Show deposit price

[kemayo]

The price of the deposit for an item often affects whether I want to put it up for auction. Add it to the item tooltip next to the buyout price it'll list at?

[tekkub]

The deposit is still a thing? Man, I haven't even thought about that since, what, Wrath?

How does one even compute it these days?

[kemayo]

Hm, having looked into it, I guess it's CalculateAuctionDeposit, but that only works when you've actually got an item sitting in the auction slot.

It does seem to be totally calculable: 15% of vendor-sell-price per 12 hours of auction time (or 75% of vendor at the neutral AH).

i.e....

function CalculateAuctionDepositManually(item, stackSize, runTime, isNeutral)
    -- runTime: 1: 12h, 2:24h, 4:48h
    local sellPrice = select(11, GetItemInfo(item))
    return (isNeutral and 0.75 or 0.15) * runTime * sellPrice * stackSize
end

As you might imagine, it mostly impacts my decision making process when I'm considering auctioning relatively high sell-price greens which have a chance of selling to transmog hunters / enchanters, but might take several listings to work out.

[tekkub]

or 75% of vendor at the neutral AH

The neutral AH is no longer a thing, there is but a single cross-faction AH on each realm now.

Is it only transmog greens where you're considering this? I personally list them for a weekend and then crush anything that doesn't sell on monday. At least on my realms, the dust value is closer to the intact AH price than the vendor price, so I'm at least coming out a little bit ahead.

[kemayo]

The neutral AH is no longer a thing, there is but a single cross-faction AH on each realm now.

I'm going to admit, I blindly trusted potentially-dated wiki articles about that being relevant.

Is it only transmog greens where you're considering this?

Mostly, yeah. It occasionally comes up on random old mats if I decide to do something like clear MC and see what sells, since e.g. Dark Iron Residue is going for 1.10g/stack on my server, with a 0.6g deposit. But that's more niche.