[ Case Study ]

eBay Market Signals

Scalable insights for eBay arbitrage advantage.

Aug 1, 2025

Yuriy Onyshchuk

Approx. read time: 2 minutes

[ Overview ]

eBay isn’t just an e-commerce site, it’s a dynamic global marketplace where pricing, competition, and demand shift by the minute. Sellers relying on instinct fall behind. We built Indications, a full-scale intelligence system that tracks live trends, detects emerging competition, and reveals untapped opportunities, helping brands, power sellers, and investors act with data-driven precision.

[ Client ]

Internal Product - Algorithmic

[ Sector ]

E-commerce Intelligence, Marketplace Analytics, Competitive Strategy

[ Platforms ]

Web App, API Access

[ Budget ]

Confidential

[ Timeline ]

Ongoing

[ Launch ]

June 2025

The Challenge

Millions of listings. Constant price changes. No clear advantage.

For eBay sellers, staying competitive is tough. The platform evolves constantly - search rankings shift hourly, competitors tweak prices mid-day, and product listings vary wildly in format and quality. APIs offer limited access. eBay’s anti-bot systems block most external scrapers.

For power sellers and brands, the result was the same: opportunity blindness. They couldn’t track trends, monitor competitors, or optimise pricing - at least, not in real time.

Sellers needed a way to:

  • Track live search ranks, pricing, and stock

  • Understand competitor portfolios and sales velocity

  • Avoid being blocked or detected

  • Turn raw listing data into insights

That’s where Indications comes in.

Below is our brief value proposition video

Our Approach

We built Indications, a stealth-grade, high-scale eBay intelligence platform.

It does three things exceptionally well:

  1. Extracts market data at scale - listings, ranks, prices, stock, and sales

  2. Structures and cleans it - using AI to normalise messy attributes

  3. Delivers insights in real time - through dashboards, alerts, and reports

The platform was designed to stay invisible to detection systems, scale with demand, and offer sellers a crystal-clear view of their market - instantly.

What We Delivered

Stealth Scraping Infrastructure

  • Tiered scraping across search, product, and storefront views

  • Real-time tracking of ranks, pricing, and inventory

  • Automated crawling with session-aware IP rotation

  • Proxy blending, fingerprint spoofing, and anti-captcha

Smart Parsing & Normalisation

  • Attribute alignment across inconsistent listings

  • Detection of fast-moving SKUs and price changes

  • Cross-seller product mapping for apples-to-apples comparison

Seller Enablement Tools

  • Alerts for pricing shifts, rank drops, and competitor activity

  • SKU performance scoring and margin insights

  • Category trend detection and early-mover signals

  • Portfolio optimisation recommendations

User Experience That Works

  • Responsive, mobile-friendly dashboards

  • Clean UI designed in Figma

  • Embedded API access for advanced users

  • Seamless frontend in Webflow and React

Growth Strategy

We didn’t just build a tool - we scaled an ecosystem. To help Indications reach power sellers, we launched a multi-channel go-to-market strategy:

  • SEO content targeting seller search intent

  • Email campaigns powered by real eBay data

  • Ad retargeting tied to live demos

  • YouTube partnerships with eBay sellers and consultants

Tech Stack Overview

  • Backend: Python, Scrapy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Airflow

  • Anti-bot stack: ISP/residential proxies, spoofing, ML-based captcha solving

  • Frontend: React, Webflow, Figma

  • Growth: Google Ads, HubSpot, Email automation

The Impact

From Guesswork to Command.

Sellers using Indications report:

  • Double-digit ROI via smarter pricing and SKU strategy

  • Faster time-to-insight - from weeks to seconds

  • 90-day trend reports by product and seller

  • Real-time decision making - no more guesswork or lag

Indications helped eBay sellers do what they couldn't before:

  1. See the market clearly.

  2. React to it instantly.

  3. Win more often.

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