Like many others of my brethren, I find it difficult to farm efficiently for gold. In order to get money, I need to either rely on daily quests or play the auction house. I stumbled upon this fine gem of a site several weeks ago and it only now occurred to me to share it with everyone else who has trouble making the barest of ends meet.
wowecon, through the use of addons and volunteers, is a huge price indexing database for items that are listed on the auction house. You can either do a global price check on an item (where it scans all servers where it is listed and takes the median price) or a server only check (of one faction). It’s really handy if you’re not near in Auction House and want to see what the average price of a Large Prismatic Shard is (16G worldwide, 19.99G on NZ, WTF!)
I’m not sure how it factors in the differences between buyout and bids. I’ll let someone else take a look at that and read it. I just want to know I’m getting a decent price for what i’m selling, which I suspect is what everyone else is looking for.