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HotStock - in-stock alerts
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4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"auto"
8 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be better ($10 sub). I used to subscribe and was able to get about 3 items over the course of a month. Leaving the app open almost 18 hours a day for auto buy. So already not great but worked kind of. Now I’ve had the subscription for a couple days and have may…" - Thehonestgameguy
2
"doesn"
7 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "IDK. Good app kinda leans you it I buying the premium service of getting faster restocks, IDK if it’s just my end of things but I can’t even search for stuff anymore without the add for switching to premium pops up and when I close the add it do…" - Lobotomized Pez
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"money"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible!. This app is useless. Don’t waste your money." - Hay_Hát
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"notifications"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be better ($10 sub). I used to subscribe and was able to get about 3 items over the course of a month. Leaving the app open almost 18 hours a day for auto buy. So already not great but worked kind of. Now I’ve had the subscription for a couple days and have may…" - Thehonestgameguy
5
"work"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wasted Money - No Response from Support. I’m very disappointed with my subscription to HotStock. If the item is already in their system, it works well-but getting a new item added is extremely difficult. I’ve sent multiple emails with links and never received a response. You also …" - Thl23
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wasted Money - No Response from Support. I’m very disappointed with my subscription to HotStock. If the item is already in their system, it works well-but getting a new item added is extremely difficult. I’ve sent multiple emails with links and never received a response. You also …" - Thl23
7
"item"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wasted Money - No Response from Support. I’m very disappointed with my subscription to HotStock. If the item is already in their system, it works well-but getting a new item added is extremely difficult. I’ve sent multiple emails with links and never received a response. You also …" - Thl23
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"times"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Used to be better ($10 sub). I used to subscribe and was able to get about 3 items over the course of a month. Leaving the app open almost 18 hours a day for auto buy. So already not great but worked kind of. Now I’ve had the subscription for a couple days and have may…" - Thehonestgameguy
9
"once"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Auto buy Doesn’t work. Paid for auto buy item came back in stock several times hasn’t worked once while I leave my iPad on 24/7 with everything set up" - Quekel-
10
"doesn work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
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"getting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "IDK. Good app kinda leans you it I buying the premium service of getting faster restocks, IDK if it’s just my end of things but I can’t even search for stuff anymore without the add for switching to premium pops up and when I close the add it do…" - Lobotomized Pez
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"without"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "IDK. Good app kinda leans you it I buying the premium service of getting faster restocks, IDK if it’s just my end of things but I can’t even search for stuff anymore without the add for switching to premium pops up and when I close the add it do…" - Lobotomized Pez
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Terrible!
This app is useless. Don’t waste your money.
Wasted Money - No Response from Support
I’m very disappointed with my subscription to HotStock. If the item is already in their system, it works well-but getting a new item added is extremely difficult. I’ve sent multiple emails with links and never received a response. You also can’t check whether an item is available to track before subscribing, so you end up paying without knowing if the app will even help. I wasted money trying to track an item that was never added. Would not recommend subscribing.
Auto buy Doesn’t work
Paid for auto buy item came back in stock several times hasn’t worked once while I leave my iPad on 24/7 with everything set up
Terrible app
Absolutely terrible app you have to pay for a subscription to get any notifications or anything. A lot of other apps do it for free and a lot better
Great App!!
Got my camera I wanted!!! I got notifications so fast! I did miss out on the item a few times but nevertheless, happy with this app
Doesn’t work
Didn’t fire an alert once for the entire month I had a premium membership despite a discord I was using to track the same product sending notifications 3-4 times a week. Found the drop I wanted through the discord and Distill running on my desktop 24/7 instead; don’t waste your time with this app.
Unbelievable how useless free version is
The fact that you can only add one, just one customer alert before prompt you for pay to play version. Not only auto pay, which I would get no you can’t even add more than one product without purchasing it. Completely useless don’t do it unless you want to pay for it.
Close to useless
Set up alert for Aquara FP300 - I have 2 on the way from Amazon after noticing that someone online noted that Amazon.uk had them in stock about a week ago. After checking the Aquara/Amazon daily fount them in stock at US site - with no notification from this app.
Wow.
It had been working okay for a while but then suddenly wouldn’t let me put my 1 free custom item anymore so that sucked. 1 ⭐️.
Won’t stop charging me 10.99 every month even though cancelled long ago
I’ve tried and tried via Apple…and I just get a refund for that reporting month.
Don’t bother if you’re looking for 5090
If you’re looking for a 5090 don’t waste your time, this app works for products that sell out quickly not instantly. It doesn’t stop repeat purchases, if someone hits they will try again next drop and the app will let them, that’s how they make their money by letting scalpers and flippers to keep trying so they keep paying the subscription. Once mine runs out never touching this app again. - someone on it religiously for 3 weeks app open nonstop, clicking right away just for the app to not do anything.
Auto buy doesn’t work
Wasted my money on the auto buy feature. It would placed the order but get cancelled.
$10 for auto buy
I don’t mind to pay that, if it worked. All I get is error connecting.
Scam
Spent 10 dollars for the membership to try and “auto buy” something. It’s false advertising nothing is auto about it. If your phones screen is locked nothing will be ordered.
Terrible app!! It does not work!!
Save your $11 dollar monthly fee since I was only able to connect one of my store accounts for auto buy and the other stores such as Amazon, Target and Walmart would not connect. Total scam!! Requested a refund from Apple but I’m sure they will side with the developer as I usual and screw their loyal users! Namely, me!!
IDK
Good app kinda leans you it I buying the premium service of getting faster restocks, IDK if it’s just my end of things but I can’t even search for stuff anymore without the add for switching to premium pops up and when I close the add it doesn’t keep my search. Was goated app before then
Used to be better ($10 sub)
I used to subscribe and was able to get about 3 items over the course of a month. Leaving the app open almost 18 hours a day for auto buy. So already not great but worked kind of. Now I’ve had the subscription for a couple days and have maybe gotten 2 notifications of items restocking. I think either the bot is slower than all of the scalper bots or it just doesn’t try.
I understand that pokemon is a crazy popular product but I have 37 items being watched and none of them are pinging (even though they’re being released multiple times a day).
The app constantly turns itself off when trying to implement new info. It is also very good at notifying you it isn’t open though. Extremely annoying especially when it closed itself. Also running into a problem where it has me log in over and over but won’t stay logged into my Walmart account.
I understand that pokemon is a crazy popular product but I have 37 items being watched and none of them are pinging (even though they’re being released multiple times a day).
The app constantly turns itself off when trying to implement new info. It is also very good at notifying you it isn’t open though. Extremely annoying especially when it closed itself. Also running into a problem where it has me log in over and over but won’t stay logged into my Walmart account.
This App Cannot Compete with Bots
2 stars for notification feature actually working. Otherwise it would be 1 star, for incapability of doing the feature it claims to be able to do.
After using this app for going on 2 weeks now, and even using a dedicated device to run the app in the foreground most of the day, I can say with confidence it doesn’t seem to work very well with Target.
I cannot speak for the use for other sites/stores, but it simply cannot keep up with bots buying out stock. Every few attempts, the app suddenly requires me to re-login during the auto-but checkout process…. Literally having to enter login information DURING checkout slows down the potential to compete with bots buying items. It also seems to stop somewhere toward the end of the checkout process and has a hard time completing the transaction.
The only use seems to be getting notifications that items are in stock. I am more often more successful with beating a bot myself, by acting once I see a restock notification, than relying on the auto features of the app. Otherwise, the auto-buy feature is not worth spending money on.
After using this app for going on 2 weeks now, and even using a dedicated device to run the app in the foreground most of the day, I can say with confidence it doesn’t seem to work very well with Target.
I cannot speak for the use for other sites/stores, but it simply cannot keep up with bots buying out stock. Every few attempts, the app suddenly requires me to re-login during the auto-but checkout process…. Literally having to enter login information DURING checkout slows down the potential to compete with bots buying items. It also seems to stop somewhere toward the end of the checkout process and has a hard time completing the transaction.
The only use seems to be getting notifications that items are in stock. I am more often more successful with beating a bot myself, by acting once I see a restock notification, than relying on the auto features of the app. Otherwise, the auto-buy feature is not worth spending money on.
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)