
• Seen 4062 times at auction total
• Averages for 3 items:
• Starting bid (1.63 ea) 4s89c
• Bids (10% 0.52 ea) 1s56c
• Buyout (92%, 3.40 ea) 10s20c
• Buyout median 7s35c
• Last 35, median BO (ea) 2s50c
• Scanned 20, median BO (ea) 2s45c
• Suggested price for your 3 stack: 3.40 min / 4.26 BO
• Undercutting by 5%
• Buy 3 (0.55 each) 1s65c
• Sell 3 (0.13 each) 39c
• Stacks in lots of 20
• Class: Trade Goods
• Used for: Smithing, First Aid, Engineering, Tailoring
• Quest items in 4 quests

OK, what is this new data telling the user?

The new data is displaying the market statistics from all auction scans. It is telling the user that:

• The item linen cloth has been seen 4062 times in total due to scans of the auction house.
• The average values for the current stack of three items is:
  • An average starting bid for 3 items of 4 silver and 89 coppers (1 silver and 63 coppers for one item)
  • An average bid rate of 10% (that is 10% of the 4062 items had bids) and an average bid of 1 silver and 56 coppers (52 coppers for one item)
  • An average buyout value of 10 silver and 20 coppers (3 silver and 40 coppers for one) was set on 92% of the 4062 auctions (Not all auctions need to have a buyout set, that is why the percentage is only 92%)
• The most accurate median buyout (for 3 items) is 7 silver and 35 coppers
• For the last 35 of these items seen, the per item median buyout was 2 silver and 50 coppers
• The most recent scan of the auction house saw 20 of these items, and the per item median buyout was 2 silver and 45 coppers
• Auctioneer suggests that the minimum bid for the 3 stack is set to 3 silver and 40 coppers and that the buyout price is set to 4 silver and 26 coppers
• Auctioneer has determined the previous values by undercutting the market with 5% (for explanation see below)

OK, but what do these numbers actually mean?

Understanding of what the numbers are telling you can be the most difficult part of understanding this addon.

Let me tell you what this data tells me.

1. The sample size is high. 4062 items, which means that we have a lot of information about the item.
2. The auction house has some nibblers who are taking bids on the lower priced items in the auction house. 10% of the items have bids, however they are not coming close to the average starting bid (even lower than halfway toward it). This indicates that there are people looking for bargains on this item (likely to try and buy and resell it at a better price)
3. The buyout rate being at 92% indicates that people are fairly confident that they know the value of this item.
4. The Average buyout being about 2 silver 85 copper higher than the average median (around 40% of the median) indicates a varying price for these item, but still fair. When the difference between the average and the median is high, this indicates a market that is unstable, unsure of it's pricing point.
5. The last median (historical median) shows the median value of up to the last 35 items, whereas the scanned median (snapshot median) shows the median buyout of only those items currently for sale on the auction house. The difference between these two values indicate a temporary market shift. The historical data being higher than the snapshot data means that the market is in a low for this item (buyers market) and conversely the snapshot being higher than the historical indicates the market booming for this item (sellers market)
6. The other points are explained already in the previous section.

Selecting the prices to sell for:

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If Auctioneer has enough data, when you try to put an auction up for sale, it will attempt to provide you with intelligent pricing points based upon the market data it has accumulated through scanning.

When you drag your item from your inventory window into the Create Auction item slot, Auctioneer will set a minimum price, a buyout price and display relevant data about it's decision making process underneath in the market analysis pane, as well as telling you how it arrived at it's prices.

An example auction 1

Based upon the Auction-tab description: (for more information see Interface Usage)

• [ 3 ] Linen Cloth
• Starting price
• 3s 40c
• Buyout price (optional)
• 4s 26c
• Auction duration
• [ ] 12 [ ] 24 [x] 48 hour
• Deposit: 12c
• 35 historical 7s 50c
• 20 last scan 7s 35c
• Snapshot low 4s 50c
• Market price 7s 35c
• Original bid 1s
• Undercutting by 5%

An example auction 2

Based upon the Post Auction-tab description: (for more information see Interface Usage)

• [ 3 ] Linen Cloth
• Undercutting by 5%
• Starting price
• 3s 40c
• Buyout price
• 4s 26c
• Auction duration
• [ ] 12 [ ] 24 [x] 48 hour
• Deposit: 12c

What's all this mean then?

OK, well the starting and buyout prices, duration and the deposit are all self explanatory. The rest of the data means this:

(Explanation based upon auction example 1):

• This item has been seen 35 times historically (that is in the last 35 times) with a median of 7 silver and 50 coppers
• This item has been seen 20 times the last scan (snapshot) with a median of 7 silver and 35 coppers
• The lowest price for this item in the last scan was 4 silver and 50 coppers
• The calculated market price for this item is 7 silver and 35 coppers
• The original starting bid, suggested by blizzard for this item is 1 silver
• The pricing algorithm decided that the current lowest bid (4s50c) could be undercut by 5% and still not deviate too far from the market price.

What are the available pricing models?

The pricing algorithm may select one of:

• Marking up vendor by 300%: This item has not been seen at auction. We are estimating that it will be worth 3 times more than what you could sell it to the vendor for.
• Undercutting by x%: This item has competition on the market, but it's not so bad that we'd be cutting our throats by matching them.
• No competition: This item is not on the market, you have a monopoly on this item at this point in time.
• Competition above market: The prices for this item are no threat to you as they are all over prices (you could afford to bump your prices up a little too, if you felt like it)
• Cannot match lowest price: The lowest price is too far below the market value. Selling at this point in time is not recommended. Either bide your time until this item is gone, risk it and put your item up any way at a higher price, manually reduce your price to match it, or buy out the cheap items, and relist them and your items for proper market value.
• Using my current price: You have the most competitive price on the market, so we are repeating the post at your current price.
• No data for HSP: No data exists to work out what the highest sellable price for this item is.

Conclusion

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We surely hope this helps people to understand Auctioneer a bit better. More advanced topics such as playing the market to make bulk GOLD will be covered in future documentation, which can be found here Auctioneer.

Please goto "AuctioneerAddOn.Com" to view the current changelog.

Relatively big change to StdDev statistic that should ease processing requirements, either removing or minimizing any sort of jitter!

Revision: 3342 (APPR-175) Corrects an issue where Appraiser's GetPrice() API was being sent "random data" instead of the appropriate nil value, due to incorrect passing of a (no-longer) reserved parameter.

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Revision: 3341 fixes BCNT-188 corrects typo unkown with unknown

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Revision: 3340 Fixes ADV-290: the API's BellCurve will now prevent stddevs from getting below .1 This fixes the freezing issue many users have been complaining about

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Revision: 3332 APPR-174 Adjusted Appraiser so that it now obeys the "ServerKey" parameter. Leaving out this parameter will be handled as before by defaulting to the current local key.

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Revision: 3331 SHTG-8: Adds some rechecking to the "count", so it can't stay corrupted

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Revision: 3315 Fixes AUIS-7 Adds AucAdvanced as dependency to the TOC, adds URL and revision strings

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Revision: 3314 Fixes AAMU-92: Icon will now show when embedded, and TT help shows

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Revision: 3313 ADV-287: Adds Auc-Stat-Histogram to build script Fun, new additions in Auctioneer 3312

3298- Introducing the new Auc-Utility-AHWindowControl The utility combines the old Mover and Protect Window Utilities and adds *new*, easily configurable options to set the size of the entire AH window, set CompactUI's text size, protect the AH window from being mistakenly closed, allows the AH window to be moved without a special "window mover addon" and a setting to remember the position of the AH window between sessions. Be sure to check out this oft-requested addition! 3294 Adds Enhanced Tooltip configuration to the SlideBar, which is also accessible via /ett at the command prompt. This is another big, big request, /ett off will turn off all of Auctioneer's tooltip additions for raiders and more. 3307 Auc-Stat-Histogram - In short, a pricing method close to that of Classic. For more, see http://wiki.norganna.org/Auc-Stat-Histogram 3304 A few changes to reduce or remove the end-of-processing lag 3303 SearchUI now pulls items from BottomScan's "Snatch" list, SearchUI will soon be getting a fully gui-driven snatch list to make life easier. 3302 As part of our move to Beta, pop up help added to all Appraiser elements that support tooltips. Numerous other small, UI and functional enhancements with many, many more to come. Stay tuned! 3277 A huge change to our processing. LibRecycle completely removed and all of the allocations/recyclings of tables has been returned to native lua table allocation and garbage collection. End users should see a bit of a speed increase but this is more of a back-end change.

Revision: 3312 MISC-26 Temporarily removed mention of informant from EnhTT/Informant slide bar icon as informant config is not ready yet.

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Revision: 3311 MISC-25 Add in SVN properties to the AH Window control files

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Revision: 3310 MISC-25 Removes Auc-Util-Mover from Build script. Adds Auc-Util-AHWindowControl to build config

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Revision: 3309 MISC-25 Uploads the combined versions of utilities mover and protect window.

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Revision: 3308 MISC-25 Uploads the combined versions of utilities mover and protect window.

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Revision: 3307 Adds SHTG-6: Adds option to Enable/Disable in game Default is enabled

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Revision: 3306 SHTG-7: Reduces precision to 1% to reduce processing load The database will update itself the first time you log in.

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Revision: 3305 Finishes BCNT-169 When the exact check box is used in the BeanCounter GUI text search,"Of the" items will be filtered appropriately. This complements the already implemented filtering for the external Search API's exact filtering.

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Revision: 3304 ADV-282: Reduces the end-of-processing lag

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Revision: 3303 fixes ASER-63: snatch should now properly see the items on BtmScan's Snatch list SUI Snatch still needs to move away from BtmScan Bonus fix: prevents the error message "global 'BtmScan' (a nil value) " from popping in embedded builds (still won't work, but won't error out)

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Revision: 3302 APPR-171: Adds Tooltip help to (almost) all Appraiser elements Tooltip help can be disabled in the options Tooltip not added to bid/buy entryboxes, due to the element type not accepting OnEnter scripts

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Revision: 3301 APPR-84:Adds tooltip to Icon in item dropslot Makes looking at the item's tooltip much more intuitive than having to go to the itemlist

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Revision: 3300 Continues BCNT-187 Changes itemlink lookup to use plain text string.find instead of regular expression. This should stop all issues with symbols in item names being misread as capture commands.

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Revision: 3299 Starts ADV-286 Improves the progress bars display to be more aesthetic and less intrusive. Bars are smaller, and no longer overlap if both are displayed at the same time. Bars will scale with the Auction Frames scale. Please give any feedback on improving the look of teh progress bars

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Revision: 3298 Continues AMOV-3 Adds a new slider to the Window scale subsection. This slider adjusts the Font size of the compactUI in the browse tab.

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Revision: 3297 ETT-27 Error no longer thrown on load. Button visibility state is now correctly set on load.

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Revision: 3296 ETT-23 Another icon clean up

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Revision: 3295 ETT-23 Fixed up the yellow edge on the icon

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Revision: 3294 ETT-23 Updated icon

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Revision: 3293 Starts AMOV-3 Preview of the Protect and Mover module merger. DISABLE Auc-Util-ProtectWindow module. Has same options as current mover and Protect modules. New Set Scale option that will adjust teh size of auction frame.

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Revision: 3292 SHTG-4: Corrects the min&max values passed by GetItemPDF() Price should now be properly calculated by GetMarketValue

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Revision: 3291 fixes EBRK-9 Fix spelling on ShortSpellSurge, add error checking to catch future errors related to short string lookup, update localized strings

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Revision: 3290 SHSP-4 Implemented an item PDF for Auc-Classic which is a rough estimate of probability by using an inverse Z lookup. Confidence is the value 1 with a half life of 2 weeks.

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Revision: 3289 ADV-284: AucAdv will no longer require the seller name to match auctions

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Revision: 3288 Fixes ETT-26 /ett show will no longer throw a concatenate error. Changes all print(item...stuff...stuff) to print(item, stuff, stuff) this avoids concatenate errors, since out print function will properly handle nils.

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Revision: 3287 Fixes ETT-25 Remove _ENCH babylonian calls and use simple English strings for feedback messages on profile change and reset.

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Revision: 3286 Starts BCNT-187 When trying to match the provided itemName that contains parenthesis () we will reformat them before trying to use a matcher. Cat Carrier (Siamese) becomes Cat Carrier %(Siamese%)

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Revision: 3285 ADV-280: Corrects an issue where "attempt to get a nil" value may result due to the fact that parameters are processed even when they may not be used, unlike the short circuit logic that may be expected for some assertions.

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Revision: 3284 SHTG-3: Fixes a possible runaway table

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Revision: 3283 Implements ADV-280: Improved efficiency of GetMarketValue by causing module lookups to only occur when new modules are created. Also adjusted retrieval of PDFs so that the recycled table is no longer cleared; instead, it is overwritten and verified.

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Revision: 3282 ASER-61: SearchUI now takes item price into account for reserve checking.

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Revision: 3281 Fixes BCNT-186 Changes reason code API to use string.split() instead of regular expression.

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Revision: 3280 Fixes BCNT-186 Changes regular expression used to get reason codes to display more than one word. This will allow full display of the custom reason codes people can now enter via SearchUI.

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Revision: 3279 MISC-14: Fix missing transitions from private.reuse() -> {}.

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Revision: 3278 Author: Norganna MISC-14: Fix miscoded clone->replicate call.

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Revision: 3277 Author: Norganna Date: 8:04:47 AM, Monday, July 28, 2008 Message: MISC-14: Remove LibRecycle and revert all allocations/recyclings of tables to native lua table allocation and garbage collection.

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Revision: 3276 SHTG-1: Adds option to display per item or per stack prices

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Revision: 3275 ADV-276: Adds reason editbox to purchase popup

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Revision: 3274 AUEB-9: Created EasyGoldLimit in options menu to prevent accidental overspending on items. Disabled by default.

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Revision: 3273 AUEB-10: The util will register leftbutton/rightbutton for clicks on the browse frame if either EasyBid or EasyBuyout is enabled. Removed completely addon disable/enable feature

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Revision: 3272 SHTG-2: all tables are now local and reused. Histogram's memory use during processing shouldn't spike as much

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Revision: 3271 Resolved issue AUEB-8 - EasyBid script can't get set unless EasyBuyout has been enabled. Added complete addon enable/disable option to prevent unnecessary registering for clicks if the user isn't going to use the addon at all

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Revision: 3270 ASER-58 Adds info about requiring respective dependencies to use the search methods

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Revision: 3269 Fixes BTMS-143 BtmScan will no longer error on open if BeanCounter is disabled. FIXES Message: [string"StubbyHookingFunction"] line 1:attempt to index global 'BeanCounter' (a nil value)

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Revision: 3268 Fixes ADV-277 and CLAS-83. The AuctionFrame was being reopened because I'd failed to check if the frame was displayed before attempting to unprotect it. I put in the necessary checks, added some more debugging output, and discovered and fixed the same problem with the code in Auc Classic.

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Revision: 3267 MISC-13 Add svn props to BeanCounter search file

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Revision: 3266 Add svn props to Histogram file

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Revision: 3265 ETT-23 Add missing svn props to new EnhTooltip files

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Revision: 3264 Add svn props to ProtectWindow files

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Revision: 3263 Fixes AAMU-91 AutoMagic should use searchUI or BTM scan rules for DE, prospect, Mail to, and vendor operations.

If you noticed the "magnifying glass icon" at the top of the Browse Frame- that is for SearchUI- left click to start/stop LiveSearch right click to access the full SearchUI, including all of the settings.

For more see http://wiki.norganna.org/SearchUI

NOTE: The defaults for the Easy Buyout and Bid modules have been changed to "OFF". If you desire the functionality, you will need to re-enable the functions in the Configuration.

Revision: 3262 Fixes BCNT-185 updates DB to version 2.02. Runs a full Database Validate to fix any issues before the postedDatabase cleaner functions become active. Added a message to state when a Validate has finished, when the Config "Validate" button is used.

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Revision: 3261 Fixes BCNT-184 Adds Enhtooltip to the libs beancounter uses. This helps provide tooltip reason codes for SearchUI.

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Revision: 3260 ADV-274: Fixes possible rounding/cropping problem with early data collection

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Revision: 3259 SDEV-7: Fixes age-old "id" pollution No more will configs created from Stddev's template cause pollution!

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Revision: 3258 ADV-273 Fixes pollution in r3257

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Revision: 3257 Author: RockSlice (ADV-273) Adds new stat: Histogram

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Revision: 3256 Added capability for GetMarketValue to indicate what is going wrong by reporting to nLog when it gives up calculating a value. (ADV-272)

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Revision: 3255 (ASER-53) type that created a global var has been corrected

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Revision: 3254 (ASER-53) Adds snatch to searchui, currently uses and requires a BTM snatch list looking at possible alternatives.

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Revision: 3253 Fixes BCNT-181 Move search functions out of the frame code and into its own lua file

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Revision: 3252 Adds AAMU-87 Automagic will make use of SearchUI reason codes for vendor, disenchant, and prospect if available.

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Revision: 3251 Fixes ADV-271 Auc-Advanced\CoreAPI.lua line 599:attempt to call global 'print' (a nil value) Corrects bad print command that had no lib.Print reference.

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Revision: 3250 Added configuration for GetMarketValue's error tolerance. This is used for the integral approximations used when summing the item PDFs. (ADV-270)

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Revision: 3249 APPR-160: Correct spelling mistake that led to pollution in 3248

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Revision: 3248 APPR-160: Rearranges Appraiser GUI to be cleaner and hopefully more intuitive. All pricing information is together. "Classic" View renamed to "Simple View" but no other changes. "Advanced" View labelled as "Full View".

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Revision: 3247 Fixes BCNT-179 Fixes a possible attempt to index local 'sender' error when checking the AH mail. Turns off some un-needed debug code

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Revision: 3246 Fixes ADV-268: Print redirection requires a reload or relog to allow newly created windows. Also fixes bug where deleted windows would appear as targets for redirection.

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Revision: 3245 [ETT-24] EnhTooltip now works in the following additional windows: -SendMail - TrainerService - LootRollI - Buyback [ETT-23] First cut of implementation of per-frame show/hide options for EnhTooltip.

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Revision: 3244 Adds tooltip to the SearchUI mag glass on Browse frame (ASER-54)

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Revision: 3243 Completes BCNT-178 Posted Databases now clean old entries and empty tables.

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Revision: 3242 [ETT-22] Small fix with the previous commit

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Revision: 3241 [ETT-22] Added an option to hide Auctioneer Enhanced tooltip and an option to display it on "Alt" key when hidden. EnhTooltip now understand chat command /ett to configure the new options. Type /ett help for the list. When Aucadvanced in present EnhTooltip tab is added under Core Options in the Configator.

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Revision: 3240 Continues BCNT-32 Tweak recolor code to better respond to AH mails.

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Revision: 3239 Fixes BCNT-177 Tweaked Matcher-BeanCount table lookups to reduce time to get results. Average 50% improvement. See ticket for testing details.

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Revision: 3238 Begins work on ADV-266 Adds some more sanity-checking before sending the bid request off.

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Revision: 3237 Starts BCNT-175 Adds the option to Auc-Matcher-BeanCounter that allows it to filter stack sizes. So only sales/failures for the current stack size are calculated in the matchers price change. This is experimental off by default.

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Revision: 3236 Expands the "General" search tremendously (ASER-17) Adds search by: type/subtype, tleft, min/max bid/buy, seller Please note: you'll probably want an uptodate Configator for the expanded config frame

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Revision: 3235 Fixes BCNT-173 Removed the need for a seller name when a bid/buy is placed in order for a reason code to be recorded. The completedbids/buys matcher will no longer use the unreliable seller name field.

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Revision: 3234 Fixes issue with realtime refreshing while a CoreBuy popup was up. (ASER-51)

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Revision: 3233 fixes error when ignoring (ASER-50)

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Revision: 3232 Fixes BCNT-172 Upgrades DB to 2.01 to remove wealth entries and upgrade integrity checks to handle SearchUI reason codes.

• • • Backup your beancounter saved var file first***

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Revision: 3231 Fixes cosmetic issue with Search Button caused by Configator r88 (ASER-49)

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Revision: 3230 Adds "only for bids" option to TimeLeft Filter (ASER-42)

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Revision: 3229 Adds Debug info in tooltip (ASER-43) Tooltip debug is off by default, and is only for auctions

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Revision: 3228 SIMP-6: Fix logic problem when seenCount=0. Used to cause assert in coreAPI.

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Revision: 3227 Adds protection to the scandata during the commit function, to prevent corruption (ADV-263)

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Revision: 3226 Fixes BTMS-142 Adds beancounter to the toc optional dependences so the "Reason" code stubby hooks will function.

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Revision: 3225 Adds props to Corebuy (ADV-262)

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Revision: 3224 SIMP-6 remove misc print command

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Revision: 3223 SIMP-6: Working on Stat-simple, trying to make it more accurate. Adds a "safe" price option in the, uh, options which recommends a price based on a mix of the daily, 3 day, 7 day and 14 day averages instead of just using the most recent. Also updates the PDF function to similar behaviour.

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Revision: 3222 Adds BCNT-171 Fixes debug print command

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Revision: 3221 Fixes BTMS-141 fixes global pollution CallBackString

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Revision: 3220 Adds BCNT-171 New API BeanCounter.API.getBidReason(itemLink, quantity) Pass a itemlink and stack count. Returns : "Reason, time of purchase, what you payed" or nil

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Revision: 3219 adds BTMS-141 When purchasing with BTM, send the reason data to beancounter. This allows BeanCounter to provide the Tooltip reason code using the same system in place for SearchUI.

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Revision: 3218 Continues BCNT-166 BEanCounter now hooks the Enhtooltip function to position its tooltip data at the end. Changed format and added a bit of color to make tooltip more readable.

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Revision: 3217 Adds AMOV-2 The Auction Frame can now be saved across sessions, see options. The Frame is also now prevented from being moved off of a players screen. Updated module registration to use current standard.

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Revision: 3216 Disables bid/buy buttons in Appraiser when selected auction is one of your own (APPR-129)

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Revision: 3215 Fixes issue with buying no-owner auctions once AH has owner (ADV-261)

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Revision: 3214 Continues BCNT-166 BeanCounter will now add SearchUI Reason Codes to the Tooltip. Rough code only, this is not the final format/color scheme ;) Increases Time till Data is compacted from 31 days to 40 days. To extend Tooltip data availability.

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Revision: 3213 adds debugPrint to the end of GetModuleLocals() function returns (ADV-259) individual modules obviously still need to change their GetModuleLocals() call before trying to use debugPrint

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Revision: 3212 Fixes tooltips to accurately describe how Undercut works (UCUT-12)

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Revision: 3211 Fixes NIL in pct column when bids are found (ASER-41)

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Revision: 3210 Appropriate message will now be output when trying to bid on an auction that you're already the highest bidder on (ADV-257)

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Revision: 3209 fixes "Pause after manual search" not resetting after every search (ASER-40)

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Revision: 3208 Reshuffling of functions to reduce duplication of similar code (ASER-39)

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Revision: 3207 Starts BCNT-166 This is very rough Alpha code. BeanCounter will now record the reason messages items are bought for provided via the AucAdv SearchUI. The wealth column has been replaced with a reason. See ticket for more info

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Revision: 3206 Adds SVN Props. (ASER-38)

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Revision: 3205 Improvements to buttons. Hides "Search" button when not needed (ASER-37) Also changes button layout below scrollsheet, and adds "Clear" button

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Revision: 3204 fixes stack issue with ignoreprice (ASER-36)

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Revision: 3203 Adds Filters to SearchUI (Including Ignore capabilities) (ASER-35)

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Revision: 3202 Adjusted GetMarketValue() to always round to the nearest copper. (ADV-254)

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Revision: 3201 Moves progressbar to a higher level (ASER-25) Also added a cancel button, which wasn't possible before

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Revision: 3200 Fixes problem with doing math on a nil var (ASER-34)

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Revision: 3199 Starts ADV-131 Adds a frame to the top right of the auction frame. Progress bars for Getall and regular scan commits will be displayed there. The frame only appears if a progress bar needs to be displayed, will move with the auction frame. But will still show progress bars if the auction frame is closed.

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Revision: 3198 fixes pollution on previous commit (ASER-30)

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Revision: 3197 Ports BottomScan functionality over to SearchUI (ASER-30) New functionality is called "Realtime" Please note the "Ignore" and "Not Now" buttons aren't functional (yet)

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Revision: 3196 Fixes BTMS-140 Changes the Snatch UI window for bags columns to be wide enough to read. Add column resizing to scroll frames.

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Revision: 3195 Fixes APPR-166 Appraiser will now pass an itemlink to beancounter's search API, instead of an itemID:itemSig. This solve teh issue of beancounters search displaying a string of numbers and no results on "of The" items.

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Revision: 3194 Fixes "Protect-Window not fully functional anymore" (CLAS-54). Fixed the protection of the AuctionFrame in Auctioneer Classic, and added code to make Classic defer to AucAdvanced for this functionality if AucAdvanced is present.

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Revision: 3193 Adds "pagefinished" processor event (ADV-253) This is required for the realtime searchUI

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Revision: 3192 Accomplishes module-izing of the Window Protection functionality (ADV-251). The new module Auc-Util-ProtectWindow is now the home of this functionality, and all code has been removed from CoreSettings.lua and CoreUtil.lua. Also, the code has been cleaned up and simplified in preparation for porting it back to Auctioneer Classic.

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Revision: 3191 Adds check for AucAdv before checking an AucAdv variable (CLAS-81)

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Revision: 3190 AucClassic will no longer interfere with bidding on auctions via the SearchUI (CLAS-81)

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Revision: 3189 fixes lack of output on failed bids/buyouts (ADV-249)

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Revision: 3188 Fixes an issue with ADV-247 where server key was not being taken into account during caching.

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Revision: 3187 Added GetSigFromLink/GetLinkFromSig standard APIs (moved from Appraiser module). (Implements ADV-248). Also converted GetMarketValue to now use item signatures instead of links, which should improve cache performance (Fixes ADV-247).

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Revision: 3186 Continues BCNT-169 Removes debug gsub when cached searches are returned.

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Revision: 3185 fixes some problems with comparing nils to numbers (APPR-164)

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Revision: 3184 Adds possible fix to APPR-153: loss of Number setting

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Revision: 3183 Fixes ASAL-13 - Uses new exact search in BeanCounter to get more precise information for "of the" items. Also removes some debug code.

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Revision: 3182 Starts BCNT-169 Improves API search to better honor the exact flag on "of the items". If the API search routine is passed a valid itemLink or itemString beancounter will attempt to filter and return only the matches for that item. So item:20964:0:0:0:0:0:1027:0 Will now only return results for Aquamarine Signet of the Whale (+7 spi +7 sta) flavor. This is currently only useful for external API searches atm.

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Revision: 3181 PURC-7 Fixed pollution and missing variable in previous commit.

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Revision: 3180 Implements PURC-7: Gives Stat-Purchased a PDF so it can affect Market Price. Based on Stat-Simple to start with.

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Revision: 3179 ASAL-6 Fixes pollution with last commit.

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Revision: 3178 First pass at moving Sales to use prices based on StdDev. Also includes PDF so it works with Market Price now. ASAL-6

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Revision: 3177 Fixed an issue where Stat-Simple was not taking the possibility of a zero standard deviation into account when calculating the PDF ranges. Also adjusted the formula used to estimate standard deviation when no deviation occurs. (SIMP-6)

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Revision: 3176 Fixes ASAL-3 : Adds pointer to Beancounter which is where you really need to remove the information from to clear an item.

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Revision: 3175 AskPrice overhaul. Addresses ASKP-19 by drastically reducing messages sent out during a query request and completely eliminating login/logout messages. Also, AskPrice now uses Mikk's ChatThrottleLib library, which means that it will play nice with other AddOns that use the AddOn channel. ASKP-18 is also addressed by not processing events when AskPrice is disabled, although the OnUpdate handler will still run to clear out any queries still in the queue from when AskPrice was still enabled. Additionally ASKP-9 has been implemented, which means that there is now an option to tell AskPrice to expect either of the two SmartWords instead of requiring both to be present before triggering a query. The implementation for ASKP-8 has been postponed until a future date, for now just avoid setting SmartWords which are present in AskPrice's output messages.

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Revision: 3174 fixes newBid = nil bug on line 263 (APPR-163)

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Revision: 3173 Fixes bug with Appraiser.GetPrice(), where bid wouldn't min to vendor when set to (APPR-162) This should fix the problem with displayed price not matching post price

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Revision: 3172 (AUIS-5) corrects a flaw in original fix that I didn't notice... We now have vendor properly usable against the function its used in.

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Revision: 3171 (AUIS-5) global pollution by AUIS-5 fix resolved

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Revision: 3170 (AUIS-5) GetSellValue is now checked before used

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Revision: 3169 fixes AUEB-6 Changes the defaults to Off.Adds a small bit of code that resets the current on state to off for users of the current preview build. If you use easybuyout feature please re-enable from the options

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Revision: 3168 Added capability of coroutine errors being reported to the error handler (with appropriate stack) so that they can be debugged more easily (ADV-244).

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Revision: 3167 (fixes ENX-41) add support for enchantrix to parse reagents from spell links in addition to enchant links and provide prices

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Revision: 3166 fix small layout issue with previous commit (APPR-161)

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Revision: 3165 Fixes error where GetPrice() was only using 24h deposits (APPR-161)

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Revision: 3164 AUEB-5 Fixed issue with an unnecessary assertion causing a random error Error reported here http://forums.norganna.org/discussion/7318/error-on-mouseover/#Item_0

Installing Auctioneer

A step by step guide to installing/upgrading Auctioneer

This guide will graphically show you how to install or upgrade your Auctioneer version to the latest version on Windows.

A similar process can be applied to OSX or Linux installations, however the paths and tools you will use will be different.

Backing up

Upgrading only - See Backup

Download

Go to The Auctioneer download page to download the latest stable release of Auctioneer, and save it to your disk.

Find your AddOns

Browse to your AddOns folder which is at World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns on your hard disk.

Your AddOns folder

Delete old folders

Once you have found your AddOns folder, select and delete the following folders. We will be re-extracting them from the newly downloaded zip file from step 1.

• !Swatter
• Auctioneer
• BeanCounter
• BtmScan
• Enchantrix
• EnhTooltip
• Informant
• Stubby

Open the zip file

Find the file you downloaded in step 1 and double-click the icon in Explorer to open the file in your favourite archive extraction application. If you don't have one, you can get a free one called 7-Zip from the 7-Zip download page which will handle most of your file extraction needs and more. The following instructions assume you are using it. If you have a different one, the procedure will be mostly similar.

The Auctioneer zip file in your downloads folder

Select the files

When the zip file browser opens, select all the files in the file view by using the mouse or going to the application's Edit menu and choose Select All. Note: You may not wish to extract all the files, however if you do decide to leave some files out, you must at minimum install Stubby and EnhTooltip, as they are required library functions that all the other AddOns in the Auctioneer Pack use.

Select all the folders in the zip file

Select copy

Click the copy button on the toolbar to begin the installation process. A dialog will pop up, asking you where to put the selected folders to when the contents are extracted.

Click the copy button

Browse to destination

Press the ... button at the right side of the dialog box, and a folder browser will appear, select the World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder and click OK

Browse for your AddOns folder

Select OK

Now you will be returned to the Copy dialog, but with the correct path in the text input field. Select OK to complete the process and begin copying the files to your World of Warcraft's AddOns folder.

Click OK

Wait for a bit

A dialog will briefly pop up to chart the extraction process's progress, and once finished will disappear. Simply close the 7-Zip application, as we are now finished with it.

Extraction process

All done

You have now completed the installation of your new Auctioneer AddOns. Yay!

Note: When you use AddOn Libraries that install themself and clean the AddOn folder (like Cosmos does) it is wise to install Auctioneer (and it's sister AddOns) to another folder first (e.g. the root of the drive) and then copy the files manually to the AddOns folder. Most of the time the installer of the AddOn Library will not delete AddOns that are not in the library, but in this way you have at least a backup on your drive in case it (by accident) is deleted.

If you need help configuring World of Warcraft to enable your AddOn, please see the Enabling Auctioneer in WoW section.