Auctionator vs Auctioneer?
Which is better? I want to like & understand Auctioneer and I might be not using it right but here are my comparisons on what I like & don't like:
Auctionator: Simplifies basic auction house tasks. It makes searching, buying, & selling easier. That's all it does. In regards to what's cheap and what to sell/buy I need to use my eyes & brain. There is this good mini history keeper in the "Buy" tab so I can just click click click to search for items I've searched before instead of having to type it out manually. I can click on some random's auction and my price will automatically be lower than theirs. Cancelling my auctions is simple. I just go click 1 button and all stacks of that one item is cancelled.
Auctioneer: A lot of the features are dependant on fully scanning the AH (takes an hour, cheap things can just dissapear in an hour). If I put things on the "Post" tab it still shows stale (1 hour old) pricing data, and the prices don't change automatically, I still need to type it in myself. Pricing setting is pretty much worthless aside from market price, I mean I can just use my eyes & brain to figure out market price but the UI clutter is making it very hard to do something so simple, and the prices not changing no matter whose auction I click makes that worse. If I go on "Search" tab and search by "Resale" it would tell me what to buy/bid because I will make 500 gold or 1000 gold profit. I saw some items that cost 500 gold would make me 500 gold profit because market price is 1000 gold but when I searched manually using the search bar none of the items are even 600 gold?? From where did it get this data from, last year? I also saw some epics like belt of the lonely noble (70g) would make me 70g profit....I'm just going to guess because it says disenchant value is 140 gold.....but right now abyss crystals are like 77 gold so how did it get that number?? Also for times I think the market price is working well it seems destroyed by how at the bottom there are many people selling stuff for like 2000 gold even though on top it's all just 200 gold. It's making me think the market price feature is not smart? What math is it trying to go by, can I tweak it myself? Some good things about it I like are how it shows how many people has seen certain auctions, and how it knows if certain items I can just buy from vendors for cheaper. I get how all these features look fancy but to me they don't even work well. I can't even cancel auctions easy, I need to go find them on Blizzard's default auctions tab & click on it one by one.
Anyway I'm thinking Auctionator + a little notepad & a pencil is pretty much superior so I can keep track of what I like to buy & sell. Or am I blind here, technologically incompetent? How do you geniuses use Auctioneer?