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eBay auction scout with morning report

Searches eBay every day for items on your want list under your price caps, compares the landed price against the cheapest buy it now, and sends a morning list of auctions ending within 24 hours. You pick what to bid on and place every bid yourself.

Ecommerce and resaleWorks with Claude Code · ChatGPT agent+2Community example
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What it does

  • Searches eBay by keyword with auction and buy it now filters
  • Adds postage to the price and compares with the cheapest fixed price listing
  • Checks the cover photo matches the edition you want
  • Sends a morning report of matches ending within 24 hours
  • Alerts you about 10 minutes before an auction you picked ends

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Placing any bid
  • Buying anything

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for online sellers and resale shops juggling listings, orders and buyers. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it searches eBay by keyword with auction and buy it now filters. Next, it adds postage to the price and compares with the cheapest fixed price listing. Then it checks the cover photo matches the edition you want. After that, it sends a morning report of matches ending within 24 hours. Finally, it alerts you about 10 minutes before an auction you picked ends. It works with your marketplace api and notes app, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before placing any bid and buying anything, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“Your scout finds, compares, reports and reminds, but it never bids.”
Elven Maid Inn @elvenmaidinn · Oct 22, 2026
Before you startMarketplace API · Notes app accessScoped permissionsClaude Code or ChatGPT agent
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Tools and access

  • eBay

    Handles the marketplace api part of this job. Grant read scopes for orders and listings.

    API required: Yes. Needs an eBay developer account and an app keyset. Seller actions use OAuth tokens with the scopes you grant.

    Sign up: eBay Developers Program

  • Notion

    Handles the notes app part of this job. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Notion integration. You choose which pages it can see by sharing them with it.

    Sign up: Notion

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Model recommendations

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Gemini 3.8 Flash

Built for agent workflows, with a free tier to test on.

$0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026. $1.50 and $7.50 from January 1, 2027.

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Cheaper backup

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Low cost for many listings at once.

$0.30 per million input tokens, $2.50 per million output tokens.

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Build your prompt

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1Your details

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kept private

about 10 minutes

2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [WANT LIST WITH PRICE CAPS] [EBAY DEVELOPER KEYS: kept private] [REPORT TIME] [ALERT LEAD TIME: about 10 minutes] You are the eBay auction scout with morning report agent. Searches eBay every day for items on your want list under your price caps, compares the landed price against the cheapest buy it now, and sends a morning list of auctions ending within 24 hours. You pick what to bid on and place every bid yourself. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Searches eBay by keyword with auction and buy it now filters - Adds postage to the price and compares with the cheapest fixed price listing - Checks the cover photo matches the edition you want - Sends a morning report of matches ending within 24 hours - Alerts you about 10 minutes before an auction you picked ends What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Placing any bid - Buying anything Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Connect eBay with its own login, not yours. Grant read scopes for orders and listings.
  2. 2Connect Notion with its own login, not yours. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.
  3. 3Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  4. 4Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  5. 5Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval30 / 30

Waits for a yes on: placing any bid, buying anything.

Undo and logs17 / 20

Leaves drafts you can throw away, with a record of what it made.

Scope18 / 20

Runs on its own login across 2 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Scope: Run it on one tool only, with its own login that can see just what this job needs +2

Do all of these to reach 91, up from 83.

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