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How to filter Facebook Marketplace alerts (2026)

By the Pouncify team · Published Oct 25, 2026

You have Pouncify set up and alerts are coming in. Not yet? Set it up first. But not every alert is the thing you are after. Search for a PS5 and you also get alerts for PS5 games, a controller, a headset, even a console sold for parts. Here is how to filter those out, one filter at a time, so only the listings you want reach your phone.

Where do the filters live?

In two places. Each search has its own filters, on the Searches tab (click Edit). The rules for all your searches are under Notifications → What to notify. A search's filters apply to every marketplace it watches. watch 0:58

How do I filter one search?

Open the search with Edit, set what you need, and click Save changes. From then on every new listing on every marketplace goes through these filters.

1. Price range. The lowest and highest price you want alerts for. $200 to $450 alone removes the games, the controller, the charging dock and the $800 bundle. watch 1:10
2. Title exclude words. A title with any of these words is skipped. Separate them with commas; phrases work; word forms count, so parts also blocks part. Only exclude words that never appear on what you want: excluding controller would also lose the console that comes with two controllers. watch 1:23
3. Title must include. The title has to have these words. A comma means every word is required; a vertical bar means any one is enough, so PS5 | PlayStation accepts either name. Only use words every seller writes. watch 1:49
4. Other names / spellings. This one catches more: Pouncify also searches for these names, so PlayStation 5 finds listings that never say PS5. The free plan includes one other name per search; the paid plan up to four. watch 2:08
5. Filter by listing description. For what a title can't catch, like a PS5 whose description says it won't read discs. Turn it on and use Description exclude words and Description must include, which work like the title fields but read the description. These alerts come a little later, because each description is read first, and a listing with no description never alerts, so keep it for a few narrow searches. watch 2:23

Which rules apply to every search?

Under Notifications → What to notify. On the left, what earns an alert; on the right, what cuts the noise. watch 2:59

• Alert me about: new listings, posted within the hours you set; price drops and price increases on listings you have already seen. If price increases are noise to you, untick them and save.
• Skip dealers skips sellers the marketplace marks as a dealer; everyone else comes through.
• Skip other brands and versions skips a title that names something else, a PS4 or an Xbox on a PS5 search; unclear titles still alert.
• Require a search word in the title skips titles that share no word with your search.
• Vehicles: skip wrong years uses the year range you set; skip wrong models is strict, so it starts off.
• Max alerts per check caps one batch so a busy search can't flood your phone; the rest come on the next check.

A few things never need a setting: wanted ads, prices too low to be real, the same listing posted twice, and listings outside your search radius don't become alerts. watch 3:54

How do I see what was skipped, and why?

On Listings, set Off-target to show. The skipped listings appear marked off-target; open one and its Alerted line tells you which rule stopped it. watch 4:05

Start broad, then narrow

Start with the search words and a radius, see what comes in, and add one filter each time an alert you didn't want arrives. The same filters work for anything you search for, from furniture to tools to cars. watch 4:17

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