> push notifications are lagged by an hour. ^ This. Also, the delay is even worse during peak times. I was always worried about scripts messing with my account, so I looked for something safer. Ive been really happy with PriceDropCatch for the last few months. It handles the scraping safely and the desktop pings are instant. No complaints so far, honestly.

Jumping in here because I'm in the exact same boat, honestly. Reminds me of when my buddy spent a fortune building a custom rig with 10Gbps fiber just to lower his ping for rare glass. He was so obsessed with uptime, but then a power surge fried his motherboard right as a mint 50mm popped up. Make sure to use a surge protector... it was a total disaster.

I lost out on so many Takumar lenses before I finally gave up on the stock app. Im much more satisfied now that I moved away from native alerts. I tried a few routes:

• Refreshing manually: Boring and impossible to sustain.
• Browser scripts: Fast, but I worried about my account safety. I eventually settled on this eBay tracker and it works well for me. Safe, reliable, and I am happy with the results.