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I wrote Ahplus to help me make money at the Auction House. Bidding on various goods and reselling them for profit was very tedious, and Ahplus makes it much easier.

Ahplus depends on PriceDB (included in the download) which keeps track of how much various items are worth. Unlike other item databases, this database only contains items that you are interesting in trading, and only records prices. You decide which items to include in PriceDB and you set the prices.

Setting Prices

Your price for an item is the price at which you think the item would sell. Ahplus sets this as the buyout price for your auctions. You want this price to be high enough for you to make money, but low enough that people think it's a bargain and snap it up.

Your price is the price per item, not per stack. Maybe [Linen Cloth] goes for 40s a stack on your server. Your price would be 2s, since there are 20 pieces of [Linen Cloth] in a stack. If you enter 40s as a fair price for [Linen Cloth] Ahplus will bid on all of it (unless there are some crazy price-gougers out there, and resell it for 8g a stack. No one would bid, and you would lose a lot of money.

Cheap auctions are auctions with bids below your price by a certain amount. You set this amount with the "Automatic Bid Limiter" slider on the Options Frame. If you set this to 80%, Ahplus considers an auction cheap if its price is no more than 80% of yours.

Mini-Panel

At the top of the screen, between the TargetFrame and the Minimap, there is a new panel, which summarizes important information:

• The name of the current item.
• How many pieces and auctions are in the AH.
• How much it would cost you to bid on all cheap auctions.
• How much you would make if you won all the cheap auctions and sold them at your price.
• How many of that item you have in your inventory.
• How much you expect to earn from selling those items
• Your price for the item. (You can edit this value)

There are also four buttons on the new panel:

• Next PDB: Cycles through the entries in the PriceDB. Hitting this button changes the name of the current item (in the minipanel and the AuctionFrame) and searches for that item. Most useful when bidding.
• Next Inv: Cycles through the items in your inventory that are in PriceDB. Works just like the "Next PDB" buton. Most useful when selling.
• Bid All: Bids on all cheap auctions on the current page (all 50, not just the 8 on screen)
• Sell All: Sells all of the current item in your inventory.

Browse Tab Changes

No bids If there are no bids on an auction, Ahplus adds "No Bids" in red in the "Seller" column. If there are no bids on an auction, it's likely the price is too high.

The icons change color depending on the price of the auction:

• Bright Green: The buyout price of the auction is cheaper than your price. Click on the auction to buy it out. Pressing "Bid All" will buy the auction out.
• Light Green: The bid price of the auction is cheaper than your price. (Including the 5% by which you must beat the current bid) Click on the auction to bid on it. Pressing "Bid All" will bid on the auction.
• Yellow: The bid price of the auction is just barely cheaper than your price. You won't make much profit if you bid on this auction. Pressing "Bid All" will not bid on this auction, but you can still bid by clicking on it.
• Normal(no color or red): The bid price for the auction is greater than your price, or you have no price for this item. Clicking on the auction does nothing special, and "Bid All" will ignore this auction.

The right half of the Mini-Panel shows:

• Average buyout
• Lowest buyout
• Average price
• Highest bid

These values should help you determine the market rate for the item, so you can set the best price.

Bid Tab Changes

On this tab, the right half of the Mini-Panel shows:

• Amount Invested: The sum of all your bids in the Auction House.
• Resale value: If you win all the auctions you have bid on, resell the items at the current prices in PriceDB, and all your auctions are bought out, you'll get this much money.
• Profit Ratio: If you bid 10g on some items and sell them for 20g, your Profit Ratio is 2.0

Auction Tab Changes

Click on this tab and get a the following information on the Mini-Panel:

• Guaranteed: Worst case scenario. The sum of all the bids on all your auctions. If all your auctions ended now, you get this much money.
• Min Bids: All the minimum bids for the auctions no one has bid on, plus the bids people have made. You'll make this much money if your auctions barely avoid expiring.
• Buyouts: Best case scenario. The sum of all the buyouts for all your auctions. If you've set your prices correctly, all your auctions will be bought out, and you'll get this amount.

Drag an item into the "Auction item" slot. Both Starting Price and Buyout Price are filled in for you.

• If the item is in PriceDB: Buyout Price = your price * the number of items in the stack. Starting Price is adjustable (See Options below).
• If the item is not in PriceDB: Starting Price = 1.5 vendor price (same as the regular Auction House) Buyout Price is adjustable (See Options below).

Click on the "Browse" tab with an item in the "Auction Item" slot and Ahplus will search for that item. This lets you compare prices with what's on AH right now. If you change the price of the item with the minipanel, the Starting Price and Buyout Price will be updated when you click back to the "Auctions" tab.

Mailbox Changes

The Mailbox has been automated to remove the tedium of manually collecting hundreds of bids and items.

The following types of letters are collected automatically. Just open the mail, and Ahplus will go through, collecting items and money and deleting letters.

The following types of letters are not automatically picked up. An expired auction indicates an incorrect price, and checking how much money you receive from a successful auction lets you know if it was bought out or went for a lower price. However, clicking on the icon in the list will take the item or money and delete the letter. You don't have to "read" the letter.

Options

Click the "Options" button to change Ahplus settings.

Bid on Click: If checked, clicking on a Bright Green, Green, or Yellow auction will bid on it. Uncheck if you don't want to click to bid.

Buy Out on Click: If checked, clicking on a Bright Green auction will buy it out. Uncheck if you don't want to click to buy out.

Take Items From Mail If checked, Ahplus will automatically collect items mailed from the Auction House.

Take Money From Mail If checked, Ahplus will automatically collect money mailed from the Auction House.

Show Price per Item: If checked, Ahplus will display the price per item, not the price of the whole stack. I find it very handy, but if you're short on cash, you may want to see how much the whole stack costs.

Initial Bid Price Multiplier: This slider affects the prices Ahplus fills in when you put an item in the "Auction Item" slot. The starting price can be between 5% and 100% of the buyout price.

Automatic Bid Limit: This slider affects how auctions are colored and which auctions the "Bid All" button will bid on.
Auctions with buyout prices between "Free" and the slider position are Bright Green.
Auctions with bid prices between "Free" and the slider position are Green.
Auctions with bid prices between the slider position and "Your Price" are Yellow.
Auctions with bid prices above "Your Price" are too expensive, and are not colored.
Moving the slider to the left reduces the number of auctions you bid on, but increases the profit you make on each auction.
Moving the slider to the right increases the number of auctions you bid on, but reduces the profit you make on each auction.