Spot underpriced consoles on eBay through Telegram

A boxed handheld at a fair price rarely stays up for long, and a Telegram card on your phone gives you a head start on everyone who still scrolls the results by hand.

3 steps

Set up in a minute

Search on eBay, sort by newest

Set the console filters on eBay

Open Video Games & Consoles, choose the platform, then tick the condition you trust, add a maximum price and decide between Buy It Now and auction. Item location and the ships-to option keep out sellers who cannot send to you. Sort by Newly listed and copy the address-bar link.
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Copy the link, paste it into mxsender

Hand it to MXSender in Telegram

Paste the link into our Telegram bot or on the MXSender website and keep Telegram as the channel. Email can be added as a second channel whenever you like.
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New listings land in your Telegram

Get a card per new console

Every console that enters your search after you added it becomes one card in the chat with its title, price and a button to the eBay listing, plus the photo when the seller uploaded one.
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Start monitoring eBay →

Track a search on eBay right now

Paste the eBay search link you want watched — we’ll check we can read it, then set up your alerts.

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Late evening, a Game Boy Color with its box

Picture a seller clearing out an attic and listing a boxed handheld with Buy It Now at a price below what similar ones fetch. Whoever sees it first and checks the photos carefully gets to decide; everyone else finds a sold listing the next morning.

That is the whole case for a card in Telegram. You do not refresh eBay all evening. The phone shows a new console the next time your search is checked, and you either open it or swipe it away.

Which console listings reward being first

Buy It Now listings priced by someone who did not look up what the console is worth go the quickest, and so do bundles: a Switch with three games and a carry case, a PS4 Pro with two pads. Retro hardware with original boxes and manuals is the other hot corner.

Auctions are different. They run for days, so an early card mostly buys you time to ask questions and set a sensible maximum bid before the final hours.

From a Telegram card to a yes or no

Tap the button and read the full page: the item location, the shipping cost to your country and whether import duties or VAT may be charged when the parcel arrives. A bargain from far away is sometimes not one at all.

Next, the seller’s feedback and the return policy. Ask whether the console is signed out of every account and whether the controllers drift. eBay has a buyer protection programme for purchases that go wrong; check its terms for your case.

Each search carries its own hashtag, so a PS5 hunt and a retro hunt can share one chat. Forward a card to a friend who knows the hardware, or mute the search you check less often.

Prices for console watchers

Free gives you one search checked every 30 minutes. Starter, $5.99, covers five searches every 10 minutes; Pro, $14.99, covers twenty with the fastest checks we run. Telegram and email are on every plan.