[ziggr]

jycs:

You could write an add-on:

1. Act as a custom filter for Awesome Guild Store, with UI controls to enable/disable recording
2. Record every listing that Awesome Guild Store passes through your filter
3. Write that list to SavedVariables
4. Convert SavedVariables to a spreadsheet

Then, with this

1. add-on set to record, you could
2. walk your character to every guild store in the major trading cities.
3. At each guild store, search for the motifs or materials or whatever you seek, which takes 1-2 minutes. Or scan the entire guild store which takes 5-10 minutes.
4. After an hour or more of of walking and searching and recording, /reloadui to save all that data.
5. Run a command-line script to convert SavedVariables to a spreadsheet.

Then sit back and pore over the spreadsheet to decide which cities to visit to purchase the items you want at the cheapest prices. By the time you went back to the trader with the cheapest item, you might occasionally discover that some other player had already bought it, so then you fall back to the second-cheapest listing.

That's a lot of work just to save a few thousand gold pieces, so it's really only worth it if you're doing a multi-million-gold shopping spree.

But if you wrote such an add-on, you'd probably decide not to publish it, because it would still have bugs in it, be far too difficult to use, and why would you give up your competitive advantage by sharing a private spreadsheet with lowest priced goods? That sounds like the opposite of fun. No thank you.

So yeah, you're unlikely to ever see such an add-on published. Sorry.

--Z