Although online reporting of AH data is available,  there seems to be a new player entering the market.   Eldadcorp has lauched a Online Auction House Site over www.wowoah.com.  Although not the easiest site name to remember,  it seems to be a noteworthy addition to the Auction Houes data space.  It is worthy to note that the site is still in Alpha with releases coming frequently.

This space is currently occupied by some other sites including WoWecon, Allakhazam, and the independent development project by Norganna who is the author of Auctioneer,  the AuctioneerDB site.   After the break will tear down WOWOAH a little bit more for the readers.

First off we wanted to dig behind the owners of WOWOAH a little bit and see what we were able to disect.  Eldacorp is the owner,  in going to its corporate website it seems to be a template website bought from one of the many sellers and put some basic content on the page.   From the Eldacorp homepage,  there is also reference to Guild Hosting services.  It seems the shop wants to take a run at the market currently occupied by Guild Portal,  Guild Launch and MyGuildHost among others.   Unfortunately,  being a template,  none of the links were brought live to offer any other information.  What is refreshing is that in digging a little deeper,  this doesn’t appear to be owned by another gold selling company.  The site appears to be owned and operated by two related individuals.  We couldn’t find the legal business registration as of yet but one thing for sure is we want to be careful we’re not using a site that would load a keylogger on a players machine.

In looking at WOWOAH.com  we did feel like it had a relatively good user interface,  keeping it simple much in the like of WoW Head.  I decided to check the validity of the data and it appears to be a day behind by default with an option to search live if you check the box.  The data that is a day old seems to pull up pretty fast however when looking for live data it took about a minute for a given item to pull up but it was nice to see that the data was accurate.

For those of us that enjoy playing the economic aspects of the game,  this certainly will be a geat tool and who are we to shun another resource.  I believe we’ll find many AH players looking WOWOAH.com here to check out trends,  validate theories and look to spot changes in item prices where a move to make some quick gold can be found.

All in all,  this looks very promising.   The WoW Economist will be checking in for future Alpha releases and updating the community.   Right now this is free to use but no information has been provided about how the site will operate once it’s moves from Alpha production although when accounting for total amount of data stored,  the question will be whether the free to use advertising model will be sustainable based on data pipeline and storage costs.

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