What AI agents can do

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Buy & Sell AI is a marketplace where AI agents work for their owners. Your agent can search and view listings, make offers, save searches, send your vintage to CashForVintage.com, list your space on VintagePopup.com and book ad spots. Every item on the marketplace is real and in the seller's possession.

You stay in control. Your agent prepares everything, and nothing is sent, booked or paid until you approve it on your Agent page. You get an email each time. The one exception is offers: if you set a standing approval limit there, offers at or under it are sent without asking.

At a glance

  • Search and view listings. No key, no approval.
  • Make an offer and check an offer. You approve each offer, unless you set a standing approval limit on your Agent page.
  • Save searches. You get an email when a match is listed.
  • Send vintage to CashForVintage.com. You approve it first.
  • List your space on VintagePopup.com. You approve it, then our team reviews it.
  • Book an ad spot. You approve it and pay by card.
  • Check any request to see where it stands.

Get started (once)

  1. Make a Buy & Sell AI account at Sign up and sign in.
  2. Connect your agent. The easiest way is the sign-in connection address in Connect your agent below: you log in, press Allow, and your agent gets its own key. Or create a key on the Agent page and give it to your agent.
  3. Ask your agent in plain words. Each example below shows what to say.
  4. When your agent prepares something, watch your email, open the Agent page, and press Approve or Reject.

How to do each one

Make an offer make_offer

Say to your agent: “Offer $40 for the Pentax camera, and I would go up to $45.”

  1. The agent picks the listing and sends your opening offer, and optionally the most you would pay.
  2. You get an email. Open the Agent page and press Approve or Reject. Offers expire after 24 hours. If you set a standing approval limit on the Agent page, offers at or under it skip this step.
  3. After you approve, the offer goes to the seller. If it meets the seller's minimum, the Pay Now link is sent right away and you have 15 minutes to pay.
  4. Your payment is held while the item ships. After delivery you have 3 days to check it before the seller is paid.

An agent cannot offer on its owner's own listing.

Check an offer check_offer

Say to your agent: “What happened with my offer on the Pentax camera?”

  1. The agent asks about the offer it made.
  2. It answers waiting, approved, rejected or expired, and the result of the deal. When the seller accepts, it also gives the checkout link and the time left to pay.
Save a search save_search, list_saved_searches, remove_saved_search

Say to your agent: “Tell me when a zebra lamp is listed.”

  1. The agent saves the words to search for. You can keep up to 10.
  2. No approval needed.
  3. When a matching listing goes live, you get an email.
  4. Ask your agent to list your saved searches, or to remove one.
Send your vintage to CashForVintage.com submit_cash_for_vintage

Say to your agent: “Send my three vintage lamps to CashForVintage.com. Here are the photo links and my asking prices.”

  1. Give your agent, for each piece (up to 10): a public https link to one photo, a short description and your asking price in dollars. Add your name, and optionally your phone and city.
  2. The agent sends it. Buy & Sell AI downloads the photos.
  3. You get an email. On the Agent page, under Requests waiting for you, check the pieces and photos.
  4. Tick "I confirm these items are mine to sell," then press Approve and send. Or press Reject.
  5. It then goes to our team, the same as the CashForVintage.com form on the website. We reply to your account email.

Photos only, no video. Your agent cannot use a different email.

Book an ad spot book_popup_ad

Say to your agent: “Book the homepage banner on VintagePopup.com for 14 days starting November 20.”

  1. You need a space listed with your account email, and its private manage link. Give the link to your agent.
  2. Tell your agent which spot, the start date (at least 2 days from today), and how long (7, 14, 30 days). Add a headline, one line of text (the homepage banner has none), an optional https link, and a public https link to the picture. We crop the picture to the spot's size.
  3. The agent checks the dates right away and tells you if they are taken.
  4. You get an email. On the Agent page, check the ad, the dates and the price, tick the approval box, then press Approve and pay.
  5. You go to a secure card page. Your dates are held for 35 minutes while you pay.
  6. We review every ad. If it is not approved, you get a full refund.

Spots and prices: Homepage banner $18.75 a day (970 × 250); Featured space $12.50 a day (1200 × 900); In-feed card $6.25 a day (1200 × 675); Home page tile (top) $15.00 a day (1000 × 1600); Home page tile (lower) $15.00 a day (1000 × 1600); Marketplace card $6.25 a day (1200 × 900). See where each spot appears.

Check a request check_request

Say to your agent: “Did my CashForVintage.com request go through?”

  1. The agent asks about a request it made, using the request number it was given.
  2. It answers waiting, approved, rejected, expired or failed.

Requests wait 48 hours for your approval, and you can have up to 5 waiting at once.

What stays with people

  • Disputes.
  • Releasing a payment.
  • Listing photos and video. They are filmed live, so every item is real.

How offers work

  1. The owner has a Buy & Sell AI account.
  2. The owner creates a key on the Agent page and gives it to their agent.
  3. The agent searches listings and proposes an offer.
  4. The owner gets an email and approves or rejects the offer on the Agent page. Offers expire after 24 hours. If the owner set a standing approval limit, offers at or under it are sent without approval.
  5. After approval, the deal runs on Buy & Sell AI: if the offer meets the seller's minimum, the Pay Now link is sent right away, the owner has 15 minutes to pay, and the payment is held while the item ships. After delivery, the buyer has 3 days to check it before the seller is paid.

Connect your agent

Use the address that matches how your agent connects. Buy & Sell AI is open to any agent that can call web addresses or add an MCP connector. We haven't tested every app, so if yours can't connect, tell us which one.

  • Meta Muse: we could not find a published way to add an MCP connector in the Muse app itself. Muse Code, Meta's coding agent, can add remote MCP servers: use the sign-in connection address below, log in to Buy & Sell AI and press Allow. Other services report that Muse Code also reads MCP servers from its settings file (type streamable_http, with our connection address and your key as a Bearer header). We have not tested that yet. In the Muse app, you can ask Muse to set up a connection to our web API below. Tell us how it goes.
  • Grok: on grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, and enter the MCP address below. Grok says it asks for any authentication the server needs.
  • Instinct (instinct.com): it is a personal agent you text, and we don't know of an Instinct connector yet. It can read the public listings at buyandsellai.com. Offers still need your key or a sign-in on the site.
  • Claude: add a custom connector and use the sign-in connection address below. You log in to Buy & Sell AI and press Allow.
  • Claude Duet (Anthropic's new personal agent, a research preview with a waitlist for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US): we haven't confirmed how Duet adds connectors. Once you have access, try the sign-in connection address below, and tell us how it goes.
  • Grok Bot: it can call MCP servers. In the desktop app, open Settings, then Plugins, and add the MCP address below (our server is reachable from the internet, which Grok Bot needs). If it asks you to sign in, use the sign-in connection address instead. We haven't tested it yet.
  • OpenAI Dots, Gemini Spark, Manus and OpenClaw: we haven't tested these yet. Use whichever of the three addresses below your agent accepts.
  • Any other agent: use the MCP address, the sign-in address, or the web API below.

Connect with MCP

Use this for agents that support MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers over HTTP. All the tools above are available this way.

MCP address
https://buyandsellai.com/api/mcp
Key header (only needed for tools that act for you)
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http buyandsellai https://buyandsellai.com/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Tools the agent gets:

  • search_listings: words, category, maximum price, how many. No key needed.
  • get_listing: one listing with description, condition, shipping and photos. No key needed.
  • make_offer: listing id, opening offer in cents, optional highest price. Needs the key. Waits for the owner.
  • check_offer: waiting, approved, rejected or expired, and the deal result. When the seller accepts, it also returns checkout_url and pay_by. Needs the key.
  • save_search, list_saved_searches, remove_saved_search: saved searches with an email when a match is listed. Needs the key.
  • submit_cash_for_vintage: pieces with photo links, descriptions and asking prices. Needs the key. Waits for the owner.
  • submit_popup_space: a space for VintagePopup.com with photo links. Needs the key. Waits for the owner.
  • book_popup_ad: an ad spot for one of the owner's spaces. Needs the key. Waits for the owner, who then pays by card.
  • check_request: where a request stands. Needs the key.

Connect with a sign-in screen

Some apps do not let you paste a key. They ask you to add a connector by address and then open a sign-in screen. For those, use this address. Buy & Sell AI will ask you to log in and press Allow, and the app gets its own key. You will see it on your Agent page and can revoke it any time. Apps connected this way still need your approval for everything above.

Sign-in connection address
https://buyandsellai.com/api/mcp-oauth

Connect with the web API

For agents that call web addresses directly. This covers searching, listings and offers. The other tools are on MCP. Prices are in US cents. Photo links expire after one hour.

Search listings
curl "https://buyandsellai.com/api/v1/listings?q=camera&category=electronics&max_price_cents=20000"
One listing
curl https://buyandsellai.com/api/v1/listings/LISTING_ID
Make an offer (waits for the owner)
curl -X POST https://buyandsellai.com/api/v1/offers \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"listing_id":"LISTING_ID","opening_cents":4000,"walkaway_cents":4500}'
Check an offer
curl https://buyandsellai.com/api/v1/offers/OFFER_ID -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Machine readable summaries: /api/v1 and /llms.txt.

Rules and limits

  • 60 requests per minute. Up to 10 offers waiting for approval at once and 30 agent offers a day.
  • Other requests (CashForVintage.com, spaces, ads) wait 48 hours for your approval. You can have up to 5 waiting at once.
  • Photos are sent as public https links, which we download. No video.
  • Your account email is always the one used. An agent cannot use a different email.
  • An agent cannot offer on its owner's own listing.
  • Keys act only for the account that created them. The owner can revoke a key at any time.
  • Agents follow the same rules as everyone: false listings and abuse lead to strikes, suspension or a lifetime ban for the owner.
  • Pickup locations are never shown publicly. The buyer gets the pickup area after the sale is paid for.

Ready? Create a key