SearchDome has been free since 2004 and its free tier can check eBay every 10 minutes, which beats our hourly schedule. It doesn't do price history or tell you if a price is actually good. Here is the real tradeoff.
SearchDome is a saved-search alert tool. It watches eBay for new listings matching your criteria and emails you, as often as every 10 minutes for free.
FindersKeepers checks saved searches once an hour, which is slower. What we add is price history on items you watch and a score on whether an asking price beats similar listings.
If speed on a single fast-moving listing is the whole game, SearchDome's free tier (or its paid Rapid Search, down to 1 minute) wins that outright.
If you also want to know whether the price is good, or want a value history on something you're tracking, SearchDome doesn't do either. That's the part we built.
SearchDome has been running free since 2004. That's two decades of uptime in a category where a lot of tools disappear.
10 or 15 minute check intervals on the free tier, no card required. That beats what we offer at no cost.
You can block individual sellers from your results by name. We don't offer seller filtering at all.
Pulled from the eBay API, so no promoted listings and no duplicate entries for the same item.
Describe what you want in plain English and it generates the eBay keyword search for you. We don't have this.
It tells you something new was listed. It doesn't tell you if the price is good. A fast alert on an overpriced listing just gets you to the overpriced listing faster.
No price history. If you want to know whether a card, a pressing, or a console has been trending up or down, SearchDome has nothing to show you.
Alerts are email only. No browser push option.
SearchDome answers "did something new get listed." It doesn't answer "is this actually worth buying at this price."
Each listing is compared against similar ones in the same results. Twenty percent or more below the average asking price is flagged as a hot deal, ten to twenty percent below as a good price. 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, so you can see whether it's drifting down or holding.
Alerts can land as browser push on top of email, on the same hourly pass.
No limit on saved searches, and we refuse an exact duplicate instead of running the same query for you twice.
| Feature | SearchDome | FindersKeepers |
|---|---|---|
| Fastest free check interval | ✓10 minutes | !Hourly |
| Fastest paid check interval | 1 minute (Rapid Search, paid) | ✕No paid tier |
| Alert delivery | Email only | ✓Email + browser push |
| Exclude a specific seller | ✓Yes | ✕NoNot supported |
| AI-assisted keyword building | ✓Yes | ✕No |
| Saved search limit | Hundreds (per SearchDome) | ✓No limit |
| 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 |
| Free to use | ✓YesRapid Search tiers are paid | ✓YesEverything, no paid plan |
| eBay login or credentials required | ✕No | ✕No |
For anything genuinely time-critical, run both: SearchDome to catch it first, FindersKeepers to tell you if it was worth catching.
We check hourly, not every 10 minutes.On a listing that sells in the first few minutes, SearchDome's free tier gets there first.
No seller filtering, so no per-seller exclusion list.
No AI-assisted keyword builder.
Our deal score uses asking prices, meaning what comparable listings are currently listed at, not what they sold for.
It searches eBay US only.
Yes, for the 10-minute, 15-minute, hourly, and daily check intervals. SearchDome's 1, 2, and 5-minute "Rapid Search" tiers are paid. No credit card is required for the free tiers.
As often as every 10 minutes on the free tier, or every 1 to 5 minutes on a paid Rapid Search plan. That's faster than FindersKeepers, which checks every saved search once an hour.
No. SearchDome finds and alerts on new listings that match your search. It doesn't track how a listing's price has moved over time, and it doesn't score whether an asking price is high or low against similar listings.
No. FindersKeepers has no working seller filtering at all, so there's no exclusion list and no minimum feedback threshold. SearchDome has this and it's a real feature we don't match.
If being first on a fast-moving listing is what matters most, SearchDome's free 10-minute tier (or its paid Rapid Search) beats our hourly check. If you also want to know whether the price itself is any good, or want history on items you're watching, that's what we add on top.
SearchDome and FindersKeepers solve different halves of the same problem: finding a listing first, and knowing whether it was worth finding. 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.
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