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# Discussion: New App: Bulk Auction Tool

Located At:
http://glitchy.info
This tool allows bulk listing of similar piles of items from your bags quickly and easily.
Features:
- "Flat View" of your inventory (bags and blanks removed).
- Price Check feature for helping you determine the price you want to list at.
- Validated HTML5 and CSS3.
- Additional safety net to help prevent you selling off items and paying commissions on items that would be better sold to a vendor.
- Calculates and displays the commission and listing fees you will be charged for your auctions and stats about "take home" amounts and total profit.
Known Issues:
- Only operates correctly when using Chrome. (Sorry! Trying to fix this now.)
- I'm forced to use "best guess" about whether or not an item can be listed for auction. I currently use base_cost = 0 as my theory, but it's not always valid. (Please add "auctionable" to item defs in the API!)
Future Plans:
- Rewriting this tool using JQuery now... (wish me luck)
- Considering grabbing all items by name regardless of stack size for bulk sale... We'll see. (This is actually likely coming with the JQuery version.)
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
Your 'Gas' bug is because there are no entries for this category coming from the API. All 'Gas' items are listed as 'Other.'
Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit | Permalink
I think the point the OP was making re: the "gas bug" is that while auctions for gas DO show up under "other" when listed in the auctions, the actual item definition for gas items lists their category as "gas". (do a defs=1 query to see what I mean, http://developer.glitch.com/api/explore/#!auctions.list ). There is no info when looking at the item that clearly tells you what auction category it belongs to.
Neat tool! One small thing, it would be nice to see the "total net" value (when you're about to list items) take the listing fee itself into account as well: right now the projected profit seems to only take the commission out of whatever you're about to set the asking price to. :)
Posted 13 months ago by Chuck Stone | Permalink
@Pokkit - It's what Chuck Stone said. I'm choosing my price check category based entirely on what is coming back from the player.inventory call. I don't want to code an exception into my tool to cover the situation of "when you get back 'gas' ignore it and go look up 'other' instead." If they want it to be "other" that's fine by me as long as they have it as "other" on both sides.
@Chuck Stone - The choice was made to not include the listing fee in the "take home" value so that if a stack sells while you are in game the number you see matches what this tool said it would be. This is caused by the fact that the listing fee is paid up front when the auctions are created.
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
Oh, understandable. I agree with Chuck, though - neat app!
Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit | Permalink
To make you guys happy I've added the "Total Profit" details. This information represents the sale price minus both the listing fee and the commission. :)
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
The "gas bug" has been repaired by our awesome dev team.
Now inventory puts them in "gassesbubbles" and listing based on that category goes by the same one. Great turn around time guys, thanks. :)
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
Random FYI - In an attempt to make this tool have better cross browser support, I've started the process of rewriting it with JQuery. Other information related to this, I'm just now learning JQuery and using it for the first time. :)
Posted 12 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
nice. very handy!
Posted 12 months ago by Jerry Garcia | Permalink
interesting but I am looking for an auto listing program that allows me to keep stuff on the auction house constantly and not overload my listings.
Posted 12 months ago by ilovecomix | Permalink