BayWatch User Reviews

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Exceptional tool

Great tool for when your on the hunt for collectibles

Background App Refresh

I can only rate one star because the first dialog box that pops up requires me to enable background app refresh in settings but when I follow the link, iOS won’t allow me to enable. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app. The app looks feature rich but I can’t access it so it’s a non starter. If support is able to help resolve I’d be happy to revise my review.
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Very useful

I’ve saved a lot of money buying things on eBay and even more with the help of this app

It’s only missing one thing.

So, I’m updating my review from like 10 years ago. I love the app. Use it all the time.

I find myself having to make two watches per item because there isn’t a way to make the “max price” INCLUDE the shipping cost.

If the max price metric included shipping, I would drop a lot of false positive hope, and only get alerted for items that are below my “out the door” price.

Pleaaaaase consider the feature.
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Does not do anything

Confused because it’s meant to give you alerts but I do not get notified at all. Not really working?

Response from developer

Hello. Thank you for leaving your review.  BayWatch alerts as new items are found. By default this will check every 3 hours. If you set a watch up and leave the app in the background, it will do this. If you keep opening the app (or leave it open on screen), then it will check again at that point, and reset the 3 hour window, so you will not get any alerts as they wouldn't be needed. Please do get in touch though, appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review (or send via the email option in the app (which has diagnostics) and I will be happy to help.

No connection to your eBay account

Does not even have a feature to link to your actual eBay account

Needs an update

eBay just updated where baywatch no longer is able to open the item directly on eBay. Baywatch needs fixing

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. As mentioned in the news message I sent in the app, I am aware that when tapping Shop Now, if the eBay App is installed and opens, it just runs the search that is set up and doesn’t go to the item; however, if you remove the eBay app, and allow it to go straight to the eBay website, that works as expected. Please try deleting the eBay app and check that clicking through then launches the correct item on eBay via Safari. Once eBay resolve the issue with URLs opening incorrectly in their app, this should be resolved. (Sorry, this is an eBay side issue, and not one in BayWatch). Please reach out to me via the contact option in the app, or appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review and I will help further. Note that I updated BayWatch whilst eBay resolve the issue with their app.

Problem

Hello sir. There's some mistake. It shows wrong item When I click shop on eBay. Not the accurate one!

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. As mentioned in the news message I sent in the app, I am aware that when tapping Shop Now, if the eBay App is installed and opens, it just runs the search that is set up and doesn’t go to the item; however, if you remove the eBay app, and allow it to go straight to the eBay website, that works as expected. Please try deleting the eBay app and check that clicking through then launches the correct item on eBay via Safari. Once eBay resolve the issue with URLs opening incorrectly in their app, this should be resolved. (Sorry, this is an eBay side issue, and not one in BayWatch). Please reach out to me via the contact option in the app, or appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review and I will help further. Note that I updated BayWatch whilst eBay resolve the issue with their app.

Excellent customer support

I had questions about an issue I was having trouble with in using this app, customer support wrote back and explained features I was not aware of. Very good support!

Search is appalling

Don’t bother it’s RUBBISH

Response from developer

Hello Clive, I am sorry to hear that the search doesn't meet your needs.  Perhaps you might reach out to me via email at appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review, as well as what specifically your issues are, so that I could perhaps assist or look to improve.  Further, you might like to take a look at the search operators that work within the app to help refine results: https://www.progressconcepts.com/help/baywatch/#ffs-tabbed-19. I look forward to hearing from you by email.

A brilliant app, a great timesaver and easy to use

Once set up properly this app finds loads of bargains.

Response from developer

Great to hear that BayWatch helps you find bargains! Thanks for taking the time to leave your kind review.

i love baywatch

i never search on any other ebay search app or ebay itself. only baywatch

Response from developer

Thank you for using BayWatch and for taking the time to leave your kind review.

Tolle App

Tolles Hilfsmittel, macht was es soll und zwar richtig gut. Was mir fehlt ist: Abgelaufene Auktionen sehen zu können und ausgewählte Auktionen abspeichern zu können. Das wäre für Sammler sehr hilfreich um eine Preishistorie aufzubauen.

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your kind review. On expired auctions, this is something I am considering for the future. As for saving selected auctions you can 'watch' a specific auction. What are you looking for? Perhaps you could reach out to me via the contact option in the app, or appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review. Thanks!

Paid for the Rapid Discovery and it didn't work

As the title says, I decided to try the subscription that gets you results within 15 min instead of the default 3 hours. I had all the settings correct but it still completely missed a search that my eBay app emailed me about. Just a heads up that it's a cool idea if it's free but not worth paying since it's apparently not reliable.
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the best

the best and fastest way to search for products on eBay

Could use some improvements

The price range that you put in for BayWatch to track does not account for shipping prices. Is it that hard to include the sum of both into your desired range?

Great app and even better customer service.

We’ve been using this app for a few years now and has contributed to our success on eBay. The app is very easy to use and the searches and alerts are very reliable. Customer service is also a huge plus.

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your kind review!

Won’t work

Good support team. Could offer more than 3 mo subscription. But that’s just mho

It’s good

It’s great, but for some reason I get a fair number of false positives. I get a notification and an app badge, but when I open it there are no new items.
Also, why are there no longer subscription options? It’s rather pricey, and it feels like I’m constantly paying due to the longest subscription being 3 months.
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Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. In answer to your points: When you receive an alert, there has been a new item(s) found. If you open the app straight away, it is quite likely that whilst the notification has come through, the new items need to refresh on your device (this has become more prevalent in more recent versions of iOS, as the amount of time available for background processing can be less, generally as a result of frequent checks / number of searches, and also speed of internet). In this case, if you wait a few seconds, the data should refresh and any new items appear. The other scenario is items being listed being ended, either through the seller cancelling it, or it selling. This seems to happen a lot more for some searches than others, which leads me to think it is some form of automatic cancellation by eBay (perhaps spam listings?). On the subject of subscriptions, the price is in line with the previous pricing when an annual subscription was available, which I stopped due to API changes on the eBay side. I shall consider re-adding the longer subscriptions in the future, or perhaps switching to an auto-renewing subscription. Please would you reach out to me via the contact option on the Settings screen, or appsupport@progressconcepts.com and mention this review, as I would appreciate chatting to you about the options around the subscriptions ahead of my re-writing the app! Thanks, Neil.

Contact Support Button Does not Work. How to backup?

Update: I was able to contact support through their general email address. They replied speedily. I was told that although they don’t have an in app backup option all of my app data should be backed up and preserved as long as I have the app set to backup with my iOS iCloud backup. Also the contact support button only works if you have the iOS mail app setup with an email account. Because I’ve bypasses the iOS mail app entirely that is why the contact support button doesn’t work for me. Excellent support service and still enjoying the app!

I am really enjoying this app and love all of the specific search details it allows you to input. I’m paying for the premium service for 15 min searches. Totally worth it. However, I’m trying to find a way to backup my searches so I don’t end up losing them if I lose my phone or need to reinstall app. I have nearly a hundred searches and losing them would be devastating due to the amount of time and research I’ve put in them for my business. When trying to contact support within app I click the button in the settings but it does nothing. Not sure how to get in touch with support to find out if it is possible to backup searches.
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Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave your kind review, and also for reaching out to me. Glad that you find BayWatch so useful.