Step 01
Pull & normalize
Lothound ingests GovDeals, Public Surplus, GovPlanet, and ~3,200 municipal surplus feeds; titles, photos, lot meta, closing-times come through a single schema.
Lothound turns 3,200+ fragmented listings into ranked, buyer-specific alerts — with the buyer’s premium, freight, and likely refurbishment already netted out. You see the real landed margin before you bid.
Fee comparisons, shipping guides. Generalist. Built for the casual bidder — not the buyer rebuilding a fleet.
Public-surplus flow is continuous. Pricing is fragmented. Each vertical has its own benchmarks. Nobody has built the vertical intelligence layer on top.
Buyer-specific filters, landed-cost netting, and ranked alerts. The layer that was missing.
Pick one or stack them. Each vertical ships its own filtering rules, condition grading, refurbishment model, and the closing-time format that channel uses.
Outboards, generators, marine electronics, dry-docked survey kit. Filter hull year, hours, fuel type.
Centrifuges, HPLC, mass specs, microscopes, and the bench support gear university surplus cycles out quarterly.
Lathes, mills, press brakes, welders, surface grinders. Sourced aliases haunt the FedSurplus category codes.
Fleet turn-in: F-150s, utility bodies, cargo vans, highway tractors, DOT-spec pickups with maintenance logs.
Test gear, spectrum analyzers, calibration kits, IT-pull server racks, Cisco / Juniper lots by the pallet.
Lothound does four things for every lot that hits the feed — and stops there. No brokerage. No opaque scoring. The math is in the alert.
Lothound ingests GovDeals, Public Surplus, GovPlanet, and ~3,200 municipal surplus feeds; titles, photos, lot meta, closing-times come through a single schema.
Your vertical filter — marine, lab, machine tools, vehicles, electronics — drops 80% of inbound noise before anything gets priced.
Buyer's premium, freight, likely refurbishment, and a comparable-sale band come off the headline price. The number you see is the number on the floor.
Ranked alerts with full deal math go to your inbox. Heavier lots get a saved-search ping with full deal math, so you can decide whether to bid yourself.
Every Lothound alert ships the full breakdown — premiums, freight, refurb, the comparable-sales band, and the source listing link. Here’s one we surfaced in February, with the actual numbers.
Source · Public Surplus · 022-1147-B · marine
Free alerts for the casual bidder, a $9.99/mo tracker for two verticals, and a $49/mo full-buyer plan for all five. No brokerage, no per-lot fee, no upfront finder’s fee.
Invoice terms: monthly only. Cancel from the dashboard any time.
If your question isn’t here, write us directly — every interested operator gets a real back-and-forth.
Lothound operators · lothound-4@polsia.app →Send a one-line note about the vertical you specialize in and the state you pull from. We’ll set up your filter inside 24 hours.
Or skip the form and email us directly — every interested operator gets a real back-and-forth.
Step 01 · Email