If folks haven't caught it, they've gone full live with the Remote Auction House.
It rocks. Kinda.
It's now available both for iPhone/iPod Touch AND Android (yay!) and web based. But the beta's over so it's like $3 a month (see, all you Activision haters, they're increasing revenue per customer by taking advantage of JUST suckers like me rather than the whole community) to use it.
It lets you, from all of your toons, view all of your auction, collect gold from successful auctions or failed bids, repost any failed auction OR any item in your inventory, from any of your toons. So from some of those perspectives, it's even more flexible than in-game AH'ing. The interface is quite slick .. it even recognizes whether there's an authenticator on your phone and automatically integrates pulls the code across when logging in.
Downside is that to do any serious auction-house stuff, you need addon support that this doesn't provide, obviously. No auctioneer help with scanning or appraising, no WoWecon database to cross-reference. And when you re-post, it seems to pull the buyout price from where you had previously priced it, but the bid price is the "standard markup" approach (e.g. way way way too low) so it's not as useful as you'd think because scanning and pricing is extremely manual. Probably best way to work is to focus on just one or two commodities where you're constantly buying low and selling high and effectively making the market on those few things.
So really the main use isn't for professional auctioneering ... it's most useful if you're
a) in the hunt for one specific item that doesn't come up for auction much and want to be able to search 5-6 times per day without logging in
b) really wanting to know if your auctions sold and to get the satisfaction of collecting the money
(which is to say, not super-useful).
Summary verdict on the Remote Auction House:
Cool - absolutely
Useful - nope
