KevTool Queue (KTQ)

When I got into the WoW auction house business, I found a community of other auctioneers. This community was willing to teach and share their ideas with others. I received lots of help and before I knew it, I was running a very large and successful auction house business.  I eventually started this blog and was very active in that community helping others.

As I started dealing with glyphs on a large scale, I found that the manual steps in my process became very tedious. I knew there had to be a better way. I think I spent 2-3 hours doing inventory and building the list of things I needed to make. I never wanted to do that again.  So I wrote a little script to do the work for me. Once I did that, I could do it daily and that's exactly what I did.

I used it for about 2 months and my business flourished. I started sharing it with other and eventually released it as KevTool Queue. This is something that I easily could have kept to myself but I wanted to give back to the community. It was a huge hit. Even though my competitors started using my tool, I know I made the right decision. I know I made a positive impact on a lot of players. Although I stopped playing wow years ago, my contribution continues to make a difference.

I stopped development on the tool when I left but I have been approached by other authors asking to contribute to my mod. I feel very honored that someone else wanted to contribute to the project that I started. AsaAyers was the first author to contribute to KTQ on Curse. Although KTQ was flagged as abandoned on Curse, I expect that others in the community kept it alive within the forums of the auction community. I want to thank those unknown authors for that work.

More recently, I was approached by another author that would like to pick up the project and continue the work I was doing. Alisonnic has picked up development and reactivated the project on Curse. Seeing that this mod is still important and making a positive impact to others means a lot.  Thank you Alisonnic for doing that. I would like to extend that thank you to anyone else that has contributed to this project.

bulk2mail trick

I use this mod called bulk2mail. It lets me set up send lists so that all cloth gets sent to my tailor and all leather gets sent to my leatherworker. It is very slick. It pulls those items from your bags for you.

I have a large snatch list. I could easily buy a fewhundred items at once. Those purchases fill my mailbox and over flow my bag. With builk2mail, you can send and receive at the same time. I start to open all of the mail (with potal) and as stuff is flowing in, I flip over to the send and buil2mail already has the first message ready to go. I click send and off it goes while the mailbox is still getting cleared out. If I flip back from the inbox to the send box, it will have the current items ready to go again.

I started sending slower and it feels faster. I flip over to send, but I pause for 10-20 sec before I click the send button. When that stuff sends, it rechecks inventory and build a new message with the stuff that there now (the things that showed up in that 10-20 sec pause). It realy feel very slick now that I am using it.

Auction House Automation Part 5

Putting it all together makes it realy powerfull. I start at the mailbox.
I clear out all the mail. I will have a page or two of auctions I am out bid on with all my AH sales. I will prabably have a few things that I won bids on and I will have any goods I crafted on my other chars. I send off any mats to alts that need them because its quick and gets it out of my bags.
I do a full scan of the AH and run my snatch list one to 3 times a day. I then flip over and hand post a few things before I start my batch posting.

I then return to the mail box and send off any new mats I picked up from the snatch list. If I have a good chunk of gold, I go to the guild bank and make a large deposit. Before I added the snatch list, I never kept more then 100G on the bankier. Now I keep it under 2500G and the rest in the guild bank.

When I stop seeing a crafted item I make in the list of auctions (or 1-2 times a week) I log onto that character and craft the stuff sitting in the mailbox.

Looking at it this way, every item you add to the system generates a new flow of gold. Once an item is set up, the only extra time added is the craft time. If you craft 20-50 at a time, you can read my blog while its doing its thing.

Auction House Automation Part 4

The last step in the automation is the batch posting. I have some items set up to undercut the competition nomater what if the price is over a set value. I have some items set up to post a set amount at a set value every time. A few items are left for me to hand craft a posting of.

Inscription ink for all levels is one that I post as an undercut. The value of them is the lowest few sell and the others don't. I make sure it is mine that sell as long as it is for a profit.

Netherweave bags I sell for a set amount and post the same number up every time. That market will move them if they are listed too high and will just eat them up if listed too low compared to everything else. I expect most of the time people buy my bag to relist for more.

Dream Shards I hand craft every time. I like to post different stack sizes and values. I love a stack of 6 with these but the doubles and singles also work for me. Because I tweak them a lot and i adjust to market prices, I just do them by hand.

If I do post stuff by hand, I use auctioneer's apraiser tab to do it. It remembers my settings from the last time, shows how many I have up, and lets me post stacks at a time. It works well for me. Everything else gets blindly posted to the AH with the rules I gave them. If I start to get items returned, I will adjust some things.

Auction House Automation Part 3

The true advantage automation is how I can add more profit items to the system with out adding much time. Add it to the snatch, set up the bulk mail, and remmeber to log in and craft it every few days.

On the crafting side of it I can just empty my mail box into my bags. Then only show craftable items in my professions window. Craft away and then return to the mailbox. The mail box is set up with that same bulk2mail option to send the crafted items to the next stage. Most of the time it is my banker. If I have a set item that I DE all the time, I set that up to get sent to my enchanter. My enchanter will DE it with a macro and use bulk2mail to send the dust to my banker.

Auction House Automation Part 2

I combine my snatch list with a bulk2mail mod that lets me set up mail targets and the items they get. I added my tailor to the list and all my netherweave is set to be sent to him. So I mass empty my mail box, then flip over to send a mail and its all set up to send all that cloth to my tailor. It will manage it if there are more stacks then can fit on one message. It will send it all.

Leather goes to my leather worker, adders go to my scribe, lichbloom and icethorn to my alchemist, and cloth to my tailor. It adds a lot of automation to the process.

Auction House Automation Part 1

When I find something I can produce for a profit I add the mats to my snatch list. It is a feature that is provided with auctioneer. You add an item to the list and how much you are willing to pay for it.

After you run a scan, go check your snatch list for good deals. You can either buy from that window or press the buy all button at the bottom. I think you have to press ctrl + shift + alt then click it. It will place a bid or buy out every item in that list for you.

I have added one time things to the list to buy lots of a item at a set price. Like when someone puts up a ton of infinite dust as singles at a low price. Add the item to the snatch list and let it do the work of buying all of those.

Netherweave cloth is something that I have in my snatch list. I can convert it to bags and it sells very quickly. If I am getting too much of it, I lower the price I will pay just a little bit. If I don't get enough, I bump it up or I just manualy check on that item.

My snatch list is my "buy it all" list nomatter how much there is at that price. If I have that too close to market price, I could easily buy more of something then I can sell.