Find the deals
before everyone else
Gear Scout scans marketplaces like eBay and Reverb to uncover newly listed and underpriced music gear — so you can spot the opportunity before the crowd.
A second market, moving faster
InTuneDeals has always watched the retailers — the price drops that happen when a store decides to mark something down. Gear Scout watches the other half of the market: the one where the price is set by whoever happens to be selling, at whatever they happen to think it is worth that afternoon.
That market is far less efficient, and that is the whole point. A retailer never accidentally prices a vintage tube amp at a third of what it is worth. A seller clearing out a garage does it every day of the week. The catch is that those listings are found within the hour, and usually not by you.
Gear Scout is the scanner that closes that gap. It reads new marketplace listings as they post, checks each one against what that gear has recently sold for, and surfaces the ones priced well under their own market — while they are still available.
How it works
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The problem
A new listing is buyable the moment a seller posts it — but marketplace search cannot find it yet. On eBay that gap runs two to three minutes, and on Reverb it can be longer. Refreshing the newly-listed page does not help: it is fed by the same delayed index.
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What we do
We read both marketplaces at the source, as listings are created, instead of waiting for search to catch up. Most gear lands here within a couple of minutes of going live, and the quickest inside thirty seconds.
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What you get
For those first minutes the item is live, buyable, and invisible to everyone searching the marketplace. Instead of competing with every buyer on eBay, you are competing with the people on this page.
The signals
Just listed
The window between a listing going live and the market finding it is where the real prices are. That window is minutes, which is why it takes a scanner rather than a browser tab.
Under comps
Priced below what the same model has recently sold for, with the comparison shown, so you can judge the call rather than take it on faith.
Mispriced by accident
Buy-it-now set at a fraction of market, a misspelt model name nobody is searching, an auction with no bids and an hour to run — the listings that are cheap because they are hard to find.
Worth reselling
The gap between the asking price and the going rate, stated in dollars, so a flip is a number you can check rather than a hunch you have to trust.
The marketplaces
eBay and Reverb first: between them they carry most of the second-hand instrument trade, and both move quickly enough that being early is worth something. More sources will follow, chosen the same way we choose retailers — a source earns its place by having listings worth catching, not by being easy to read.
As with everything else here, we are independent of every marketplace named. Gear Scout will never rank a listing higher because of who is hosting it.
Not open yet
Gear Scout is being built now and is not open to the public yet. There is nothing to sign up for beyond the alert list that already exists: join it and you will hear the day Gear Scout goes live, alongside the daily and weekly deal round-ups.
If there is gear you would want it watching first, or a marketplace you think we are wrong to leave out, tell us — jstanton812@gmail.com. It is a short list right now and early requests carry real weight.