The used market, by the numbers

In the last 30 days Deal Scanner saw 8,446,855 new listings, about 281,561 a day. It sent 27,386 alerts to people watching for something, and on the alerts it scored as clear bargains the median listing sat 47% below the typical asking price for that item near the buyer.

New listings in the last 30 days

Craigslist and OfferUp counts cover every area at least one Deal Scanner user watches, which is most of the US. Facebook Marketplace counts cover saved searches only, because Facebook has no public feed to read, so the Facebook number is the listings users' searches matched, not the marketplace's size.

When listings go up

Craigslist posting times for the last 3 days, in Central time. The busiest hour is 7 p.m.; the quietest is 3 a.m.. Most of the day's listings are posted between mid-morning and early evening, which is also when they sell.

What things cost

Typical asking prices for the items people watch most, from listings seen in the last 3 days. Each page breaks the price down by area.

Town by town

One page per Craigslist area the pipeline watches, with listings per day, the busiest hours in local time, and typical prices there. The busiest 24 of 250:

All 250 areas are listed on marketplace alerts by area.

Where these numbers come from

Deal Scanner's own pipeline. For Craigslist it reads each area's whole for-sale feed, every category, no keywords, so an area's count is the area's real volume and does not depend on what anyone searches for; an area appears here once at least one person watches it. For OfferUp it reads the feed inside the radius people have set, and for Facebook Marketplace it reads each saved search, so those two are watched, not measured whole. National counts of new listings per day come from the pipeline's daily counters. Typical prices are medians of asking prices on listings seen in the last 3 days, with the obviously wrong prices (a $1 truck, a $99,999 couch) excluded. Nothing here identifies a listing, a seller or a user. Generated October 27, 2026; refreshed on a schedule, so the numbers move.

Hear about the next one first

Deal Scanner watches Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp and Craigslist for a search you set, on our servers, around the clock, and buzzes your phone when a listing is posted, with the time we found it on every alert and a Deal Score showing how far under the typical price near you it sits. No Facebook login. $3.99 a month for three searches, cancel anytime. It is built for everyone who checks Marketplace every day, whether flipping is your side thing, your whole job, or not the point at all.