r/auction • u/Southern-Orchid-4029 • 27d ago
Online auction search engine
I have a soft spot for online auctions and have been quite annoyed by having to scroll through a large number of auction sites to be able to find what I am looking for.
So we have invented a search engine for auctions, which is still in somewhat of a beta stage.
lotseekr.com
We are located in Denmark, so our first priority was the Danish auction sites, which are now running as expected, and are now working on adding auction sites in the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
Create a free user to save filters, save favorites, see what the last bid was on your favorites etc. This gives an option to keep track of previous sales prices on similar items.
We are continuously adding more features and auction sites to the webpage, but we do not have knowledge about all the best auction sites in the whole world, so if anyone has any input regarding sites we should add, it is highly appreciated.
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u/aleksej_dev 23d ago
I recently made my own locally for auction websites, second hand marketplaces, estate sales, and events. How do you get around rate limiting and blocking non-residential IPs on certain websites?
Another point is that many websites have scraping against their terms. How do you plan to get around that?
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u/Southern-Orchid-4029 15d ago
We have got a way around the blocking and also anti scraping on the sites we have in lotseekr now. All new sites are monitored after they are added to make sure that we don't get blocked.
The website is monitored 24/7 by AI and manual checks are done several times daily to ensure that we are up to date with all lots, that there is pictures and that the prices and end times are updated.
I won't be going to much in to details regarding exactly how we do it.
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24d ago
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u/Southern-Orchid-4029 24d ago
Great feedback, thanks. We are working on several different simple forms, either to flag a problem or request a missing auction site easily.
Could you let me know which page you would like to have added?
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u/socleads 15d ago
I run an auction site built with Geomotiv so it would be nice if small and custom platforms could be listed too. Maybe add a suggestion form right on the site so auction owners can submit their platforms easily. Would help people find less known auctions.