Watching eBay 24/7 — checks every 60 seconds
eBay deal alerts
in seconds, not days.
Tell TruffleHunt what you're hunting. It watches eBay around the clock and pings your Telegram or Discord the moment a price drops or a new listing appears — with a one-tap link to buy it before anyone else.
Free plan · No card required · 3-minute setup
NEW · 2s ago
TruffleHunt·Vintage Lego SetsPrice drop· −$35 below your trigger
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LEGO 6086 Black Knight's Castle
TruffleHunt·Hasselblad 500CMNew listingmatches your hunt
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Hasselblad 500CM + 80mm Planar T*
TruffleHunt·Persian rugs · runnerPrice drop· −$35 below your trigger
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Vintage Tabriz runner, 3.5×10ft
NEWVintage Lego·$140−18%NEWHasselblad 500CM·$1,850DROPEames 670·$4,200−12%NEWRolex 16610·$8,900DROPPersian Tabriz·$1,200−17%DROPTeak Credenza·$680−9%DROPHerman Miller Aeron·$640−$85NEWLeica M6 TTL·$2,200NEWVintage Lego·$140−18%NEWHasselblad 500CM·$1,850DROPEames 670·$4,200−12%NEWRolex 16610·$8,900DROPPersian Tabriz·$1,200−17%DROPTeak Credenza·$680−9%DROPHerman Miller Aeron·$640−$85NEWLeica M6 TTL·$2,200NEWVintage Lego·$140−18%NEWHasselblad 500CM·$1,850DROPEames 670·$4,200−12%NEWRolex 16610·$8,900DROPPersian Tabriz·$1,200−17%DROPTeak Credenza·$680−9%DROPHerman Miller Aeron·$640−$85NEWLeica M6 TTL·$2,200
How it works
Three steps, then you stop opening eBay.
01 — Connect
Connect eBay. We walk you through it.
Grab free API keys from eBay's developer site — our wizard shows you every click, and most hunters are done in 3 minutes. The keys are yours alone, so your alerts never queue behind other people's, and we encrypt them before the next page renders.
- 1 account on Hunter, up to 10 on Hunter Pro
- Round-robin or region-affinity auto-rotation
- Per-account quota dashboard in real time
✓
Connect
2
Validate
3
Ready
Keys validated · 5,000 calls/day available
02 — Define hunts
Paste an eBay search URL. We do the rest.
Any eBay search URL — including filters, item-condition codes, regional sites — becomes a TruffleHunt hunt. Add negative keywords, price ranges and seller blocklists. Pick a polling cadence (1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h) and route through a specific eBay account or let auto-rotation handle it.
- 1, 5, 15, 30 minute or 1-hour cadence
- Negative keywords + saved seller blocklists
- Per-hunt notification routing & quiet hours
eBay URL
Cadence
1m5m15m1h
Account
S sourcing_main
Negative keywords
-broken-replica-parts-as-is
03 — Get pinged
Your phone pings. Buy. Repeat.
When a new listing matches or a tracked listing drops, TruffleHunt fires a Telegram or Discord message with the photo, total landed cost, seller trust score, and a link that deep-links into the eBay mobile app. On 1-minute polling, that's typically within a minute of the listing going live. Daily digest email if you prefer your dopamine batched.
- One-tap Buy-It-Now app deep links
- Trust filters (skip <95% feedback sellers)
- Quiet hours, batched digests, per-hunt snooze
TruffleHunt·Vintage Lego SetsPrice drop· −$35 below your trigger
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LEGO 6086 Black Knight's Castle
TruffleHunt
Hunt Alert
2 drops for "Vintage Lego Sets"
LEGO 6086 Black Knight's Castle
$380.00$345.00−9%
LEGO 6276 Eldorado Fortress
$210.00$185.00−12%
TruffleHunt Workspace
Dashboard
Hunts12
Activity
eBay accounts
S sourcing_main72%
R reseller_alt31%
EU eu_arbitrage14%
Dashboard
Tuesday, May 12 — 14 active hunts
Live+ New hunt
New today
17
+4
Drops today
8
−$420 avg
Saved (30d)
$12,840
+18%
Hunts active
14 / 16
88%
| Hunt | Cadence | Account | New | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage Lego Sets | 60m | S sourcing_main | +4 | −2 |
| Hasselblad 500CM | 5m | R reseller_alt | +1 | — |
| Eames lounge chair | 60m | S sourcing_main | +2 | −1 |
| Persian rugs · runner | 60m | E eu_arbitrage | — | −3 |
Checks eBay every 60 seconds
$0
Free plan · no card required
60s
Fastest check cadence
5,000
Free eBay API calls · per account / day
8 markets
US · UK · DE · FR · IT · ES · CA · AU
Why TruffleHunt
The only eBay alert tool that runs on your quota.
Pooled-quota tools charge $99/month and rate-limit you behind 12,000 other customers. With TruffleHunt your 5,000 daily calls are yours alone — and on Hunter Pro you can stack ten developer accounts for 50,000 calls/day of headroom.
Bring your own keys
Connect 1 eBay developer account on Hunter, up to 10 on Hunter Pro. Credentials are envelope-encrypted with a per-user AES-256-GCM key — never decryptable without the KMS master.
Worker log · live
14:32:01Hasselblad 500CMNEW
14:31:58Omega SpeedmasterDROP
14:31:55Leica M6no change
14:31:52Canon AE-1NEW
14:31:49Nikon F3no change
60-second polling
Critical hunts poll once per minute. We back off automatically at 95% quota saturation and resume the instant midnight rolls over.
True landed-cost alerts
We compare price + shipping, not list price alone. A $40 listing with $30 shipping no longer fools the alert — and a real drop on a $400 BIN never gets lost in the noise.
Telegram, Discord + Email
Push to a Telegram bot or a Discord channel — connect either in one tap. Mobile deep-links open Buy-It-Now in the eBay app. Email digests batched per quiet-hours window.
Seller trust scoring
Green/yellow/red trust badge derived from feedback rate × count × listing age. Filter low-trust sellers per-hunt so 80% feedback bots never wake your phone again.
8 marketplaces
eBay US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, CA and AU. Run cross-region arbitrage hunts (US listing < UK comp) in one workspace. More marketplaces on the roadmap.
The competition
Made for resellers who already tried the rest.
eBay's saved search wakes you once a day. Pooled-quota monitors charge $99/mo and queue you behind 12,000 other customers. We do neither.
eBay Saved Search
Pooled-API tools
BEST TruffleHunt
Polling cadence
1× per day
15m (shared queue)
60 seconds, dedicated
Price-drop detection
No
Yes
Price + shipping
Telegram + Discord alerts
Email only
Add-on, $19/mo
Included, deep links
API quota
N/A
Shared, throttled
Yours, 5,000–50,000/day
Seller-trust filtering
No
No
Green/yellow/red badges
Starts at
Free, but useless
$99 / month
$0 free, $49 / mo
The honest part
We don't sell unlimited polling.
Nobody can.
eBay caps the Browse API at 5,000 calls per developer account per day. A 60-second poll on one hunt burns 1,440 of those, so one account realistically powers 3 fast hunts or 24 hourly ones. Hunter Pro lets you connect up to 10 dev accounts — 50,000 calls/day combined. Your quota, your math, in your dashboard.
Daily API budget · all accounts
10,740/ 20,000
S sourcing_main
3,620 / 5,000
R reseller_alt
1,540 / 5,000
E eu_arbitrage
700 / 5,000
C collector_us
4,880 / 5,000
Pricing
Pay for hunts and accounts. Never for resold API.
Annual saves ~20%. Billed through Paddle. Cancel any time — your data stays for 30 days.
Forager
$0/mo
forever · 1 eBay account
- ✓Up to 3 active hunts
- ✓30-minute polling cadence
- ✓1 eBay account
- ✓Email notifications
- ✓7-day item history
Hunter
$49/mo
$49/mo · 1 eBay account
- ✓Unlimited hunts (within your API quota)
- ✓5-minute polling cadence
- ✓1 eBay account
- ✓Telegram, Discord + Email notifications
- ✓Price-drop detection + sniper links
- ✓Seller trust filters
- ✓90-day item history
Hunter Pro
$99/mo
$99/mo · up to 10 eBay accounts
- ✓Everything in Hunter
- ✓Unlimited hunts (within pooled API quota across all accounts)
- ✓Up to 10 eBay accounts
- ✓1-minute polling cadence
- ✓Multi-region search (up to 12 regions)
- ✓Smart quota auto-rotation
- ✓Per-account routing
- ✓Blocked sellers list
- ✓365-day item history
- ✓Priority support
FAQ
The questions resellers actually ask.
Why do I need to bring my own eBay API keys?
Every other monitoring tool shares one pooled API quota across thousands of customers. They charge a premium for that pooled resale, and your hunt sits behind a queue when traffic spikes. BYOK keeps your 5,000-call daily quota yours alone. The flip side: you do need a 3-minute signup at developer.ebay.com. Worth it.
How is this different from an eBay saved search?
Saved searches send one email per day, no price-drop detection, no shipping-cost normalization, no seller-trust filtering. We poll every 60 seconds, snapshot every listing, compare total landed cost (price + shipping), and route Telegram or Discord with one-tap Buy-It-Now app deep links.
Is it legal? Will eBay ban my account?
We use eBay's official Browse API with your sanctioned developer credentials. Every call counts against your published quota the same way your own app would. We never scrape, never automate purchases, and never authenticate as a buyer.
How fast are alerts, really?
On Hunter Pro's 1-minute polling, the alert typically lands on your phone within a minute of the listing going live. The biggest variable is eBay's own ingestion lag (sometimes 10s, sometimes 90s), not our pipeline. Live system health is on the Status page.
Can I monitor more than one marketplace?
Today we cover 8 eBay marketplaces — US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, CA and AU. You can run cross-region arbitrage hunts (e.g. US listing < UK comp value) inside a single workspace. More marketplaces are on the roadmap.
What happens to my data if I cancel?
Your snapshots and hunt history stay accessible for 30 days after cancellation, then are permanently purged. Your eBay developer credentials are deleted immediately when you disconnect them. We never resell aggregated data — not anonymized, not bucketed, not ever.
Do you support team workspaces?
Not yet. Each subscription is single-seat. Multi-seat workspaces with role-based access are on the roadmap.
What payment methods do you accept?
Billing runs through Paddle (Merchant of Record), so you'll see TruffleHunt on Paddle's checkout. We accept all major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and SEPA. We don't store card details — Paddle handles PCI compliance and tax across 200+ jurisdictions.
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