Good tools
go fast. Be first.

You keep losing the good ones

The clean M18 impact at half of retail gets posted at 9 AM. By your lunch break it's "pending." By the time you see it, it's a story about the one that got away.

The Deal Hunter checks on a schedule you set — Marketplace and your groups — so the good ones surface while you're still at work, not after somebody faster already grabbed them.

It hunts where tools actually hide

Most alerts only watch Marketplace. This one also reads the buy/sell groups you already belong to — where estate cleanouts, garage purges, and "husband's tools, must go" posts land first and never get listed anywhere else.

It catches the misspellings sellers actually type — "dewalt drill" spelled three different ways, "skill saw," "chopsaw" run together — and it goes back for buried listings at day 7 and day 14, when a tool that didn't sell is suddenly a tool with a flexible price.

Junk dies before it reaches you

Over-cap prices, wrong towns, "battery only" listings posing as the tool, Harbor Freight prices on Harbor Freight tools, dealer lots, stuff you already saw. A filter kills each one before it ever gets near your phone.

Then comes the last test, the Stop-The-Truck test: would a sensible hunter actually drive over and buy this? If not, it's gone, however good the numbers look on paper.

It reads the listing like a tool guy

Before it pings you, it reads the whole post the way you'd read it standing in the driveway. Is that the brushless model or the brushed one? Bare tool, or does a battery ride along? M18, M12, or 20V MAX — does it even fit the batteries on your shelf? Do the photos match the words, and are the price and town right?

If it can't confirm it, it doesn't send it — and the brief flags what to verify at pickup: chuck wobble, trigger feel, whether the charger is actually in the box. (Search alerts once proudly offered us a parts-only shell as a "drill." This step exists so yours doesn't.)

Honest numbers, labeled

Asking price, sold comps, and estimates are different things, and every brief labels which is which. Tool comps come from real sold listings, and if they're thin, the brief says "thin comps" or "my estimate" instead of making one up.

Keeping it? The brief tells you what it'd cost new. Flipping it? It does the math: what it sold for, minus fees and shipping, minus the drive. Either way you know before you leave the driveway.

A brief on your phone. You send the message.

When a find is real, you get a short brief: why it made the cut, what to check at the door, and a first message already drafted in your voice.

You read it, tap send yourself, and go. It never messages sellers. That's on purpose.

Illustrated example, patterned on a real first-night brief.

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No subscription. You get one PDF. Attach it to a chat with your Muse, paste one sentence, and your Muse sets itself up by asking easy questions. If you're unsure, say "you pick."

It runs on your own Muse and your own Facebook account. You never type a password into a chat.