I'm happy to learn about ahungry for its live feed, but sadly it appears that the search function is not as reliable on that site and the database incomplete in so far as lower tier items?
By way of background, I am relatively new to p99 and, due to the inevitable passage of time since my heyday on live, a casual player with limited time to play. In addition to the simple joy of convenient nostalgic window shopping, the marvelous thing about p99auctions for me was that I could run quick searches, a few times a day off my phone browser, for unremarkable mid-level gear that pops up only rarely in EC (frankly, none of it is priced high enough to be worth the time it takes to sell for affluent players). The site has been hugely beneficial for me to be able to see who was selling these items so that I could then login, when possible, and message the the sellers in game to see if the items were still available. Often they were, and the sellers with whom I communicated always seemed grateful that the site had facilitated these transactions.
As a test, I just ran searches for a few such items I have been following on ahungry (e.g. conch shell horn, unicorn horn, thunder runed war spear, symphonic saber etc.) In certain instances, the items are not recognized by the database at all. In others, ahungry is failing to display numerous instances in which these items were actually auctioned in EC over the course of the last month or two, as reported on p99auctions and confirmed in my exchanges with the sellers.
For those of us who simply do not have a lot of time to spend in EC, I really hope that there is some way to preserve this search functionality on one of these sites. That said, even if there isn't, my thanks to the admins/devs at p99auctions, ahungry and others who have dedicated their time and efforts to improving the transparency and efficiency of the p99 economy. The vast majority of the player base who are not scammy resellers truly appreciate it.
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