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Sooooo, I have a suggestion after noticing something.
I find that this may not be an issue for people buying in magic since everything on their lists nets a high profit. However, I AB on my main, so I stick to mid-range shops. Some of these shops have 5-20 insanely profitable items, but they are hella rare.
When I first began using Stealth Buyer, all my items were listed from highest to lowest resale value, because other autobuyers I've used in the past give priority on what they'll buy to what's first on the buy list. I began to notice Stealth Buyer didn't follow this to a T, so I inverted my list because it seemed to read from the bottom-up. That netted me a lot more luck and I had many successful finds.
Recently though, I went in to sweep a bunch of low cost, but still profitable items to expand my shop's offerings and found that, when I added 6 things to my list that were in-stock in the shop, the AB'er kept going to something in the middle of that list instead of the first item(the item at the bottom of the buy list), even though the first item was in stock as well. What I realized when I looked at the order of the shop stock, was the item it kept buying was the first item on the shop stock list. SB seemed to buy the first thing it saw in the shop stock, regardless of buy list order.
This is beginning to make sense because on my big-profit buys in my favorite shop, I am finding that I seem to be buying the same 3-6 items. These items range in value from 300k to 2mil; however, there are about 10-15 items on my list that fall within that price range that I never seem to buy. After using SB I'm beginning to wonder if I just haven't been seeing these other items in restocks or if these items always restock in a certain order and SB is only buying the one it sees first in the shop list...not necessarily the most profitable one.
How does the program give preference to buys? Does it look at the buy list order, item rarity, or is it totally random? I haven't done a full mix of super low and super high cost items to see if low items get priority over great items because of the order they show up in the shop stock, so I may be wrong.
If it is totally random, it would be awesome if in future versions it could be coded to pull the entire shop stock and attempt to buy items by order of priority set in the buy list. Highest priority being whatever is first on the buy list.
Originally Posted by cinnamon
Please confirm by setting your ABer up in a random shop, seeing the stock, adding two items from the shop (create a list-> load it) and confirm which one it buys first. Thanks for reporting this!
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