Auction House: buying and selling without losing gold

Forever uses the modern Auction House window, not the old one from Classic. If you played Classic Era, three things work differently.

What is different from Classic

• Stackable goods are one list. Cloth, herbs, ore, potions and food are sold as commodities: every seller’s offers for one item are pooled and sorted by unit price. You type how many you want and buy from the cheapest up. You never buy a whole stack you did not need.
• Gear is listed per item. Weapons and armour still show each offer on its own, with its stats, so you can compare two copies.
• Categories and search work together. Pick a category on the left (for example Trade Goods, then Cloth), or type the exact name. Favourites (the star) keep the items you check often at the top.

Selling: deposit and cut

Listing costs a deposit that depends on the item and the duration. You get it back when the item sells, and lose it when the auction expires. When something sells, the house keeps a cut and the rest arrives by mail. The sell window shows the exact deposit before you confirm. Read it there, numbers from other versions of the game do not apply.

A few rules that keep the deposit small:

• List what really sells: cloth, herbs, ore, leather, enchanting materials, low-level food and potions.
• Undercut by a little or match the lowest price; a huge undercut only lowers the market for you next time.
• If it came back twice, stop relisting. Vendor it, use it, or send it to a bank alt and try next week.
• Check the vendor price in the tooltip first. If the vendor pays nearly the same, sell to the vendor.

Buying smart while levelling

• Bags first, then gear. A bag helps every minute; a green ring for two levels does not.
• Buy cooked food with the 5% experience bonus instead of cooking yourself if you have no Cooking. See experience bonuses.
• Before buying a crafted item, price its materials in the crafting calculator. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy the materials and ask a crafter.

Where the auctioneers are

Each faction has an Auction House in its capitals. The goblin towns have a neutral one where both factions can trade, but the cut there is higher; use it only for trades with the other faction.

Your first sale in five minutes

1. Take one stack of a common material you do not need, for example Linen Cloth.
2. Search its exact name and look at the lowest unit price.
3. Put your stack in the sell window, set the unit price at or just below the lowest one, and read the deposit.
4. Pick the shortest duration that makes sense: a busy material sells within hours.
5. Check your mailbox later. Gold from sales and unsold items both come by mail.

When you start selling every day, move the job to a bank alt.