Deal ScannerAbout
A small company in Iowa.
Deal Scanner is a small company's answer to a simple problem: the good used listings go to whoever looked a minute before you did.
Who makes it
Deal Scanner is built and run by Evergreen Solutions LLC in Iowa. Here's how it started.
How Deal Scanner started
I saw an ad for a Marketplace alert app and sprinted to the App Store to download it. Then I found out the cheapest plan was about $30 a month. There's no way that's what this costs. I went looking for the competitors and they were the same price or more. So I set out to build something for myself that did the same job, because I didn't want to pay that. Somewhere in the middle of building it I thought: there are a lot of people just like me. They'd love to have this, and they really don't want to spend $30 to $300 a month on it. I don't flip for a living. I know a good deal when I see one, and I'll take it. But you have to see the deal for it to happen. That's Deal Scanner.
The app does the refreshing around the clock and buzzes your phone when something matches. It's $3.99 a month, and if you're only after one thing, pay for the month you're looking and cancel when you've got it.
What it does, in one paragraph
You tell it what you want, your town and a price range. It watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist, sends a notification when a listing matches, and puts a Deal Score on each find showing how far under the typical price it sits. It works with the app closed and never asks for your Facebook, OfferUp or Craigslist login. It starts at $3.99/month, cancel anytime.
How the guides and comparisons are checked
- Setup steps come from the marketplaces' own help pages (Facebook, OfferUp, Craigslist) and from Apple's and Google's notification settings pages. Each guide names its sources and the date they were last checked.
- Competitor prices, plans and marketplace coverage are read from each company's own website on a named date. When a company changes its pricing, the page is updated and the date moves.
- When a comparison includes Deal Scanner, it says so. We rank ourselves where the facts put us, and we say what the others do well.
- Numbers about listings, prices and timing come from Deal Scanner's own pipeline, not from estimates.
Contact
Email [email protected]. A person reads it. For account, billing and alert questions, the help page answers the common ones.
Found something wrong?
If a step on this site no longer matches what your phone shows, or a competitor's price has changed, email the page link and what you saw. Corrections go live with the next build.