Liquidation auction email alerts

A saved search is a standing filter with up to four parts: keywords, which platforms to watch, a maximum cost per unit, and an ending-within window (up to 72 hours). The engine behind BStalker rescans all nine covered marketplaces every few hours; when a new lot matches your filter, you get an email.

Every part is optional except that the search needs some criteria to match against. Keywords match against lot titles — “sectional,” “power tools,” “laptop.” Platforms narrow the watch to the marketplaces you actually buy from. Max cost per unit is the money filter: cost per unit is (bid + shipping) ÷ units, so the cap applies to the landed per-item number where the platform quotes freight, not just the headline bid. The ending-within window limits matches to auctions closing soon, so an alert means “act now,” not “bookmark for later.” Set it once; it runs until you pause it.

Each alert email shows your saved search’s name, how many new lots matched, and a table with one row per lot: the lot title, its source platform, its cost per unit, and the time remaining — plus a direct link from each row to the listing on the source marketplace.

That’s the whole email — numbers and links, no commentary. Clicking a lot takes you straight to the source platform’s listing page, where you inspect the manifest and bid yourself, signed in to your own account on that site; BStalker never takes bids or payments for lots, and never asks for a marketplace login or password. The alert emails go to the address on your BStalker account and nowhere else. The footer of every alert has two controls: a link to edit or pause that specific saved search, and a link to your overall email preferences. Alerts only exist because you created the search — pause the search and the emails stop.

Three real-shaped examples: a furniture flipper saves “sectional, max $80 per unit, ending within 24 hours” across all nine platforms. An FBA seller saves “B-Stock only, max $12 per unit” with no keyword, watching every low-per-unit lot on one marketplace. A fleet buyer saves “truck” on GovDeals, ending within 48 hours.

The pattern in all three: the search encodes the numbers you already decide with — your category, your per-unit ceiling, your reaction window — and the alert fires only when a live lot clears all of them at once. Narrow searches fire rarely and are worth reading every time; broad searches fire often and work more like a filtered feed delivered to your inbox. One practical note: fixed-price catalogs like 888 Lots and Via Trading don’t have closing times, so for those platforms the alert triggers when a new matching lot appears — useful because buy-now lots can sell out at any moment.

Alerts send when BStalker’s next rescan first sees a lot that matches your saved search — the aim is that the email lands while the auction still has usable time on the clock, not after it closed. The feed is rescanned every few hours, seven days a week.

Timing matters differently by platform. Auction marketplaces have scheduled closings, so the ending-within window does the work: set it to 24 hours and every alert is actionable by definition. Buy-now catalogs have no schedule at all, which cuts the other way — the lot can disappear whenever someone else checks out — so being emailed on appearance is the entire advantage over checking the site on your own rhythm. Either way the failure mode alerts exist to prevent is the same one: the right lot appearing during the hours you weren’t looking. You can also browse what’s closing soon anytime at bstalker.com/ending-today.

Every account gets 1 saved search, free and permanent. From there it depends on plan: Scout $29/mo includes the full live feed across all nine marketplaces and 3 saved searches; Pro $59/mo includes unlimited saved searches plus the Watchlist and unlimited pallet tracking. Annual billing gets 2 months free, and you can cancel anytime.

One well-aimed search covers a surprising amount of ground — a single keyword plus a per-unit cap, checked on every sweep, replaces a daily manual sweep. Multiple searches are for buyers running multiple lanes at once: one for furniture, one for electronics, one broad low-per-unit net. Every new account can start a 14-day full-access trial with no card, a free account shows a capped live preview scoped to your picks — free forever — and the live sample feed is open without an account, so you can see exactly what the lots in your category look like — and what their cost-per-unit numbers are — before paying anything. Plans and details: bstalker.com/pricing.