OMG, they're kinda painful! And getting worse!
1. The auction server seems sucky slow, and getting worse as more goods are forced out of the vendors hands and onto the auction circuit.
2. How many damn clicks does it take to post an item? Which is fine if you do it only occasionally, as was true in the past, but now if we want to organize ourselves to be a regular merchant of FOO, we have to click through the same set of things over and over again. There should maybe be a way to set default orders and then click once to do THAT. Or to be able to repeat an auction you just set up, click, repeat that one.
3. Forget all that. Something is wrong with this whole system in that It Takes Me Out of the Game.
a. My character is AFK while I am in the auctions.
b. I can't keep up with chat streams while I am in the auctions.
c. I don't know what the fuck is going on in the world when I am in the auctions.
4. When I return to the game, I am greeted with scores of stupid popups telling me what's been sold. Click, click, click to get rid of these popups, scores of times. Gaaaaaaaaaah.
The net effect is that auctions are making the game kinda sucky to me. If ever I wanted to create a bot for this game, the auction facet is that. It all seems conventional, unimaginative, and un-Glitchlike.