BrickHawk

Can you help improve offer alerts? (Patreon)

Published:

2020-04-11 12:30:08

Imported:

2026-06

Poll

Can you help improve offer alerts?

Whenever a retailer's offer changes, even if the offer is removed (i.e. - don't change it!) 1
Only when a new offer is detected, or an existing offer is changed (i.e. ignore '[EMPTY]' offers) 7
Allow me to choose, for each hawk, between 'only new or changed offers' or 'new, changed and empty offers' 1
I'd also like to be able to disable '[EMPTY'] offers by retailer - e.g. I'd like to ignore empty offers from eBay, for all hawks I have set 2
Something else (please leave a comment in Patreon or email info@brickhawk.com with your idea!) 1

Content

Over the last week or so since eBay offers were added to BrickHawk, several Patrons have reached out about the 'flappy' nature of the offer alerts they are receiving. eBay removes and adds their offers throughout the offer period, meaning many of you will be seeing the offer come, go and come again - often one or more times a day. It's not ideal!

To fix this, the easiest option is to simply stop BrickHawk sending an alert when an offer is removed (e.g no more hawk alerts that say "Offer: [EMPTY]"). This will at least halve the emails coming in from BrickHawk for the current eBay 15% off coupon!

But there other options as well. It could be custom per hawk or per retailer - e.g. don't tell me when eBay removes an offer, but do tell me when MightyApe remove an offer. Or a mix of both!

So rather than one person just deciding, your input is being sought. Hopefully you have a moment to choose one or more options in this poll, and the results will be used to design the solution!

Thanks for your help :)

Cheers
BH.