Price alerts
Track saved searches, watched item targets, auction thresholds, local pickup matches, and seller drop alerts without turning the marketplace into noisy spam.
Track This Price Target
Create a browser-local alert for retro handheld matches under the target price. It will appear in saved search, saved center, account activity, and this alert center.
Saved Search Alerts
- Saved searches should alert on fresh matches, price drops, new pickup options, and category-specific proof updates.
- Each alert needs the original query, category, price band, distance, handoff choice, and last matched item.
- Buyers should be able to pause, edit, or run the search directly from the alert.
Watchlist Targets
- Watched listings can carry a target price, buy-now threshold, seller offer threshold, or back-in-stock trigger.
- Targets should stay close to listing proof, condition, seller rating, and fulfillment choices so buyers compare more than price.
- Expired, sold, or removed listings should suggest similar items instead of sending buyers into a dead action.
Auction Thresholds
- Auction alerts should cover outbid state, reserve met, ending soon, top-bid ceiling, and won or lost outcomes.
- Urgent alerts need a clear reason and a direct path to the auction, bid history, or checkout review.
- Bid alerts should respect quiet hours unless the buyer opted into urgent auction notices.
Local Pickup Matches
- Pickup alerts should explain the hub, pickup window, item size, proof state, and whether local handoff is available.
- Nearby match alerts should avoid exposing private addresses and use hub or city-level location cues.
- Large-item alerts should include handoff needs before the buyer commits to an offer or cart review.
Seller Drop Alerts
- Followed sellers can notify buyers about new shelves, bundle opportunities, timed drops, and category restocks.
- Seller alerts should be easy to mute from the seller page, account preferences, and inbox.
- Low-quality listings, open reports, or restricted items should not be pushed as seller alerts.
Quiet Hours
- Non-urgent price drops, seller drops, and saved-search matches should wait until the buyer's active hours.
- Urgent bid and pickup notices need separate consent from ordinary marketplace alerts.
- Quiet-hour behavior should show delayed, sent, failed, muted, and action-needed states for review.
Privacy Boundary
- Alert preferences should not expose private addresses, sensitive support notes, or hidden seller review history.
- Current demo alerts are static account examples and do not send external messages.
- Preference exports should show alert choices without revealing private messages or report documents.
Owner Approval
- Owners should approve alert types, urgent overrides, quiet-hour rules, seller drop limits, and delivery health before launch.
- Support should be able to see failed urgent alerts when they affect bids, pickup release, reports, or checkout review.
- Alert rules should have rollback controls so noisy or misleading notices can be paused fast.
Saved Search
Fresh matches, price drops, auction endings, pickup options, and demand signals.
Saved Center
Saved items, watched auctions, saved searches, seller follows, compare choices, and alert rules.
Suggested For You
Saved interests, nearby inventory, followed sellers, auction timing, and price-alert matches.
Activity Feed
Price drops, watched auctions, saved-search matches, seller drops, and pickup-ready events.
Notification Preferences
Alert types, quiet hours, consent records, channel choices, and delivery review.
Inbox & Alerts
Bid notices, offer replies, price drops, pickup reminders, and support updates.
Account Preferences
Saved handoff choices, privacy boundaries, notification choices, and account safety.
Search Results
Filters, ranking signals, saved-search cues, pickup-ready results, and listing actions.
Search Discovery
Phrase search, brand filters, radius, seller quality, condition proof, and saved alerts.
Pricing & Sold Comps
Sold items, current demand, watcher pressure, reserve choices, and target prices.
Seller Automation Rules
Turn price targets and demand signals into seller-reviewed pricing, offer, relist, and alert rules.
Seller Storefronts
Seller follows, shelf alerts, bundle paths, storefront policies, and mute controls.
Mobile App Readiness
Saved-search alerts, bid alerts, pickup reminders, account safety, and app quality review.
Current demo state
Price alerts are represented with guided account activity.
The demo shows saved searches, watched item targets, auction thresholds, local pickup matches, seller drop alerts, quiet hours, privacy boundaries, and owner approval using static account examples. It does not send external messages or store live preferences.
Future platform state
Live alerts need account-linked delivery and abuse controls.
A launched marketplace needs verified accounts, alert storage, event triggers, delivery providers, quiet-hour logic, mute controls, consent records, support fallback, analytics feedback, and rollback controls.