WTB Feedback before release: Deals Category

[Silverthorn]

I must agree that I love the Deals page! I did notice the vendor recipe flips, but I believe that it could be near impossible to differentiate between them using the Battle.net API. There's common vendor items like "Fishing Pole" from many vendors, there's limited availability, common items like "Strong Fishing Pole", there's unlimited vendor items, but from only certain vendors like "Simple Flour", and then there's unlimited vendor items from a single vendor "Recipe: Crunchy Spider Surprise", one vendor on either faction. Stranger still, there are common vendor items that are only sold by a *single* vendor and only for one faction, i.e. "Recipe: Strider Stew". And way, way off the charts is an ultra-rare vendor item "Formal Dangui" and the (now discontinued vendor item) "Ruby Shades".

The point is, no automatic system can differentiate between all these... and I would not expect it to do so! It is legitimate to say "this is now selling for much less than it usually does." You as a good goblin have to understand that "Recipe: Deviate Delight" has become a much more common world drop and perhaps only is worth a fraction of what it would have gone for a few releases back.

P.S. "Deals" helped me buy *both* a cheap "Ruby Shades" *and* a "Formal Dangui". Awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[Silverthorn]

I still love the Deals page, but it seems like it only gets refreshed maybe once every 12-20 hours? If this is something that can't be served in semi-realtime, like once an hour, would it be possible to either have set times that it will be refreshed or maybe an email notification for those who care, when it is eventually refreshed.

Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree if, in fact, this is an on-demand system, but I tend to see items that I've snagged still listed for pretty much the rest of the day, so I'm guessing the refresh takes a certain amount of time and can't be served on-demand.

Thanks,
Silverthorn

[Erorus]

The Deals page gets refreshed the first time it's requested after each AH pull, which is about once an hour.

Look for the "Prices current as of X minutes ago." line at the top of the page.

Cite some specific examples of items and realms if you see a discrepancy.

[Belrandir]

I believe what you are seeing is the lag between Blizzard compiling the Data, publishing the API, TUJ getting it and then deciphering it. I've had things I've grabbed 5-10 minutes before the newest update on the deals page still show up, but by the next update they will be gone.

Erorus I love the deals page. You have it broke up well and it is fairly intelligent on what it grabs. Thanks again

[Acry]

No complaints for it here, and I've been using it since release because I love it.

But, maybe a suggestion if it's possible... Be able to filter out items that have stayed on the page for several hours? There's stuff I never see come off for hours, and it just takes room that additional items could be there

[Silverthorn]

Found another one...

> Prices current as of 481 minutes ago.

OK, I get it. I requested the Deals page after the system maintenance, but before TUJ was able to update my realm's Deals. No problem, that makes perfect sense.

Thanks,
Silverthorn