Bot, espionage, or chance

Good evening, I have 2 or 3 accounts that constantly favorite my items, even after re-publishing, but never buy anything.

Knowing that they don’t sell the same items as me, or they have nothing in their closet.

This makes me wonder a lot and it annoys me because I see a lot of favorites but it’s not real stats.

I’m talking about my professional account, but I also follow my personal account.

I feel like blocking them, but I don’t want to be reported.

What do you think?

Good evening, these people must be subscribed to your accounts and they might be favoriting as soon as you repost to « see » if what you are putting online is working. They probably have multiple accounts as well and maybe even accounts dedicated to spying on the competition :sweat_smile:

In any case, blocking them will be useless, they will always see what you are putting online :wink:

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Hello. I also have the same problem. Every time I republish (with or without clemz) my articles are favorited, sometimes without being seen and massively. However, I don’t see who is doing it.

I think it’s a bot and it’s been happening since I’ve often had restrictions. I have reported it to clemz customer support.

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Okay, I can help you with that! Here’s the English translation of the provided text:

Hello,

Yes, there are indeed extensions, which we’ll call « bots, » that favorite items based on user-defined settings.
These extensions can « scan » listings, i.e., items, favorite them, follow accounts, make offers, and even purchase automatically as soon as it falls within the defined price range.
There are even some that create personal accounts just for this purpose.
Therefore, you can’t see if they’re offering the same items, or at what price (on other accounts).
It’s often people who do resale on Vinted and have no supplier connections. (poor them)
They try to be the first to buy interesting items for resale.
Finally, this is becoming less common, as there are fewer and fewer personal accounts selling items at a loss that could be resold at a higher price.

Some continue to use these « bots » (and even pay a subscription) by systematically favoriting items, hoping the price will eventually be lowered, or they relentlessly make offers at the limit of what’s allowed.
So, don’t pay attention to item favorites; they don’t reflect any real indication of a sale.

Remember also that extensions that facilitate sales management (which you probably use if you’re here) also offer automatic favoriting :wink:

What’s a bit comical is that Vinted’s « bots » also use favorites to « boost » (that’s the word :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:) the visibility of listings…
So, in summary, let them favorite your items, make offers, etc… it benefits you if your listing is better referenced :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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If you are using clemz, you might receive favorites from other members, who give them automatically, but don’t actually view the content.