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A couple of months ago, Blizzard released the mobile auction house, which is a feature of the armory that lets you buy and sell without having to log into the game. It"s available on mobile devices like the iPod touch and Android handhelds; however, it"s easiest to use in a browser with a full-sized screen.

This feature has sparked such innovative out-of-game tools like The Undermine Journal (see Gold Capped coverage), which crawls the armory auction house"s listed auctions and provides some excellent aggregate data. Blizzard hasn"t officially provided support for third-party applications yet, however they"re close enough to in-game addons that I suspect it"s only a matter of time.

The armory auction house isn"t perfect, and since the beta ended, the product seems to have been left pretty much alone, bugs and all. That said, it accomplishes its purpose: You can buy and sell on your auction house instead of working or studying. Join me after the break to explore methods of work avoidance!

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Gold Capped: Out-of-game auction house access originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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