snipe feed
What's worth buying right now
Auctions listed well below market. For each one, the profit left after the auction house takes its 5%, and how long the market needs to absorb it — so a cheap item nobody buys never looks like a find.
FAQ
How the deal feed works
- How are deals found?
- Each listing is compared to a fair-value anchor: an exponential moving average of daily price history when at least a few days of history exist, or the current snapshot's robust market value (falling back to the median) when it doesn't. A deal is a listing priced meaningfully below that anchor.
- What filters out junk?
- A deal has to clear a minimum fair value and a minimum profit margin, sit under a cap that blocks a single mispriced listing from faking a huge discount, and pass a liquidity gate — the item actually has to be selling, not just sitting listed.
- What do the confidence levels mean?
- High: anchored on several days of price history, in a liquid market. Medium: a healthy current snapshot without that history depth. Low: thin data — still shown once you switch to "Show all", but worth double-checking yourself.
- How fresh is this?
- We check for commodity deals every 5 minutes, but Blizzard only refreshes the underlying data about once an hour. Per-realm deals refresh roughly hourly, per realm. The "Updated" figure above reflects the newest listing in your current view.
- Why is an item I saw earlier missing now?
- It may have sold, expired, or dropped below the savings or liquidity thresholds on the next refresh. A handful of items — battle pets, random-enchant tokens — are excluded outright: one item ID there covers many distinct products, so comparing them as one thing would be misleading.
- What's the difference between Commodities and Per-realm?
- Commodities trade in one region-wide pool — the same listings whichever realm you're on. Per-realm deals are scoped to a single connected realm you pick, and — with no shared sales data to measure liquidity against — they're always "low" confidence unless you switch to "Show all".
- How is the profit figure worked out?
- The buy price is the cheap end of the current listings; the sale price is the fair-value anchor described above. The auction house keeps 5% of every sale, so profit per unit is 95% of the anchor minus the buy price. The daily figure multiplies that by whichever is smaller — the units listed at or below the buy price, or one day of what the market has actually been absorbing. It is a ceiling, not a forecast: buying out the cheap end moves the price.