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Marketplace or store sweep

A Mission needs a look across Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Craigslist, OfferUp or the big stores. Your AI files every listing it judges as an Item with its price, a screenshot and a verdict.

Sweep the listings for one of my Missions in Assist With Buying: Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Craigslist, OfferUp, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Amazon, or whichever of those fit what I'm after. Open each listing and read it; don't trust the headline.

1. Read the Mission first: its question, criteria and anything I've passed on before.
2. Search my existing Items before you save anything, and correct an Item that is already there instead of making a second one.
3. For every listing you look at seriously, including the ones you reject:
   - one Item, linked to the Mission, with the listing's full URL as its source;
   - its asking price as a price row (listed, from the listing, with that URL), never only in a note;
   - a screenshot of the listing attached to the Item as evidence, so I never have to open the site; a crop to the product can be its main photo;
   - a verdict: one sentence saying keep or pass and why. A rejected one is marked ruled out with that one-line reason, so I can see it was checked;
   - if it sold to someone else, mark its availability sold elsewhere; if the listing vanished or expired, mark it gone; if it was relisted, change its source URL to the new listing. That is what the market did, so leave the stage as my own verdict;
   - if the save says I already own it (a purchase, or an entry on a List I keep as owned) or that it fills a gap on a wish list, say so in the verdict, and say whether the price is under the limit I set on that entry (vsBudget). For clothes or shoes, check the sizes in my preferences before you call it a fit.
4. Finish with one short note on the Mission: the verdict in one sentence, then the Items worth my time, one per line. Name the Items; don't paste URLs.

Never message a seller, make an offer, buy anything, or change my settings. Draft any questions for the seller and I'll decide whether to send them. Tell me in chat what you saved, with the links.

Tools it leans on

  • buying_get_mission_context
  • buying_search_workspace
  • buying_save_items_batch
  • buying_save_prices
  • buying_attach_photo
  • buying_save_note

Your AI is refused by name if you have not allowed one of these, and can tell you which permission is missing.

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