The eBay deal finder that shows what just got cheaper.
uBuyFirst records the prices of live eBay listings and surfaces the ones that fell — by 20 to 80 percent, in the last 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days — ranked by how far they dropped. It isn’t a promo page that sellers curate: every row is a real listing, the previous price is one we actually recorded, and one click takes you straight to eBay.
eBay Deals is a promotion sellers sign up for. Price drops are what sellers quietly do.
The markdowns worth catching don’t sit on a promo page. They happen when one seller cuts the price on a listing that hasn’t sold — on a Tuesday afternoon, without telling anyone. By the time you happen to search for that item, someone who was already watching has bought it.
- eBay Deals is curated and sponsored: a marketing surface, not a measurement of prices
- A ‘was’ price on a promo is the seller’s own number, not one anybody observed
- Search sorts by relevance, price or newly listed — never by ‘dropped recently’
- You only find a markdown if you happen to search for that exact item on that day
- The deepest drops are often in categories you’d never think to browse
Every real drop, ranked, with the price it dropped from.
uBuyFirst records listing prices over time. When one falls, the listing shows up in the feed with the price we saw before and the price now — no seller-typed ‘was’ numbers, no applications, no editorial picks.
- Windows of 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days, so ‘fresh’ means whatever you decide it means
- Ranked by drop percent, drop dollars, or most recent — whichever you pick
- Drop range, minimum price and a per-seller cap keep out stickers, liquidation floods and phantom markdowns
- All of eBay at once, or one category at a time
Want new listings that match a search the second they’re posted? That’s eBay alerts. Already found the item and waiting for its price to move? Add it to the Item Tracker. The deal finder is for the drops you didn’t know to look for.
Built to catch markdowns, not marketing.
A price-drop feed is only as good as the controls on it. Left wide open, it fills with $2 stickers, one liquidator’s four hundred listings and ‘drops’ from prices that were never real. Every control below exists to keep one of those out, and each has a default that works before you touch it.
Drop % and drop $ Free
Both figures appear on every deal, and you can sort by either. Percent finds the deepest cuts, which is where a reseller’s margin lives; dollars finds the biggest savings, which is what matters when you’re buying one thing for yourself.
→ How it worksTime windows Free
The last 6 hours for what’s moving right now, 24 hours for a daily check, 7 days for a weekly sweep of a category you source from. The window decides which drops qualify; the sort decides their order.
→ How it worksDrop range Free
Defaults to 20–80 percent. Widen it toward 5–95 if you want to see everything; leave the top end where it is to skip drops from prices that were never credible. Add a minimum drop in dollars when a percentage alone lets in too much small change.
→ How it worksCategory filter Free
Browse the whole marketplace, or narrow to one eBay category at a time — camera bodies, power tools, office chairs, server memory. Switching categories is how you sweep the corners of eBay you’d never think to search by hand.
→ How it worksSeller cap Free
At most 50 listings per seller by default, so one store re-pricing its entire inventory can’t crowd everyone else off the page. Raise it when you’re sourcing from that store on purpose; lower it when you’re not.
→ How it worksMinimum price Free
Nothing under $5 by default, so the feed isn’t cables and stickers. Raise it to whatever floor makes a drop worth your time, and everything below that floor disappears from the page.
→ How it worksIncluded in the free web app.
The deal finder is part of the free uBuyAssist web app, alongside eBay search, saved searches and the Item Tracker. Sign up, open Deals, pick a window — that’s the whole setup.
- Deal finder with 6h / 24h / 7d windows and drop-range, price, category and seller controls
- Previous and current price on every deal, with the drop in percent and dollars and when it changed
- One click to the eBay listing; a Track action hands the listing to Item Tracker
- Same account runs eBay search and saved searches
- Works on Mac and PC in the browser; nothing to install
From opening the feed to buying in four steps.
Pick a window
The last 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days. The feed shows only listings whose price fell inside that window, so a short window reads like a ticker and a long one like a weekly digest.
Shape the feed
Set the drop range, a minimum price, a minimum drop in dollars if you want one, a category, and how many listings any single seller may contribute. The defaults are sensible; change them when you know what you’re hunting.
Scan the drops
Each deal shows the previous recorded price, the current price, the drop in percent and dollars, when the price changed, the seller’s name and feedback, shipping and condition. Up to 50 per page, in the order you asked for.
Buy, or track it
Open the listing on eBay and buy. Not sure yet? Track it from the feed and Item Tracker will tell you if the price drops again, if it sells, or if the listing ends.
A promo page and a price feed are different things.
Both say “deals”. Only one of them is measuring anything. Here’s the difference, row by row.
| eBay’s Deals page | uBuyFirst deal finder | |
|---|---|---|
| What’s listed | Listings sellers apply to promote | ✓ Any live listing whose price actually dropped |
| The ‘was’ price | A number the seller set | ✓ The price we recorded before the drop |
| Freshness | Rotates on eBay’s schedule | ✓ Your choice of the last 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days |
| Ranking | Editorial | ✓ By drop percent, drop dollars, or most recent |
| Noise control | No drop-based filters | ✓ Drop range, minimum price, minimum drop in dollars, per-seller cap |
| Categories | Featured categories only | ✓ All of eBay, or any single category |
| Next step | Buy it now | ✓ Buy on eBay, or track the listing and be told if it drops again, sells or ends |
