BayWatch Reviews

Good idea and fast app but what would have made BayWatch more powerful in the browsing section is the ability to have more of ebay's search filters such as 'lowest price+shipping' filter to find lowest price listings and the ability to search completed listings such as 'completed' and 'completed+sold' listings in order to compare pricing history to current asking prices. Currently can only switch between best match, new listings, and ending soonest. Not ideal for all situations. Add lowest price+shipping and completed filters and app will be instant 5 star rating.

Worked great for a couple months, then it stopped sending notifications or any indication of new items (all the notification settings on my phone are on and the same as before).

I have to close and reopen BayWatch every time I want it to update with new items, even though I’m paying the subscription fee for rapid discovery. Wasted money!

Deleted and reinstalled app, tried other troubleshooting. Nothing works.

App states it must be open in background to work and not force close it. So I force close it. A few hours later… I’m getting notifications. So does it open itself up or was the statement untrue? It can only be one or the other.

And why doesn’t the list have a link to open the item? The share button has a bunch of irrelevant text. I should just be Able to click the listing and be redirected to web or
eBay app.

BayWatch is good, i tried another app called "seespotbid" and they offer a search frequency of 2 mins for $4.99 a month, while "this app" offers a search frequency of 10-15mins for $4.99. I choose to use this app because its user friendly. If the developer of BayWatch puts a faster search frequency BayWatch would be amazing.

It’s great, but for some reason I get a fair number of false positives. I get a notification and an app badge, but when I open it there are no new items.
Also, why are there no longer subscription options? It’s rather pricey, and it feels like I’m constantly paying due to the longest subscription being 3 months.

No apps really compare to this , I have just been using it for a few days but it’s been amazing so far. Only thing that I’m having problems with is I am not getting notifications on my home screen nor a red notification bubble above BayWatch . I have notifications on but don’t seem to be getting them. If this can get fixed tho would easily rate it a 5/5

Update: I was able to contact support through their general email address. They replied speedily. I was told that although they don’t have an in app backup option all of my app data should be backed up and preserved as long as I have BayWatch set to backup with my iOS iCloud backup. Also the contact support button only works if you have the iOS mail app setup with an email account. Because I’ve bypasses the iOS mail app entirely that is why the contact support button doesn’t work for me. Excellent support service and still enjoying BayWatch !

I am really enjoying BayWatch and love all of the specific search details it allows you to input. I’m paying for the premium service for 15 min searches. Totally worth it. However, I’m trying to find a way to backup my searches so I don’t end up losing them if I lose my phone or need to reinstall app. I have nearly a hundred searches and losing them would be devastating due to the amount of time and research I’ve put in them for my business. When trying to contact support within app I click the button in the settings but it does nothing. Not sure how to get in touch with support to find out if it is possible to backup searches.

BayWatch works well aside from 2 issues. First, it will sometimes not properly open/refresh the listing in the eBay app. You have to force quit the eBay app and try again. Second, it only searches every 15 minutes. I would love to be able to change that value to a lower number. I’ve nabbed some great deals, but I’ve also had some that are gone by the time I click in (and that’s with me going in as soon as the alert comes in).

Bad:
🔻It randomly deletes my search items and I have to retype them.
🔻The watch list with subscription is still 15 mins behind. Sometimes item on eBay sells but this app was too slow to see it.
🔻 Switching between “Ending Soon” and “Newly Listed” will show items that have ended an sometimes out of order. Like it’s looking at time posted and not the countdown timer.
🔻Adding May ignore words in searches makes the search so crazy stuff. A list with one word removed will remove items that do not even have that word in the listing. Broken.
🔻Hard to keep track of what I’m currently looking at (which item list did I open??)
🔻Photos are low quality. Moving over to eBay app photos are HD.

Good:
🔹Interface is easy
🔹Super easy to switch through a saved list of items to look for your search words (faster than eBay App)
🔹Good for items in Niche markets, not popular items.

It will notify you within 15 minutes. Could be seconds after something is listed or 14 minutes. So it is a major improvement over anything eBay offers. Still hard to beat out eBay snipers, but it does help. On another note, the developer is very responsive and open to suggestions, which is very nice.

We’ve been using BayWatch for a few years now and has contributed to our success on eBay. BayWatch is very easy to use and the searches and alerts are very reliable. Customer service is also a huge plus.

I’ve found this to be very helpful. But I’ve learned that you MUST have a few separate “watches” going, using different sets of keywords for the same item you’re looking for... At least for me it’s really helped to yield a lot more reliable results, and I figured this out by noticing that when I entered a bunch of keywords into a “watch” for an item, when I reviewed the results that already existed on EBay, there were listings missing that I knew were active at that moment, and for the same item I was trying to lookout for. So I removed some keywords and added others into a new “watch”, and then I saw the missing listings show up in BayWatch. So now I just have like three or four different “watches” going at the same time for the same item I’m looking for, just using a variety of keywords, and now I seem to get notified just about every time the item I’m looking for gets listed. Also, for some reason I can’t see what I’m typing right now, so please excuse what are probably many errors...

eBay saved search notifications are awful. I wanted something that would let me know immediately when something I was looking for was posted. That’s exactly what BayWatch does. I can’t tell you how many many auctions and items BayWatch has helped me win.

Kind of cringe, will send a paying subscriber notifications to go look at ads when no new updates have occurred. “Look at your watchlist” I’ve seen my watchlist, Im the one who made it. I’ve paid for faster updates, and there’s often times it says there’s an update, but I can’t find it. All that said, it has helped me score some items. It just wants more money from me.

Great app. I have dozens of searches on it. I’d love the ability to pause searches without having to delete and recreate them, since sometimes my priorities shift around with what I need to search for right now. Worth the money though.

If you follow a ton of saved searches, do yourself a favor and give this app a try.

The saved searched are easily configured in a single screen that has the most important options when you buy often (local only, price range, excluded word filter, etc.), and it informs you within minutes of new listings.

You can then either delete found items so you don’t have to review over and over again, or watch them.

While BayWatch could use some more visual polish I found it very stable and working great; already found a bunch of great deals with newly listed items.

The monthly fees for are definitely worth it if you are more than an occasional eBay buyer or if you’re looking for a great deal for a specific item that’s normally pricey.

I have written in to the developer and they were responsive and friendly. Hope some features in the future include iCloud sync so you can browse the same stuff on multiple devices as well as small tweaks to the UI, like a “delete all” for search results.

Saves me a lot of time checking up on eBay. App works well and the developer is responsive to feedback. You can set up tons of searches if you wish, and can set up terms to exclude. It’s easy to edit the searches too.

Top rated service and function. This is one of my most used apps and it does what it was developed for beautifully. Easily set up searches tailored for the items you are looking for! Thank you so much!

eBay just updated where this app no longer is able to open the item directly on eBay. this app needs fixing

I had questions about an issue I was having trouble with in using BayWatch, customer support wrote back and explained features I was not aware of. Very good support!