Diablo – hide “sold” or “expired” items on the auction house search

There is a "Completed Auctions" tab on the auction house menu. Clicking on items in the list will give you the option to send them to your stash. You can't send items to your stash if it is full, but they can remain in the auction house indefinitely.

This is based on personal experience, but so far I've determined:

• A slot is chosen, based on the item levels in each of your equipped slots. The slot with the lowest "Required Level" item in it is usually chosen for the recommendation
• The recommendation list is then sorted by item level, and then by either DPS, Armor, or the primary stat of the hero (for rings/amulets), depending on the slot

I say "usually chosen" because I've seen some odd behavior when a 2-handed weapon is equipped. In some situations, it will pick the 2-handed weapon over other slots with items that have lower levels. Others have reported corner cases where different items are chosen, but I've not been able to nail down why this occurs or how to predict it.

The "hero" in this case is whoever you have currently selected in the character selection menu prior to clicking the auction house button.

There's no accounting for cost or other affixes as far as I can tell. There's also no accounting for the amount of gold you have, as it will often suggest things that cost far, far more than the amount of gold you have.

You also can't sort the recommendation list, even though the "Buyout" column seems like it responds to being clicked on.

I find it somewhat useful to look at this list just to determine where my lowest required level item is so that I can target a search to replace the item in that slot, but otherwise it is pretty useless.