(Fixed) Receiving Payouts For Cancelled Auctions (Patreon)

FINAL EDIT I could not trigger the expired auctions dupe in the latest incarnation of this exploit suggesting this also has been fixed. I'm going to retire this article now.

EDIT EDIT (12:15 BST 17 August): Still issues apparently, this time with expired auctions.

Another post from the official forums:

"NA server:

Naturally expiring auctions (commodity) are expiring (set to 12h duration) and duplicating / creating gold and the item again. I opened my mailbox to 80 feasts ‘selling’ but I still have 80 feasts in my mailbox. This happened for every single item that was returned to me. I have the gold, and the items. The game is recording me as the ‘buyer’ but I haven’t bought anything, they’ve just naturally expired.

Please look into this ASAP. It’s not just happening with generic items cancelled (issue from last night), but those that cancel naturally."

EDIT(10:30 BST 17 August): (from Blizzard blue post)

9.2.7 Auction House is Temporarily Closed 37

Update 6:45 p.m. PDT We were able to determine the cause of the issue and create a fix for it. We don’t yet have an ETA on re-opening the Auction House. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Original Post (posted 16 August, appears to now be fixed)

This post recently appeared on the wow bug report forum:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/bug-receiving-payout-for-cancelled-auctions/1308310

The post gives a detailed explanation of the occurrence of a payment in error for a cancelled auction. The poster gives steps to replicate the bug:

"Steps to replicate

1. List commodity auction
2. Cancel commodity auction"

I cannot comment further at this stage as the region-wide ah is not active on EU.

Another poster contributed a post called "Infinite Money Bug" which simply contains this text "Auction house keeps sending me money on items i didn’t sold, idk how to contact a GM so i thought i’d try here". While less helpful the post lends weight to the notion of a systemic bug.