The Pokémon deal app I wanted for myself.

This all started because I spent far too much time hunting Pokémon deals on eBay. It was draining.

I collect Pokémon, but I take it seriously. I enjoy finding raw cards priced below market that might be worth grading, spotting slabs that are underpriced, and buying sealed product for my own collection, especially when I can get it below market and hold it long-term. In short, I love finding a deal.

What I don’t like is the constant checking and the mental exhaustion it brings. While on holiday in Japan with my wife, I was still refreshing eBay. Not because Japan was boring, quite the opposite, but because I had specific sealed products and graded cards in mind, and I knew they could appear at any moment or drop in price. I didn’t want to miss them.

When I returned home, I realised the habit continued: constantly refreshing, checking, and wondering if something good had appeared. It was consuming too much time and headspace.

So I built DealWatcha.

The idea is simple. Pick any Pokémon product from over 60,000+ cards, graded cards and sealed products, across both English and Japanese & set the price you would actually pay. DealWatcha watches eBay in the background and pings you when a listing matches. Exactly the tool I needed while standing in Japan checking my phone.

If you’d rather not pick items one by one, you can subscribe to a deal channel, which watches an entire category for you, such as:

• Sealed Elite Trainer Boxes
• Raw singles under £50
• Additional categories as they are added

Either way, every find is checked against real UK sold prices before it reaches you. That was the part I cared about most: I didn’t want more listings; I wanted fewer, better ones, and I needed “under market” to mean something concrete.

You can also mark the items you already own, and your collection values itself off that same data, no spreadsheet required. This mattered to me as much as the deals did. Pokémon pricing is overwhelmingly American, and converting a dollar figure never told me what my cards were really worth here. DealWatcha works in pounds, using real UK sales whenever possible, and falls back to US data only when necessary.

That way, you spend less time refreshing eBay and more time actually enjoying the hobby.