The eBay alerts software pros use to win listings first.
Real-time alerts on new listings, price drops, and restocks — filtered to your exact criteria and delivered the second they go live. Built on eBay’s official developer API, not a scraper. Free web app for any buyer; Desktop suite for pros who need always-on scanning and in-app purchasing.
If you’re still refreshing eBay, you’re already at a loss.
Other buyers aren’t faster than you — they’re running automation. While you reload the search page, their tool already saw the listing, ran it through their criteria, and clicked Buy It Now.
- The best listings sell before your manual search even reloads
- You burn hours scanning results full of items you’d never buy
- There’s no way to apply your real buying rules inside eBay’s search
- Standard email alerts arrive late — the deal’s gone by the time you click
- Even when an alert fires, you still have to click through, open the listing, check the seller, and then decide — by which point it may already be gone
Sanctioned automation, built for buyers.
The same listings, the same speed the pros move at — filtered to your rules and delivered where you work, with zero risk to your eBay account.
- New listings reach your alert within seconds of going live
- Deep, stackable filters strip the noise — you only see items that match your criteria
- Alerts delivered where you work — desktop tray, or pushed to email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord via the web app
- Check out in one click — Buy It Now, Best Offer, or Commit to Buy without leaving the app (Desktop)
Every eBay alert a serious buyer needs.
Whatever you’re tracking — new listings, price drops, or restocks — uBuyFirst turns it into a real-time alert tuned to your exact criteria, then delivers it the second it triggers.
New-listing alerts Free + Pro
The core of uBuyFirst: the moment an item matching your criteria is listed, you get an alert — typically within seconds — through eBay’s official API.
→ How it worksPrice-drop alerts Free + Pro
Track the items you’re watching and get notified the moment the price falls, so you can move when a listing finally hits the number you’ll buy at.
→ How it worksRestock & relist alerts Free + Pro
eBay’s native alerts and most third-party tools miss restock and quantity-update events. uBuyFirst tracks these gaps, so restocked items don’t quietly disappear to someone else.
→ See the differenceSaved-search alerts Free + Pro
Turn your saved eBay searches — or new ones you build in uBuyFirst — into standing alerts. Set the criteria once and reuse it across everything.
→ How it worksMulti-channel delivery Free + Pro
Web app: email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord — delivered whether or not your browser is open. Desktop: tray pop-up, sound alert, and push to Telegram or Pushbullet, always-on.
→ Free vs ProAuction-ending alerts Pro
Watching an auction? Get notified when it’s ending soon or when its listing changes, so a deadline never slips past you.
→ Pro Desktop AppStart free. Go Pro when you’re ready.
Whether you’re a hobbyist tracking one category, a parts buyer sourcing at volume, or a distributor running dozens of searches, there’s a tier built for how you buy.
- Works on Mac and PC; no download required
- Notify module pushes matched listings the moment they go live — Email · Slack · Telegram · WhatsApp · Discord
- Alert stream: a live feed against any keyword, seller, or saved search you track
- Total price with shipping shown on every result
- No subscription required to get started
- Always-on background scanner with persistent tray presence — never misses a listing, even when you step away
- Deep filter stacks: conditions, model numbers, seller thresholds, price ceilings — Telegram · Pushbullet · Desktop tray
- Full listing detail in-grid: seller history, photos, and item specifics without opening eBay
- In-app purchasing: Buy It Now, Best Offer, and Commit to Buy via eBay’s secure authentication
- Python scripts and AI analysis over results — product ID, lot analysis, and matching to buyer requirements
From sign-up to your first alert in minutes.
Set your criteria
Pick categories, keywords, price ranges, seller filters, and condition rules. Reuse your existing eBay saved searches or build new ones.
Choose how you’re alerted
Desktop pop-up or push to mobile via Telegram or Pushbullet (Desktop); or email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord via the web app (Free). Set delivery per search.
We monitor continuously
uBuyFirst polls eBay’s official API at the interval you control. New matching listings reach you in seconds.
Act in one click
For Buy It Now, go straight to checkout (Desktop). Or open the listing directly from your alert on any device (Free + Desktop).
Why serious buyers outgrow eBay’s built-in alerts.
eBay’s own alerts are fine for casual shopping. For business buyers running repeat searches, they’re too slow, too basic, and too hard to manage at scale. Here’s what changes when your alerts run on uBuyFirst.
| eBay’s built-in alerts | uBuyFirst alerts | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Email alerts aren’t always timely | ✓ Real-time — matches reach you within seconds via eBay’s official API |
| Filtering | Basic search terms only | ✓ Deep, stackable filters: keyword, model number, price, condition, seller, feedback, and more |
| Managing many searches | Tedious to edit; no bulk management | ✓ Run and group multiple saved searches at once |
| What triggers an alert | New listings and basic watch notices | ✓ New listings, price drops, restocks, relists, and auction-ending alerts |
| Delivery | Mostly email | ✓ Web app: email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord · Desktop: tray pop-up + Telegram/Pushbullet |
| Acting on a match | Click through to the listing, then buy | ✓ One-click Buy It Now, Best Offer, or Commit to Buy in-app |
| API & account safety | Native — no risk | ✓ Built on eBay’s current official API — account-safe, rate-limited, and won’t break when eBay changes things |
| Total price with shipping | Price shown, shipping separate | ✓ Every result shows the landed cost: item + cheapest shipping to your ZIP |
What pro resellers and supply-chain buyers say.
I used to lose the good listings before my search even reloaded. Now uBuyFirst pings me within seconds, and I’m at checkout in one click. It’s paid for itself many times over.
We source parts at volume, so noise was killing us. The stackable filters mean my team only sees listings that actually match our criteria, and seeing total cost with shipping to our ZIP before we buy has tightened our margins considerably.
What sold me was that it runs on eBay’s official API instead of some sketchy scraper, so I’m not risking my account. It’s been rock-solid for monitoring Motors listings across multiple sites, and the mobile push to Telegram means I never miss one even when I’m away from my desk.
