it's a christmas miracle!!!!!! guys it attempted to buy an item finally!!!
https://imgur.com/a/RcbuU
^just posted a screenshot !!
so I followed ortin's advice and disabled app nap for program manager, and before this autobuying session that was successful I also only changed one other setting, I added another shop for the autobuyer to visit!! as I had noticed in both screenshots that Scot and Strategist posted they made their settings so the ABer would visit at least a minimum of 2 shops, this whole time I only had it set to one shop at a time, so I added Kauvara's magic shop to the 'visit specific shop ID's setting' so that the 2 shops I would AB in were magic and the post office.
don't know which of those 2 settings did it but I am happy, thanks everyone for your help! maybe someone can test later to see if abrosia does not attempt to grab items when only set to AB in a single shop, though that seems unlikely so maybe it was the app nap!!
edit - also it might be that the 'profit must be greater than x amount of np's' number needs to be lower than 100k, while the 'buy items considered unbuyable' box is checked at the same time for it to properly work. before abrosia attempted to buy an item when I had the 'buy items considered unbuyable' box unchecked, it didn't matter what I set my 'profit must be greater than amount' to, it would not attempt to grab any item. and then when I checked the 'buy items considered unbuyable' box, my 'profit must be greater than amount' was always above 100k like 150k or 200k and even those settings prevented abrosia from attempting to purchase anything. but then right before I was finally successful and it attempted to buy an item after like 6 days, it was maybe because right before I set the buy items considered unbuyable box checked while simultaneously setting my minimum profit to below 100k (at 98k). but at least the mystery is solved, it is either what I just said or it is the app nap or multiple shops are required for it to work. one of these 3 was the fix for sure!
Edited by fiasco817, 07 April 2018 - 02:31 AM.