# Find good deals faster: how resellers search Kleinanzeigen

If you buy second-hand to sell on, you make your money when you buy. A bike listed at 180 euros that is worth 350, a crate of tools from a house clearance: such listings appear every day on Kleinanzeigen, Marktplaats or willhaben, and rarely last long. This guide shows how resellers who don't read German or Dutch fluently set up their searches to find good deals faster and get them.

## Know what you are looking for

The most important step happens before the first search. Successful resellers keep a short list of things they know well. For each product group, write down:

- **What you are looking for**, as specifically as possible: "Brompton 6-speed" rather than "folding bike".
- **Your maximum purchase price**, after subtracting your time, the drive, refurbishment and selling fees.
- **How you recognise a good piece**, and how you recognise a bad one.

This list is the basis for your searches.

## How do people word listings on Kleinanzeigen?

Most private sellers in Germany write short German titles with the brand and one feature, and mark the price with "VB" (Verhandlungsbasis), meaning negotiable. Kleinanzeigen is by far the largest classifieds site in Germany; the equivalents are willhaben in Austria, Marktplaats in the Netherlands and 2dehands or 2ememain in Belgium.

Marketplaces search titles and descriptions, so your keywords must match the seller's language:

- **Search in the local language.** "Fahrrad" rather than "bicycle", "Werkzeug" rather than "tools", "fiets" on Marktplaats.
- **Several spellings.** Sellers write "Eames Chair", "Eames Stuhl" or just "Vitra Stuhl". Set up a search for each important variant.
- **Think of typos.** Hardly anyone sees a misspelt listing, which is where the best prices hide: "Bromton", "Makitta", "Lowe" instead of "Loewe".
- **Not too many words.** Every extra term drops good listings that lack it.

A translation tool is fine for reading descriptions; for condition, defects and accessories, ask the seller.

## Filters instead of volume

Category, price limit and radius are the strongest filters. "Werkzeug" without a category returns hundreds of listings a day; "Makita" in the tools category, up to 150 euros, within 50 kilometres, is manageable.

- **Price limit:** set it slightly above your maximum. Many sellers come down a little.
- **Radius:** as large as you would really drive to collect.
- **Excluded terms:** "defekt" (faulty), "Bastler" (for tinkerers), "Tausch" (swap) and "suche" (wanted), unless faulty goods are your business.

## Watch more than one marketplace

Many listings appear on only one marketplace. Besides Kleinanzeigen, eBay, markt.de and quoka are worth watching in Germany; across the border willhaben, Marktplaats and 2dehands. All of them are listed by country on the [marketplaces](https://suchagent.blitzfa.st/en/marketplaces) page.

Organise your searches by what you are looking for, not by marketplace. If all your folding-bike searches sit in one folder, you see at once where a good offer has just appeared. More in the guide [Watch several marketplaces at once](https://suchagent.blitzfa.st/en/guides/watch-several-marketplaces-at-once).

## Response time is everything

For sought-after listings, the first serious message usually decides; whoever writes three hours later gets "schon weg" (already gone). Two things make you faster.

**See it early.** If you check by hand, a listing posted at 10:05 reaches you at lunchtime at best. With automatic watching you see it minutes after it goes online.

**Answer quickly and well.** A prepared message saves minutes. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, collecting in person and paying cash on pickup is the norm for private sales; offering exactly that puts you ahead of buyers who ask about shipping.

> A template that works, in German: "Hallo, ich interessiere mich für Ihr [Artikel]. Ist er noch zu haben? Ich könnte ihn heute oder morgen abholen und bar bezahlen. Viele Grüße." In the Netherlands and Flanders, the same message in English is usually fine.

Negotiate later, once you have seen the item. Pushing the price in the first message puts you behind the next buyer.

### Choose the right interval

Not every search needs the same attention. In-demand goods such as bikes, tools, games consoles and design furniture, are best checked every minute or every few minutes. Rare items, where hours matter, are fine every 15 or 30 minutes.

Hardly anyone sells at night, and you only reply in the morning. "Don't check at night" saves credits: whatever appears overnight is waiting when you get up.

## Working with Suchagent

BlitzFast Suchagent takes over the watching. You set up your search on the marketplace as usual, copy the address from your browser bar and paste it into Suchagent. Then you choose how often it checks, from every minute to once a day, and every new listing reaches you via Telegram or e-mail, with photo, price and location.

What works for resellers:

- **One agent per spelling or model**, collected in a folder per product group.
- **A short interval** for in-demand goods, a longer one for rare pieces.
- **Excluded terms** against "defekt", "Tausch" and the like.
- **"Don't check at night"** for everything you wouldn't act on anyway.

This way you see good deals while they are still available, and keep your hands free for what earns you money: buying, refurbishing, selling.

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