Guides
Marketplace alert guides
What each marketplace's own alerts do, how often they were observed to arrive, what each help page says, and how to get every new local listing on your phone within minutes. One guide and one fix page per marketplace.
How often do the marketplaces' own alerts arrive?
Craigslist, OfferUp and Kijiji observed over about three weeks on one saved search each. Each row links the marketplace's own help page.
| Marketplace | Its own alert | How often it arrives | Where it lands | Account needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace | Notifications for saved searches, turned on per search with Notify me | Facebook publishes no timing. Reports online range from minutes to several hours after a listing goes up, and some alerts never arrive at all.Help page: on/off switches only, nothing about timing. Facebook help: Marketplace notifications | Facebook app notifications and email | Yes |
| Craigslist | Email alerts on a saved search, ticked in the alert column of your account | Observed: a digest two to three times a day, so postings are hours old when it arrives, 20 at most.Help page: fewer results, more frequent checks; up to 20 per e-mail. Craigslist help: search alerts | Email only | Yes |
| OfferUp | Search alerts saved from the results screen in the OfferUp app | Observed: an e-mail digest only twice in about three weeks, so most items were days old.Help page: alerts wait in the app's Inbox, with e-mail and push summaries. OfferUp help: about notifications | The OfferUp app, email, push | Yes |
| Kijiji | Search alert emails from Notify me when new ads are posted | Observed: one digest every morning, so ads are up to a day old, some of them months-old ads renewed.Help page: once per day from the website; Daily or Weekly in the app. Kijiji help: creating search alerts | Email (and app notifications) | Yes |
| Pouncify | Watches your search from your own computer, all four marketplaces | Within minutes of a listing going up, during the hours you choose.Observed: on postings both announced, Pouncify's alert usually came hours before the Craigslist e-mail and about a day before Kijiji's. | The free Pouncify phone app, Telegram, email or Discord | No account with us; no marketplace login required to start |
Observed in October 2026 on one saved search in one area; help pages checked the same month.
Which guide do you need?
- You want new listings on your phone within minutes — the guide for your marketplace below, or marketplace alerts from your computer to your phone.
- The marketplace's own alerts stopped or arrive late — its fix page: Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp or Kijiji.
- You are new to Pouncify — how to set up Facebook Marketplace alerts on your phone: install, one search, pair your phone, five steps.
- You want the alerts in Telegram — Facebook Marketplace alerts on Telegram: create a bot with BotFather, connect it, send a test.
- You want the alerts in Discord — Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji notifications on Discord: a channel, a webhook, paste it into Pouncify, send a test.
- Too many alerts, or the wrong ones — how to filter Facebook Marketplace alerts: price, title words, descriptions, and the rules for every search.
- You do not want to hand anyone your Facebook login — marketplace alerts without sharing your Facebook login.
Per-marketplace guides
- Facebook Marketplace alerts — Facebook's saved-search notifications, and watching Marketplace with or without a login.
- Craigslist alerts — Craigslist's email alert timing, and a watcher that needs no account and knows each post's exact time and place.
- OfferUp alerts — OfferUp's in-app alert; radius in miles; United States only.
- Kijiji alerts — Kijiji's once-a-day alert emails; distances in kilometres; Canada only.
When the marketplace's own alerts let you down
- Facebook Marketplace notifications not working? How to fix them in 2026 — phone settings, Facebook settings, then the search itself.
- Facebook Marketplace saved search notifications — creating the alert, getting it by email, and the ways it stops.
- How to get notified when someone posts on Facebook Marketplace — Facebook's own notifications and a watcher on your computer, side by side.
- Craigslist alerts not working? How to fix them in 2026 — the alert column, the ampersand and the 20-post cap.
- OfferUp notifications not working? How to fix them in 2026 — OfferUp's notification preferences, your phone's settings, and the search itself.
- Kijiji alerts not working? How to fix them in 2026 — the alert email, your phone, and the Kijiji settings that stop alerts.
How-to guides, each with its video
- How to set up Facebook Marketplace alerts on your phone — install Pouncify, add one search, pair your phone, keep the computer awake, pick a plan; the first listings and fixing a wrong alert.
- How to filter Facebook Marketplace alerts — price range, title words to skip or require, other names, description filters, the rules for every search, and how to see what was skipped.
- Facebook Marketplace alerts on Telegram — set up a Telegram alert bot in a few minutes, with the video and the written steps; one chat per search on the paid plan.
- Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji notifications on Discord — every new Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp and Kijiji listing in your own Discord channel, with the video and the written steps.
How Pouncify fits in
- Marketplace alerts from your computer to your phone — the Windows and macOS app watches, the free phone app gets the alert.
- Marketplace alerts without sharing your Facebook login — how alert tools handle a login, and why Pouncify keeps yours on your own computer and optional.
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