I like the idea of trying to make the auction house more friendly.

Keep in mind that as much as we all hate the people in trade chat going "NEED GOLD FOR EPIC FLY PLZ", there are in fact more people who quietly do what they can to make the money themselves. The combination of farmers and auction speculators (collectively 'grinders' - I don't know if there's an actual term) makes it significantly harder for these players to make a few gold.

It's true that breaking a few addon functions won't help the nongrinders on the AH very much, because as someone else stated, the truly desperate will resort to illegal bots, etc to do their dirty work. There's a chance that this policy might, however, lead some players to turn to trade chat. If, for example, there isn't a Runed Cardinal Ruby on the Auction House for less than 500 gold (?!) players could either


1) Obtain an uncut gem and try to find a jewelcrafter to make the cut in exchange for a tip. Obviously some grinders are jewelcrafters, but a player can only have 2 professions, so not all grinders are JCs.

2) Simply advertise something like 'wtb Runed Cardinal Ruby 200g' and see who bites. It's probably going to be someone who doesn't play the Auction House, since the grinders will be trying to maintain that 500g market price.


Then again, circumstances are different server-to-server and time-of-day. Larger servers probably have a consistently quasi-infinite supply of gems and glyphs, meaning prices will never get to 500g even in a world without addons.

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