Botifex Review: One Dashboard to Hunt Deals Across Six Resale Marketplaces

Reselling across secondary markets has always had the same bottleneck: each platform has its own search feed, its own alert cadence, and its own tab open in the browser. By the time you work through six sources, the deal someone else found in the first one is gone. A reseller checking six platforms manually three times a day spends roughly an hour on search alone — Botifex collapses that to a push notification. Botifex pulls Craigslist, eBay, Facebook Marketplace (Basic+), OfferUp, Poshmark, and Mercari into a single monitored dashboard. You set up hunt profiles — keyword, category, price range, condition — and Botifex runs continuous searches across all supported marketplaces, refreshing every 5 minutes on Pro and Ultra (10 minutes on Basic, 20 on the free post-trial tier). Alerts land in the channel you've configured: dashboard, email, SMS (Pro and above), push notification, or a daily digest. The first time an alert routes a deal to your phone before the other buyer's refresh cycle catches it, the subscription rationale becomes obvious.

Knowing a listing exists is half the work. Knowing whether it's actually worth pursuing is the other half. Botifex's deal score (0–100) condenses price benchmarks and resale context into a single read per item — so you're evaluating opportunities with market data, not gut feel. eBay sell-through rates sit alongside the deal score, giving you a real signal on how quickly comparable items actually move at what price point — not just what they're listed for, but what they sell for. Regional price benchmarks narrow the comparison to your local market so you're not evaluating a $400 camera deal in Portland against national averages. Vision scans extend this to physical sourcing. Snap a photo of an item — at an estate sale, a thrift store, a pickup meeting — and Botifex identifies it and returns pricing context. The scan limits are tiered: 5/month on Free, 40 on Basic, 150 on Pro, 500 on Ultra. For resellers who source in person as often as online, it replaces the manual reverse-image search step that otherwise slows down in-the-moment decisions.

A hunt profile is a saved search — keyword, price range, category, condition filters — applied continuously across all marketplaces in your tier. Free accounts support 2 hunt profiles; Basic adds a third; Pro and Ultra unlock unlimited profiles. The right way to think about profile limits is the number of distinct sourcing strategies you run simultaneously: a flipper working electronics and furniture separately runs two profiles from day one. Geo-targeting is ZIP code and radius based, operating nationwide across all supported marketplaces. For local flippers, that means every alert is pre-filtered to deals within a driveable radius — no sorting through listings three states away. Combined with the 5-minute refresh on Pro, that's a narrow enough window to put you ahead of the manual-search crowd on the same marketplace.

The clearest fit is the active reseller who already works multiple secondary markets and is spending more time managing browser tabs and manual searches than actually sourcing. The consolidation alone — six feeds, one dashboard — changes the daily rhythm. The deal score and sell-through data change the quality of decisions. The vision scan changes the speed of in-person evaluation. Basic ($19.99/mo) is the right starting point for a part-time flipper: four marketplaces, 10-minute refresh, email and daily digest alerts, and 40 vision scans covers the most productive reselling pattern without the price jump. Pro ($49.99/mo) is where reselling becomes a real income channel — all six marketplaces, 5-minute refresh, inventory tracking, and SMS push alerts. Ultra ($126.99/mo) is purpose-built for power resellers and teams who need Group Hunts, Business Mode P&L, and unlimited proxy data for high-volume monitoring. The product is less suited to sourcing from Amazon retail arbitrage, wholesale platforms, or non-US marketplaces — Botifex covers the six listed secondary markets and is US-focused in its geo-targeting. Teams who source primarily from retail liquidation channels or international platforms will keep a second tool.

The free tier — $0, always — gives you 2 hunt profiles, Craigslist and eBay only, 20-minute refresh, dashboard-only alerts, and 5 vision scans per month. Every new account (on any plan) starts with a 7-day Pro trial that unlocks all six marketplaces, 5-minute refresh, and SMS alerts — so the evaluation window delivers the full product experience before any payment is required. Basic at $19.99/mo ($199.90/yr, $16.66/mo billed annually) adds a third hunt profile, four marketplaces, 10-minute refresh, email + daily digest alerts, 40 vision scans, and 1GB/mo proxy data. Pro at $49.99/mo ($499.90/yr, $41.66/mo annually) lifts the ceiling: unlimited hunt profiles, all six marketplaces, 5-minute refresh, 150 vision scans, inventory tracker, SMS + push alerts, and 2GB/mo proxy data. Ultra at $126.99/mo ($1,269.90/yr, $105.83/mo annually) is the power-reseller tier: 500 vision scans, unlimited proxy data, Business Mode P&L, and Group Hunts for team sourcing. Ultra does not include the 7-day trial — the evaluation window for the highest tier is the Pro trial itself. For a subscription at this price point, confirming the Pro workflow fits your sourcing rhythm before stepping up is the sensible approach.