Facebook Marketplace · private sellers · your radius
DockSnipe watches Marketplace in whatever radius you set and pings @DockSnipeBot when a boat worth chasing lands, with the engine, trailer and title already read out of the seller's own words.
$9.99/mo after the trial. Cancel any time.
Why Marketplace
Boat Trader charges sellers to post. The guy who needs his pontoon gone before the next storage bill lists it on Facebook for free, at 6am, and it is pending by lunch. That timescale is the whole problem: you are deciding whether to spend a Saturday on a boat you have seen six photos of, which is why it pays to know how to inspect a used boat before you drive out to see it.
How it works
Segment, length, budget, how far you will drive.
Every 3 minutes on Pro, in your browser, on your own Facebook login.
Facts and flags in the message, so you know before you drive.
DockSnipe runs on the shared Snipe browser extension. It sweeps Facebook Marketplace every 3 minutes on Pro and every 15 minutes on Basic, using the Facebook session already open in your browser, and sends each match to @DockSnipeBot on Telegram. Across the Snipe family, CarSnipe and DockSnipe together, the engine has delivered 23,200+ alerts to 520+ paired accounts. Every boat alert carries the engine, trailer and title facts read out of the seller's own listing text, plus the flags that kill a deal, so you can judge a boat before you drive to it.
The alert
Red flags appear on every boat, including the ones we scored well. A tool that only tells you good news is a tool you stop trusting in week two.
Yamaha F150 four-stroke, about 480 hours
Trailer included, both titles in hand
MerCruiser 4.3L, hours unstated
No trailer, boat title only
Engine first
Holds value and starts on the button. A repower newer than the hull is worth more than the year in the title suggests, so we read the two separately.
From there we price the hull, not the ad. Putting an engine back on it runs $15,000 to $30,000, which is usually more than the boat.
Worth $1,500 to $5,000 by itself, and without one you are borrowing a truck and a friend.
"bill of sale only"In most states the boat and the trailer carry their own titles, so you should know which one is missing before you drive out.
"storage fees are killing me"Moves a boat up your list, and it gets loudest at the end of the season when the storage bills land.
Where it lands
Cars stay in @CarSnipeBot. Boats land in @DockSnipeBot, so one feed never buries the other. Pair once with a deep link and the extension handles the rest.
/startOne tap from your dashboard pairs the bot/mute 2hSilence a hunt while you are on the water/scheduleQuiet hours, so nothing buzzes at 3am
Boats we watch
Before you buy
The same reading DockSnipe does on every listing, written out longhand. Free, and worth the ten minutes before you drive anywhere.
Pricing
| Basic | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Per month | $9.99 | $24.99 |
| Per year | $249, saves $50 | |
| Checks Marketplace | Every 15 minutes | Every 3 minutes |
| Saved hunts | 2 | Unlimited |
| Every flag, red and green | Yes | Yes |
| Price-drop alerts | No | Yes |
| Days-on-market context | No | Yes |
| Support | Standard | Priority |
| Free trial | 7 days of full Pro access | 7 days of full Pro access |
Basic and Pro read the same listings and flag the same things. The difference is how fast you hear about them, and how many hunts you can keep running at once. Basic checks every 15 minutes and holds two saved hunts, at $9.99 a month. Pro checks every 3 minutes, holds as many hunts as you want, and adds price-drop alerts and days-on-market context, at $24.99 a month or $249 for the year. Both start with seven days of full Pro access, and we do not charge the card until the trial ends.
Questions
No. It runs as a browser extension on the session you are already logged into, and reads only what is public on the listing.
No, and be suspicious of anything that claims to. You get a soft read plus every fact and flag we pulled.
Anywhere Facebook Marketplace runs. You set the metro and the radius, and you can save separate hunts for different areas.
No. @DockSnipeBot is its own chat with its own mute and quiet hours. @CarSnipeBot stays exactly as it is.
Guides
The same reading DockSnipe does automatically, written out longhand.
A listing boat leans to one side at rest. What causes it, how to tell water in the hull from gear stacked on one side, what the waterline gives away in a photo, and when a list is a discount rather than a walk-away.
Does your state title boats at all, which boats need one, and what a bill of sale alone can do. All fifty states and DC, each row read off that state's own agency and linked so you can check it.
The money has changed hands and there are forty miles between you and your driveway. Weights, hitch match, chains, lights, how the load sits and the stop twenty minutes out.
The alert and account counters are live counts read from the shared Snipe API at api.carsnipe.com/api/public/stats and cached for five minutes, not a fixed claim, so the figure on this page moves. Both are cumulative across the Snipe family rather than DockSnipe alone, which is what the labels say: alerts delivered by the service, and accounts that have ever paired with any Snipe bot. The tier prices, the 3 and 15 minute sweep intervals and everything in the comparison table are the current published terms of the product. Last updated is the date this page itself last changed.
You may republish these figures with attribution and a link to https://docksnipe.com/.
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