OfferUp alerts on your phone within minutes
OfferUp lets you save a search as an alert inside its app, but it does not say how often it checks, and the alert waits in your OfferUp Inbox until you open it. Observed: its e-mail digest came only twice in about three weeks. Pouncify watches your OfferUp search from your own computer, needs no OfferUp account, and sends each new listing within your miles radius to your phone within minutes. OfferUp is available in the United States.
Does OfferUp have alerts for new listings?
Yes, inside the OfferUp app. Run a search, tap the bell in the top right of the results (or the floating Set Search Alert button) to save it as a search alert, and OfferUp adds new matches to the Notifications tab of your Inbox. Those are the steps on OfferUp's own page Get notified about items you want. A push notification or email telling you an alert is waiting in the app is a separate choice under Account → Account Settings → Notifications → Manage Notifications (Manage notification preferences). None of OfferUp's help pages says how often a saved search is checked.
With push off, or held back by your phone, the match sits in your Inbox until you open it. If OfferUp's notifications have stopped, see OfferUp notifications not working.
Can I get OfferUp alerts on my computer?
Not as a notification from OfferUp: its search alert is set in the OfferUp phone app, and the push copy goes to your phone. On a computer you can log in at OfferUp.com and open the Notifications tab of your Inbox, where OfferUp says app and web notifications are delivered (About notifications), or turn on the email copy. With Pouncify the Windows or macOS app does the watching, on a schedule you set, and the alert goes to your phone.
Why do OfferUp alerts include things I didn't search for?
Because OfferUp designs its search alert to be broad. Its help page says that if you save “iPhone 15” as an alert, you are notified “any time a new iPhone 15 is posted, plus other iPhone models, and items related to iPhones like phone cases or screen protectors” (Get notified about items you want). The same page suggests its narrower similar item alert, set from inside a listing, when you want one particular model.
In Pouncify the price range does most of the narrowing: a floor of a few hundred dollars drops cases and screen protectors. The words do the rest: Pouncify alerts only on a listing whose title contains a word you gave, so an “iPhone 15” search never alerts on “phone stand” or “charging cable”.
Is there an OfferUp alert app for new listings?
Pouncify is a free Windows and macOS app that watches OfferUp for you and sends each new listing that matches your search to your phone within minutes of it going live, with the photo, the price and the distance. It runs on your own computer and alerts the free Pouncify app for iPhone and Android, or Telegram, email or Discord.
Every OfferUp listing carries its exact posting time, so Pouncify knows to the minute how new a listing is. You set the radius in miles around your ZIP code, as OfferUp's own search does, and each alert shows how far away the seller is.
- No OfferUp account. Listings are public, so Pouncify reads them without a login.
- Price history. Every listing's price is tracked, and a drop on something you are watching pings you.
- One search, four marketplaces. The same search also watches Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist, with Kijiji taking OfferUp's place for users in Canada.
- Free to start. The free plan watches one search per marketplace, with no account and no card.
How do I set up OfferUp alerts with Pouncify?
- Install Pouncify on Windows or macOS from the download page.
- Add a search: the words a seller would write (“couch” as well as “sofa”), a price range, and your ZIP code.
- Set the radius in miles, the unit OfferUp works in and the unit every alert shows.
- Pick where alerts go: the Pouncify phone app (pair it by scanning a QR code), Telegram, email or Discord. Choose how often to check and during which hours, then turn the schedule on.
OfferUp operates in the United States, so Pouncify offers it to US users; a Canadian location gets Kijiji in its place.
Questions about OfferUp alerts
Does OfferUp notify you when a new listing matches your search?
OfferUp can. Save a search in the OfferUp app with the bell; new matches land in the Notifications tab of your Inbox, with push or email copies as a separate setting. OfferUp does not say how often it checks.
Does Pouncify work with OfferUp outside the United States?
No. OfferUp operates in the United States, so Pouncify offers OfferUp to users there. In Canada the same search watches Kijiji instead, and Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist are available in both.
Do I need an OfferUp account to use Pouncify?
No. OfferUp listings are public, so Pouncify reads them without an account.
Are OfferUp distances in miles?
Yes. You set the radius in miles and every alert shows the distance in miles. A listing's location on OfferUp is the seller's area rather than an exact point, so the distance is measured to that area.
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