Warning About the Ahungry Auction Tracker

[loramin]

I just sold 6k of items for 3k because I wasn't paying attention and went with the average price (monthly not weekly) from AHungry's site. (Also I was gone for awhile and prices dropped while I was gone, so I figured "oh this is just the new normal). This was totally my fault, and I'm not looking for sympathy, but just to save others from the same mistake, DO NOT USE AHUNGRY's TRACKER AS YOUR ONLY PRICE CHECK.

The site has been so reliable in the past I got complacent, but today I learned that, whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system, Ahungry (and presumably the other trackers too) can be very wrong ... and not just briefly, but for over a month, making even those seemingly safe "monthly average prices" not so safe.

[Bummey]

Ahungry is bad. Ahungry has always been bad.

www.p99tunnel.com is less bad, but still needs work and lacks a lot of features of p99a.

[loramin]

Ahungry is bad. Ahungry has always been bad.

www.p99tunnel.com is less bad, but still needs work and lacks a lot of features of p99a.

I <3 P99 Tunnel, but they just don't seem to have as much data as Ahungry.

If only there was a site like P99 Tunnel with Ahungry's + the wiki's data ....

[Samoht]

lol. this really needed to be posted. /s

[Spyder73]

whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system

whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system

[Bashmeister]

Yeah - being as it updates the way it does I wouldn't use any price tracking system it has. It's useful to see who might have been selling an item you're looking for and hopefully reaching them in time. Atleast that's my primary use of it

[Lhancelot]

I just sold 6k of items for 3k because I wasn't paying attention and went with the average price (monthly not weekly) from AHungry's site. (Also I was gone for awhile and prices dropped while I was gone, so I figured "oh this is just the new normal). This was totally my fault, and I'm not looking for sympathy, but just to save others from the same mistake, DO NOT USE AHUNGRY's TRACKER AS YOUR ONLY PRICE CHECK.

The site has been so reliable in the past I got complacent, but today I learned that, whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system, Ahungry (and presumably the other trackers too) can be very wrong ... and not just briefly, but for over a month, making even those seemingly safe "monthly average prices" not so safe.

Honestly you really can't go off a site for your prices. They can give you an idea, but some numbers are really skewed, like p99tunnel someone is doing some crazy stuff to the prices there.

Ahungry has never been reliable I have never used it, ever.

The old p99 auction site was the best of all of them so far.

P99tunnel has great features, but again, I noticed some really outlandish wonky prices on some items when I checked it earlier so you can't even use it now.

Essentially only way to know real prices is to tunnelquest frequently enough to see things come and go.

[Lhancelot]

Wondered if id see you post in this thread, sure enough :)

Seeing I post all over the forums, this shouldn't surprise you or anyone else for that matter. :D

[Topgunben]

I just hope the deal went to a toilet-user and not a fat cat.

[indiscriminate_hater]

can confirm, I single-handedly inflated the price of Canni 4 to 30k before it came crashing down

[Lhancelot]

I just hope the deal went to a toilet-user and not a fat cat.

Went to a fatcat it sounds like, he sold "6k worth of items for 3k." So someone was in tunnel waiting for a tasty deal and Loramin provided them with it. :p

[loramin]

Went to a fatcat it sounds like, he sold "6k worth of items for 3k." So someone was in tunnel waiting for a tasty deal and Loramin provided them with it. :p

Pretty much this. My only saving grace was that my auctioned price for one item was so low that it started a bidding war; without that I would have sold it for a quarter instead of half its value.

I don't blame the "fat cat" though; the guy was just doing his fat cat thing and snagged a deal before anyone else could, the same way I would snag a named mob before anyone else could.

[Lhancelot]

Pretty much this. My only saving grace was that my auctioned price for one item was so low that it started a bidding war; without that I would have sold it for a quarter instead of half its value.

I don't blame the "fat cat" though; the guy was just doing his fat cat thing and snagged a deal before anyone else could, the same way I would snag a named mob before anyone else could.

I think I know what you were selling, someone was selling stuff for really cheap, an earring of essence was one of the items. I sent a tell, and someone had beaten me to the punch. :p

[Rivera]

When the fatcats control the auction trackers you know the server is in a bad spot. Thankfully though there's You're not even trying anymore.