Facebook Marketplace alerts for new listings
Facebook will notify you about a saved search. What it will not tell you is how quickly. Dibs re-runs the search you already use, on a schedule you can see, and alerts you where you actually look.
3 saved searches free, no card.
What Facebook’s own saved search notifications do
Read off Facebook’s own help pages on 2026-09-22.
Facebook lets you save a Marketplace search, and “saved searches” is one of the Marketplace notification types you can turn on or off in its settings.
What it does
- Free, and built in — nothing to install.
- Notifies you through Facebook itself: the app on your phone, or the notifications menu on the site.
- Turned on or off per type under Marketplace → Settings → Notifications, next to updates and seller tips.
What it doesn’t
- Say how often a saved search is checked, or how long after a listing goes up the notification comes. Facebook’s help pages do not publish a number.
- Send anywhere but Facebook — no email digest, Telegram, Discord or webhook.
How dibs does it
Open your Facebook search in Chrome, open the dibs side panel, click “Watch this search”. That is the setup.
- In your own browser
- Dibs re-opens the search in a collapsed background tab, signed in as you, and reads the listing results on it — nothing else on the page, and nothing on any other site.
- On your plan’s interval
- Free checks every 15 minutes. Paid plans check as fast as Facebook safely allows for your account, top searches first. You only hear about listings it has not shown you before.
- Alerts where you look
- A notification on your phone or computer, Telegram, Discord, an email digest or a signed webhook, with the photo, price, place and a link straight to the listing. Every channel is on every plan, free included.
- Finds that keep the photos
- Every listing a search has found stays in Finds at dibs.deals with its picture, searchable by words and price, after Facebook has taken it down. A listing whose price drops far enough alerts once more, with the old price.
- Marks on the page you are browsing
- Switch it on in the side panel and, while you browse Facebook yourself, dibs outlines listings that match a search you watch, tags the ones it already found, shows a price move on the card and greys out what your rules turned down.
- On Facebook in particular
- It runs in your own Chrome, on the Facebook account you are already signed into. You never hand dibs a Facebook password, and there is no server logging in as you.
- It watches the search exactly as you set it up on Facebook — keywords, price, radius, category — because it is that page, always read newest first so what alerts is what was just listed.
- Rules on top of Facebook’s filters: words a listing must have, words that rule it out, a price range and an age limit, so “iPhone” stops alerting on cases.
What it costs
Plans differ on how many searches you watch and how often they run — never on how you hear about it.
- Free
- $03 saved searches, checked every 15 minutes
- Pro
- $12/moor $9.60/mo billed yearly10 saved searches, checked as fast as Facebook safely allows, top searches first
- Power
- $29/moor $23.20/mo billed yearly30 saved searches, checked as fast as Facebook safely allows, top searches first. Adds AI access to your searches and Finds.
What dibs won’t do
- Run with your computer off. Dibs checks from your own Chrome, so when the laptop is shut or Chrome is closed, it stops until you open it again. Facebook’s own alert does not have that problem.
- Search from your phone. The checking happens in Chrome on your computer; your phone is where the alerts land — as a notification once you add dibs.deals to its home screen, or through Telegram, Discord or email.
- Chrome has to be signed in to Facebook. If Facebook signs you out, the search stops and the side panel and your dashboard say so.
Questions people ask
- Does Facebook Marketplace notify you of new listings?
- Yes, for a saved search, if “saved searches” is switched on under Marketplace → Settings → Notifications. Facebook does not publish how soon after a listing goes up that notification arrives.
- How soon does a new listing show up in Facebook Marketplace search?
- About six minutes at the earliest, by our own measurement: of 6,658 new listings dibs searches found from September 28 to October 8, 2026, Facebook showed 9 in search before they were six minutes old. Signed out, the results page changed only about once an hour in our test. The method and its limits are on the dibs blog.
- Why are my Facebook Marketplace alerts not working?
- Check the toggle first: Facebook turns saved-search notifications on and off separately from its other Marketplace notifications. Then check that your phone lets the Facebook app send notifications at all. If they arrive late, Facebook’s help pages do not say how soon after a listing goes up a saved-search notification should come.
- Can I get Facebook Marketplace alerts on Telegram, Discord or by email?
- Not from Facebook. Dibs sends the same listing as a notification on your phone or computer, or to Telegram, Discord, an email digest or a webhook of your own, on every plan including free.
- Do I have to give dibs my Facebook login?
- No. Dibs runs inside your own Chrome, where you are already signed in, and reads only the search pages you chose to watch.
Watch your first Facebook search in about a minute.