As it is, I can list items with a certain expected profit. However, that is not nearly as useful as being able to know the expected profit margin.

An example.

I can make item A for 1G and sell for 1.15Gs on the average.

I can make item B for 10s and sell for 25s on the average.

In both cases the absolute profit per item is the same, 15s. However – item B is a vastly superior choice – I can make 10x B for the same cost as a single A but the total profit will be 1G50s, as opposed to just 15s.

Another example- “/reagentcost report” listed an item with material cost of 47G and expected sale value of 48G, with an expected profit of 1G. Sounds fine, but as the profit margin is only 2%, it would be a waste of time and money to make this item…fluctuations in AH prices and the commission would mean a loss for me.

What I would like to suggest is a new command, where I could get a list of items I can make with an expected profit percentage, with a reasonable default being maybe 25%.

By looking at the profit margin (as a percentage of the material cost) as opposed to the absolute profit, the addon will be MUCH more useful for people trying to make items for profit.

However, Auctioneer v 3.1.0.0526 is installed and turned on.

Any ideas?

Add WOWEcon_PriceMod into the .toc.

For detection of the addon in FRC_OnLoad():

    elseif (WOWEcon_Enabled ~= nil) then
            FRC_PriceSource = "WOWEcon_PriceMod";

Down in FRC_TypicalItemPrice:

    elseif (FRC_PriceSource == "WOWEcon_PriceMod") then
            return FRC_WOWEcon_PriceModItemPrice(itemLink);

And finally the big function:

function FRC_WOWEcon_PriceModItemPrice(itemLink)
    local medianPrice, medianCount, serverData = WOWEcon_GetAuctionPrice_ByLink(itemLink);
    if (medianCount == nil) then medianCount = 0 end

local _, _, itemID  = string.find(itemLink, ".Hitem:(%d+):%d+:%d+:%d+.h%[[^]]+%].h");
itemID = tonumber(itemID) or 0;

local buyFromVendorPrice = 0;
local sellToVendorPrice = 0;
if (FRC_VendorPrices[itemID]) then
    buyFromVendorPrice = FRC_VendorPrices[itemID].b;
    sellToVendorPrice = FRC_VendorPrices[itemID].s;
end

if (sellToVendorPrice == 0) then
    sellToVendorPrice = WOWEcon_GetVendorPrice_ByLink(itemLink);
end

if (sellToVendorPrice == nil) then sellToVendorPrice = 0 end

if (buyFromVendorPrice > 0) then
    return buyFromVendorPrice, -1; -- FRC_VendorPrices lists only the primarily-vendor-bought tradeskill items
elseif (medianCount == 0 or medianPrice == nil) then
    return sellToVendorPrice * 3, 0; -- generally a good guess for auction price if we don't have real auction data
else
    return medianPrice, math.floor((math.min(medianCount, MIN_SCANS) / MIN_SCANS) * 1000) / 10; 
end

end