Car alert: automatic notifications for new car listings
A car alert is an automatic notification you receive as soon as a new car listing goes online that matches your criteria.
You set up what you are looking for once, such as brand, price, year and mileage. After that every matching new listing comes to you automatically and you react before the crowd.
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Why speed is everything
Good private cars are available for hours, not days. A sharply priced BMW 3 Series or Volkswagen Golf is often sold within a few hours. React a day later and you are calling about a car that is already gone.
Manual refreshing always loses to automation. You cannot watch page 1 all day and most new listings appear in the evening, exactly when you are doing something else. Also read how fast used cars sell and manual searching vs car alerts.
4 ways to automate your car search
| Method | Cost | Speed | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saved search with email (on the platform itself) | Free | Often delayed, notifications arrive in batches | Works per platform, no overview across multiple sites |
| Refreshing manually with discipline | Free | As fast as you look | Exhausting and you miss evenings, nights and working hours |
| Generic page watchers (Distill-type) | Free to a few euros | Checks on an interval, often minutes to hours | Technical to set up and no car fields such as brand or price |
| Realtime alert services such as Autoflip | From 79 euro per month | Scan about every 20 seconds, alert within seconds of detection | Paid subscription and works through Telegram |
Honest comparison: the free options exist and work, but they are slow or limited to one platform. Autoflip is the paid option for anyone who needs speed and multiple platforms at once.
How Autoflip works
Create your account
Start with 14 days free. No credit card needed.
Pick your sources
2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 BE, AutoScout24 NL and Mobile.de.
Set your filters
Brand, price, year, mileage, fuel and seller type. Up to 5 searches per source.
Connect Telegram
Link @AutoFlip1_Bot to your account in one tap.
Receive your alerts
Every source is scanned about every 20 seconds. A match lands in your chat within seconds of detection, with photo, price and location.
Who uses car alerts
Car flippers
Flipping cars is a speed game. Being the first caller on a sharply priced private car makes the difference between profit and a missed deal.
Focused buyers
You know exactly which model you want. An alert does the waiting and you only respond to listings that really fit.
Importers
With All-in you also follow Mobile.de in Germany and see German listings next to the supply from Belgium and the Netherlands.
Parents helping the search
Set an alert for your son's or daughter's first car and forward fitting listings straight into the family chat.
Frequently asked questions about car alerts
What is a car alert?+
A car alert is an automatic notification you receive as soon as a new car listing goes online that matches your criteria. You set filters once for brand, price, year and mileage. After that every fitting new listing comes to you automatically, for example by email or Telegram.
How do I get notified about new car listings?+
There are four ways: a saved search with email on the platform itself, refreshing manually, a generic page watcher or a realtime alert service. If you want to follow 2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 and Mobile.de at the same time, Autoflip scans every source about every 20 seconds and sends a Telegram notification within seconds of detection.
Are car alerts free?+
Partly. Saved searches with email on the platforms themselves are free, but they work per platform and often arrive delayed or in batches. Realtime services such as Autoflip are paid: 79 euro per month for Belgium or the Netherlands and 129 euro per month for All-in. You try Autoflip free for 14 days first, without a credit card.
Which platforms can I follow?+
With Autoflip you follow five sources at once: 2dehands.be, Marktplaats.nl, AutoScout24 Belgium, AutoScout24 Netherlands and Mobile.de in Germany. Your package decides which sources are included: Belgium, the Netherlands or All-in with all five.
How soon after posting do I get the alert?+
Autoflip scans every source about every 20 seconds. As soon as a new listing matching your filters is detected, the Telegram notification lands in your chat within seconds. The total time also depends on how quickly the platform itself shows the listing, but from detection it is a matter of seconds.
Put your car search on autopilot.
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