ŁowcaOLX is not sending notifications — what to check
The problem is usually with your inbox or filters, not the service itself — the order in which you check things matters.
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A saved search used to work and then stopped — or it never started working at all. Before assuming that something is broken, go through the list in order, starting with the most common causes.
1. Your mailbox
Start here because this is the most common reason.
Check your spam folder and Gmail tabs such as "Promotions" or "Notifications" — bulk messages regularly end up there and do not appear in your main inbox.
If you find them, add the sender's address to your contacts and mark the message as "not spam". Otherwise, the next ones will end up there too.
Also check whether your mailbox is full and whether you have a rule that automatically archives messages from classified-ad services. Rules set up a long time ago can suddenly become relevant again.
2. The email address on your account
Log in and check whether the address on your account is current and confirmed. An unconfirmed address is a common reason for receiving nothing, especially after changing your email address.
3. Notification settings
Check your account settings to make sure consent for email notifications is enabled. These settings can be disabled when privacy policies change or by accidentally clicking "unsubscribe" in the footer of an earlier message.
One click on an unsubscribe link usually disables the entire category of messages, not just that one message.
4. The saved search itself
Check your list of saved searches to see whether yours is still there and active.
Open it and see how many results it returns now. If there are none, the filters are too narrow and no notifications are arriving because there is nothing to notify you about. This most often happens when you combine a narrow price range, a small radius from the city, and a specific model.
Relax one criterion and check again.
5. The app and your phone
If you rely on phone notifications, check the app's permissions in your system settings, the battery-saving mode for that app, and whether the app is up to date. Aggressive power saving pauses background notifications and is one of the most commonly overlooked causes.
6. If none of the above helps
Delete the saved search and create it again — this resolves some cases without having to identify the cause. If that does not help either, report the issue to the service's support team.
Details about how OLX notifications work, including their scope and frequency, are described only in OLX's help centre. This page provides general troubleshooting steps and does not describe the internal rules of another service.
When notifications work but are useless
This is a separate problem, and it is more common than an outage: messages arrive, but there are so many of them that you stop opening them.
A notification about a new listing tells you that something has appeared. It does not tell you whether the price is good. In a popular category, this can mean dozens of messages a day, of which only one a week may be worth attention — and after two weeks, nobody reads them anymore.
Before trying anything else, narrow the search itself: a specific model instead of a category, a realistic price range, or one city. In many cases, this is enough and costs nothing.
A price-based alternative
Łowca approaches the problem from the other side: it monitors several services at once, combines duplicates of the same listing, and calculates the typical market price for a specific model using many current offers.
An email is sent only when a new offer is clearly below that price. A new listing with a normal price does not generate a message — which is why there are few alerts.
To be fair: if you are looking for one item in one city and have time to check once a day, free saved searches are entirely sufficient. A full comparison, including when it does not make sense to pay: OLX saved searches versus Łowca.
How much it costs
The account is free and receives 15 points every 30 days. Creating observations and scanning listings cost nothing — points are used only when an alert is sent.
The price is charged for each monitored service, so monitoring OLX alone costs 10 points per delivered alert. Packages start at 19 zł for 50 points, points do not expire, and there is no subscription — pricing.
Łowca does not belong to OLX or any other classified-ad portal and does not have access to your account settings on those services.
Frequently asked questions
Why am I not receiving notifications from my saved search?
The most common causes are messages going to spam or the "Promotions" tab, an unconfirmed email address on the account, disabled notification consent, or filters that are too narrow and return no results.
How can I check whether the problem is caused by the filters?
Open the saved search and see how many results it returns now. No results means there is nothing to notify you about — relax one criterion and check again.
Notifications are going to spam — what should I do?
Mark the message as "not spam" and add the sender's address to your contacts. Otherwise, the next ones will end up there too.
I am not receiving notifications on my phone, although email works.
Check the app's permissions in your system settings, disable aggressive battery saving for it, and update the app.
Can Łowca replace OLX notifications?
Łowca monitors several services at once and sends an email only for offers that are clearly below the typical market price. When looking for one item in one city, free OLX notifications are usually sufficient.
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Updated: 2026-09-01