Help and contact
Tirekick is made by one person. Email is the way to reach them.
Getting started
- Add Tirekick to your browser. The settings page opens. You can skip the AI part for now.
- Search eBay or Facebook Marketplace. Scam marks such as “Scam: reposted” show up on the cards by themselves.
- Open the panel with the slim Tirekick tab on the edge of the page.
- Pick Buyer or Reseller at the top of the panel: Buyer for something to keep, Reseller for something to sell on.
- Press Sold prices to compare the whole page with what the same thing sold for on eBay. It’s free, and each card then says how many dollars below or above the typical price it is, such as “$53 below typical”.
- Want scores? Paste a key from an AI service in settings, then press Scan.
When something looks wrong
eBay and Facebook change their pages without warning, and that’s what breaks first. When a scan finds no listings, the panel offers Check this page. It copies a short report: how many cards it found, what it could read on them, and three public listing titles. Nothing else. Paste that into an email with the store’s address bar link, and say which browser you use.
Common questions
Who is Tirekick for?
Anyone buying on secondhand marketplaces (eBay and Facebook Marketplace today). In Buyer mode it helps you avoid scams and pay a fair price for something you’ll keep, which matters most on a big purchase from a stranger. In Reseller mode it helps you find things worth fixing or selling on, with sold prices, what broken ones sell for and, with an AI, the price gap after eBay fees.
Can it get my Facebook or eBay account in trouble?
Tirekick reads the page you already have open. It never logs in, clicks, posts, messages a seller or browses on its own. Sold-price lookups are a few eBay searches an hour at most, from your own browser, and stop at the first sign of eBay’s “checking your browser” page. We can’t speak for eBay or Meta, but it does nothing a person reading the page wouldn’t.
Does Tirekick use AI?
It has optional AI features, and they’re off until you turn them on. Scam marks, sold prices, price drops, the offer helper, filters and saved searches are plain checks and real eBay sales, with no AI. If you connect an AI service, by pasting a key or running Ollama or LM Studio on your own computer, you also get a score and verdict for each listing and a closer look at one listing. Until you do, nothing is sent to any AI.
What does the AI cost?
You pay the AI service directly, at their prices. With a small model, a scan of 50 listings usually costs less than a cent. Settings has a monthly budget, and Home shows what you’ve spent.
Why doesn’t a card show a typical price?
Sold prices need search words to compare against, so they don’t show on the Marketplace home feed or a category page. Lots and auctions are left out on purpose. If eBay shows a “checking your browser” page, Tirekick pauses lookups for an hour and the panel says so. Vague words give vague prices: “Weber Spirit II grill” beats “grill”.
Is a “Likely scam” mark always right?
No. It means the listing has signs scams often have, such as a code tacked onto the title or a price far under what it sells for. Look at the listing and the seller yourself before you decide. Scores, prices and offers are estimates to help you, not a guarantee.
Does it work on my phone?
Not yet. Browser extensions don’t run in the Facebook or eBay apps. Tirekick works in Chrome and Vivaldi on a computer, and should work in other Chromium browsers such as Edge and Brave.
Does it watch my searches when I’m away?
No, on purpose. Tirekick only looks at pages you have open, so nothing runs in the background. Saved listings and searches update the next time they’re on your screen.
How do I move my saved listings to another computer?
In settings, Backup saves everything to a file (never your API keys). Restore it in the other browser; it adds to what’s already there.
How do I remove it and my data?
Remove Tirekick from your browser’s extensions page. Everything it kept is deleted with it, because it was only ever in your browser. See the privacy policy for the full list.