BayWatch FAQs
- Instructions
- About BayWatch
- I don't receive alerts
- Search results are not relevant
- Is my eBay login secure
- Privacy
- How to delete an eBay™ Watch
- How to view items
- Advanced Search Operators
- Open items in eBay App with Shop Now
- No new items appearing on older version of BayWatch
- Message telling you to update BayWatch
Create a new eBay™ Watch:-
1) Tap ‘Create eBay Watch’
2) Enter Search Criteria. (You can search for individual words, or include phrases within quotes such as “Apple Watch”™ to find exact matches. See Advanced Search Operators in Help for more information.)
3) Optionally enter any negative keywords in Search Exclusions. These will any items that contain these words.
4) Choose Buying Format, All, Auction or Buy It Now.
5) Optionally set a distance. Tap any distance, and enter your location, or tap the + to complete your location automatically. Select the distance to search. Tap done. (By default BayWatch will search any distance.)
6) Tap Watch.
BayWatch will now monitor your selected watches and will alert you as new items are found.
Please do not ‘Force Close’ BayWatch, as doing so will stop it alerting you to new items.
View Items:-
1) The main screen will display any eBay™ Watches. Each watch will also show any new items.
2) Tap the title of the eBay™ watch to view all items.
3) Each item shown will display the title, image, buying format, time remaining, and listing time.
4) Tap any item to view full details.
5) Tap Shop Now to visit eBay.
6) From here you can simply login to eBay™ to purchase your selected item.
BayWatch does not use or require your eBay™ username or password. Your username and password are entered directly into eBay™ as usual.
Delete eBay™ Watch:-
1) Swipe left on the eBay™ Watch to delete.
2) Tap Delete.
Settings:-
1) The country should be automatically populated. You can change the selected eBay™ store by tapping on the Country, and selecting your chosen country from the list.
2) BayWatch will notify you as new items are found. By default this will play a sound. You can optionally set this to silent here.
Whilst eBay™ can provide daily notifications, the item you really wanted could have been bought long before. BayWatch aims to find new items and alert you quickly, giving you the best chance of getting what you want.
Please do not ‘Force Close’ BayWatch, as doing so will stop it alerting you to new items.
In these instances, it is usually the case that somewhere in the content, the seller will have included totally irrelevant keywords, quite often in a hidden section (often a tab on the web page). When this happens, if you have selected to search the Description as well as the Title, you may get see what appear to be irrelevant results.
BayWatch is actually returning results that match, and whilst not ideal, it is not possible for BayWatch to alleviate this.
I suggest that if you see such keyword stuffing, that you look to try and include excluded keywords that may limit the spam results that are listed, or deselect the Description search option.
BayWatch does not request or use your eBay id.
Any purchases you make via links within this app are made directly with eBay via the eBay website or, if installed and active, the eBay mobile app.
When you click on links within this app and make a purchase, this can result in this app earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to the eBay Partner Network. These do not impact upon the price you pay.
2) Tap Delete.
1) The main screen will display any eBay™ Watches. Each watch will also show any new items.
2) Tap the title of the eBay™ watch to view all items.
3) Each item shown will display the title, image, buying format, time remaining, and listing time.
4) Tap any item to view full details.
5) Tap Shop Now to visit eBay.
6) From here you can simply login to eBay™ to purchase your selected item.
BayWatch does not use or require your eBay™ username or password. Your username and password are entered directly into eBay™ as usual.
Queries aren’t case-sensitive, so it doesn’t matter whether you use uppercase or lowercase letters.
The value specified in the keywords field can contain one or more keywords. The words “and” and “or” are treated like any other word. Only use “and,” “or,” or “the” if you are searching for listings containing these words. You can use AND or OR logic by including certain modifiers.
* Search Criteria:-
Space between words: Applies AND logic to multiple keywords. eg. baseball card.
Comma (,) between words, with no parentheses or spaces: Requires an exact sequence of words. eg. baseball,card.
Comma between words in parentheses ((,)) with no spaces: Applies OR logic to multiple keywords. eg. (baseball,card).
Quoted (” “) words: Requires an exact sequence of words. eg. “baseball card”.
At sign (“@”): Search must find two of three words from a list. eg. @1 baseball autograph card. Note that for a “3 out of 4” search, use @2 and a list of four words.
* Search Exclusions Criteria:-
Each individual word will exclude listsings with that word.
Space between words: Applies OR logic to multiple keywords.
Note regarding searches.
eBay has some limits within their API’s:
Maximum length of both keywords & excludes together: 350.
The maximum length for a single word: 98. (Min length: 2.)
If you find it opens the Safari Browser instead, please follow the instructions below to enable this functionality.
1) Delete and re-install the eBay app.
2) Open the eBay app and log in.
3) Try the Shop Now button in BayWatch again.
4) If needed, you can use the link above again to force the app to open.
If the above does not work, please do the following.
1) Open the eBay app and log in.
2) Open this webpage directly in Safari https://www.progressconcepts.com/help/baywatch/ and then carry on from point 3 below in Safari.
3) Tap and hold the following link and select ‘Open in “eBay”‘ http://rover.ebay.com/rover/. This should open the link in the eBay app.
4) Try Shop Now in BayWatch again.
The issues with links are system wide, and not BayWatch or eBay related. However, the above should resolve the issues.
If you receive a message telling you to update to the latest version, you must update now.
Please update to the latest version of BayWatch to continue receiving new item data.
Please update to the latest version of BayWatch to continue receiving new item data.
If you need further help, please contact us via the contact option within the app. This will include data which helps us when answering your question. Thanks.