Auctioneer Tutorial – Improve Your Profits Using BeanCounterPosted by xenith on March 18th, 2010

The final tool that you get with Auctioneer Advanced is BeanCounter. All this module does is allow you to search your auction history for all you characters to see what items you have bought and sold and at what prices.

You can limit the information that BeanCounter displays to bids (yours) or auctions. You can also choose to list things like unsuccessful auctions.

You can use this tool to see how well certain items performed for you in the past and to help you decide if an item is worth continuing to buy. For example, you can check how many times you had to relist an item in the past and what it finally sold for. This might tell you that the item just does not sell well.

If you want to really be successful at making gold using the Auction House, BeanCounter is deceptively simple but is in factone of the most useful tools in the Auctioneer Suite, even though it is much easier to learn to use than the other modules (just search for what you want). The complex part comes in when you need to figure out what information to look for and then what you should do with it. You need to learn from your mistakes and then change your strategies. I have tried to show you the technical parts of actually using the add-on to help you in this tutorial, but the strategies have been simple; usually just help with default settings.

But you are certainly aware that there are much more interesting strategies you can develop and that goes beyond what I can tell you here. If you are serious, your next step should be to consult other Auctioneers – although don’t expect them to give away too many secrets – or move on to an advanced Auction house strategy guide.

Happy Auctioneering