AUTO.RIA alerts on an Android lock screen
Viewings are arranged on a phone, usually from a car park or a corridor, which is exactly where a car hunt should be told that something new has appeared.
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Set the filters that decide the price
Choose the make and model, the year range, the mileage limit and the budget you can honestly spend. Add the fuel type and the gearbox, pick the region if the car has to be viewable this week, and say whether you want private owners, dealers or both. Sort newest first and copy the page address.
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Add the link in the Android app
Install the app, paste the address and keep the app as the channel for this search. Name it after the model and the budget, since that name is what you read on the lock screen in half a second. One search checked every thirty minutes is free; five at ten-minute checks come with Starter, twenty with Pro.
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Take it from the notification
Each new car raises a push while the phone is still locked. A tap opens the advert itself: the photographs, the stated mileage, the description and the seller's number. Everything found also lands in the in-app feed, so an afternoon of meetings is not an afternoon of missed cars.
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Calling before the queue forms
A sensibly priced car with a believable history collects its callers in the first hours. By the time the advert is a day old the owner has someone coming to see it and very little reason to negotiate with anyone else.
Being alerted on the phone is what gets you into that first group. Nothing else about the purchase changes: you still look, you still ask, you still walk away if it does not add up.
From the lock screen into the history check
One tap puts you inside the advert, where the real signals are: how many photographs there are and from what angles, whether the mileage matches the year, whether a VIN has been published, how the owner writes about the car.
That is also the material for a good first call. Mentioning the service history or a specific photograph tells the seller you are serious, which is often what decides who gets the appointment.
The feed as this week's shortlist
Searches you set to silent stop buzzing but keep collecting, which suits a wide search with only a budget attached. The in-app feed holds them in order with the name of the search on each find.
Scrolling that list on a Sunday is the closest thing to a weekly market report you will get: what came up, at what money, and which of them are already gone.
Two models, two searches, one list
Almost nobody is loyal to a single model at a given budget. The usual setup is the obvious choice, the cheaper alternative and the stretch option, each as its own search with its own name.
Seen together in one feed, they answer the question behind the whole hunt: which of these three actually exists at your price, in your region, this month.
Which phones get this, and the alternatives
Push notifications run on Android today. On any other phone, or for anyone who would rather be told at a desk, the same search can be routed to Telegram, to Viber or to email, and every channel is available on every plan, free included.
Mixing them is perfectly normal: the narrow model search on the phone, the broad budget search quietly filed into mail for the weekend.
βFrequently asked questions
Does this replace the AUTO.RIA app?
No. Keep theirs for messaging sellers, saved cars and their own checks; ours watches the public result page you built and reports what is new on it.
Is the number of alerts capped?
No. The plan sets how many searches run and how often they are checked, never how many cars they find.
What happens when the phone is offline?
The notification arrives once the phone reconnects, and the find is in the feed regardless.
Can I run a search without any notifications?
Yes. Mute it and the finds go to the feed only, which is the sensible setting for a wide search.
Will cars already on the page be sent to me?
No. The first check records what is listed at that moment, and alerts begin afterwards.
I bought a car. What should I do with the search?
Pause it or delete it; a paused search keeps its filters for the next time you need them.
Where should we send alerts?
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