Madealert sends alerts within seconds of a new listing appearing, beating our hourly check by a wide margin. It caps free users at 10 active alerts. FindersKeepers checks hourly but doesn't cap how many searches you save, and adds valuation on top.
Madealert checks continuously and alerts within seconds, on the free plan and the paid plans alike. Speed isn't the thing you pay for; alert capacity is.
The free plan caps you at 10 active alerts. Beyond that you need a paid plan.
FindersKeepers checks once an hour, slower, but doesn't cap how many saved searches you run, on the one free tier.
Neither tool does both things: Madealert doesn't score whether a price is good, and we don't alert within seconds.
The per-alert filtering is genuinely more granular than ours, and the speed claim holds even on the free tier.
Continuous scanning, alerts within seconds of a match. We check hourly.
Cut specific words out of your results per alert. We have no keyword-exclusion filter.
Covers eBay Motors alongside the standard catalog. We don't distinguish Motors as a separate scope.
Delivery is user-selectable per alert through their app. We send both, but don't let you turn either off individually per search.
10 alerts, free. If you're sourcing across more categories than that, you're either paying or picking which searches matter most.
Speed alone doesn't tell you the price is good. A second-fast alert on an overpriced listing just gets you to the overpriced listing faster.
No price history. Nothing to show you whether what you're watching has been trending up or down.
Madealert answers "did something new get listed, right now." It doesn't answer "is this actually worth buying at this price."
Save as many searches as you want on the one free tier. No 10-alert wall, no paid plan to unlock more.
Listings are compared against similar ones in the same results. Twenty percent or more below the average asking price is a hot deal, ten to twenty percent below is a good price, and it needs at least five comparable listings first.
Add an item to your watchlist and the price is recorded every six hours from that point on.
Roll up what a group of items is worth over time, not just whether a single listing appeared.
| Feature | Madealert | FindersKeepers |
|---|---|---|
| Free check speed | ✓Seconds | !Hourly |
| Free active-alert limit | 10 | ✓No limit |
| Paid tier | ✓YesMore alert capacity, same speed | ✕No paid tier at any price |
| Exclude-keyword filtering | ✓Yes | ✕No |
| Alert delivery | Email, push, or both, per alert | ✓Email + browser push |
| eBay Motors coverage | ✓Yes | !Not distinguished |
| Price history on watched items | ✕No | ✓YesFrom the day you add an item |
| Tells you if a price is a good deal | ✕No | ✓YesScored against similar asking prices |
| Collection value tracking | ✕No | ✓Yes |
For a genuinely time-critical listing, Madealert's free tier beats us outright on speed. Run both if the ten-alert cap doesn't bother you.
We check hourly, not within seconds. On a listing that sells in the first few minutes, Madealert gets there first.
No keyword-exclusion filter, and no per-seller exclusion list.
Our deal score uses asking prices, meaning what comparable listings are currently listed at, not what they sold for.
It searches eBay US only.
The free plan includes up to 10 active alerts, no card required. Paid plans raise that alert count; the free and paid tiers check at the same speed, the difference is how many alerts you can run at once.
Madealert alerts within seconds of a new listing appearing, on both free and paid plans. FindersKeepers re-runs saved searches once an hour. If speed on a single listing is what matters most, Madealert's free tier wins that outright.
You can exclude keywords per alert. FindersKeepers doesn't support excluding keywords or specific sellers; it only filters by a minimum seller feedback threshold.
No. It's an alert tool: it tells you a matching listing appeared. It doesn't track how a price moved over time and doesn't score whether an asking price is good relative to similar listings.
If you're watching one or two specific things and want to know the second they're listed, Madealert's free tier is genuinely faster than us. If you're running more than 10 searches, or want to know whether the price is good and not just new, that's where FindersKeepers picks up.
Madealert wins on speed, FindersKeepers wins on not metering you. The full roundup of free eBay deal-hunting tools covers where each tool in this space actually fits.
Hourly alerts, price history, and a read on whether a listing is priced well. No credit card, no eBay login, no alert cap.
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