eBay Price Drop Alerts
before you miss the deal.
TruffleHunt sends eBay price drop alerts the moment a tracked fixed-price listing's total cost falls.
- Price drops on fixed-price listings
- Total cost context: price plus shipping
- Email on every plan; Telegram and Discord on paid plans
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Price drops are only useful when you see them fast.
Sellers revise prices constantly
A fixed-price listing that was too expensive last week can quietly drop into your buy range. Nothing tells you unless something is watching.
Good BIN deals disappear fast
The best underpriced Buy-It-Now listings get bought quickly. Seeing the drop hours later is the same as not seeing it at all.
Saved-search email is too slow
eBay's saved-search emails arrive late and bundled, with no price-drop detection and no shipping-aware total. That is fine for browsing, not for sourcing.
TruffleHunt is built for active deal monitoring, not passive browsing. Polling interval depends on plan — as fast as every minute on Hunter Pro — so a good Buy-It-Now price does not sit unseen while you are away from the tab.
How eBay price drop alerts work.
Create a hunt from an eBay URL
Paste any eBay search URL — keywords, price range, condition, Buy It Now, region. It becomes a hunt right away, keeping the filters you already use.
TruffleHunt remembers what it has seen
On each poll it re-runs your search and records every matching listing and its total landed cost, so it always has a baseline to compare against.
You get a price-drop alert
When a tracked fixed-price listing's total cost falls below what we last saw, you get a rich alert with the new price, previous price, shipping, seller trust, and a direct eBay link.
Price-drop detection applies to fixed-price (Buy It Now) listings. Auctions can still trigger new-listing alerts when a match appears, but auction bid movement is not tracked or advertised as a price drop.
Get the drop wherever you already watch.
Telegram
A direct personal alert channel — a rich card with the item, the new total cost, and a one-tap deep link into the eBay app.
Discord
Pipe drops into a private sourcing channel so you and your team see the same deal at the same time.
A digest-friendly backup that lands on your schedule when you would rather review the whole pipeline at once.
What the price-drop alert includes.
Every alert carries enough context to decide before you open the app — no tab-switching to check whether the drop is real once shipping is counted.
- Item image
- New price and previous seen price
- Shipping and total landed cost
- Seller trust and feedback context
- Buy It Now / direct eBay link where applicable
- Which hunt matched the drop
Better than refreshing tabs or waiting on saved-search email.
| What you need | Manual refresh | eBay saved search | TruffleHunt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price plus shipping | Manual math | Item price only | Total landed cost |
| Price-drop detection | You must remember | Not detected | Fixed-price drops |
| New listing detection | If you refresh | Delayed email | On each poll |
| Telegram / Discord alerts | None | Email only | Included on paid plans |
| Polling cadence | Whenever you check | Once a day | As fast as every minute on Hunter Pro |
| Seller trust context | One click away | Not shown | In every alert |
Deals that only make sense the moment the price moves.
Collectibles that sit
Cards, sealed games, and vintage pieces that stay listed until the seller finally cuts the price — you hear the moment they do.
Used electronics under a target
Cameras, headphones, GPUs, and consoles priced above your resale line today, dropping into range tomorrow.
Auto parts with shipping variance
Where a $40 swing in shipping decides the whole deal, total-cost alerts keep the math honest.
Watches and sneakers where minutes matter
Competitive searches where a drop is gone before a saved-search email would have arrived.
Try one real hunt before you connect anything.
New accounts get one free real 48-hour hunt powered by our keys — pick an eBay search and we watch it live. After that, connect your own free eBay developer keys to keep 3 hunts running on Forager, on your own API quota. See full plan limits on the pricing page.
eBay price drop alerts, answered.
Do eBay price drop alerts include shipping?
Yes. Every price-drop alert compares total landed cost — item price plus shipping — not the item price alone. A $189 item with $10 shipping is shown as $199 total, so a "drop" that only shifts cost into shipping never fools you. When shipping changes on its own, the total cost we track changes with it.
Can I get alerts in Telegram?
Email alerts are available on every plan. Hunter and Hunter Pro can also use Telegram or Discord, and can route a hunt to more than one available channel.
Can I track auctions?
Price-drop tracking applies to fixed-price (Buy It Now) listings, because those are the ones a seller revises down over time. Auctions can still trigger new-listing alerts when a matching item appears in your search, but TruffleHunt does not track or advertise auction bid movement as a price drop.
How fast are the alerts?
Polling interval depends on your plan or temporary hunt offer — as fast as every minute on Hunter Pro. When a poll finds that a tracked listing has dropped, the alert is sent right after that check. The main variable is eBay's own ingestion timing, not the delivery step.
Will TruffleHunt buy items for me?
No. TruffleHunt is an alerting tool. It watches eBay searches and tells you when a tracked price drops, then links you straight to the listing so you can decide and buy yourself. It does not buy, bid, snipe, or check out on your behalf.
Do I need my own eBay API keys?
Every new account gets one free real 48-hour hunt powered by our keys. To keep running hunts after that, you connect your own free eBay developer keys, so each hunt runs on your own eBay API quota rather than a shared pool.
Is TruffleHunt affiliated with eBay?
TruffleHunt is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by eBay. It uses eBay's official Browse API with sanctioned developer credentials. It does not scrape eBay, automate purchases, bid, or log in as a buyer.
Let the drop come to you.
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