Gift Price or Total Budget? How to Set a Clear Spending Limit
A trigger needs a price limit, but there are two useful ways to define it. Gift Loot lets you cap either the listing price of the gift or the complete amount that may be debited after service commission and delivery costs. Choosing the right mode makes the trigger easier to understand before you activate it.
Gift price caps the listing itself
Use Gift price when you already know the highest listing price you are willing to accept. The value you enter is the cap for the gift itself. Commission, transfer costs and any marketplace-specific fees are added separately.
This mode is useful when you compare a trigger with the current floor or recent sales. If the cheapest matching listing is within your cap, the form warns that the trigger may buy immediately after activation. That warning matters: an active trigger can act without asking for another confirmation when a matching lot appears.
Before saving, read the breakdown in the form. It separates the maximum gift price, service commission, transfer cost and the total amount that may be debited. The listing cap is therefore not the same thing as the final debit.
Budget including fees starts from the total
Use Budget incl. fees when the final amount matters more than the listing price. You enter the total you are prepared to spend, and Gift Loot derives the highest listing price that fits inside that budget after the applicable costs are included.
This is the simpler choice when you want one clear ceiling for the whole purchase. It also avoids mentally adding fees to a listing while you configure the trigger. The same breakdown remains visible, so you can see how the total is divided before activation.
The two modes do not change what the trigger hunts. They change how your limit is expressed: one starts with the listing, while the other starts with the maximum debit.
Quantity changes the possible total
Quantity is the total number of gifts that a trigger may buy. Each purchase is paid separately, and the trigger completes only after it has bought the selected quantity. The form shows an approximate total for multiple gifts, but each lot still has to match the collection, filters and price limit at the moment it appears.
Check that the available balance can cover the purchases you expect. A trigger with an insufficient balance cannot complete a matching buy. Money that remains unused stays in the balance and can be withdrawn from the Wallet section under the service rules shown in the app.
Review the live market signals
The trigger form can show the cheapest matching listing, recent sale information and the strongest competing trigger for the same gift and filters. Treat these as current market signals, not as a promise that a purchase will happen. Listings can disappear quickly, and another buyer may finish first.
Before activating a trigger, choose the mode that matches your decision: Gift price for a listing cap, or Budget incl. fees for a total-spend cap. Then review the debit breakdown, quantity and available balance in Gift Loot before saving.