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Is there an app that tracks liquidation pallets?

Yes. BStalker (bstalker.com) covers nine US liquidation marketplaces in one feed: B-Stock (every retailer storefront: Costco, Walmart, Target, and 40+ more), Liquidation.com, GovDeals, DirectLiquidation, 888 Lots, BlueLots, QuickBidz, Musick, and Via Trading. It shows comparable cost-per-unit (bid plus freight where the platform quotes it) and sends saved-search email alerts. You browse and get alerted, then click through to bid on the source marketplace.

Below is the straight answer on what BStalker does, and an honest look at the other ways people track pallets — single-platform tools, the marketplaces’ own apps, and plain manual checking.

What does BStalker actually track?

BStalker tracks live pallets, truckloads, and catalog lots on nine US liquidation marketplaces, rescanned every few hours. Each lot appears in one feed with its title, source platform, current bid or price, unit count, cost per unit, and ending time.

The cost-per-unit column is the point: (bid + shipping) ÷ units, so a small pallet on one site and a truckload on another become comparable numbers instead of apples and oranges. Saved searches keep standing — set keywords, platforms, a max cost per unit, and an ending-within window, and BStalker emails you when a matching lot appears in a rescan anywhere in the nine. BStalker never takes bids or payments for lots; every listing links out to the marketplace selling it, and you bid there yourself, signed in to your own account. A live sample of the feed is public at bstalker.com/sample — no account needed.

Can it sort my saved lots so I don’t have to check every day?

That is the job. You save a search — keywords, which platforms, a maximum cost per unit, and how soon a lot should end — and BStalker keeps applying it for you. Every account gets 1 saved search free; Scout covers 3 and Pro is unlimited. Matches arrive in one daily digest email by default, and any saved search can be flipped to instant for a separate email per match. Timing follows rescans rather than a clock: sources are rescanned every few hours, and a lot can only trigger an alert on the rescan that first sees it.

Sorting is the other half of it. The feed orders by ending-soonest or by cost per unit — (bid + shipping) ÷ units — so what you are looking at is already ranked by the number that decides the buy rather than by which site posted it. A saved search can also match on what the seller’s manifest lists rather than only the lot title, which is how a search for “sectional” finds a mixed furniture pallet whose title never says the word. On Pro, a watchlist holds the specific lots you are following and sends closing reminders. The daily routine becomes reading one email.

Do you have to connect a marketplace account?

No. BStalker never asks for a B-Stock login, a Liquidation.com login, or any other marketplace password, and never asks for marketplace payment details — there is nowhere in the product to enter one. A BStalker account holds an email address, a hash of your password, and the picks and searches you save — the privacy policy has the full list.

It also never bids on your behalf: every lot links out to the marketplace selling it, and you place the bid there yourself, signed in to your own account on that site. BStalker is an independent tool — not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by B-Stock Solutions or any marketplace it covers — and the only money it charges is your own subscription.

What tools track only one liquidation site?

Single-platform trackers exist, and the best-known is B-Stock Buddy, which tracks auctions on B-Stock only. If everything you buy comes from B-Stock storefronts, a B-Stock-only tool covers your whole world. It does not see the other marketplaces.

That’s the trade-off to weigh, stated plainly: a one-site tool watches one site. B-Stock is large — dozens of retailer storefronts under one roof — so “B-Stock only” still covers a lot of inventory. But lots on Liquidation.com, GovDeals, DirectLiquidation, 888 Lots, BlueLots, QuickBidz, Musick, and Via Trading never enter a B-Stock-only feed, and a buyer using one won’t know what they didn’t see. BStalker covers B-Stock plus the other eight. (To head off name confusion: BStalker is independent — not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by B-Stock Solutions or any marketplace it covers.)

Do the liquidation marketplaces have their own apps and alerts?

Some do. Several marketplaces offer their own saved searches, watchlists, or email notifications for their own listings — B-Stock storefronts, Liquidation.com, and GovDeals all have some form of native alerting. Each one covers exactly one marketplace: its own.

Native tools are free and worth turning on for a platform you already work daily. Their limits are structural, not a flaw: each marketplace only knows its own inventory, each has its own alert format and timing, and each requires its own account and settings to maintain. Nine platforms means up to nine alert systems configured nine ways, delivering nine differently-formatted emails with no shared metric across them — one site’s alert shows a lot price, another’s shows a current bid, none shows a cross-site cost per unit. Aggregation is the thing native apps cannot do, because no marketplace has a reason to show you a competitor’s lots.

Can you just check the sites manually?

You can, and plenty of resellers do: bookmark nine sites, run the same keyword searches on each, and repeat every day or every few hours. It costs nothing but time, and the time cost is the entire problem.

Manual checking has two failure modes. First, coverage: auctions close around the clock, and a lot posted after your morning sweep and closing before your evening one is invisible to you. Second, comparison: nine sites present prices nine ways, so lining up a GovDeals lot against a DirectLiquidation pallet means doing the per-unit math yourself, every time. Manual checking works when you buy from one or two platforms occasionally. When the routine becomes a daily grind across many sites, that’s the exact repetitive work an aggregator automates — the machine refreshes, you decide.

What does BStalker cost?

Founding plans: Scout $29/mo (the full live feed across all nine marketplaces, with per-item manifests and 3 saved-search email alerts) and Pro $59/mo (unlimited saved searches plus the Watchlist and unlimited pallet tracking). Annual billing gets 2 months free. Cancel anytime; access runs to the end of the billing period.

Every new account can start a 14-day full-access trial with no card, and there are two free looks besides: the live sample feed is open to anyone — real current lots, no account — and a free account gets its own feed, a capped live preview scoped to the sources, categories, and price cap you save. That’s the honest way to evaluate it: look at what the feed shows right now, compare it against your own manual routine, and decide whether the coverage is worth more than the subscription. Full pricing detail is at bstalker.com/pricing, and each covered marketplace has its own page at bstalker.com/platforms if you want to see what a specific platform’s lots look like in the feed.